🚨NEXT WEEK: FT FUTURE OF THE CAR SUMMIT 2024🚨

Speakers include:

⚡️Nissan CEO
⚡️VW CEO
⚡️Peugeot CEO
⚡️General Motors president
⚡️Hyundai president
⚡️BYD Europe CEO
⚡️Mate Rimac
⚡️Lucid CEO
⚡️NIO president
⚡️Ford Eu CEO

Full speaker list & tickets: car.live.ft.com/home

🚨NEW: It appears that Tesla's 'FSD' is coming to China🚨

🚘Mapping deal with Baidu

🚘Chinese data security cleared

🚘Musk met Chinese deputy Li Qiang on Sunday

Full story from Edward White, Ryan McMorrow & me:
ft.com/content/482568…

'The foreign automakers are trying to stop the bleeding'

Read Edward White's despatch from the Beijing Auto Show:
ft.com/content/676941…

🚨New: Auto industry plans for Mexican import disruption if Trump gets in🚨

🚘'Our expectation is the border effectively closes' says one exec

🚘Carlos Tavares warns pick-up trucks would become unaffordable & US flooded with Mexican migrants

Full story:
ft.com/content/c79cb8…

🚨New: Auto industry plans for Mexican import disruption if Trump gets in🚨

🚘'Our expectation is the border effectively closes' says one exec

🚘Carlos Tavares warns pick-up trucks would become unaffordable & US flooded with Mexican migrants

Full story:
ft.com/content/c79cb8…

⚡️SCOOP: Pendragon's new owner Lithia to cut hundreds of jobs⚡️

🚘Pendragon's CarStore being shut down

🚘Staff told today of job losses

🚘Redundency programme for back-office roles as Pendragon/Jardines integrate

More details:
ft.com/content/42af20…

JLR already has plants in UK (x2), Slovakia, China, contract manufacturing in Austria, & screwdriver plants in Brazil & India.

Now it will open a new EV plant in India.

All for a company that sells 400k cars a year.

We are hiring for a new private capital reporter in London as the great William Louch is sadly leaving.

Come work with the best team of finance journalists on the planet and help us continue to dominate coverage of the world of private capital
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One of the greatest opening lines in literature...

⚡️NEW: Tesla asks investors to back Texas incorporation & Musk's pay deal⚡️

🔋AGM vote would see Musk get $48bn in Tesla stock

🔋Vote may void $5bn lawyers' fees from Delaware case

🔋Board considered shifting Tesla to non-US domicle

Full story: ft.com/content/46aac7…

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I've been offline on Exmoor for the past week, but this was a cracking scoop led by Arjun that (largely Chinese) cars are piling up in European ports.

'It's chaos,' one person briefed on the situation told me...
ft.com/content/496f3b…

A bespoke Ferrari for...$10 BILLION?

'You call it the YOLO effect,' Ferrari's CEO tells me.

'In Italy we say Carpe Diem.'

Inside the trend of hyper-personalisation:
ft.com/content/980a2b…

'We are cheap labour'

Inside the rising pro-union sentiment at southern US auto plants.

From Claire Bushey, Taylor Nicole Rogers & me:
ft.com/content/01dfeb…

🚨NEW: Tesla to scope out India EV plant sites this month🚨

🔋Sites in Maharashtra, Gujarat & Tamil Nadu

🔋Plans to make sub-$30k EV for export at plant

🔋$2-3bn initial investment planned

SCOOP by John Reed जॉन रीड & me:
ft.com/content/e9cbf9…