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...US group Lithia agreed to buy Pendragon’s dealerships and its used car marketplace CarStore last year, following a protracted bidding war that involved former boss Trevor Finn working with Sweden’s Hedin...
...It also owns assets including petrol station operator Motor Fuel Group and part of car windscreen repair company Belron. CD&R has explored the possibility of selling MFG....
...The carmaker is developing a cheaper vehicle to go on sale late next year, but has not yet said where the car — which has been dubbed “Model 2” by Tesla observers — will be manufactured....
...Last year, Ferrari reported €1.26bn of net profits on car sales of just 13,663....
...And that will be how cars work. You just summon the car using your phone. You get in. It takes you to a destination. You get out....
...Tesla has cut prices several times — including this week — to buoy sales, although this has led to a collapse in the re-sale value of its cars....
...Installing charging points has also not kept pace with sales in some markets, with the number of EVs per charging point rising in Norway, the US and UK....
...Tesla’s sales figures also “suggested a sharp deterioration in growth” in the US, said Tom Narayan, an auto analyst at RBC Capital Market, while the Model Y and 3, which account for more than 90 per cent...
...The pressure is especially high in China, the world’s biggest auto market and the US EV maker’s second-largest market by sales, where competition between local EV makers and foreign carmakers is heating...
...While the company has long had ambitions to enter the car market, some experts have previously questioned how it could succeed in the face of US sanctions....
...Most big US carmakers have reported a drop in electric vehicle sales due to softening consumer demand, a shift in preference to hybrids and increased competition from low-cost options from Chinese brands...
...In the last fiscal year, R&D costs were equal to 7.8 per cent of revenue, up from 3.3 per cent in 2014. But it has not been willing to fund a new supply chain for mass car production....
...China’s auto industry is the world’s biggest across sales, production and, since last year, exports....
...Data from the China Passenger Car Association showed that Chinese sales of pure battery cars and plug-in hybrids, which the government counts as “new energy vehicles”, or NEVs, rose 36 per cent last year...
...The lull in EV sales is having a damaging impact on the auto industry....
...In the US, they rose nearly two-thirds last year, outpacing the 46 per cent increase in EV sales. Total hybrid sales of about 1.2mn cars matched EV sales figures....
...Still, while the Fed likes to use PCE, most people experience CPI (ie they don’t wreck their cars)....
...Both companies are owned by US buyout firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice....
...The slowing pace of sales growth has fuelled expectations among auto executives for a wave of consolidation that will leave only a handful of companies in the world’s largest car market....
...Electric vehicle sales growth has slowed in the US, with potential buyers turned off by sparse charging infrastructure and the relatively high price tag compared with combustion engine cars....
...US auto manufacturers are privately worried that a second Donald Trump win will lead to a gutting of EV rules....
...It was something tenable on the horizon, so was a reason to look past the current EV sales slump....
...If the US raises interest rates again this year, higher car financing costs could further dent demand....
...But one day, he says, Tesla and SpaceX may create something that is not “even really a car”. The Technoking is the reason Tesla remains the most distinctive car company in the world....
...Meanwhile, car insurance and auto repair shot up 2 per cent and 3 per cent, respectively, in March....
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