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  Volkswagen AG will potentially shutter an Audi electric-vehicle factory in Belgium to avoid wasting costs, in what could be a watershed moment for Europe’s biggest carmaker. The manufacturer has never closed a automotive plant within the region, however the high-expense Brussels site could develop into the primary because of poor demand for an electrical SUV made there. Volkswagen cited additional expenses including from the restructuring for lowering its outlook for the 12 months. Carmakers have been grappling with poor EV sales, prompting a variety of manufacturers including Mercedes-Benz Group AG to rethink plans. Key regions including Germany, Europe’s biggest…

Elon Musk responded in kind to Tesla Inc. investors reapproving his massive compensation plan, offering outlandish predictions that he can enrich shareholders all once more. After Tesla’s general counsel confirmed Thursday that investors supported awarding stock options to Musk value as much as $55.8 billion, the chief executive officer said the corporate’s robot-making effort may in the future dwarf its automotive business. Tesla has all of two humanoid robot prototypes plucking battery cells off the tip of a production line in California and placing them in shipping containers. “Quite just a few” others are cruising around the corporate’s offices in…

BMW AG’s sales of fully electric vehicles at its core brand surged in the primary quarter, outperforming rivals like Tesla and Volkswagen, which have struggled to deal with faltering demand.  Customer deliveries of battery-powered models corresponding to BMW’s i4, iX1 and i7 jumped 41% within the three months through March in comparison with the identical period last 12 months, the corporate said Wednesday. The outcomes helped group EV sales rise by 28%. BMW’s results contrasted with the broader slowdown in demand for EVs, particularly in Europe, where battery-powered cars have flattened as a share of overall sales after governments withdrew…

Tesla’s showdown with trade unions across the Nordic region is threatening to spill over to the financial markets after a bunch of pension funds and asset managers sent a letter to Elon Musk urging him to alter course.   Nordic institutional investors managing a complete of $1 trillion in assets said they’re “deeply concerned” about Tesla’s attitude to employee rights in Sweden and demanded the carmaker accept collective bargaining agreements for its staff, in keeping with a letter sent Thursday and seen by Bloomberg News. Signatories to the letter include Denmark’s Velliv Pension & Livsforsikring A/S and AkademikerPension. The group…

ChargePoint Holdings Inc. shares plummeted in early trading after the corporate posted disappointing quarterly revenue and swapped out two of its top executives. The electrical-vehicle charging company said revenue slumped to between $108 million and $113 million for the quarter that ended last month, down from a yr ago and well in need of its guidance for no less than $150 million. Pasquale Romano, who had been chief executive officer since 2011, and Chief Financial Officer Rex Jackson were replaced effective Thursday. “Big changes we didn’t see coming,” Gabe Daoud, an equity analyst at TD Cowen who rates ChargePoint the…

Several Tesla shareholders rebuked Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk for endorsing antisemitic views on his social media platform X, with some saying he needs to be suspended. “While I imagine in free speech, there’s no excuse for the spreading of hatred by any CEO of any publicly traded company,” said Jerry Braakman, chief investment officer at First American Trust, which held about 16,000 Tesla shares as of Sept. 30. “Tesla’s board should place him on leave for a month or two.” Investors may not go to date as to say they’ll reduce their Tesla holdings, but several said they were…

Aston Martin drivers Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll on the Las Vegas Grand Prix opening event Wednesday night. (Getty Images)   With Formula 1 preparing for the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll has sold a minority stake within the Aston Martin team to U.S. private equity firm Arctos Partners. The investment by Arctos, which has a stake within the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool Football Club owner Fenway Sports Group, values the F1 team at about £1 billion ($1.2 billion), in accordance with an individual acquainted with the deal.  It’s the primary time Stroll has sold shares…

The automobile Lewis Hamilton drove to his first Formula One win for Mercedes will hit the block Nov. 17 at an RM Sotheby’s auction in Las Vegas. Named for its chassis, W04, the automobile won the Hungarian Grand Prix with Hamilton within the cockpit in 2013. It’s the one Mercedes F1 vehicle from the fashionable era not owned by Mercedes, by team principal and Chief Executive Officer Toto Wolff, or by Hamilton himself, in accordance with the auction house. RM Sotheby’s estimates its value to be $10 million to $15 million. “This was the automobile that Hamilton kicked his profession…

Automotive-sharing business Turo, which filed paperwork for an initial public offering last yr, has restarted its plans to go public and will list shares as early as this fall, in line with people aware of the matter.  Turo’s investor roadshow could start as early as October, the people said, asking to not be identified since the matter is private.  The timing could still change and is determined by market conditions and the way the present crop of IPOs perform equivalent to Arm Holdings Ltd., Instacart Inc. and Klaviyo Inc, the people said. No final decision has been made and its…