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German automaker known for sports cars like the 911, Boxster, and Cayman, and a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group.
Porsche will cut a quarter of its staff and raise prices on its top models by about 20% under a strategy that runs to 2035. The company is betting its richest buyers will pay more as cheaper volume falls away and its EV push is scaled back.
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Porsche wants its business to break even at fewer than 200,000 cars a year, about 28% below its 279,449 deliveries in 2025. That puts the recovery on cost cuts and pricing, and it holds only if buyers keep paying Porsche prices as the range gets smaller.
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Overseas revenue added about $6.9bn while Greater China shed roughly $10.8bn, so the group shrank even as exports grew a third, and Citi's 41.2 billion yuan full-year figure now needs a second half 2.35 times the first.
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A Foreign Affairs essay counts about 30 percent of the Draghi recommendations implemented by mid-2026 and argues that even full adoption would leave the gap open, because the barriers are Europe's own labor, tax and regulatory layers.
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The venture builder formerly known as UP.Labs raised more than $100 million to start companies inside industrial partners who seed the data and hold an option to buy the venture. Kuolt calls it a proprietary M&A pipeline.
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Porsche and cylib's pilot cathode is 100% recycled at a time when EU law will ask for 6% recycled lithium in 2031. Whether it becomes supply depends on operational testing and on how many European packs come back.
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The studio formerly called UP.Labs has taken $100 million from Silversmith Capital Partners and now builds only for named partners such as Porsche and J.B. Hunt. Founder John Kuolt calls it a proprietary M&A pipeline.
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Management is confronting workers on one side and investors on the other, and the Seeking Alpha analyst who says China is still the key holds no Volkswagen at all, only small longs in Geely and Chery.
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The €320 million enterprise value only surfaced in a TCS exchange filing. The €1.25 billion of work Porsche committed alongside it is nearly four times larger, and it is what the deal was priced against.
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TCS gets 4,500 consultants and a marquee logo. Porsche gets balance sheet relief now and a five-year bill worth nearly four times the proceeds.
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A direct wind-and-solar deal at one Korean tyre plant buys about 6 GWh a year and 2,700 tonnes of abatement. The cost sits with the supplier, not with the automakers asking for the cuts.
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The Rivian spinout's Series D takes it to $455 million and past a $1 billion valuation. The only product shipping is a $4,500 e-bike that arrived months late.
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Rivian builds in seven to 10 years of software headroom. The average American car is 12.8 years old. Tesla's HW3 retrofit and a Gen 1 Rivian class action show who pays the difference.
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