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Stellantis is a multinational automaker formed from the 2021 Fiat Chrysler–PSA Group merger, with brands including Jeep, Peugeot, Chrysler, and Citroën.
Chinese automakers put a record 20 brands into the 2026 Paris Motor Show, according to CEO Today Magazine. The report sets that against overcapacity, discounting and a home field of more than 100 makers, and says European incumbents face increasing competition.
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Stellantis is launching six new models and nine concepts at the Paris show, including an affordable retro electric Citroen 2CV. Ars Technica's writer expects none of it to reach the United States, so US operators are likely to read about these cars without a chance to order one.
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Chinese brands now take about 10% of new-car sales in Europe, up from roughly 1% five years ago, the New York Times reported. Citi Research forecasts as much as 30% by 2035 without regulation, and the barriers that would stop it raise prices for the same buyers.
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Chinese brands make up 20 of about 60 exhibitors at the Paris Motor Show, double the 2024 count, Korea JoongAng Daily reported. Schmidt Automotive Research put their European sales share at 10.7% in the second quarter, up from 5.7%.
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Stellantis's Emanuele Cappellano and Renault's François Provost say the UK should count as one of the EU's 27 members under Made in Europe rules. London has so far rejected its own tariffs on Chinese cars, and Jonathan Reynolds said this month the decision is under review.
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Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa said the Wayve partnership could cut the cost and the roughly 24-month development time of hands-off driver assistance. The first North American product is due in 2028, about one current cycle away, so any faster schedule has to show up in the Stellantis brands that ship after it.
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Stellantis engine-plant worker sues FCA US, saying a safety-lock rule kept him from training that a white colleague began without locks. The case will test how consistently supervisors applied that prerequisite and whether HR's internal records match what it told him.
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Chinese carmakers will bring a record 20 brands to next week's Paris Motor Show, twice the 2024 count, Reuters reported. Europe's incumbents must hold their home market while doing business with the brands taking it.
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GM, which sells one hybrid model, gave no date for more as hybrids rose to 19% of US vehicle sales in August from 16% before the war, according to JD Power. Record hybrid quarters went to Japanese and Korean rivals, while GM's last stated target for new hybrids is 2027.
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Mercedes-Benz will build Wayve's Level 2 driving software into at least one model due within two years, with the human still driving. The deal gives the startup more reach through carmakers, but its driverless product still has to prove itself in separate robotaxi work.
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US-built cars fell to 28.4% of Canadian new-vehicle sales in the first half of 2026 from 35.4% a year earlier, JD Power Canada data show. Japanese and Korean builders took more than half of that lost share, and the US levy on Canadian cars and parts is expected to reach 50% in January.
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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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Saudi Arabia's newest carmaker has a plant on the kingdom's west coast and a design brief from the Crown Prince, and PIF wants the cluster around it to lift non-oil exports. Its Saudi supplier base is scheduled to arrive by 2034.
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The US transportation secretary's 8 September letter objects to Ford's 66-34 joint venture with Geely in Spain. European lawmakers are drafting a law that would make a capped Chinese stake the price of entry.
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The first autonomous rides in the UK arrive with a licensed driver in every seat and a fare no higher than a normal Uber, and the $8.6 billion valuation is really a bet on the regulatory approval still to come.
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Fewer than 20 Mach-Es at ordinary Uber fares, each with a Transport for London licensed operator aboard, which makes this a strong test of rider demand and dispatch integration and no test at all of driverless cost.
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Honda lost hundreds of millions and its rivals stood up war rooms because one supplier's chips stopped moving. The same single points of failure sit under any fight between Washington and Ottawa.
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Fifty percent duties on roughly $20bn of Canadian goods began on Aug. 22 and Ottawa answers on Sept. 8, so firms with cross-border bills of materials are now pricing a political constraint instead of a negotiation.
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EU electric vehicle sales rose 40.5% in the first half of 2026. On the published forecasts, Chinese brands are collecting most of that growth in Western Europe.
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Robert Lee puts solid-state in phones about ten years before cars. A 12 GWh plant at Dunkirk and Chinese pilot lines due in 2027 are built on the opposite reading.
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