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State efforts to build domestic industry via tariffs, subsidies, state funds and public purchasing in EVs, batteries, chips and robotics.
Mercedes-Benz chief Ola Källenius, as ACEA president, says excluding the UK from the EU's Made in Europe law would hurt carmakers on both sides. EU leaders hope to agree the text within weeks, and the UK is still lobbying to be included.
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Korea's 1,000 largest listed companies put renewables and robotics into 30.2% of the business lines they added to their charters this year, the FKI found. The unit counted is a business purpose written into articles of incorporation, so the shares describe stated intent.
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Brussels is weighing a volume cap on Chinese plug-in hybrids, Bloomberg reported, as the EU's trade deficit with China runs near a billion euros a day. Leaders meeting October 15 and 16 can keep going product by product or back the country-level 'kill switch' Merz and Macron want.
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KAMA's seven-month count of 237,032 registrations is already past all of last year, but Tesla's 66,376 sales in Korea now put Hyundai third in EVs in its own home market, with Kia still ahead on 85,444.
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Lee Hyoung-il used his first day as finance minister to commit to a Korea Investment Corporation account that buys shares in chipmakers and AI firms, and the ministry has told parliament about 1 trillion won is available for it next year.
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Removing a per-car subsidy left a finished battery plant in Ohio making cells nobody was buying, and the fastest cost its owners could cut was people. The capital had been committed years before the policy changed.
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The trade ministry takes the program to two National Assembly committees behind closed doors on the 22nd, five days later than planned, with a Texas gas plant, large reactors and Alaska LNG on the agenda.
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Kim Jung-kwan came back from Washington saying the targets, scale and structure of the projects were still being worked, that several issues are unresolved, and that he intends to try for a final deal inside the week.
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BetaKit obtained the 66-page pitchbook of 167 projects Mark Carney will put in front of 100 global investors in Toronto on Monday. Its tech section is dominated by Alberta data centre campuses whose stated ceilings add to roughly 5.6 gigawatts.
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In Foreign Affairs, the former director of Biden's National Economic Council argues Washington has an elaborate apparatus for refusing inbound capital and almost no route to approving it. The two federal measures it names are still proposals.
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The July 28 Covered List addition blocks new authorizations for foreign-made robots. The cost multiplier now being quoted comes from an index that had not yet been published.
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