Industry News
Tesla’s latest announcement in Austin is framed as “progress”: unsupervised robotaxis expanding across the city, a step toward a future where machines replace the frailty of human drivers and corporate algorithms mediate urban mobility. But...
By Anthony Henson
June 8, 2026
A growing shortage of memory chips driven by demand from AI data centres could trigger significant price increases for consumer goods and disrupt global supply chains, according to industry groups. In a letter to the...
By DCB Editorial
June 8, 2026
A strike at one of General Motors’ key axle suppliers is beginning to put real pressure on the company’s lucrative pickup truck business, with contract negotiations currently at a standstill. Around 1,000 members of the...
By DCB Editorial
June 5, 2026
Ferrari says it is seeing “strong interest” in its new all-electric Ferrari Luce despite criticism surrounding the model’s design and Ferrari’s move further into electrification. The Italian automaker unveiled the Luce in Rome earlier this...
By DCB Editorial
May 29, 2026
The negotiations over the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement are fundamentally about power—specifically, which segment of capital gets to capture the surplus generated by automotive production. The United States is pushing to tighten “rules of origin,” demanding that a...
By Brian Denton
May 28, 2026
Ferrari’s unveiling of its first fully electric vehicle, the Luce, reads less like an automotive debut than a ritual of rupture — a deliberate severing from a mythology carefully cultivated over decades of combustion, speed,...
By Anthony Henson
May 28, 2026