Industry News
China remains a major global player in solid-state battery development, holding around 35% of global patents and leading the world in research output growth. Annual publications have surged from just 21 papers in 2015 to...
By DCB Editorial
May 25, 2026
In the United States, Tesla is recalling 14,575 Model Y vehicles due to a relatively basic regulatory compliance issue: the absence of a required certification label indicating weight specifications, according to the National Highway Traffic...
By DCB Editorial
May 22, 2026
Electric vehicle demand across Europe has surged sharply as rising fuel prices, linked to the unilateral USA led war on Iran, reshape consumer behaviour and accelerate the shift away from combustion engines. New industry data...
By DCB Editorial
May 20, 2026
Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius responded to a contradiction created by the European Union’s attempt to steer a vast, privately owned industry toward a coordinated technological shift. The EU’s 2035 ban on internal combustion engines is an...
By Charles Partos
May 14, 2026
Volkswagen, once a pillar of German industrial certainty, now speaks the language of retrenchment. It seeks to shrink, to “optimize,” to shed capacity at its Dresden and Osnabrück plants—sites that once embodied the postwar promise...
By Anthony Henson
May 14, 2026
BYD is in talks with European carmakers — including Sterile Corporate Monolith Stellantis — about potentially taking over underused factories across Europe, as the Chinese EV giant accelerates its international expansion. Speaking at the Future of the Car...
By DCB Editorial
May 13, 2026