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UK Political News Editor, @FT . Before that, global autos. Still plan to dine out on my live 80min interview with Elon from May '22:

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Peter Campbell
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: PORSCHES, BENTLEYS & AUDIS CONTAIN BANNED CHINESE PART🚨 🚘1,000s of cars held at US ports 🚘Sub-supplier used part from "western China" 🚘US bans imports from Xinjiang/other regions over forced labour Scoop w/ @Dimi & @patricianilsson :
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UK Twitter right now
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NEW: Kemi Badenoch told MPs trade talks with Canada were "ongoing". Canada says otherwise: "There have been neither negotiations nor technical discussions with respect to any of the outstanding issues." FT scoop from @GeorgeWParker , @LOS_Fisher & me:
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I'm quitting journalism, because I'm never going to write a better story than this. It's full-on bonkers:
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Peter Campbell
9 years
OK, so the International Space Station wins the "spot the eclipse" game: http://t.co/jvb99icJUc (v/ @JasonElsom )
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Oh man. Japan has *COME OUT SWINGING* against Donald Trump's Toyota-baiting:
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7 years
Is it possible to get notifications every time Martin Wolf comments on an @FT story please?
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It's only Monday, but this is surely the excuse of the week...
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Britain wants to lead the world in having no-one behind the wheel. No Brexit jokes please.
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6 months
A Toyota Hilux ad has been banned in the UK...because it showed the vehicles driving OFF-ROAD. The Advertising Standards Agency warned it depicted "driving with no regard for the environmental impact". Read the full, crazy story here:
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NEW: Toyota *WELCOMES* the 2035 delay, calling it "pragmatic". Full statement:
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Peter Campbell
5 years
This, from @elonmusk on the Tesla call last night, is a really interesting perspective on EV uptake. He thinks people will buy EVs because they're better, *even* if they're not due to replace their old car. A potential huge one-off disruption of current replacement cycles.
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Almost one in five new cars sold in the UK last month was fully electric. One in five.
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6 years
EXCLUSIVE - Jaguar Land Rover boss tells the Financial Times that a hard Brexit threatens the company's survival in the UK:
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@elonmusk Will different countries see different "Twitters" then?
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Quietly, Britain's historic motorcycle brands are becoming Indian. First TVS and Norton, now Mahindra and BSA. Interview with Anand Mahindra and @reach_anupam on their plans to make electric bikes in Coventry:
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Peter Campbell
10 years
This man, who put an advert in the Launceston Examiner, just won Valentines Day:
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🚨FT Scoop: EU will *not* delay UK tariff rules on imported EVs🚨 ⚡️Rules of Origin will apply for EVs from Jan 2024 ⚡️Official says battery investment has "fallen off a cliff" ⚡️Decision costs carmakers >€4bn Scoop by @AndyBounds , w/ @pmdfoster & me:
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2 years
CONFIRMED: Elon Musk will speak at #FTCar at 6pm (UK time) on Tuesday. The session will be livestreamed. Get your tickets here:
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🚨FT EXCLUSIVE: NISSAN IN TALKS TO MAKE 2 RENAULT MODELS IN SUNDERLAND🚨 - plans to move Renault Kadjar & Captur from Spain - discussions are live - also set to close Barcelona = more work for Renault in France Story with @KanaInagaki & @DavidKeo :
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FT EXCLUSIVE: Most major EU trade deals - including Japan, S Korea, Canada and Turkey - won't be rolled over to UK after Brexit, EVEN under May's deal, trade dept warns businesses:
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8 years
Never forget - Sealions are as fast on land as they are in water. So if you're against one in a triathlon, you've got to nail the cycling.
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3 years
Tesla hits $1trillion market cap. That's $2m for each car it made last year.
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3 years
The @FT style ruling we've all been waiting for...
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This is a big moment: EU truck giants to stop diesel sales by 2040. Pledge signed by 7 CEOs to be published this week.
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Peter Campbell
2 years
Roses are red Lemon has zest We start at the hilltop Gravity does the rest
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Nikola Corporation
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Love is in the air 💕 #ValentinesDay #HappyVDay
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Peter Campbell
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🚨Labour will reinstate 2030 ban on new petrol cars if elected, shadow biz secretary @jreynoldsMP tells the FT🚨 "Plan for the auto sector" includes binding chargepoint targets for councils. From @PickardJE , @_MODwyer & me:
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Peter Campbell
6 years
Carlos Ghosn slaps down Tesla at Paris Motor Show opening session: "10 years ago everyone said car makers are dinosaurs, and tech companies would eat us. "Today, the industry makes 95m cars, and the new entrants make 100,000 cars - and don't make money."
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Peter Campbell
3 years
@tory_uh @PickardJE They didn't redesign it, they just changed the printer cartridge.
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4 years
🚨Exclusive🚨 Nissan drew up an ambitious plan to double-down on the UK but quit the European market, as part of its Brexit contingency planning:
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Peter Campbell
4 years
🚨Breaking - Nissan announces £400m Sunderland investment🚨 - New £52m press line opened - Majority of £400m already spent - Investment despite company warning of Brexit "jeopardising" export model - £11m government support Full story:
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Peter Campbell
5 years
🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨🚨 The FT has obtained the l government's 2016 Brexit letter to Nissan. Here's what it says:
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Peter Campbell
2 years
Volkswagen will axe 60% of models by 2030, CFO tells @JoeMillerJr . Group is now focussed on premium and margins. First GM, now VW turns its back on race to be world number one. Does this mean Toyota wins?
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Peter Campbell
10 years
Spot the difference. Dante's Hell vs Boxing Day at Westfield. http://t.co/PDJ9x1ZlT2 (via @Solocypher )
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3 years
NEW: I am told that Nissan is receiving ~£100m in government support (beyond the £80m spent on a new energy system by Sunderland council). Manufacturing boss Kevin Fitzpatrick tells me the final figure still be negotiated, but says sum is "significant".
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🚨NEW: Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida says "world must move on" from engines🚨 🔋Nissan will launch only EVs in Europe in future 🔋All-EV line-up in Europe by 2030 🔋"No going back," despite UK policy, he says First details on @FT :
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Peter Campbell
6 years
From Goldman's note on Tesla - here are all the coming electric vehicles* that we know about. And there are a LOT. *not counting those from the bazillion EV startups
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Peter Campbell
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Me at 20. I will not be taking questions at this time.
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🚨NEW: Ford is prepared to restrict UK sales of petrol cars to hit EV targets, EU boss Martin Sander tells #FTCar 🚨 🔋"Only alternative" to selling EVs at loss is to cut petrol sales. 🔋Move will likely see petrol car prices rise. First details:
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Peter Campbell
10 years
This may be the best error message of all time: http://t.co/iwCvtyoyiq
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Peter Campbell
6 years
Rodeo for millennials.
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Nikhil Krishnan
6 years
When you find out people are betting scooter companies to be the last mile transportation option
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Peter Campbell
5 years
Break out the popcorn - Greg Clark to be questioned by the Business Committee tomorrow at 10am on Nissan, Hitachi and Brexit.
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Peter Campbell
6 years
Want to buy into the electric car revolution? Invest in whatever company makes those cable covers.
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Studio5054
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The EV revolution faces significant hurdles.
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Peter Campbell
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Pepsi was briefly one of the world's great naval powers. Wait...what?
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Peter Campbell
7 years
Nissan warned MPs that 6 minutes (SIX!) of downtime in a 24hr shift cycle makes its Sunderland plant uncompetitive:
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Peter Campbell
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Germany doing all it can to foster good relations with the incoming US President:
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@lexfridman Good list. Best of luck getting through Brothers Karamazov in a week though. This was my list last year:
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Peter Campbell
2 years
What is REALLY behind Tesla's decision to turn down €1.1bn from EU for its Berlin battery plant? Turns out project delays mean it would have breached a key condition of the funding. Full details in story w/ @JoeMillerJr here:
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Peter Campbell
3 years
🚘BREAKING: Honda has found a buyer for the Swindon plant🚘 🔧New owner Panattoni is a logistics site installer (basically, fits out warehouses for Amazon etc). 🔧Panattoni to invest £700m in the site, promises "thousands of new opportunities" 🔧4,500 people currently at site
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Peter Campbell
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🚨Big breaking investment🚨 Jaguar Land Rover to spend close to £1bn converting Castle Bromwich to build electric cars. First new model with be electric XJ. CEO calls on government to push for UK battery giga-factory. Full story:
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Peter Campbell
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BREAKING - Dyson to make first electric car in Singapore. - construction on plant begins this year - UK, China and Malaysia were shortlisted - more plants to follow in future - confirms "all options" open on battery tech, including buying it in
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🚨BREAKING: Nissan announces £2bn Sunderland factory investment🚨 🔋2 new EVs; plant to be EV-only this decade 🔋Nissan will put in £1.12bn (rest expected from Chinese battery supplier Envision's AESC) 🔋3rd UK battery plant to be built Full @FT story:
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Peter Campbell
7 years
Extraordinary level of ignorance. The largest car plant in US owned by...Nissan! Largest Toyota plant globally is in... Kentucky!
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Mark Knoller
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Pres Trump asks Japanese auto makers if they could build their cars in the US and not just ship them over.
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What happens to Tesla's shares? Bear view: Jim Chanos thinks there is a huge risk Bull view: @garyblack00 expects a stock split
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Peter Campbell
3 years
@jamiesusskind This is about as wrong as it's possible to be. The correct answer is oysters. Look extravagant, taste like seawater mixed with snot.
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2 years
This doesn't add up. BMW iX doesn't have self driving tech. It has "level 2" lane-assist that requires the driver to keep control. If BMW *does* have autonomous test cars in Reutlingen (and there's no record it does), then why are there 5 people including a child(!) in the car?
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"Companies that cannot respond will be wiped out," says Honda's CEO. Epochal moment to see arch-rivals Honda & Nissan team up on EVs. Follows VW/Renault talks in Europe. The legacy industry is fighting to survive the Chinese wave. From @KanaInagaki :
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Peter Campbell
4 years
🚘 Sale of new petrol/diesel cars to be banned by 2030 in UK 🚘 ⚡ plug in hybrids allowed until 2035 ⚡ car makers this morning call the measures "too narrow" ⚡ announcement expected this week Full story with @PickardJE :
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Peter Campbell
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The engine lives on! Cars that run on e-fuels WILL be allowed after 2035, Brussels rules. Big victory for Germany:
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Peter Campbell
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The one chart that explains why carmakers are trying to secure direct lithium supplies. From today's deep dive into auto-mining deals, by @harrydemps & me:
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🚨🚨FT EXCLUSIVE🚨🚨 Nissan will reconsider building Qashqai in Sunderland in a no-deal Brexit. The decision could spell the eventual closure of the site. Story with @KanaInagaki :
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Peter Campbell
1 year
FT readers are not impressed (or surprised). This is the top rated comment on Britishvolt's administration:
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Peter Campbell
6 years
Buried in today's government document dump, signs that a no-deal Brexit will cripple Britain's electric car market:
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Peter Campbell
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🔋Scoop: BYD rules out UK plant🔋 🔧Shortlist of 5 for 1st European plant 🔧UK "didn't even make top ten" 🔧In talks for Ford plant in Saarlouis "As an investor we want a country to be stable," says European president Michael Shu. Full interview:
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Peter Campbell
4 years
Volvo has sold so many hybrid and electric cars this year, it now has excess CO2 credits to sell to rivals. Any takers? From me & @nikasgari :
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Peter Campbell
5 years
Pretty staggering. Chancellor Javid says the chief concern of businesses is NOT Brexit, but a potential Labour government. Has he...actually spoken to any? UK car plants are more concerned about Brexit than literally anything else.
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"In February, Lucid said that it expected to build between 12,000 and 14,000 vehicles in 2022, down from an original forecast of 20,000...it now expects to deliver just 6,000 to 7,000 vehicles in 2022."
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Peter Campbell
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JLR story is on tomorrow's front page:
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Peter Campbell
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Porsche (owned by VW) suspends sponsorship of Maria Sharapova. Clearly doesn't want to be associated with someone accused of cheating. Oh.
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Peter Campbell
2 years
Who can catch Tesla? On current projections, only VW. (One caveat: our data was crunched before Ford this week doubled its ambition. @jimfarley98 said he wants Ford to be #1 in US) Deep dive into the numbers from @PatrickMcGee_ & @JoeMillerJr :
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Peter Campbell
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🚨UK transport green plan leaked🚨 ⚡ Diesel truck sales banned from 2040 ⚡Gov fleet to go electric by 2027 ⚡ Consultation on China-style ZEV credit system ⚡Road pricing mooted FT team exclusive from @PickardJE , @NathalieThomas3 , @pmdfoster & me:
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Peter Campbell
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Ford CEO Jim Farley on Ford's decision to focus on specific vehicles in future lineup: "If your strategy is two-row crossovers, you better have the cost structure of BYD."
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Peter Campbell
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@tomgara Hard agree. It's why we ran with this headline:
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Peter Campbell
3 years
How to market yourself when you're really, really good at chopping mushrooms...
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Peter Campbell
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🚨Exclusive: Trouble at Arrival🚨 🚚US van will take years 🚚1st "microfactory" van largely hand built 🚚looting as morale hits "rock bottom" 🚚turned down Amazon deal 🚚working on secret jet 🚚van fire during UPS demo Full story:
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Peter Campbell
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🚨SCOOP: Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer is going🚨 🏎️Mercedes-AMG boss Tobias Moers to replace Palmer 🏎️Announcement planned for Tuesday 🏎️More executive changes expected under new Aston chairman Lawrence Stroll (CFO & chair left in April) Full story:
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Peter Campbell
3 years
⚡NEW - UK cuts plug-in car grant from £3,000 to £2,500.⚡ Vehicle price cap also cut from £50k to £35k. Effective immediately. Industry only told this morning.
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Peter Campbell
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Exclusive: 6 companies - including Jaguar Land Rover - are in talks with UK gov over "Project Birch" support that may lead to gov owning equity stakes. Aston Martin and McLaren, despite earlier speculation, are not involved. Scoop from @PickardJE & me:
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Peter Campbell
4 years
A body in a burned car. Accusations of spying. Secret tapes. Crazy, crazy story from @OlafStorbeck :
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Peter Campbell
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@AndyatAston asked if Aston Martin is less exposed to hard Brexit than others because of its luxury status. "We're less exposed but equally pissed off".
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Peter Campbell
6 years
One Billboard Outside Geneva. Huge trolling of Tesla & @elonmusk by Hyundai:
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Peter Campbell
6 years
BMW's largest plant in the world is located in that well known European location...South Carolina.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance!
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Peter Campbell
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@sohotsospicy @rajkashana @WuffFluff Exactly. Because no-one would be impressed by a 4 year old chess prodigy.
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Peter Campbell
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Exclusive: Tesla shipped unfinished cars as part of efficiency drive (uncovered in our deep dive into Model 3 ramp):
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Peter Campbell
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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Nissan announces £1bn gigafactory plan🚨🚨🚨 ⚡New battery plant to supply 100,000 cars ⚡New EV model for Sunderland ⚡Option to expand battery plant from 9GWh to 25GWh by 2030
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Peter Campbell
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: Nissan in talks to build UK gigafactory🚨 ⚡️Sunderland to be "global EV hub" outside Japan ⚡️Talks with gov began after Brexit deal, still ongoing ⚡️Announcement due this summer ⚡️20gWh planned size, 1st part online late 2024 Full story:
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Peter Campbell
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🚨BREAKING: VW faces fine of over €100m after missing European CO2 targets in 2020.🚨 CEO @Herbert_Diess says company was "thwarted by the pandemic". More details on FT liveblog:
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Peter Campbell
4 years
This is the picture everyone in the industry has wanted to see - the Dyson car. But at £150,000 (!!) it was never commercially viable. (Photo from his interview with the Sunday Times Rich List: )
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Peter Campbell
6 years
Best response so far goes to @danahull -
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Peter Campbell
2 years
I've been pondering this question for a while: Why aren't electric cars cheaper to lease? With much better understanding of battery health & very few moving parts, EVs *should* hold value well. Here's my deep dive into the EV residual value debate:
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Peter Campbell
2 years
Fantastic visual piece from @calebjacobs0611 showing the buildup of un-finished Ford trucks parked on the Kentucky speedway:
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Peter Campbell
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🚨Breaking: Ford all-electric in Europe by 2035🚨 ⚡️Turkey gigafactory for Transit EVs ⚡️All vans🔋by 2035 (prev target 2/3 by 2030) ⚡️7 new BEV models announced Full details:
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Peter Campbell
5 years
This is awkward. Who's going to tell him?
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Peter Campbell
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🚨NEW: Mercedes CEO says EU should *CUT* tariffs on Chinese EVs🚨 🔋"Let competition play out", Ola Kallenius tells me 🔋Carmakers "did not ask for" EU probe 🔋Must fight back with "better product, better tech, more agility" W/ @patricianilsson :
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Peter Campbell
3 years
Join the manufacturers' association press team, they said. Get to write releases about factories, they said.
@samjmintz
Sam Mintz
3 years
The National Association of Manufacturers just asked Mike Pence to "seriously consider" invoking the 25th amendment.
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