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IN TODAY’S REPORT
⚡ROUNDUP
Key headlines shaping the auto industry this week
⚙️ Manufacturing, Financials & Corporate Moves
Porsche restructuring costs VW Group €4.7 billion in Q3 (Link)
Porsche blames tariffs for further price hikes (Link)
GM cuts another 1,200 jobs — third layoff announcement in five days (Link)
VW PowerCo begins construction of its first Canadian battery factory (Link)
Hyundai lays foundation stone for new fuel cell factory (Link)
🧠 AI, Automation & R&D
🚚 Autonomous Vehicles & Level 4 Systems
Lucid to deliver first Level 4 autonomous EVs for consumers with NVIDIA (Link)
Aurora expands driverless trucking service from Fort Worth to El Paso (Link)
International and PlusAI accelerate Level 4 truck development using NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Hyperion (Link)
VW Commercial Vehicles launches predictive maintenance platform (Link)
🔋 Batteries & Energy
🚗 Products, Brands & Features
Toyota challenges Rolls-Royce with new ultra-luxury brand “Century” (Link)
BMW receives driver-assistance system approval for the new iX3 (Link)
Mahindra extends digital key support to Samsung Wallet app (Link)
Android Auto to get an update to the Coolwalk interface (Link)
Lucid rolls out OTA key fob update to fix Gravity recognition issues (Link)
Rivian delivers around 5,000 vans to Amazon between July and October (Link)
Rivian–VW partnership: board member calls Rivian software “not perfect but a really good start” (Link)
“The guy who ran Stellantis” thinks Tesla might not exist in 10 years (Link)
📈MARKET SNAPSHOT
This week’s key movers in the automotive stock market
🐦AUTO BUZZ
Top posts, tweets, and videos from the automotive industry
Excited to share an updated version of this chart tracking the top global automotive groups by pure BEV sales/deliveries! ⚡🌍
Collecting and verifying all this data across different automakers took some serious digging — but worth it!
— #Electric Nick (#@electric_nick_)
8:39 PM • Oct 30, 2025
Nio Founders Head to Europe as EV Maker Enters New Expansion Wave — EV $NIO via @EV_carba
— #EV (#@EV_carba)
7:50 PM • Oct 30, 2025
What a week in Micromobility! - Here is what happened:
👉 @voitechnology achieved record performance in Q3 2025, with net revenue rising 34% year-over-year to €57.5m. The company also reported its strongest operational cash flow to date at €19.8m.
👉 UK e-bike subscription
— #Micromobility (#@MicromobilityCo)
7:43 PM • Oct 30, 2025
💹FINANCIALS
A focused look at recent automotive company financials
VW Q3 Highlights
Stellantis Q3 Highlights
