Automotive World Journal – July 2025

On this concern:

Knowledge

• International mild automobile gross sales forecast – June 2025 version
• AW Rev counter Q1-2025: solely Suzuki escapes downturn
• Iveco manufacturing forecast to 2029

Outcomes

• Mazda This fall revenue miss, forecast suspended
• Mercedes work vans proceed to outperform luxurious automobiles
• MMC anticipates additional decline in 2025/26
• Nissan: impairments and purple ink mark new CEO’s begin
• Renault—that return to the US market? Perhaps not simply but
• Subaru’s downturn steepens in This fall
• Suzuki goes its personal means in 2024/25
• Tesla inventory plunges as Trump and Musk flip to blows
• Foreign exchange, not tariffs, dominate Toyota’s forecast for 2025/26
• VinFast boosts gross sales in Q1 however nonetheless incurs excessive internet loss

Technique

• Aston Martin will increase exports to US, accepts 10% tariff
• Ford: specializing in its dwelling market and challenges
• Honda: tariffs and know-how pressure change in technique
• Nvidia CEO Huang outlines imaginative and prescient of commercial AI revolution
• Stellantis: international vs regional methods in battle?
• Toyota begins to restructure its provide base
• Hino/Fuso merger creates Japanese trucking powerhouse
• WiWo: ZF contemplating winding up its drivetrain enterprise

Markets

• ASEAN: a closed, self-sufficient market?
• Is GM eyeing Brazil for Cadillac as gross sales in China dry up?
• Commerce turmoil opens window for China EVs in UK
• China claims 6% of European market in Might
• EV management might change as international market fractures
• One to observe: Gothenburg emerges as mobility tech hub
• Japan’s OEMs: Jan-Might manufacturing, gross sales, export roundup
• Elevating costs in US may be inescapable for Japan’s OEMs
• Adverts turn into Snaps: EVs and Gen Z spur advertising evolution

Autonomous mobility

• The place subsequent for autonomous security evaluation?

Software program-defined automobiles

• China drafts new guidelines for ADAS security
• Bosch CEO: EU dangers sovereignty with out AI management
• Xpeng and Huawei debut “Chasing Gentle Panorama” HUD

Electrical mobility

• Nissan e-Energy improve strikes drivers nearer to EV
• Polestar: society is the largest beneficiary of V2G
• Daimler Truck: CV battery R&D focus shifts to price
• ZF targets improved e-truck/e-bus TCO via compressors
• Battery separator tech proactively tackles fireplace danger

Manufacturing

• Are Ford and GM sparring over battery manufacturing?
• GM doubles down on ICE with US$4bn US plant investments
• Lotus refutes stories it plans to shut UK manufacturing facility
• MAN focuses on built-in, modular battery manufacturing
• Volvo: transferring to a extra regional manufacturing mannequin?
• Manufacturing in Mexico: too good for US OEMs to go away?
• Geopolitics accelerates auto manufacturing expertise shortages

Supplies

• China’s uncommon earth halts: a lose-lose state of affairs for auto?
• Tyres: the issue youngster of sustainability?