Autos in Five is the daily five-minute brief on the auto business: the five stories that matter, every weekday. Earnings and deals, the EV transition and supply chain, plants and jobs, and the tech and policy shifts reshaping how the world builds and sells cars. Curated daily, sourced and straight. For automakers, suppliers, dealers and the investors and operators moving the industry. Walk in already caught up. In the know. In five.
Dataforce reports Chinese-branded registrations hit 12.7 percent of European sales in the quarter through September, ahead of Japanese brands at 11.9 percent, as Brussels weighs a cap on Chinese hybrid imports and Chery and BYD build European plants. GM says it will put eyes-off highway autonomy in large SUVs and pickups in 2028, per the Chosun Ilbo, while Volkswagen Group and Xpeng win approvals to test autonomous systems on Chinese public roads, according to Automotive News. Toyota's chief technology officer says the automaker expects about 1.7 billion dollars a year from selling next-generation engines and hybrid systems to partners including Subaru, Mazda and Suzuki.
26 Oct 2026
Audi Picks Georgia, Canada Pumps the Brakes
Audi plans a four billion dollar plant in Georgia, its first in the US, built for up to 200,000 SUVs a year, while Canada shelves tighter tailpipe rules until model year 2030. Volvo Cars will cut 2,500 jobs and five billion crowns in costs after a third-quarter loss tied to Chinese competition, US tariffs and weak demand, and UAW President Shawn Fain says GM's twenty billion dollar buyback will be remembered at the 2028 bargaining table. Also moving: Tesla's Model Y tops Europe's September table, Chery weighs Canadian production, IG Metall sets a strike deadline for Volkswagen, and Waymo heads to Spain.
23 Oct 2026
Tesla's Five Million Target, Bosch Splits Mobility
Tesla's third-quarter net income fell 43 percent to 787 million dollars on roughly flat revenue, per Automotive News, as Elon Musk projected EV output more than doubling to five million a year by 2030 on robotaxis and self-driving software. Bosch plans to legally separate its Mobility parts unit into a wholly owned company with no plans to list or sell it, and China has threatened to retaliate if the UK restricts Chinese electric vehicles. Also: Waymo starts manual testing in Madrid with Jaguar I-PACE vehicles, FCA US recalls nearly 266,000 Ram ProMaster vans over steering-assist wiring corrosion, and Foxconn takes a 50 percent stake in Mitsubishi Electric Mobility.
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