Automotive World Magazine – December 2025

Automotive World Magazine features the best and sharpest Automotive World content, curated specifically to help you understand the future of mobility By Automotive World December 4, 2025 In this issue

Automotive World Magazine features the best and sharpest Automotive World content, curated specifically to help you understand the future of mobility

In this issue:

Data

  • Global light vehicle sales forecast – November 2025 edition
  • Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance model plans and production forecast to 2029

Results

  • BMW’s capex discipline shields it from China headwinds
  • Ferrari leans on personalisation to score 8% profit growth
  • The changing EV market hits Honda’s finances hard
  • High tariff costs offset Hyundai’s revenue growth, again
  • Li Auto hit by low sales in Q3, margin drops 12.3pts YoY
  • Mazda stems losses in Q2, forecast remains unchanged
  • Mitsubishi lowers 2025/26 guidance as forex and tariffs bite
  • Nissan: turnaround underway, with more pain to come
  • Subaru’s Q2 margin drops 8.9pts from previous year
  • Suzuki sticks to forecast, cites chip supply uncertainty
  • Toyota addresses US tariff impact, updates forecast
  • Toyota shines a light amid the automotive gloom
  • Xpeng and Zeekr: up on paper, down in the market

Strategy

  • BMW embraces both promise and risk of quantum computing
  • General Motors and Stellantis confront supplier challenges
  • Hyundai continues to invest as export focus increases
  • JLR cyber attack fallout erodes Tata Motors’ profits in Q2
  • Nissan and Honda to explore joint product development in US
  • Nissan’s production geography is changing
  • Musk floats Tesla chip factory to meet AI demand
  • Is Volkswagen running out of money?

Markets

  • Global car sales expected to rise 3% year-on-year in 2025
  • In China for export: VW considers new global growth plans
  • Is India’s automotive industry turning Japanese?
  • Indian vehicle exports gain ground in European markets
  • Tesla reportedly encouraging shift away from China sourcing
  • EV sales already dropping following end of US tax credits

Autonomous mobility

  • Xpeng teams with Alibaba to launch robotaxi services in 2026
  • Abu Dhabi launches MENA region’s first AV oversight platform
  • Aurora extends autonomous freight network to El Paso
  • Japan targets 10,000 AVs on roads by 2030
  • Inside GM’s vision for autonomy
  • Waymo expands to the freeway for the first time
  • Should autonomous transit take a ‘disaggregated’ approach?

Software-defined vehicle

  • Here and AWS propose ‘revolutionary’ SDV short-cut
  • Difficult realities of LiDAR: Volvo backs away from Luminar
  • How will ADAS trends shape the radar roadmap?
  • EVs and calibration: raising the bar on complexity
  • SDV digital chassis demands new design strategies
  • Here’s Deon Newman on supporting Chinese automakers in the SDV era

Electric mobility

  • NXP brings lab-grade diagnostics into EVs
  • UK launches probe into Yutong buses over remote access fears
  • AEM cuts out rare earths for e-motor supply chain security
  • How EV body design reveals a global technology divide
  • Ford trial offers smart charging blueprint for fleets
  • Xiaomi reaches EV profitability just 19 months after launch
  • EV energy efficiency: what levers are left to pull?

Manufacturing

  • Geely to produce EVs, PHEVs at Renault’s Brazil plant
  • Will aluminium shape the future of mobility?
  • From UX to engineering: gaming engines power new mobility
  • AI-based generative design guides OEM transformations
  • Politics has become a core auto supply chain risk factor

Suppliers

  • Continental schedules more cuts, targets ContiTech division
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