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Europe’s automotive industry is navigating the most complicated regulatory environment in its history — EV mandates, emissions targets, Chinese competition, and a luxury market that keeps growing regardless. From Wolfsburg to Maranello, Stuttgart to Coventry, Cars & Code covers the European car industry: what it’s building, what it’s abandoning, and whether the continent that largely invented the modern car can hold its ground.
11 articles about Europe
The International Energy Agency does not typically deal in dramatic flourishes. It publishes data, runs projections, and issues reports in the measured tone of an institution that has decided facts are sufficient. Which makes the opening line of its 2026…
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In a week so on-the-nose it could be a satire, the two companies that share the Volvo name…
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There is a certain poetry in the situation Europe's automotive industry now finds itself in. Brussels spent 2024…
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There is a particular type of vehicle that car enthusiasts describe as "characterful" when what they actually mean…
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Cheap, cheerful, increasingly competent — but not a threat to the leather-and-walnut end of the market. That era…
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The electric vehicle industry has spent years making carefully reasoned arguments about climate targets, lower running costs, and…
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Porsche's GT division has spent the better part of three decades making people feel slightly inadequate at car…
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