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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.
23 articles about Europe
There is a certain poetry in the situation Europe's automotive industry now finds itself in. Brussels spent 2024 constructing an elaborate tariff regime — provisional duties of between 17 and 35 percent on Chinese-made EVs — specifically designed to slow…
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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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The small electric car has had a difficult few years. Not because nobody wants one, but because the…
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The Polestar 4 — a name that tells you it is the fourth Polestar model released, in release…
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