Andrew was busy, so Alan’s joined by the ever-knowledgeable Alex Grant to catch up on some of the news from the holiday period.
The Department for Transport is trying to stop a Freedom of Information Request release to see the assumptions on which the UK’s Transport Decarbonisation plan has been built. You can read more in this TransportXtra article.
Continental has released a set of questions and answers about its August cyberattack. They can be found on the Continental webpage.
Stellantis has been forcing dealers and buyers to register cars before arriving in the country to improve “stock velocity” and secure next year’s supply. That doesn’t seem good for today’s customers. Read more in this Car Dealer Magazine interview.
Toyota has announced plans for investment in its Deeside plant to enable it to build its next generation of hybrid powertrains. You can find out more in this AM Online article.
Lawrence Price, great-grandson of the company’s founder, HFS Morgan, has taken over as non-executive Chairman of Morgan Motor Company, according to this AM Online article.
Volkswagen has rearranged the usual faces one more time. This time it’s “Strategic” according to Autocar.
Lawrence Stroll has increased his stake in Aston Martin, with this Autocar article saying it’s to stop a Geely takeover.
You won’t believe number three, but you can read what they are, and follow a link to the report in this Move Electric article.
The UK Government is looking at how to roll out the correct number of EV charging points in the correct places and how to make that data easily available to the relevant parties as part of a new report. You can read the summary and the full report on the Cabinet Office website.
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