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warningsine · 7 months ago

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https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-lay-off-more-than-10-its-staff-electrek-reports-2024-04-15/

BERLIN, April 15 (Reuters) - Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab is laying off more than 10% of its global workforce, an internal memo seen by Reuters on Monday shows, as it grapples with falling sales and an intensifying price war for electric vehicles (EVs).

"About every five years, we need to reorganize and streamline the company for the next phase of growth," CEO Elon Musk commented in a post on X. Two senior leaders, battery development chief Drew Baglino and vice president for public policy Rohan Patel, also announced their departures, drawing posts of thanks from Musk although some investors were concerned.

Musk last announced a round of job cuts in 2022, after telling executives he had a "super bad feeling" about the economy. Still, Tesla headcount has risen from around 100,000 in late 2021 to over 140,000 in late 2023, according to filings with U.S. regulators.

Baglino was a Tesla veteran and one of four members, along with Musk, of the leadership team listed on the company's investor relations website.

Scott Acheychek, CEO of Rex Shares - which manages ETFs with high exposure to Tesla stock - described the headcount reductions as strategic, but Michael Ashley Schulman, chief investment officer at Running Point Capital Advisors, deemed the departures of the senior executives as "the larger negative signal today" that Tesla's growth was in trouble.

Less than a year ago, Tesla's chief financial officer, Zach Kirkhorn, left the company, fueling concerns about succession planning.

Tesla shares closed 5.6% lower at $161.48 on Monday. Shares of EV makers Rivian Automotive (RIVN.O), opens new tab, Lucid Group (LCID.O), opens new tab and VinFast Auto also dropped between 2.4% and 9.4%.

"As we prepare the company for our next phase of growth, it is extremely important to look at every aspect of the company for cost reductions and increasing productivity," Musk said in the memo sent to all staff.

"As part of this effort, we have done a thorough review of the organization and made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by more than 10% globally," it said.

Reuters saw an email sent to at least three U.S. employees notifying them their dismissal was effective immediately.

Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

MASS MARKET

The layoffs follow an exclusive Reuters report on April 5 that Tesla had cancelled a long-promised inexpensive car, expected to cost $25,000, that investors have been counting on to drive mass-market growth. Musk had said the car, known as the Model 2, would start production in late 2025.

Shortly after the story published, Musk posted "Reuters is lying" on his social media site X, without detailing any inaccuracies. He has not commented on the car since, leaving investors and analysts to speculate on its future.

Tech publication Electrek, which first reported, opens new tab the latest job cuts, said on Monday that the inexpensive car project had been defunded and that many people working on it had been laid off.

Reuters also reported on April 5 that Tesla would shift its focus to self-driving robotaxis built on the same small-car platform. Musk posted on X that evening: "Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8," with no further details.

Tesla could be years away from releasing a fully autonomous vehicle with regulatory approval, according to experts in self-driving cars and regulation.

Tesla shares have fallen about 33% so far this year, underperforming legacy automakers such as Toyota Motor (7203.T), opens new tab and General Motors (GM.N), opens new tab, whose shares have rallied 45% and about 20% respectively.

Energy major BP (BP.L), opens new tab has also cut more than a tenth of the workforce in its EV charging business after a bet on rapid growth in commercial EV fleets did not pay off, Reuters reported on Monday, underscoring the broader impact of slowing EV demand.

WORKS COUNCIL

A newly elected works council of labour representatives at Tesla's German plant was not informed or consulted ahead of the announcement to staff, said Dirk Schulze, head of the IG Metall union in the region.

"It is the legal obligation of management not only to inform the works council but to consult with it on how jobs can be secured," Schulze said.

Analysts from Gartner and Hargreaves Lansdown said the cuts were a sign of cost pressures as the carmaker invests in new models and artificial intelligence.

Tesla reported this month that its global vehicle deliveries in the first quarter fell for the first time in nearly four years, as price cuts failed to stir demand.

The EV maker has been slow to refresh its aging models as high interest rates have sapped consumer appetite for big-ticket items, while rivals in China, the world's largest auto market, are rolling out cheaper models.

China's BYD (002594.SZ), opens new tab briefly overtook the U.S. company as the world's largest EV maker in the fourth quarter, and new entrant Xiaomi (1810.HK), opens new tab has garnered substantial positive press.

Tesla is gearing up to start sales in India, the world's third-largest auto market, this year, producing cars in Germany for export to India and scouting locations for showrooms and service hubs in major cities.

Tesla recorded a gross profit margin of 17.6% in the fourth quarter, the lowest in more than four years.

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voros-kiralyno · 9 months ago

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Headcanon: Nova's Vehicle collection

Nova is absolutely a street racing kind of girlie and she is DAMN GOOD AT IT. Drift racing, drag racing, you name it. She's even raced in formula 1 before. With this love and a lot of money Nova has amassed a sexy collection of cars in her time which she keeps in her personal parking garage (Which is just a level of her building's garage thats been modified and had security installed).

And which ones aren't located there are in her other garage where the custom work takes place.

Nova's collection is nice and ranges from luxury to sports cars, some shes purchased and some shes won in races. Here are some of her babies:

1995 Acura NSX 2020 Corvette (in black and red) 2024 Camaro (Black and electric green) Toyota GR86 (silver) Bugatti Divo (Black and electric blue) Bugatti Bolide (Black and electric purple) Ferrari SF90 Spider (Black and Yellow) NISSAN 350Z (Black and purple) NISSAN 350Z (in all purple) 2021 Lotus Evora GT (red and black) Lotus Evija (Silver and red)

She of course has a LOT more, this doesnt count for the classic and older models OR her customs- but they are some of her faves. The bolded ones are ones shes won off people.

#headcanon #she also owns a chevy Nova just for funsies

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mariacallous · 2 years ago

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan—As Afghanistan plummets deeper into a devastating economic crisis, the Taliban have declared a war on drugs that snatches away the sole cash crops relied on by many struggling rural families—opium poppy and ephedra, a plant that contains a precursor for manufacturing methamphetamine—putting millions at risk of starvation and potentially alienating the group’s own long-suffering support base.

High-ranking Talibs insist that drugs have been fully eradicated from the country and the ban is a matter of ethics; opium and meth are simply “dangerous for the world,” as one senior narcotics official put it. Farmers, low-level soldiers, and rural leaders say they’ve been told it’s a necessary sacrifice to secure recognition and desperately needed humanitarian aid. But in Kabul, where prices have soared and users are rounded up and imprisoned in hellish so-called rehab centers, dealers and users are adamant that supply is undiminished—and that Taliban soldiers still control the trade.

The road from Kabul to Kandahar—Afghanistan’s former capital in the south, where most opium poppies are grown—is just 300 miles long but takes 15 hours to drive. When we made the trip in October 2022, it was peak harvest time for the region’s famous pomegranates, but the landscape was arid. Clouds of dust and sand periodically swirled around our 1991 Toyota Camry, making it harder to spot craters left by roadside bombs or even the groups of small children kneeling in the middle of the road, begging with hands outstretched to oncoming trucks that lurched to avoid them just in time.

In Kandahar province, we were directed along a maze of rocky tracks toward the Afghanistan-Pakistan border by a Taliban soldier; he had been assigned to us for “protection” at a crumbling local military base. Every river and stream had dried up; the only signs of water access were occasional solar panels, used to generate electricity to pump water from deep underground. Until the ban, this scant water supply was used to irrigate the poppy fields that carpeted the area and provided a rare source of income to Kandahar’s rural poor. Twenty years of war scarred the hills and farms. There are bomb craters, ruined schoolhouses, burnt husks of police cars, and even the grave of a child killed in a U.S. airstrike, but the death toll of the conflict could pale in comparison with that of a newly waged war on drugs.

Having leveraged the drug trade to fund their insurgency for decades, in 2021 the Taliban outlawed the harvesting of ephedra, which grows wild in the mountains and from which ephedrine, a meth precursor, can be extracted, and the following April abruptly banned opium cultivation and production. This move blindsided many farmers in Afghanistan’s poppy-growing heartlands. Standing outside his shed-like motorbike repair shop on the side of the road in Kandahar province, Wakil Ahmad pointed to an empty swath of land behind the building.

“Before, this was a poppy farm,” he said. Six months earlier, just a few weeks before harvesting began, the Taliban told his family that this harvest would be their last. If they continued to grow poppies, they would be fined and thrown in jail. “The fields are useless now,” Ahmad said. “We lost everything. We don’t have any other options. We can’t grow anything else.”

With the country grappling with pariah status and the specter of financial collapse, the decision to eliminate opium poppies and processing of ephedra has baffled Afghans and international observers alike. Afghanistan’s narcotics market earns far more money for its people than any other commodity in the country: the total value of all legal products exported from Afghanistan totaled just $870 million in 2019, which is dwarfed by an illicit opiate market reaching an estimated value of $1.2-$2.1 billion.

With international aid and trade largely suspended, opium and meth became the last economic lifeline for many in provinces such as Kandahar and Helmand. In a country where the public sector minimum wage is under $60 per month, foraging for ephedra can bring in $30 per day, which, although laborious, takes no special skills or investment—traders even travel to pick up the product. In the traditional Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, poppy cultivation raises around $400 million a year for farming families, including the 30-year-old Talib resting his Kalashnikov rifle on his knees in the front seat of our car. The soldier said he has received no salary for the 15 years that he has served in the Taliban forces and doesn’t know how he’ll support his family without growing opium.

The Taliban last attempted to wipe out opium in 2000, with short-lived success. After the U.S. invasion in 2001, production saw a general upward trend, and cultivation spiked in 2017, providing crucial income for insurgents—including, notoriously, the Taliban themselves. Researchers such as David Mansfield argue that it’s highly unlikely the Talib leaders who issued the 2000 ban were trying to artificially inflate prices with a view to cashing in, but as the price of opium increased in the ensuing two decades, they certainly had no qualms openly profiting from it.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported an uptick in opium production after the Taliban seized power in August 2021, including a 32 percent rise in 2022. This production was concentrated in the southern provinces of Nimroz, Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan, and Zabul, which together account for nearly three-quarters of the total area under cultivation. Kandahar saw 12,300 extra hectares dedicated to poppy in 2022, a 72 percent increase from the year before. Processing of ephedra has also increased since 2017, supplying a cottage industry in ephedrine extraction at hundreds of meth labs across the country.

Back in Kabul, local street dealer Khalid scoffed at the idea that the Taliban have stepped back from the drug trade. Heroin and meth are typically bought in bulk from an area called Shahrak-e Aria (close to Kabul Airport), he said, and he sees “a lot of Talibs there” selling wholesale to dealers. Khalid said he has also bought drugs from a Taliban office in Shahr-e Naw, a largely upscale neighborhood known for its manicured public park but where, just outside the railings, we saw at least 50 men huddled around opium and meth pipes in midafternoon.

While it’s getting harder to smuggle illicit drugs into the capital through the Taliban checkpoints, Khalid said, at one wholesaler where he buys smaller quantities for street dealing, kilo packets of meth are packaged with an official Taliban seal, the symbol of the Islamic Emirate. This, Khalid believes, lets drugs pass through the “Kabul doors”—in other words, they are waved through checkpoints without closer inspection.

Analysts watching the situation closely say they haven’t seen evidence of stockpiling, but domestic availability of illicit drugs appears unaffected even as prices soar in anticipation of future shortages. Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, said she fears that individual Taliban commanders may exploit price surges to increase their own heroin and meth portfolios, by allowing pockets of production to continue under their control in order to inflate their own profits.

On its own, the uninterrupted supply doesn’t prove that opium is still being cultivated in Afghanistan—Felbab-Brown says it typically takes two years of supply restrictions to affect availability on the street—but it contradicts claims made by government officials that all opium and heroin has been eradicated from the country.

There are other signs that some production has continued with the knowledge and blessing of Taliban commanders. Some farmers in the southern provinces told Radio Azadi last October that they were allowed to go ahead with their harvests, and a major heroin-trafficking operation run by Afghan nationals was busted in India’s Punjab region in January. Whether this is a deliberate attempt to shore up control of a smaller, more valuable trade or simply a case of opportunistic factions exploiting the situation to enrich themselves, Talibs appear to be the only winners of the ban.

Profit margins for opium farmers and sharecroppers are modest—perhaps a few hundred dollars per hectare in a normal year—but as our Talib soldier-escort explained, this far outstrips profits from crops such as wheat. In theory, having opium farmers switch to wheat should help combat what the UNODC describes as “one of the worst food insecurity crises worldwide,” but in reality, the slender margins would leave farmers with little means to buy any other food, let alone medicine or other basic necessities. Alternatives such as pomegranates are better earners, but orchards take years to fruit, making it an impossible ask for communities living hand to mouth. No stakeholder who is demanding that farmers transition away from opium—not the Taliban, the former Afghan government, the United States, or the UNODC—has been willing to foot the bill to cover rural incomes in a way that would allow farmers to transition away from poppies.

Low-level growers stay poor, but those further up the chain make serious money. During the civil war, the Taliban in some areas under their control taxed farmers and smugglers around 10 percent of their earnings, while some warlords and Taliban factions controlled parts of the trade directly. Badly paid soldiers and police officers with the Afghan government demanded significant bribes to spare poppy farms from destruction, while senior officials paid up to $150,000 for governorships in remote posts where they could exploit the trade for personal gain. In the early years of the U.S. invasion, Washington was reluctant to push for poppy eradication, aware this would alienate rural communities and drive them closer to the Taliban; reports even emerged of U.S. Marines guarding poppy fields for farmers. But over the following decades, enemy combatants increasingly relied on drug profits, and the United States switched to spending billions of dollars on counternarcotics programs. This included aerial bombings of suspected meth- and opiate-processing labs and trucks. According to testimony given by Felbab-Brown to the U.K. Parliament in 2020, most of these efforts were “ineffective or outright counterproductive” from an economic, political, and peacekeeping point of view, serving only to impoverish and alienate farmers, pushing them closer to Taliban soldiers who offered to protect their livelihoods.

Most illicit drugs produced in Afghanistan are destined for export. Tons of heroin, meth, and hashish were seized by Pakistani authorities in January 2022, including a record 130-kilogram haul of heroin intercepted by customs at the Torkham border crossing. Demand for meth is also soaring among Afghanistan’s neighbors, including Pakistan and Iran. But plenty of Afghans are hooked, too. Two decades of relentless fighting, brutal terrorist attacks, and economic chaos, followed by the return of the Taliban regime, have left more than half of Afghans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. Despair and trauma breed addiction; there are now an estimated 3.5 million drug addicts in Afghanistan—nearly one-tenth of the population.

A string of reports and documentaries over the past year paint a grim picture of violent crackdowns on addicts and brutal conditions inside underfunded rehabilitation facilities, where there is little food to go around and malnourished patients frequently die from disease or the effects of heroin withdrawal.

“They give you no food or water. Beat you like an enemy,” said Khalid, the heroin and meth user-turned-dealer in Kabul, who said he was arrested in one of the early Taliban crackdowns and sent to Camp Phoenix, the former U.S. military base now repurposed as a Taliban-run rehab hospital. “There’s no food for us, so we have to eat grass, but if they see us eating grass, then they beat us again. They say they want to get you off drugs, but it is like torture.”

Potential victims of the crackdown extend outside national borders. Afghanistan supplies around 80 percent of the world’s heroin, including to many European nations where fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is yet to penetrate the market. There is no evidence to suggest that heroin addiction or demand diminishes amid supply shortages, but in the past, disruptions have seen synthetic alternatives flood the market and overdose deaths soar as users struggle to adapt to massive changes in purity levels.

“There’s an assumption that the Taliban are the biggest gang in town, but transnational organized crime has become much more monopolized, more cooperative, and more powerful since the Taliban were last in power,” said Neil Woods, a former undercover police officer in the United Kingdom who now works with the drug policy reform organization LEAP UK. Woods fears a “fentanyl catastrophe” if the ban is effective. “If they do successfully clamp down on heroin this time, it’ll just be more cost-effective to make a quick shift to synthetics,” he said.

Senior Taliban leaders insist that the drug bans are ethically motivated, but their objections appear selective. Last September saw the triumphant return from the United States of Kandahar native Bashir Noorzai, a notorious drug trafficker and Taliban financier, in a prisoner swap that saw the man known as the “Pablo Escobar of Afghanistan” greeted at Kabul Airport by cheering crowds and senior Taliban officials. In Kandahar, village chiefs, soldiers, and farmers offer a more pragmatic explanation.

“Our leader mentioned that the foreign governments are not happy about us doing poppy farming. They said we needed to ban this to be recognized as a government,” said Ular Majeed, the head of a Taliban outpost close to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where he is responsible for 10,000 households in an area rife with cross-border smuggling routes. Now that they’ve fulfilled their end of the bargain, he said, “it’s time for [the U.S.] government to do what they said and recognize us, so you can help us.”

Back in Kabul, Taliban officials categorically deny any such negotiations are underway. “We wish that other countries would work with us to stop drugs and would help us, but we have not had any contact,” said senior counternarcotics official Mun Ali.

In an email, a U.S. State Department spokesperson described the ban as “promising,” albeit contingent on seeing a meaningful reduction in poppy cultivation or meth production. Asked if the United States had engaged in dialogue with the Taliban ahead of the announcement, the spokesperson replied: “As we’ve made clear, we’ll continue to engage the Taliban pragmatically to advance American interests.”

“This is very much a replay of the 1990s. They were making that same pitch, bargaining and consistently hoping that the ban would give them international legitimacy,” Felbab-Brown said. But from an institutional and regime survival perspective, she said, “it fundamentally threatens their ability to hold onto power.”

“The Taliban could be lining themselves up for the ‘well, we’re only growing poppy because you didn’t give us the humanitarian aid you promised’ approach. That’s quite feasible,” said Steve Brookings, a former chargé d’affaires at the British Embassy in Kabul and former special advisor to the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. Even if officials want to kick the dependency on illicit income, it may prove financially impossible.

Members of the Taliban are often perceived as less corruptible and bribe-seeking than their predecessors, but the cracks are beginning to show. In Kandahar’s villages, soldiers and rural leaders admit they haven’t been paid in months or years. This may have been palatable while the Taliban were the underdogs, but now they’re in charge of the country’s finances—and it was their decision to ban poppy, many unpaid workers’ sole source of income. Meanwhile in Kabul, Talibs flaunt the trappings of their newfound power, cruising around the city in luxury Toyota Land Cruisers and the occasional Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon.

Asked if Afghan families facing starvation following the ban would receive financial support, Ali, the senior counternarcotics official, replied that, as good Muslims, Afghans know “obeying their leader is the most important thing,” dismissing the question with the flick of a wrist adorned with a huge gold watch. For years, Taliban commanders depended on loyalists to shoulder hardship in pursuit of victory, but if peace fails to deliver security and rural supporters feel betrayed by the widening wealth gap, support may evaporate—and lower-ranking Talibs will need to make a living wherever they can.

“You think the Taliban are good men who would not do bad things?” asked Khalid, sighing bitterly. “Yesterday, they couldn’t afford vehicles, but now they have all these [expensive] cars. They couldn’t afford to get married, but now they have three wives. This is their business: When they come and arrest you and take your drugs, they just give them to someone else to sell.”

Unsurprisingly, the Taliban vociferously deny these accusations.

“Our soldiers and staff fought for 20 years. They will never take bribes,” said Mawlavi Shir Ali Hemaad, the head of investigations at the Taliban’s organized crime unit. “We were the ones wearing jackets full of bombs. We were careless about ourselves, so how can we care about money now? No, never. It will never happen.”

But without food, income, medicine, or access to basic services, the costs of this loyalty will be hard to bear. To hold onto power, the Taliban need to choose their battles. Unless they can generate economic benefits from this ban fast—for the whole country, not just a handful of their own men—a new war on drugs will become a costly political mistake and one that only exacerbates the misery of addicts in Afghanistan and beyond.

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The demand for semiconductor chips is booming with the rising demand for EVs and increased rate of investments towards the development of the EV ecosystem.

An ecosystem constitutes an interdependent group of enterprises, peoples, components, and infrastructure that works together in conjunction to form a sustainable community. Every factor of an ecosystem depends on every other factor either directly or indirectly for the community to sustain and thrive. The EV ecosystem market comprises vehicle connectivity, new business models, manufacturing practices, infrastructures, and sustainability. Building a successful and working ecosystem is the only way for accelerating the adoption rate of new energy vehicles, where electric vehicle manufacturers will have to amplify the network effect with other stakeholders in the mobility ecosystem.

The EV Semiconductor Market refers to the infrastructure, industries, and components that support the production, adoption, and operation of electric vehicles. It constitutes various elements, including charging infrastructure, battery manufacturing, raw material mining and logistics, vehicle manufacturing, software connectivity, and supportive government policies. This developing ecosystem is presenting ample growth and investment opportunities and one notable growth opportunity within the EV ecosystem is the expansion of charging infrastructure. For instance, as of September 2021, there were over 200,000 publically accessible charging infrastructures which are going to grow at a significant rate by 2030. Investment opportunities within the EV ecosystem are diverse and span various sectors such as charging infrastructure companies, battery technology and manufacturing firms, electric vehicle manufacturers, and raw material mining companies. Additionally, investments in software and connectivity solutions for EVs, such as advanced driver assistance systems and V2X technologies, present promising avenues for growth

Reasons that will be playing out for driving the future growth of this industry:

Dynamic changes are underway in the automotive industry which will have a huge impact on how cars will be built and used. The impact of this shift will be experienced by the automakers and the consumers and will be enabled by the semiconductor industry. And the factors that are being played out by four megatrends reshaping the automotive industry are autonomy, electrification, vehicle connectivity, and mobility services, and will lead to a plethora of changes in the role of electronics in automotive designs and will lift the semiconductor industry with it. Moreover, for long past automakers are steadily adding electronics to increase safety, enhance comfort, and improve the fuel efficiency of the vehicle, where advanced driver assistance features such as adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning system, or blind spot assist have become a piece of standard equipment in today’s vehicle. Furthermore, the use of electricals and semiconductors has more than doubled with today’s nontraditional powertrains used in hybrid and fully electric vehicles. Additionally, with increasing autonomy, autonomous vehicles are getting equipped with LiDAR sensors, image-recognition systems, and 5G communication will further eight or ten-fold increase the use of semiconductor content in vehicles, giving a boost to the demand for semiconductors in the automotive industry. For instance, even low-range vehicles of today come with at least 30 microprocessor-controlled devices also known as ECUs, and in luxury cars, the numbers could go up to even more than 100 ECUs, and Toyota high-end vehicles nowadays are coming packed with 100 million lines of computer code, more than even some fighter jets.

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The Automobile Market: Trends, Players, and Growth Outlook

The global automobile market is a vast and dynamic industry, encompassing a wide range of vehicle types, from passenger cars to commercial vehicles, and catering to diverse consumer preferences. This report provides an in-depth analysis of the automobile market, including market size, share, growth, trends, key players, challenges, and future outlook.

Market Size, Share, and Growth

The global automobile market is significant, with millions of vehicles produced and sold annually. According to industry data, the global automobile production reached approximately 80.1 million units in 2021, reflecting a recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on the industry.

In terms of market share, the passenger vehicle segment accounts for the largest portion of the global automobile market, with a share of approximately 74% in 2021. The commercial vehicle segment, including light, medium, and heavy-duty vehicles, holds the remaining 26% market share.

The automobile market is expected to experience steady growth in the coming years, driven by increasing urbanization, rising disposable incomes, and evolving consumer preferences. The global automobile market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 4% during the forecast period of 2022-2028, reaching a market value of over $3.5 trillion by 2028.

Market Trends

Several key trends are shaping the automobile market:

Electrification: The transition towards electric vehicles (EVs) is gaining momentum, driven by environmental concerns, government incentives, and technological advancements. Major automakers are investing heavily in EV production and expanding their electric vehicle portfolios.

Autonomous and Connected Vehicles: The development of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies is transforming the automotive industry. Companies are investing in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, and self-driving capabilities to enhance safety, efficiency, and convenience.

Ride-sharing and Mobility Services: The rise of ride-sharing services and mobility solutions is reshaping consumer preferences and urban transportation dynamics. This trend is prompting automakers to explore new business models and revenue streams beyond traditional vehicle sales.

Connectivity and In-vehicle Infotainment: Advanced infotainment systems, seamless connectivity, and digital services are becoming increasingly important in modern vehicles. Automakers are integrating cutting-edge technologies to provide enhanced user experiences and cater to tech-savvy consumers.

Lightweight Materials and Fuel Efficiency: To meet stricter emission regulations and improve fuel efficiency, automakers are exploring the use of lightweight materials, such as aluminum, carbon fiber, and advanced composites, in vehicle construction.

Market Players and Market Share

The global automobile market is highly competitive, with numerous players vying for market share. Here are some of the key players and their respective market shares:

Toyota Motor Corporation: Toyota is one of the largest automakers in the world, with a global market share of approximately 12.6% in 2021. The company is known for its diverse vehicle lineup, including popular models like the Toyota Corolla, RAV4, and Camry.

Volkswagen AG: The German automaker Volkswagen held a market share of around 11.9% in 2021. Volkswagen is a major player in both the passenger and commercial vehicle segments, with brands like Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, and Škoda under its umbrella.

Ford Motor Company: Ford, a leading American automaker, secured a market share of approximately 6.2% in 2021. The company is known for its popular F-Series pickup trucks, as well as models like the Mustang, Explorer, and Escape.

General Motors Company: Another prominent American automaker, General Motors, held a market share of around 6.1% in 2021. The company's portfolio includes brands like Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac.

Honda Motor Company: Honda, a Japanese automaker known for its reliable and fuel-efficient vehicles, captured a market share of approximately 5.4% in 2021. Popular models include the Civic, Accord, and CR-V.

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation: These two South Korean automakers, part of the Hyundai Motor Group, collectively held a market share of around 6.4% in 2021. Hyundai and Kia offer a range of passenger and commercial vehicles, including popular models like the Hyundai Sonata, Kia Shortage, and Kia Soul.

Market Challenges

While the automobile market presents significant opportunities, it also faces several challenges:

Supply Chain Disruptions: The COVID-19 pandemic and other global events have highlighted the vulnerabilities of automotive supply chains. Shortages of critical components, such as semiconductors, have impacted production and caused delivery delays.

Regulatory Compliance: Automakers must navigate a complex web of regulations related to emissions, safety standards, and environmental requirements across different markets, adding to operational costs and complexity.

Intense Competition: The automobile market is highly competitive, with established players and new entrants vying for market share. Automakers must continuously innovate and differentiate their offerings to stay ahead of the competition.

Technological Disruption: The rapid pace of technological change, including the development of autonomous driving, connected vehicles, and alternative powertrains, requires significant investments and adaptability from automakers.

Changing Consumer Preferences: Evolving consumer preferences, such as the shift towards shared mobility, sustainability, and connected experiences, are forcing automakers to rethink their product offerings and business models.

Conclusion

The global automobile market is poised for continued growth, driven by rising consumer demand, urbanization, and technological advancements. However, the industry faces significant challenges, including supply chain disruptions, regulatory compliance, intense competition, and the need to adapt to rapidly evolving consumer preferences and technological disruptions.

Automakers that can successfully navigate these challenges and capitalize on emerging trends, such as electrification, autonomous driving, and connected vehicles, will be well-positioned for long-term success. Investing in research and development, fostering innovation, and adopting agile business models will be crucial for thriving in this dynamic market. As the industry continues to evolve, collaborations, strategic partnerships, and cross-industry collaborations are expected to play a pivotal role in driving innovation and shaping the future of mobility. Companies that can effectively leverage these opportunities and deliver compelling products and services tailored to the evolving needs of consumers are likely to emerge as leaders in the highly competitive global automobile market.

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awesome-casuallyfamouscollector · 7 months ago

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The hydrogen FCV Toyota Mirai...

P.S. WTF!? This is what legacy automakers call the future?

Quote: "Unlike gasoline (which is measured in liquid volume), Hydrogen is measured and sold by weight. In 2021, hydrogen station chain True Zero charged just $13.14 per kilogram of hydrogen. Today, it costs $36 per kg. That means a Mirai's 5.65 kg fuel tank costs about $203 to fill up from empty. Owners have said online that the real-world range of the Mirai is around 260 miles to a tank of hydrogen, quite a bit less than Toyota's claim of 402 miles. This works out to around $0.78 per mile, or around 19,230 miles until Toyota's fuel card is kaput."

Source: Toyota Hydrogen Future Is Crumbling As Owners File Lawsuits, Call For Buybacks (insideevs.com)

P.S. No, no, no! It is not a sustainable future! It is nonsense from 1990s. The Toyota is wasting time and resources on useless technology from late 20th century, when there was no mass production of lithium-ion and LFP batteries yet. As well unlike hydrogen, cheap electricity is available everywhere in modern society.

Modern EVs can easily go 260 miles in real traffic...hydrogen no longer has any economic or technical advantages in today's light passenger cars

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rushikesh-d · 7 months ago

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US Electric Vehicle Market To Witness the Highest Growth Globally in Coming Years

The report begins with an overview of the US Electric Vehicle Market and presents throughout its development. It provides a comprehensive analysis of all regional and key player segments providing closer insights into current market conditions and future market opportunities, along with drivers, trend segments, consumer behavior, price factors, and market performance and estimates. Forecast market information, SWOT analysis, US Electric Vehicle Market scenario, and feasibility study are the important aspects analyzed in this report.

The US Electric Vehicle Market is experiencing robust growth driven by the expanding globally. The US Electric Vehicle Market is poised for substantial growth as manufacturers across various industries embrace automation to enhance productivity, quality, and agility in their production processes. US Electric Vehicle Market leverage robotics, machine vision, and advanced control technologies to streamline assembly tasks, reduce labor costs, and minimize errors. With increasing demand for customized products, shorter product lifecycles, and labor shortages, there is a growing need for flexible and scalable automation solutions. As technology advances and automation becomes more accessible, the adoption of automated assembly systems is expected to accelerate, driving market growth and innovation in manufacturing. U.S. Electric Vehicle Market Size, Share & COVID-19 Impact Analysis, By Vehicle Type (Passenger Cars, Commercial Vehicles) and Regional Forecast, 2021-2028

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Key Strategies

Key strategies in the US Electric Vehicle Market revolve around optimizing production efficiency, quality, and flexibility. Integration of advanced robotics and machine vision technologies streamlines assembly processes, reducing cycle times and error rates. Customization options cater to diverse product requirements and manufacturing environments, ensuring solution scalability and adaptability. Collaboration with industry partners and automation experts fosters innovation and addresses evolving customer needs and market trends. Moreover, investment in employee training and skill development facilitates seamless integration and operation of US Electric Vehicle Market. By prioritizing these strategies, manufacturers can enhance competitiveness, accelerate time-to-market, and drive sustainable growth in the US Electric Vehicle Market.

Major US Electric Vehicle Market Manufacturers covered in the market report include:

LIST OF KEY COMPANIES PROFILED:

BMW Group (Munich, Germany)

BYD Company Ltd. (Shenzhen, China)

Daimler AG (Stuttgart, Germany)

Ford Motor Company (Michigan, U.S.)

General Motors Company (Michigan, U.S.)

Nissan Motor Corporation (Kanagawa, Japan)

Tesla, Inc. (California, U.S.)

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota City‎, Japan)

Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany)

Groupe Renault (Boulogne-Billancourt, France)

Favorable Government Subsidies & Strict Regulations on Vehicle Emissions to Augment Growth. Government policies offering attractive incentives for owning and operating electric vehicles will encourage EV sales by providing consumers with multiple advantages such as reduced prices, low registration fees, and free charging infrastructure. Additionally, various government bodies are levying import taxes, road taxes, and purchase taxes for importing measures to attract dominant players.

Trends Analysis

The US Electric Vehicle Market is experiencing rapid expansion fueled by the manufacturing industry's pursuit of efficiency and productivity gains. Key trends include the adoption of collaborative robotics and advanced automation technologies to streamline assembly processes and reduce labor costs. With the rise of Industry 4.0 initiatives, manufacturers are investing in flexible and scalable US Electric Vehicle Market capable of handling diverse product portfolios. Moreover, advancements in machine vision and AI-driven quality control are enhancing production throughput and ensuring product consistency. The emphasis on sustainability and lean manufacturing principles is driving innovation in energy-efficient and eco-friendly US Electric Vehicle Market Solutions.

Regions Included in this US Electric Vehicle Market Report are as follows:

North America [U.S., Canada, Mexico]

Europe [Germany, UK, France, Italy, Rest of Europe]

Asia-Pacific [China, India, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, Rest of Asia Pacific]

South America [Brazil, Argentina, Rest of Latin America]

Middle East & Africa [GCC, North Africa, South Africa, Rest of the Middle East and Africa]

Significant Features that are under offering and key highlights of the reports:

- Detailed overview of the US Electric Vehicle Market.

- Changing the US Electric Vehicle Market dynamics of the industry.

- In-depth market segmentation by Type, Application, etc.

- Historical, current, and projected US Electric Vehicle Market size in terms of volume and value.

- Recent industry trends and developments.

- Competitive landscape of the US Electric Vehicle Market.

- Strategies of key players and product offerings.

- Potential and niche segments/regions exhibiting promising growth.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):

► What is the current market scenario?

► What was the historical demand scenario, and forecast outlook from 2024 to 2030?

► What are the key market dynamics influencing growth in the Global US Electric Vehicle Market?

► Who are the prominent players in the Global US Electric Vehicle Market?

► What is the consumer perspective in the Global US Electric Vehicle Market?

► What are the key demand-side and supply-side trends in the Global US Electric Vehicle Market?

► What are the largest and the fastest-growing geographies?

► Which segment dominated and which segment is expected to grow fastest?

► What was the COVID-19 impact on the Global US Electric Vehicle Market?

Table Of Contents:

1 Market Overview

1.1 US Electric Vehicle Market Introduction

1.2 Market Analysis by Type

1.3 Market Analysis by Applications

1.4 Market Analysis by Regions

1.4.1 North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)

1.4.1.1 United States Market States and Outlook

1.4.1.2 Canada Market States and Outlook

1.4.1.3 Mexico Market States and Outlook

1.4.2 Europe (Germany, France, UK, Russia and Italy)

1.4.2.1 Germany Market States and Outlook

1.4.2.2 France Market States and Outlook

1.4.2.3 UK Market States and Outlook

1.4.2.4 Russia Market States and Outlook

1.4.2.5 Italy Market States and Outlook

1.4.3 Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia)

1.4.3.1 China Market States and Outlook

1.4.3.2 Japan Market States and Outlook

1.4.3.3 Korea Market States and Outlook

1.4.3.4 India Market States and Outlook

1.4.3.5 Southeast Asia Market States and Outlook

1.4.4 South America, Middle East and Africa

1.4.4.1 Brazil Market States and Outlook

1.4.4.2 Egypt Market States and Outlook

1.4.4.3 Saudi Arabia Market States and Outlook

1.4.4.4 South Africa Market States and Outlook

1.5 Market Dynamics

1.5.1 Market Opportunities

1.5.2 Market Risk

1.5.3 Market Driving Force

2 Manufacturers Profiles

Continued…

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Automotive Scroll e-Compressor, Global Market Size Forecast, Top 23 Players Rank and Market Share

Automotive Scroll e-Compressor Definition

The Automotive Scroll e-Compressor is the heart of the automobile air-conditioning refrigeration system, which plays a role in compressing and transporting refrigerant vapor. The scroll compressor is composed of an end plate and involute scroll teeth extending from the end plate. It has many advantages. For example, the compressor is small in size and light in weight, and the eccentric shaft driving the moving turbine can rotate at a high speed. Because the scroll compressor can operates reliably without the suction valve and the exhaust valve, and it is easy to realize variable speed movement and variable displacement technology. Multiple compression chambers work simultaneously and the gas pressure difference between adjacent compression chambers is small so that the gas leakage is small.

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Automotive Scroll e-Compressor Market Summary

According to the new market research report “Global Automotive Scroll e-Compressor Market Report 2023-2029”, published by QYResearch, the global Automotive Scroll e-Compressor market size is projected to reach USD 9.33 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 14.1% during the forecast period.

Figure. Global Automotive Scroll e-Compressor Market Size (US$ Million), 2018-2029

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Figure. Global Automotive Scroll e-Compressor Top 23 Players Ranking and Market Share (Ranking is based on the revenue of 2022, continually updated)

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The global key manufacturers of Automotive Scroll e-Compressor include Toyota Industries, Hanon Systems, BYD, Sanden HASCO, Sanden, Aotecar, Zhongcheng New Energy, Valeo, Shanghai Highly, Shanghai Velle (Huayi), etc. In 2022, the global top five players had a share approximately 70.0% in terms of revenue.

Figure. Automotive Scroll e-Compressor, Global Market Size, Split by Product Segment

Based on or includes research from QYResearch: Global Automotive Scroll e-Compressor Market Report 2023-2029.

In terms of product type, currently 25 ~ 40 cc/r is the largest segment, hold a share of 63.9%.

Figure. Automotive Scroll e-Compressor, Global Market Size, Split by Application Segment

Based on or includes research from QYResearch: Global Automotive Scroll e-Compressor Market Report 2023-2029.

In terms of product application, currently Passenger Vehicle is the largest segment, hold a share of 73.7%.

Figure. Automotive Scroll e-Compressor, Global Market Size, Split by Region (Production)

Based on or includes research from QYResearch: Global Automotive Scroll e-Compressor Market Report 2023-2029.

Figure. Automotive Scroll e-Compressor, Global Market Size, Split by Region

Based on or includes research from QYResearch: Global Automotive Scroll e-Compressor Market Report 2023-2029.

Market Trends:

Downstream demand drives the growth of the automotive air-conditioning scroll compressor market: The global electric vehicle market will continue to show strong growth in 2021. Traditional car companies and new car manufacturers continue to improve their products and industrial chain layout, and consumers' acceptance of new energy products is also constantly improving.

The electric scroll compressor itself has superior performance: In the field of automotive air conditioning, scroll compressors are called the third-generation compressors, and are gradually replacing traditional swash plate compressors and rotary compressors with their unique performance advantages, especially in the field of new energy vehicles.

Policy Support: Due to the tightening of global environmental protection standards and the increase in consumer demand, many countries have introduced industrial support policies to support the research and development of electric vehicle technology, and further promote the entire industry chain and ecological construction of electric vehicles.

Continuous technological innovation: Technological innovation plays an important role in promoting market growth. In order to survive in a highly competitive market, suppliers should develop new ideas and technologies and keep pace with advanced technologies.

Challenges:

Technical difficulties: The R&D and production of scroll compressors for electric vehicle air conditioners require high technical content, including key technologies such as electric compressors, frequency conversion control, and high-efficiency refrigeration, as well as product reliability and stability. These technical problems require continuous technological innovation and research and development to achieve product upgrades and optimization.

Market competition: The market for scroll compressors for electric vehicle air conditioners is fiercely competitive, with both domestic and international companies competing on product prices and with small profit margins. Therefore, it is necessary to continuously improve product quality and reduce costs to improve market competitiveness.

Policy environment: The government has given strong support to the development of new energy vehicles, but changes in the policy environment will also have an impact on the electric vehicle air conditioning scroll compressor market. For example, the government's subsidy policy for new energy vehicles may change, leading to uncertainty in market demand.

Supply chain issues: The production of electric vehicle air conditioning scroll compressors requires a large number of parts and raw materials, such as motors, compressors, electronic control components, etc. Supply chain instability and shortages can impact production and even lead to delivery delays and other issues.

Diversified customer demands: Different brands and models of electric vehicles have diversified demands for air-conditioning systems, requiring customized production according to different customer needs. This places higher demands on the R&D and production capabilities of manufacturing companies.

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Ms. Wang has 5 years of industry research experience. She focuses on research related to the industry chain of automotive, consumer goods, software, and services, including auto parts, advanced automotive materials, various popular software, etc. Some research topics include Automotive Air Conditioning Electric Scroll Compressors, Lithium Battery Aluminum Plastic Film, Model-based Development (MBD), Predictive Maintenance Solutions, Webtoons, 3D models, Cloud Gaming Backend Service, Visual Content, DHA from Algae, etc. As an analyst with many years of experience in the consulting industry, she has a keen insight into the industry's market trends and developments and uses data analysis to discover potential market opportunities and threats, providing data support for corporate strategic decisions.

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What are 3 real world uses of hydrogen?

Hydrogen Uses

The following list contains three real-world uses for hydrogen, along with details on their potential for growth, use cases, and supporting evidence.

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles:

Automobiles that run on gasoline or diesel can be replaced by fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) fuelled by hydrogen. Vehicle electric motors in fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) are powered by electricity generated from hydrogen. These vehicles are suitable for use in public transportation, private fleets, and business fleets because they emit zero emissions.

Growth Opportunities: A significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions is the transportation sector. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) offer a practical means of lowering carbon emissions because they have no exhaust emissions. It is projected that the global market for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles would expand significantly in the next years.

Use Cases: Fuel cells that run on hydrogen (FCVs) generate energy through a chemical reaction, which powers electric motors. These automobiles have faster refueling times and more range between charges than battery-electric vehicles. The Hyundai Nexo and Toyota Mirai are two examples of commercially available hydrogen fuel cell cars, or FCVs.

Statistics: As of 2021, there were over 10,000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) in operation globally. Japan is setting the standard for FCV adoption, with the US, Korea, and Germany following closely behind. Significant investments in hydrogen infrastructure and vehicle development are also being made by governments and automakers, demonstrating their strong commitment to the growth of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs).

Hydrogen has several real world uses across various industries.

Hydrogen Industrial Applications:

Hydrogen is a common constituent in a wide range of industrial operations. Here are a few specific examples:

Ammonia Production: The Haber-Bosch process, which uses hydrogen to combine nitrogen and hydrogen, produces ammonia, which is mostly used in the production of fertilizer.

Refineries: Hydrogen is used in refineries to remove impurities from petroleum-based goods like diesel and gasoline.

Chemical Industry: Hydrogen is essential to the synthesis of methanol, which is a feedstock for many other chemicals and fuels. It is also used to generate other chemicals, like hydrogen peroxide and hydrochloric acid.

Growth Opportunities: Hydrogen is expected to see an increase in demand due to decarbonization efforts because of its numerous industrial applications. To make methanol, ammonia, and other chemicals, for instance, the chemical industry uses hydrogen. In 2030, the global hydrogen market is predicted to grow at a 5-8% annual rate, according to a McKinsey research, and reach $300 billion.

Use Cases: Hydrogen is a necessary starting ingredient for the production of ammonia, which is mostly used to create fertilizers. Moreover, food, electronics, glass, and metal are processed using hydrogen. It is also used in the refining of oil.

Statistics: As of 2021, more than 60% of the hydrogen required worldwide came from the industrial sector. The production of ammonia alone uses almost half of the hydrogen that is accessible globally.

Hydrogen - Renewable Energy Storage:

Hydrogen is used to store excess renewable energy generation. The process involves converting surplus electricity from renewable energy sources, such as solar or wind power, into hydrogen via electrolysis. The produced hydrogen can be stored and utilized at a later time for a number of uses.

Power Generation: Hydrogen can be utilized in turbines or converted back into power using fuel cells in times when the output of renewable energy is restricted.

Heating: Hydrogen can be used as a fuel for both residential and commercial heating.

Transportation: Fuel that runs on hydrogen can be used to power hydrogen-powered vehicles, including buses, trucks, trains, and cars.

Growth Opportunities: Because renewable energy sources like solar and wind power are intermittent, the grid needs efficient energy storage options. Hydrogen can be used as an energy storage medium to store and consume a lot of renewable energy. According to a report released by Global Market Insights, the global market for green hydrogen is projected to develop at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 30% in 2021.

Use Cases: Hydrogen can be manufactured via electrolysis from excess electricity generated by renewable sources. The produced hydrogen can be stored and used as fuel for heating, electricity generation, or transportation when the output of renewable energy is low. Decarbonization helps many industries and results in a more sustainable energy system.

Statistics: As of 2021, more than 500 MW of power-to-hydrogen projects had been installed worldwide, with a significant portion of those projects being used for storage of renewable energy. Among the countries that have led the way in putting large-scale power-to-hydrogen projects into action are Germany, Australia, and the Netherlands. Transport, industry, and renewable energy storage are just a few of the uses and expansion opportunities for hydrogen that these images demonstrate. Going forward, the increasing focus on decarbonization and the transition to sustainable energy sources are expected to propel the demand for hydrogen.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 21, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

Yesterday the United Auto Workers ratified their new contracts with General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis. The new contracts include wage increases of at least 25% over the next 4.5 years, cost of living increases, union coverage for electric battery plants, and the reopening of a closed plant. “These were just extraordinary wins, especially for those of us who’ve been studying strikes for decades,” Washington University labor expert Jake Rosenfeld told Jeanne Whalen of the Washington Post.

Union president Shawn Fain told Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, “It’s a sign of the times…. In the last 40 years…working class people went backwards continually…. There’s this massive chasm between the billionaire class and the working class and…when those things get out of balance, we need to turn it upside down. When 26 billionaires have as much wealth as half of humanity, that’s a crisis….”

Fain said the automakers strike was “just the beginning…. Now, we take our strike muscle and our fighting spirit to the rest of the industries we represent, and to millions of nonunion workers ready to stand up and fight for a better way of life.”

President Joe Biden, who stood on the picket line with UAW members, congratulated both the auto workers and the companies for their good faith negotiations. “[W]hen unions do well, it lifts all workers,” he said. In the wake of the agreements between the UAW and the Big Three automakers, nonunion automakers who are eager to prevent unionization, including Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, and Subaru, also announced wage increases.

Following a tradition normalized in the 1980s, Biden also pardoned the turkeys Liberty and Bell yesterday, marking the unofficial start of the holiday season. The birds will move to the University of Minnesota’s College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences where they will become educational ambassadors for a state where turkey production provides more than $1 billion in economic activity and more than 26,000 jobs.

At the ceremony, Biden urged people to “give thanks for the gift that is our nation.” He offered special thanks to service members, with whom he and First Lady Jill Biden shared a Friendsgiving meal on Sunday.

Falling prices for travel and for the foods usually on a Thanksgiving table are news the White House is celebrating. Gas prices have dropped an average of $1.70 from their peak, airfares are down 13%, and car rental prices are down about 10% over the past year.

According to the American Farm Bureau, the price of an average Thanksgiving dinner has dropped by 4.5%. The cost of turkeys has dropped more than 5% from last year, when an avian flu epidemic meant nearly 58 million birds were slaughtered (this year, growers have lost about 4.6 million birds to the same cause). Whipping cream, cranberries, and pie crust have also dropped in price.

But plenty of grocery prices are still rising, and Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) has taken on the issue, documenting how “corporations are making record profits on the backs of American families.” In a public report, Casey noted that from July 2020 through July 2022, inflation rose by 14%, but corporate profits rose by 75%, five times as fast. A family making $68,000 a year in 2022 paid $6,740 in that period to “corporate executives and wealthy shareholders.” In 2023, that amount will be at least $3,546.

The report notes that the cost for chicken went up 20% in 2021 as Tyson Foods doubled their profits from the first quarter of 2021 to the first quarter of 2022; Tyson has been ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and restitution for “illegally conspiring to inflate chicken prices.” PepsiCo’s chief financial officer said in April 2023 that even though inflation was dropping, their prices would not. He said “consumers generally look at our products and say ‘you know what—they are worth paying a little bit more for.’”

President Biden has launched a campaign to push back on corporate profiteering, including cracking down on the practice of so-called junk fees—unexpected hidden costs for air travel, car rentals, credit cards, cable television, ticket sales, and so on. (The airline industry collected more than $6.7 billion last year in baggage fees, for example.)

But Tony Romm of the Washington Post explained on Sunday that corporate lobbyists are warring with the Biden administration to stop the crackdown. An airline lobbyist testified at a federal hearing in March that changing the policy would create “confusion and frustration” and that there have been “very few complaints” about the extra costs for bags. The same lobbying group told the Department of Transportation that the government had no data to “demonstrate substantial harm” to passengers. A lobbying group for advertising platforms including Facebook and Google agreed that the Federal Trade Commission had failed to present “sufficient empirical evidence” that junk fees are a problem.

Much of the fight over the relative power of ordinary Americans and corporations will play out in the courts. Those courts are themselves struggling over the role of money in their deliberations. After scandals in which it has become clear that Supreme Court justices—primarily Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, but a real estate deal of Neil Gorsuch’s has also been questioned—have accepted gifts from exceedingly wealthy Republican donors, the court on November 13 finally issued its own ethics guidelines.

That code of conduct echoes the obligations of judges in the rest of the U.S. court system, but it takes away the requirements for behavior imposed on the lower courts, and—crucially—it has no methods of enforcement. Legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick noted that the code appeared to be designed to assure the American people they were confused about the need for an ethics code. It appeared, Lithwick said, to be “principally drafted with the intention of instructing us that they still can’t be made to do anything.”

The Supreme Court has been packed with lawyers from the Federalist Society, established in the 1980s to push back on what its members believed was the judicial activism of federal judges who used the Fourteenth Amendment to defend civil rights in the states. Federalist Society lawyers were key to creating legal excuses for Trump to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election, and yet the society has never addressed how their people have turned into such extremists.

In the New York Times today, leading former Federalist Society lawyer George Conway, former judge J. Michael Luttig, and former representative Barbara Comstock (R-VA) called out both the Federalist Society for failing to respond to the crisis Trump represents, and “the growing crowd of grifters, frauds and con men willing to subvert the Constitution and long-established constitutional principles for the whims of political expediency.”

They announced a new organization to replace the corrupted Federalist Society, a significant move considering how entrenched that society has become in our justice system. The Society for the Rule of Law Institute, made up of conservative lawyers, will be “committed to the foundational constitutional principles we once all agreed upon: the primacy of American democracy, the sanctity of the Constitution and the rule of law, the independence of the courts, the inviolability of elections and mutual support among those tasked with the solemn responsibility of enforcing the laws of the United States.” The authors say that the new organization will provide a conservative voice for democracy and that they hope to work with much more deeply established progressive voices.

For now, the Biden administration continues to try to rebalance the economic playing field. Today the Treasury Department announced the largest settlements in history for violations of U.S. anti–money laundering laws and sanctions. Cryptocurrency giant Binance, which handles about 60% of the world’s virtual currency trading, settled over violations in transactions that laundered money for terrorists—including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Qaeda, and ISIS—and other criminals, and violating sanctions, including those against Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the occupied Crimean region of Ukraine.

Binance will pay more than $4 billion in fines and penalties.

At the same time, the Justice Department obtained a guilty plea from Binance chief executive officer Changpeng Zhao, a Canadian national, for failing to maintain an effective anti–money laundering program. Zhao amassed more than $23 billion at the head of the company; he will pay $200 million in fines and step down. He could face as much as 10 years in prison, but his sentence will likely be less than 18 months.

U.S. officials say this is the biggest-ever corporate resolution that includes criminal charges for an executive.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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