Porsche Wants To Stop Sharing A Ceo With Volkswagen

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Happy Wednesday! It's August 27, 2025, and this is The Morning Shift — your regular roundup of nan apical automotive headlines from astir nan world, successful 1 place. This is wherever you'll find nan astir important stories that are shaping nan measurement Americans thrust and get around.

In this morning's edition, we're looking astatine Porsche's push for a caller CEO, arsenic good arsenic EU automakers' complaints that building greenish vehicles is conscionable excessively hard. We'll besides look astatine Stellantis' nine-figure substance system fines, and Ford's latest recall. 

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Volkswagen's ownership building is truthful convoluted that it could only beryllium German. The Volkswagen Auto Group owns Porsche, and is successful move owned by Porsche — elemental stuff. It's nan erstwhile Porsche, nan car company, that's led by VAG CEO Oliver Blume. It's besides nan erstwhile Porsche, nan car company, that wants him gone. From Automotive News:

Porsche has started nan hunt for a caller CEO to switch Oliver Blume amid rising unit from investors that he ditch his double domiciled and attraction connected fixing Volkswagen Group, according to group acquainted pinch nan matter.

The Porsche-Piech proprietor family has held discussions pinch imaginable candidates for nan apical occupation astatine Porsche, nan group said, declining to beryllium named because nan matter is private. Talks person progressed to 1 soul and 1 outer manager, 1 of nan group said.

Blume has led Porsche since 2015 and kept nan position moreover aft succeeding Herbert Diess arsenic CEO of genitor VW Group 7 years later. His double domiciled has been a root of interest for investors arsenic nan 2 automakers contend pinch U.S. tariffs, waning profits and declining income successful nan cardinal marketplace China.

Many of Porsche's problems are Volkswagen's problems — waning entreaty successful China, deficiency of EVs — truthful it would look Blume chiefly has those circumstantial problems up of him. But, possibly Porsche wants a much tailored manus guiding its reins. 

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Europe is mostly up of nan United States erstwhile it comes to biology regulations that support nan satellite habitable. European automakers, who carnivore nan costs of ensuring their products don't choke nan world successful fume and smog, are mostly unhappy pinch this. They'd for illustration less-strict regulations, and they're doing their champion to get them. From Reuters:

European Union targets to trim CO2 emissions from vehicles, including a 100% simplification for cars by 2035, are nary longer feasible, nan heads of nan European automobile manufacturers' and automotive suppliers' associations said connected Wednesday.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is group to big automotive assemblage executives connected September 12 to talk nan early of nan sector, which is facing copy threats of Chinese title successful electrical vehicles and U.S. tariffs.

In a missive to von der Leyen, Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Kaellenius and Matthias Zink, CEO of powertrain and chassis astatine Schaeffler AG, said they were committed to achieving nan EU's nett zero extremity successful 2050.

However, they said EU manufacturers now faced near-total dependency connected Asia for batteries, arsenic good arsenic uneven charging infrastructure, higher manufacturing costs and U.S. tariffs.

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"EVs will lead nan charge, but location must besides beryllium abstraction for (plug-in) hybrids, scope extenders, highly businesslike internal-combustion motor vehicles, hydrogen and decarbonised fuels," nan missive said.

CO2 regularisation for heavy-duty trucks and buses must besides beryllium reviewed, nan 2 relation chiefs said.

As always, nan rumor present isn't that it's intolerable to build businesslike cars. The rumor is that businesslike cars don't make arsenic overmuch money for nan companies that build them, and immoderate corp worthy its brackish will waste retired you and your wellness for nan slightest uptick successful net per share. 

Stellantis

Up until recently, automakers that didn't meet their substance system requirements could simply bargain their measurement into compliance — either by purchasing c credits from more-efficient automakers, aliases simply paying fines. Now, of course, location are nary rules near astir substance economy, but Stellantis still someway managed to rack up astir $200 cardinal successful fines anyway. From Automotive News:

Chrysler-parent Stellantis paid $190.6 cardinal successful penalties this twelvemonth for not gathering U.S. substance system requirements, according to a authorities study and nan Italian-U.S. automaker.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said successful an yearly study that Stellantis paid $112.3 cardinal successful June and $78.3 cardinal successful March successful payments for shortfalls from nan 2019 and 2020 exemplary years. In total, Stellantis has paid $773.5 cardinal since 2018.

Last month, NHTSA told automakers they look nary fines for failures to meet substance ratio rules making love backmost to nan 2022 exemplary twelvemonth nether a rule signed by President Donald Trump.

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Rivian Automotive Inc. said successful a tribunal filing this period that because NHTSA has not processed end-of-year reports aliases compliance notifications for nan 2022 exemplary twelvemonth and later, it cannot finalize antecedently negotiated transactions worthy $100 cardinal successful in installments revenue.

It's not instantly clear whether Stellantis is really connected nan hook for this bill, fixed nan Trump management has declared each substance system since 2022 to beryllium adjacent game. Will nan automaker get a refund for nan money it already paid?

Ford

Ford's backmost successful TMS, for nan logic it keeps popping up successful 4th gear: Another recall. This 1 covers 355,000 trucks, from F-150s each nan measurement up to F-550s. This time, it's for nan instrumentality panel, which tin fail. This is what we successful nan manufacture telephone "bad." From Reuters:

Ford Motor Company is recalling much than 355,000 trucks successful nan U.S complete a rumor pinch nan instrumentality sheet display, nan National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said connected Wednesday.The callback affects definite Ford 2025-2026 models – F-550 SD, F-450 SD, F-350 SD, and F-250 SD – and nan 2025 F-150.

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[NHTSA] added nan sheet whitethorn neglect erstwhile nan motor is started and that nan package will beryllium updated by a trader aliases done an over-the-air update, free of charge.

At slightest this callback tin beryllium fixed pinch a elemental update, but Ford keeps racking those numbers up for illustration it's going for a precocious score. Are location immoderate Fords near that haven't been recalled?

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