by Francis Rozange | Nov 2, 2026 | Automotive Market Research
The document that Berlin published on Friday 16 October 2026, press release number 185 of the Federal Government, runs to a few short paragraphs and contains no numbers at all. France and Germany, it says, have agreed on a common approach to secure the future of the...
by Francis Rozange | Nov 1, 2026 | Market Research, Automotive Market Research
On 21 September 2026, the US Energy Information Administration recorded an average retail price of $6.529 a gallon for on-highway diesel, the highest figure in a weekly series that began in March 1994. Regular gasoline averaged $4.478 that week, about $1.30 more than...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 30, 2026 | Automotive Market Research
At six in the morning Brussels time on 22 October 2026, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association published a table that would have looked improbable a year earlier. In September, 290,117 new battery-electric cars were registered in the European Union,...
by Francis Rozange | Sep 28, 2026 | Automotive Market Research
On Tuesday 6 October, at a meeting convened by the European Commission’s directorate-general for the internal market, national type-approval officials will spend twenty-five minutes on the third item of a six-item agenda. The line reads, in full,...
by Francis Rozange | Sep 28, 2026 | Automotive Market Research
In August, the average new vehicle sold in the United States changed hands for $50,090. The figure, published in mid-September in an affordability index compiled by a major automotive-services group with an economics firm, was not a record. Prices had peaked the...
by Francis Rozange | Sep 28, 2026 | Automotive Market Research
On the first day of 2026, the duty Mexico charges on a passenger car built in a country with which it has no trade agreement jumped from 20 percent to 50 percent. China was the obvious target. Its customs statistics registered the blow within weeks: exports of Chinese...
