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Ex-Tesla board member reveals how he’s playing the EV boom
There’s one specific trend set to define the automotive industry, according to investor and former Tesla board member Steve Westly: self-driving vehicles. And he says investors should take note. “Waymo and autonomous vehicles are the future, flat out, end of story,” Westly, who sat on Tesla’s board between 2007 and 2010, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box […]
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BYD’s UK sales soar 880%, making it the EV-maker’s largest market outside China
BYD has slashed its sales target for this year by as much as 16% to 4.6 million vehicles, two people with knowledge of the matter said. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Chinese electric carmaker BYD sold 11,271 cars in the U.K. last month, the company said on Monday, representing year-on-year growth of 880%. […]
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CNBC Daily Open: U.S. stock indexes charge ahead with three record closes
The “Charging Bull” statue at Bowling Green in New York’s Financial District. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Investors continue to pile into stocks, undeterred by a government shutdown or shaky jobs data, with all three benchmarks hitting record highs Thursday. With the Senate not meeting yesterday because of Yom Kippur, the U.S. government stayed shut […]
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CNBC Daily Open: There’s no stopping the U.S. stock markets
A bronze sculpture of a bull is displayed on Broadway in the financial district November 14, 2000 in New York City. Chris Hondros | Hulton Archive | Getty Images Investors continue to pile into stocks, undeterred by a government shutdown or shaky jobs data, with all three benchmarks hitting record highs Thursday. With the Senate […]
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BYD bids Warren Buffett’s Berkshire an unfazed farewell: Selling is ‘normal’
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Hours after we first reported last week that Berkshire sold off the remainder of its stake in BYD earlier this year, the Chinese electric vehicle maker confirmed […]
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China’s Xiaomi plans showrooms for 2027 EV launch in Europe, eyes local manufacturing later
Key Points Xiaomi plans to open showrooms in Europe when it launches its electric cars in the region in 2027, a top executive at the Chiense tech giant told CNBC. Xu Fei, a vice president at Xiaomi, said the comapny could also manufacture cars locally in the future. Xu did not reveal which car Xiaomi […]
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Chinese EV giant BYD says it has a backup plan if it’s cut off from Nvidia chips
The Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD presents its models at the Open Space Area during the IAA Mobility in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, on September 12, 2025. Eyeswideopen | Getty Images News | Getty Images BYD has a backup plan if it gets cut off from the Nvidia chips it currently uses in its cars, a […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Hindsight could give the Fed a stern lesson on its rate cut
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends a press conference following the issuance of the Federal Open Market Committee’s statement on interest rate policy, in Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 17, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters The U.S. personal consumption expenditures price index for August comes out Friday. The Federal Reserve will hope the report shows […]
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Buffett’s Berkshire totally exits its profitable stake in Chinese EV maker bought because of Munger
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Berkshire totally exits its profitable stake in Chinese EV maker Berkshire Hathaway has completely exited its extremely profitable equity investment in the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD. […]
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Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD’s triple
Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump, inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on May 30, 2025. Tom Brenner | The Washington Post | Getty Images Sales of Tesla cars in Europe plunged in July, in the company’s seventh consecutive month of declines, while Chinese rival BYD saw […]
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