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Polestar is a Swedish electric vehicle brand majority-owned by China's Geely, producing premium EVs and competing globally with Tesla and other automakers.
Renault has dropped plans to supply North America from its Busan plant and is recasting it as an export hub for Europe and Latin America. The Korea JoongAng Daily links the exit to US curbs on Chinese-linked vehicles.
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Peugeot has listed its full Korean lineup on Naver's Smart Store, the first carmaker to do so, after selling 979 vehicles in Korea last year. Buyers pay a deposit online, then finish the purchase with a dealer.
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Anchorage Digital has bought Routable, a payouts platform that more than doubled in each of the last two years, without disclosing a price. The crypto bank is buying corporate payout customers now and betting they will later settle in stablecoins.
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KAMA's seven-month count of 237,032 registrations is already past all of last year, but Tesla's 66,376 sales in Korea now put Hyundai third in EVs in its own home market, with Kia still ahead on 85,444.
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Seoul Economic Daily reports that AI startups increasingly annualize a single month because usage billed in tokens does not qualify as recurring revenue. OpenAI books net of partner shares; Anthropic books gross.
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The Ojai vans picking up riders in San Francisco and Phoenix are built in Ningbo and land under a 127.5 percent tariff, a cost a fleet operator can spread over years of paid trips and a dealership cannot.
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The pack figure is 500 Wh/kg, the brands are named, and four battery makers are aiming at the same year. What a pilot actually proves is the open question.
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Prestige Imports alleges Polestar declined the Commerce authorization Volvo won and never appealed the denial, testing whether state franchise law follows an OEM out of a market.
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