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Peter Campbell

Global Motor Industry Correspondent

Peter Campbell is the Financial Times’ global motor industry correspondent, based in London. He leads the FT’s coverage of the industry and works with a team of local correspondents around the world to cover the major car makers, industry trends and technological breakthroughs. He also chairs the FT's annual Future of the Car Summit, where he has interviewed industry leaders including Elon Musk, Carlos Tavares and Jim Farley.

Before this role he covered technology and UK company news for the FT, and he has previously covered energy, retail, telecoms, media and tax. He was named Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards for 2014.

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  • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
    News in-depthAutomobiles
    Auto industry recovery has favoured investors and bosses over workers

    Carmakers return almost $85bn to shareholders and raise CEO pay but production line wages fall in real terms

    UAW members in front of Stellantis headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Automobiles
    US auto strike expands to 38 GM and Stellantis facilities

    Ford spared further action after improved offer to workers as Joe Biden plans visit to picket line

    Striking car workers demonstrate
  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    UK business
    Carmakers in UK to face EV sales targets despite delay to petrol vehicle ban

    Government intends to press ahead with quota scheme amid industry fears about sluggish consumer demand

    A car being charged using a Ubitricity lampost EV charging point, in London.
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    ExplainerUK economy
    What Sunak’s net zero pivot means for UK climate goals and the next election

    PM is pushing back key green targets as he seeks to draw a sharp dividing line between the Tories and Labour

  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    Automobiles
    Car industry reels from Sunak’s retreat on net zero plans

    UK prime minister delays ban on sales of new petrol and diesel engine car sales by five years

    A Ford electric SUV
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    UK politics
    Sunak prepares to water down UK green measures

    PM under fire as he examines delaying initiatives intended to take the country to net zero emissions

    Rishi Sunak
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    EU-China relations
    EU companies warn China on EV overcapacity

    Business group says concerns Europe’s automotive sector could be swamped are ‘understandable’

    A worker at a battery plant in China’s Anhui province
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    Electric vehicles
    UK carmakers call for tax incentives to help switch to EVs

    Industry plea comes on top of warning of weakening demand for battery models from private buyers

    An electric vehicle charges on an ultra-fast 300KW BP Pulse charger at NEC Group Gigahub public electric vehicle charging hub in Birmingham
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    Pendragon PLC
    Pendragon to sell UK car dealerships to US group Lithia in £280mn deal

    Automotive retailer to focus on software following sale of showrooms

  • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
    News in-depthUnited Auto Workers
    Strike pits US auto union in existential struggle over shift to electric vehicles

    Carmakers are building batteries with non-union labour, while EVs’ production may require fewer workers overall

    Senator Bernie Sanders and UAW President Shawn Fain speak at a rally in support of United Auto Workers members on September 15 in Detroit, Michigan
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    Volkswagen AG
    Volkswagen weighs up ending Polo production in Europe

    Future of small car in doubt because of rising cost of petrol engines and falling price of electric vehicles

    A Polo production plant in South Africa
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    News in-depthElectric vehicles
    EU tries to buy time in electric car race with China

    Europe’s carmakers fear being eclipsed by Chinese rivals with superior battery technology

    Visitors look at a Cyberster electric car by Chinese car brand MG.
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Driverless vehicles
    UK start-up Wayve unveils self-driving system that explains its actions

    Company says use of AI gives vehicle owners more confidence in the technology but accepts model needs ‘more training’

    Wayve self driving talking cars
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    News in-depthEU trade
    EU moves against China’s electric-car makers in bid to shield own industry

    Beijing’s subsidising of EV manufacturers stokes fears of European rivals being priced out

    Geely Zeekr electric vehicles bound for shipment to Europe at the Port of Taicang
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    VinFast LLC
    VinFast says most of its electric vehicles have been sold to a related party

    Filings underscore limited demand for EVs from Vietnamese start-up that briefly had higher market cap than Ford

    A woman looks at the dashboard screen of a VinFast car in a showroom in Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    Electric vehicles
    EU to launch anti-subsidy probe into Chinese electric vehicles

    Investigation could lead to tariffs on country’s manufacturers

    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen giving a speech
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    UK business
    Oxford Mini plant saved with £600mn UK electric car investment

    BMW to produce two new models co-developed with China from 2026

    A Mini car with lights on travels through the Oxford plant
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Electric vehicles
    ‘We have to fight’: Europe’s carmakers dig in against China’s EV incursion

    Big names accept the need to sharpen their competitive edge as overseas rivals swamp the Munich motor show

  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    Brexit
    Germany backs delay to EV tariffs in boost to Sunak

    Berlin’s switch comes after industry warnings but the European Commission remains split

    A Renault Rafale electric vehicle at the Munich Motor Show
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Automobiles
    European carmakers bet on a future with e-fuel vehicles

    Use of alternative fuels will allow companies to keep selling combustion-engine models into the next decade, say executives

    A Greenpeace activist protests at the International Motor Show in Munich on Tuesday.
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Renault SA
    Renault chief moots €10bn valuation for EV unit to be floated next year

    Luca de Meo hits out at unrealistic valuations for EV start-ups and calls for European investors to support region’s car sector

    People look at a Renault Scenic vehicle
  • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
    FT SeriesThe battery revolution
    The search for winners in the new battery era

    Carmakers, miners and battery groups are jostling to position themselves in the new Darwinian world

  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    The Big Read
    Here come the driverless taxis

    San Francisco finally permits a 24/7 service despite local resistance. Can autonomous carmakers now win over the world?

  • Monday, 14 August, 2023
    FT SeriesThe battery revolution
    Rival battery technologies race to dominate electric car market

    Two forms of lithium-ion technology are vying to dominate an industry destined to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars

  • Friday, 4 August, 2023
    UK manufacturing
    Chinese-owned battery group involved in Tata UK gigafactory

    Envision’s AESC to have a key role at Somerset site despite efforts to keep it secret

    Britain’s prime minister Rishi Sunak with Tata chair Natarajan Chandrasekaran look at model of a battery factory
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