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After ye= ars of stability, the auto industry is getting volatile

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After years of post-recession stability in the auto industry, marked by bro= ad shifts in product mix like a gradual pivot toward electric vehicles= and the faltering hegemony of pickup trucks, the past several weeks have comparatively been absolute chaos. From the = potential impacts of threatened tariffs to major swings in the tenuous alli= ances that define the business, carmakers have been especially volatile bet= s for investors. 

Just in the past few weeks, auto tariffs in the neighborhood of 25% coming as soon as April 2 were floated by the president; merger negotiat= ions between Nissan and Honda that would=E2=80=99ve created one of the larg= est automakers in the world co= llapsed; a hydrogen-powered vehicle company once worth more than Ford filed for bankruptcy; and Rivian managed to make a gross profit.

Not to mention that many gradual trends that inve= stors have been monitoring have begun to hit key inflection points.

  • Chinese automaker BYD has been on a tear when it= comes to exports, and last week said its EVs are about EV sales hit a monthly record in the US in January, accounting for 9.1= % of new vehicle sales in the month, even if the future of the EV tax credi= t is uncertain.
  • GM, assessing the potential effects of tariffs, said it would have to weigh= plant relocations and reveal= ed that it=E2=80=99s already moving inventory across borders t= o try to get ahead of them. Ford=E2=80=99s CEO also said the tariffs would = =E2=80=9Cblow a hole= =E2=80=9D in the US auto industry.
None of that is even touching the stainless steel elephant in the room. Wit= h CEO Elon Musk morphing into the right-hand man of the American president,= Tesla has been a key beneficiary of that power but also a major subject of= volatility, especially over the past 60 days. Sure, full self-driving is f= acing hurdles in Ch= ina and sales are dropping around the w= orld, but does that matter if the new administration can green= light buying $400 mi= llion worth of armored Teslas with the stroke of a pen? 

No wonder a Japanese group plans to pitch to Tesl= a that it should invest in Nissan, fresh on the rebound from the breakup of= its Honda situationship, in exchange for American factories.

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