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Happy Friday morning. This is Car Alerts with your weekly recap of the latest car news and market happenings.

In today’s edition:

• New-car inventory stable

• Musk wants more control of Tesla

• Stellantis appoints new COO

• Lamborghini sets sales record

• Recent recalls

• and more

MARKETS 📈

HEADLINES 📰

New-vehicle inventory remains in check to start 2024, according to Cox Auto.

Musk wants 25% voting control at Tesla before fulfilling AI goal.

Stellantis appoints Carlos Zarlenga as North American COO, replacing Mark Stewart.

Lamborghini sold more than 10,000 cars in 2023, beating its record for the third year in a row.

Tesla owners run into battery charging trouble in Chicago's bitter cold.

U.S. awards nearly $150MM to repair, replace EV charging stations.

Mazda adopts Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) for EVs.

All-electric Porsche Macan will celebrate its world premiere on Thursday, January 25th.

BMW CFO: sales growth is mostly electric as combustion engine 'tipping point' passes.

Stellantis signs agreement with rental firm SIXT to deliver 250,000 vehicles.

Tesla, Ford among the most shorted stocks in 2023.

BMW will still offer manual gearboxes for the M2, M3 and M4…for a bit.

Polestar electric car sales disappointed in Q4 2023 with a 39% decrease.

BMW taps humanoid startup Figure to take on Tesla's robot.

RECALLS

GM recalls dozens of electric BrightDrop vans after two reported fires.

GM recalls about 24,000 model year 2014 Buick Verano and Chevy Cruze vehicles over roof-rail airbags.

Nissan steering wheel emblem recall expanded to include more model years of affected vehicles.

That’s all we have for you this week. We’ll see you next Friday morning with more car content.

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