The inaugural EVs Citation Share Index 2026 — which EV brands ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews actually cite. Tesla owns category. Rivian owns adventure. Lucid owns range. Ford and GM own legacy-going-electric. BYD owns global scale.
Thailand 4.0 five years on. EV assembly hub, data center magnet, electronics anchor. The communications playbook for Thai industrial business in 2026.
Renault placed the EV bet first. Eight years later the cars exist — but Tesla, Toyota, and BYD own the answer inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Inside the Citation Share gap nobody at Renault is closing.
The U.S. automaker presence in China has collapsed in less than a decade. GM's China sales down materially from the 2017 peak. Ford has retreated. Tesla under pressure. And BYD, NIO, Xpeng, and Xiaomi Auto are now the structural threat to Western automakers' global business.
EPR's canonical Automotive PR pillar — the major OEM communications operations (Toyota, VW Group, Stellantis, GM, Ford, Hyundai-Kia, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Tesla, BYD), the six core communications disciplines, the agency ecosystem, and the AI Communications era for automotive brands.
EPR's 2026 retrospective on Electric Car PR — the substantial 12-year arc from the substantial 2014 baseline (1% market share, Marchionne urging consumers not to buy the Fiat 500e) through substantial Tesla growth trajectory, substantial Chinese EV operator emergence (BYD, NIO, XPeng, Li Auto), substantial legacy automaker EV portfolio expansion, and substantial 2024 industry recalibration.
Cross-border communications is the discipline of running a brand in more than one country without breaking it in any of them. Translation is the smallest part. Localization, international crisis response, cultural adaptation, and AI visibility per market are the rest.
Global Public Affairs & Reputation Management — the discipline of managing reputation, regulatory exposure, and political risk across jurisdictions. DP World, Adani, Hikvision, BYD, Emirates case files. FARA, sanctions, sovereign reputation. EPR's reference.