Christiaan Hetzner is a former writer for Fortune, where he covered Europe’s changing business landscape. He’s reported from Germany for the past two decades and is passionate about tracking industry’s intersection with finance and policy as they collectively target a net-zero society. Shaped by his time in Frankfurt covering the collapse of the dotcom stock market bubble for Dow Jones Newswires, he joined Reuters in 2004 before shifting to commentary and features for Automotive News Europe ten years later. Hailing from upstate New York, he is a graduate of Georgetown University.
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By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 30, 2024
SuccessElon Musk loses title as world’s richest person to LVMH patriarch Bernard Arnault, paying the price for January rout in Tesla stock
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 29, 2024
TechWestern EV makers underestimated the threat from Chinese rivals like Tesla-slayer BYD: ‘There was a view that it would only be Game of Thrones battles within China’
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 27, 2024
CompaniesAlaska Airlines demands Boeing reimburse a minimum $150 million in losses from 737 Max 9 scandal: ‘We fully expect to be made whole’
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 26, 2024
TechElon Musk predicts $25,000 entry-level Tesla could launch as soon as late 2025, heralding return to high growth for slumping EV maker
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 25, 2024
TechTesla and BYD’s cutthroat EV price war is driving Volvo spinoff Polestar to the precipice—and it may need a lifeline
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 24, 2024
TechElon Musk promised Tesla’s very own ‘ChatGPT moment’ with full self-drive technology—now owners may be weeks away from finding out if he can finally deliver
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 23, 2024
PoliticsRon DeSantis launched his White House run by bashing Disney—but his ‘foolish fatal error’ has given CEO Bob Iger the last laugh
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 22, 2024
TechChatGPT’s creator Sam Altman was asked what humans would still do better than AI—he didn’t have a convincing answer
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 19, 2024
TechElon Musk throws more fuel on the racial fire burning down his X advertising revenue by weighing in on diversity debate about Black people’s intelligence
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 11, 2024
CompaniesBoeing CEO Dave Calhoun ‘shaken to the bone’ by Alaska Airlines accident, and admits mistake: ‘This can never happen again’
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 10, 2024
TechSpaceX releases ‘cringeworthy’ Elon Musk staff meeting video at the center of Wall Street Journal drug allegations
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 9, 2024
LifestyleEurope wants to end price dumping by Chinese EV makers like Tesla-killer BYD—now Beijing is retaliating with tit-for-tat probe to protect its second most valuable company
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 8, 2024
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