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NIO U.S. CEO Ganesh Iyer on China Speed and Automotive Leadership
Everyone in Detroit is talking about China speed. Very few leaders want to look at what’s slowing them down, and it isn’t the engineers. It’s the gates, the sign-offs, the PowerPoint reviews, and the “come back next week with more data” that turn a simple problem into a managed risk before anyone sits down to solve it.
Ganesh Iyer has seen both sides. He worked directly with Elon Musk at Tesla, the company that tore up the old automotive playbook, and today he’s the CEO of NIO U.S. We sat down straight off the stage at Reuters Events: Automotive USA 2026 in Detroit, and he didn’t hold back…
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