by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 5, 2020
During a series of meetings this week, General Motors officials – including CEO Mary Barra and Pres. Mark Reuss – set out to convince both the news media and Wall Street that the company’s $20 billion bet on the future of mobility is on the right track. As she has...
by Michael Strong | Mar 5, 2020
Toyota expanded an existing recall by 1.2 million vehicles for a problem with fuel pump failures, which could lead the vehicle’s engine to stall. The action grows the total number of affected vehicles to more than 1.8 million after the company’s initial recall of...
by Michael Strong | Mar 5, 2020
The coronavirus epidemic in China put the clamps on new vehicle sales in the country with auto companies seeing an 80% decline in February. The China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) didn’t offer up final sales numbers, but the 80% slide was a slight improvement over...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 5, 2020
Reid Bigland, the talented executive instrumental in making the Ram Brand into a powerhouse during the last decade, has elected to retire from his posts with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. The announcement also marked the end of legal tussle between FCA and Bigland,...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 4, 2020
The Cadillac Celestiq will take General Motors forward into the past. In a return to the days when the most exclusive luxury products featured hand-built coachwork bodies, the low and sleek sedan will allow extensive customization. But what will become the brand’s new...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 4, 2020
General Motors is carefully monitoring the coronavirus outbreak around the world in a continuing effort to minimize its impact on the company’s employees and operations, GM executives said. “It’s real,” GM President Mark Reuss told reporters as he...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 4, 2020
General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra has frequently declared that the automaker is “on a path to an all-electric future,” and officials for automaker today provided a rare deep dive into its electrification program, covering everything from the new battery technology it is...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 4, 2020
General Motors is making electric vehicle charging for employees even more accessible by making plans to install an additional 3,500 new EV charging plugs at the company’s facilities in the U.S. and Canada. The expansion will triple the number of charging locations...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 4, 2020
Monthly sales reports from several automakers indicated that new vehicle sales continued to roll along in February at a healthy clip. Hyundai, Kia, Subaru, Honda, Mazda and Mitsubishi all reported sizeable gains in February as sales of utility vehicles continued to...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 4, 2020
There’s a clear sense of retro … make that “heritage” … to the new Aston Martin V12 Speedster, the limited-edition two-seater the British marque unveiled at its headquarters in the UK today. The latest in a series of core products and special editions, the open-top...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 4, 2020
Chinese-owned EV start-up Byton is nothing if not ambitious. The company is planning an aggressive global rollout for its mByte SUV that will begin in China this year and, if all goes according to plan, see it enter both the Europe and the U.S. in 2021. There could be...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 3, 2020
Ford Motor Co. has all but banned employee travel, both international and domestic, as concerns about the spreading coronavirus outbreak escalates. And the second-largest Detroit-based automaker isn’t alone. Every automotive manufacturer reached by...
