by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 19, 2020
Tesla’s Cybertruck, which has become on the most anticipated vehicles of recent since its showy press unveiling in Southern California last November, is being shown publicly for the first time. The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, which reopens to the masses...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 18, 2020
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with the Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center have developed a simulation system with infinite steering possibilities to help autonomous vehicles to learn to navigate real-world scenarios before...
by Michael Strong | Jun 18, 2020
The impact of the pandemic has forced many companies to take a hard look at how they will do business in the future, and ride-hailing service Lyft Inc. is making a major change, committing to using battery-electric vehicles only by 2030. In a blog post on its website,...
by Michael Strong | Jun 17, 2020
General Motors plans to recognize Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the U.S., Friday with 8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence. Juneteenth is June 19, and the period of silence matches the amount of time that the Minneapolis police officer knelt on Floyd’s...
by Michael Strong | Jun 17, 2020
The hallways at the Glass House, Ford Motor Co.’s Dearborn, Michigan headquarters, and scores of other buildings are likely going to be quieter for the next several months as the automaker gave salaried personnel working from home already the option to stay there...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jun 17, 2020
By the end of this year, Ford will launch its first long-range battery-electric vehicle, the Mustang Mach-E, but it won’t be alone for long, the automaker planning to add, among others, BEV versions of both the F-150 pickup and Transit van. The two truck models are...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jun 16, 2020
It has been a “tragic year,’ between the coronavirus pandemic, the collapse of the U.S. economy and the “brutal” murders of black Americans at the hands of police, said General Motors CEO Mary Barra. During an online meeting with members of the Detroit Automotive...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jun 15, 2020
The U.S. automotive market has bounced back significantly stronger than expected – but could run into a “lumpy” couple months, cautioned a senior Toyota official Monday. Demand is still off from pre-COVID forecasts, Bob Carter, the executive vice president of sales...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 12, 2020
Nearly a full week after a cyberattack that shut down operations in different parts of the world and wreaked havoc on its IT systems, Honda now has its plants in Ohio back up and running at full capacity. The automaker has offered only a few scant details of the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 12, 2020
After an abrupt decline in ad spending during the stay-at-home orders designed to stop the spread of COVID-19 and the cancellation or postponements of key advertising vehicles such as the NCAA Basketball Tournament and the NBA playoffs, auto advertising surged during...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jun 12, 2020
General Motors said Friday that it will not close its big assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri, despite five workers there testing positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. But the new outbreak – and the rising number of infections and deaths...
by Michael Strong | Jun 11, 2020
Fiat Chrysler’s Ram Truck brand continued its efforts honor the five branches of the U.S. military with five different versions of the “Built to Serve Edition” Ram 1500 full-size trucks, beginning production of the second round of the limited-edition trucks. The next...
