by Paul A. Eisenstein | Dec 24, 2019
Is there room for the steering wheel in tomorrow’s autonomous vehicles? Depends on whom you ask, it seems. General Motors CEO Mary Barra personally met with the head of the U.S. Department of Transportation last week in a bid to win approval for a batch of...
by Joseph Szczesny | Dec 23, 2019
With carmakers pouring incentive money in the market and aiming heavy doses of advertising at consumer, December’s final sales totals should be substantial, according to Edmunds, the automobile shopping service. In a pre-Christmas sales estimate, Edmunds...
by Joseph Szczesny | Dec 23, 2019
BMW, which is committed to an electric future, will have sold more than a half-million “electrified” vehicles by the end of 2019, company executives said. “Half a million vehicles is the best proof: Our broad range of electrified vehicles is meeting exact...
by Michael Strong | Dec 20, 2019
Volkswagen’s jump to leader of the electric vehicle pack may have to wait a while longer after reports surfaced it is having software problems with its newly produced ID.3 all-electric crossovers — and it could affect as many as 20,000 vehicles. Germany’s Manager...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Dec 19, 2019
Three years after announcing plans to launch a second battery-car start-up, Henrik Fisker is finally set to lay his cards down on the table, his new Fisker Ocean SUV scheduled to make its formal debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas early next month. The...
by Michael Strong | Dec 19, 2019
Mercedes-Benz USA has agreed to pay as much as $20 million fines due its failure to handle U.S. vehicle recalls correctly. The penalty was dealt after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducted a one-year investigation of 1.4 million vehicles...
by Joseph Szczesny | Dec 19, 2019
After more than a century of building cars and trucks, General Motors is shutting down its Oshawa Assembly operations this week as the company converts the plant to a stamping facility producing aftermarket parts. Approximately 300 employees will continue to...
by Michael Strong | Dec 18, 2019
Automakers will pay nearly $3 billion more in tariffs as a result of the higher content rules set forth in the new version of NAFTA, or the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement, as President Donald Trump has dubbed it. The lofty figure comes from an estimate by the...
by Michael Strong | Dec 18, 2019
With a slew of television commercials featuring vehicles with big red bows or Santa being blackmailed by some smarmy kid – and plenty of actual statistics – December ’tis the month folks are out spending big money not just on presents, but new vehicles. What...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Dec 18, 2019
We’ll be seeing a flood of new battery-electric vehicles during the next 12 months and BMW is the latest to offer some insight into what it has coming when it launches production of its first long-range battery-electric vehicle, the iX3, sometime next year. Carrying...
by Joseph Szczesny | Dec 18, 2019
The National Automobile Dealers Association posted its official auto sales forecast for the coming year, and it calls for sales of new vehicles to hit 16.8 million vehicles in 2020. “We expect new light-vehicles sales will come in at 16.8 million units for 2020,...
by Michael Strong | Dec 17, 2019
Ford Motor Co. is investing more than $1.45 billion in two Michigan plants to bolster is truck production and development and production of electric and autonomous vehicles. The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker will add a total of 3,000 jobs at facilities in...
