by Michael Strong | Apr 16, 2020
A little more than two months after being appointed Ford Motor Co.’s Chief Operating Officer, Jim Farley is further putting his stamp on the automaker with a reorganization of the company’s top executives and responsibilities. Ford CEO Jim Hackett has been looking to...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 16, 2020
Elon Musk lost a key round in legal battle with a group of investors angered by one the Tesla CEO’s stray tweets. A federal judge in San Francisco said a lawsuit against Tesla Inc. and Musk can go forward to trial. The lawsuit claims that Musk – and by extension Tesla...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 15, 2020
General Motors has filed a patent application for a system that continuously updates a vehicle’s on-board maps and navigation guidance. GM said its patent application covers, “A system for updating a distributed navigation map for a motor vehicle includes one or more...
by Michael Strong | Apr 15, 2020
China’s auto industry seems to be hustling toward full speed, if Tesla Inc.’s March results are any indication. The EV maker’s registrations jumped 450% last month, compared with February’s totals, according to auto consultancy LMC Automotive. The company’s totals...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 15, 2020
The bidding war for the new Tesla Gigafactory that will build the EV maker’s battery-electric pickup trucks appears to have intensified. Joplin, Missouri, which sits close to the state’s borders with Oklahoma and Kansas, is reportedly prepared to offer Tesla a...
by Michael Strong | Apr 13, 2020
The global coronavirus pandemic is going to move Ford Motor Co. $600 million into the red for the first quarter on a pre-tax basis, officials revealed Monday. The company reported a $2.4 billion profit for the same period last year. As with all automakers, during the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 13, 2020
Ford Motor Co. and 3M are ramping up their ad hoc partnership in a race to fill the shortage of critical medical gear needed to address the coronavirus pandemic, including respirators, masks and face shields. Ford will add production of medical gowns, officials said...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 13, 2020
McLaren, the British maker of super cars, is considering the use of synthetic fuel as a replacement for high-octane gasoline. McLaren COO Jens Ludmann said his company is convinced that synthetic fuel could put a major dent in emissions in an interview with British...
by Michael Strong | Apr 10, 2020
Three years ago, Nissan was part of an alliance positioned to sell more vehicles than any other automaker on the planet. Now, after a battle for leadership of the company, falling sales and the impact of a global pandemic, the automaker is restructuring to become a...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 10, 2020
Karma Automotive with help from Nvidia has unveiled a SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicle. The vehicle, a van with the architecture of battery electric vehicle, is one of five platforms designed to offer new electric mobility solutions through an EREV (extended range...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 10, 2020
Needing to preserve cash in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Detroit’s automakers are turning to the federal government to help pay the supplemental unemployment benefits owed blue-collar workers under contracts with United Auto Workers. European and Asian...
by Michael Strong | Apr 9, 2020
The Mini brand has long-been the favorite of buyers looking for a youthful-looking vehicle with a bit of retro styling and go-kart like performance. Now, the brand is making a change to enhance that experience for the 2021 model year. More manual transmissions! As of...
