by Michael Strong | Mar 13, 2020
Sport-utility vehicles are more popular than ever and within that segment, performance utes are hot sellers. Audi’s jumped into the market in the U.S. with its first-ever performance large SUV, the new RS Q8. The German premium brand’s newest ute “combines the genes...
by Michael Strong | Mar 12, 2020
Volkswagen wants to rid the world of car accidents by 2050. The German automaker will introduce a new vehicle operating system later this year on the make’s new ID.3 EV to help make that happen. “We want to have no more accidents by 2050,” said Michael Jost, the VW...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 12, 2020
Robert Bollinger is an unlikely automotive pioneer. While he started out as an industrial design student, his career took some decidedly eccentric turns in marketing, advertising and then organic hair care products. But it was only when he decided to move to the...
by Michael Strong | Mar 12, 2020
Detroit-area electric vehicle startup Bollinger Motors’ growth continues with the debut of its new E-Chassis. The patent-pending E-Chassis is, according to the company, the world’s first-ever Class 3 electric platform. It’s designed to specifically for commercial...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 12, 2020
Honda has pulled the plug on the Clarity Electric, the purely battery-powered version of its exotic alternative fuel vehicle. The automaker plans to continue selling the two other versions of the Clarity, one using a plug-in hybrid driveline, the other powered by a...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 11, 2020
BMW will end production of the i8 plug-in hybrid sports car next month after a six-year run. When BMW launched the i8 in 2014, it consciously countered what was then the conventional wisdom about hybrid-electric vehicles. True, the car got solid fuel economy, but it...
by Michael Strong | Mar 11, 2020
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has the business development agencies in several states buzzing after he tweeted that he was looking to set up a factory in the central U.S. for the Cybertruck. “Scouting locations for Cybertruck Gigafactory. Will be central USA,” Musk tweeted. He...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 11, 2020
Hyundai plans to officially unveil its next-generation Elantra during a media preview in Los Angeles next week. But the automaker already is offering a good look at what’s coming thanks to a news release, and teaser video and still images. Put them all together and...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 11, 2020
Until now sales of electric vehicles have been fenced in or left out of markets in various parts of the United States. But Ford Motor Co. says the all-electric Mustang Mach-E has drawn reservations from all 50 U.S. states during the first three months of the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 10, 2020
The world debut of its refreshed 2021 Odyssey is now scheduled to take place at next month’s New York International Auto Show. Throughout the years, Honda has sold more than 1.1 million Odyssey minivans and the 2021 version of Honda’s “Ultimate Family...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 10, 2020
For decades going all the way back 1970s, the U.S. economy has been haunted the threat of a spike in oil prices. But it’s teetering on the verge of a plunge in oil prices that threatens both the energy sector and simultaneously the automotive sector, which is putting...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 10, 2020
Worries about the spreading coronavirus epidemic has led a number of automakers to curb travel and scale back some of their public events, General Motors announcing it will cancel the April 2 debut of Cadillac’s first all-electric model, the Lyriq. GM had already...
