by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 20, 2018
High-flying Nvidia has emerged during the past decades as one of the auto industry’s key suppliers of advanced technology and is now working on developing the technology needed for the development of self-driving vehicles. Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 20, 2018
Daimler Trucks & Buses agreed to put up part of a $155 million investment in an electric bus company founded and based in the United States. Proterra Inc., with offices in California’s Silicon Valley, South Carolina and Los Angeles, announced it closed a $155...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 19, 2018
Once Ford Motor Co.’s top designer, J Mays, is heading back to Michigan as vice president and chief design officer of Whirlpool Corp. of Benton Harbor, Michigan. Mays left Ford in 2013 after a long career in the automobile industry that included stints at BMW,...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 19, 2018
German automakers are facing more headaches and potentially huge fines as the fallout from the “Dieselgate” scandal continues to seep through the legal and regulatory system in Europe and North America. Antitrust regulators from the European Union are...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 18, 2018
Given, the popularity of sport-utility vehicles, crossovers and pickup trucks, selling the traditional small car in the U.S. has become a very tough gig as evidenced by Ford giving up on cars and the Volkswagen Beetle is going away. Meanwhile, cars such as the Honda...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 18, 2018
Jaguar Land Rover plans to reduce the work schedules of some 2,000 production workers to three-day weeks at its Castle Bromwich plant in the West Midlands of England where the company builds several Jaguar vehicles. The cutback comes as JLR faces pressure from...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 17, 2018
Sitting at the very top of the famous pyramid that Alfred P. Sloan used to define the automotive market and values, Cadillac has always been General Motors’ flagship, offering style, luxury and innovation in a series of celebrated big vehicles that in the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 14, 2018
Despite the efforts by the Trump administration to roll back clean air regulations, California continues pressing forward with efforts to foster zero-emission vehicles. “By working across national and state boundaries, through this new focused effort, we can...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 13, 2018
Ford Motor Co. has tweaked the 2019 version of the Ford Edge by making an all-wheel drive system smart enough to detect various driving conditions and automatically shift between two-wheel and all-wheel drive. The system is called all-wheel-drive disconnect, a...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 13, 2018
Volkswagen AG’s legal woes from the fallout from rigging of diesel emissions tests continue to expand as it faces a class action lawsuit courtesy of a new law in Germany designed to protect the interests of consumers. The Federation of German Consumer Organizations,...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 12, 2018
General Motors Co. is borrowing $2.1 billion to shore up pension funds in key markets where it historically built vehicles. The notes include $450 million of floating rate notes due in 2021, $750 million of 5% notes due in 2028 and $900 million of 5.95% notes due in...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 12, 2018
Mercedes-Benz plans to show the new 2019 GLE at the Paris Auto Show, marking a bit of a change in its marketing strategy. In the past, the GLE, which is built at the big Mercedes-Benz assembly plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, would probably been shown at the North...
