by Joseph Szczesny | Jul 1, 2020
The United Auto Workers and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Detroit will continue to discuss ways to reform the union in the wake of the initial meeting between UAW President Rory Gamble and Matthew Schneider, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. The...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 30, 2020
For a lot of reasons, some practical and some mythical, the pickup truck has a tight grip on the heart strings of American motorists these days, and while Toyota’s trucks haven’t matched the sale success of pickups from Chevy, Ford or Ram, they have carved out their...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 29, 2020
(This story has been updated to include today’s decision from the appeals court.) The meeting is on hold — for now. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today stayed a lower court ruling that would have required General Motors CEO Mary Barra and Fiat Chrysler...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 26, 2020
By now most drivers in the United States have heard about electric cars and probably listened to friends and co-workers argue about their merits or potential merits. But the introduction of battery-electric vehicles has been slow. However, the options have grown...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 25, 2020
After lengthy negotiations, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. N.V. locked down a $7.1-billion loan backed by the Italian government to help in weather the pandemic, which has upended economic activity throughout the world. The loan money was directed to FCA Italy, a wholly...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 24, 2020
A federal judge has labeled the lawsuit General Motors filed against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, claiming the FCA had conspired with corrupt officials from the United Auto Workers to put GM at competitive disadvantage on labor costs, “a waste of time.” Following a...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 23, 2020
The state of Nevada is joining California and more than a dozen other states in a coalition advocating for tougher clean car standards that are supposed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality. Governor Steve Sisolak is preparing rules that would...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 22, 2020
The Volkswagen Group is pouring more money into the development of solid-state batteries, which are expected to propel electric vehicles in the future. VW announced its increasing its stake in QuantumScape and making an additional investment of up to $200 million in...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 19, 2020
BMW and Daimler are hitting the pause button on joint development efforts of automated vehicles. The pandemic has raised new questions about the future of self-driving vehicles at a time when technical development of vehicles that can drive themselves outside of a...
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 Joseph Szczesny | Jun 18, 2020
The reborn Toyota Supra reached the market last year but automaker is dressing it up for 2021, adding more power to one version and bringing on a second iteration equipped with a four-cylinder engine for the first time. For starters, the 2021 GR Supra’s inline six...
