by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 13, 2021
In a wide-ranging Consumer Electronics Show keynote address led by General Motors CEO Mary Barra, the automaker revealed significant new details about its push into electrification, announcing new projects and offering up more information about production programs...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 13, 2021
Chinese Internet giant Baidu agreed to a strategic alliance with Geely, one of China’s largest independent carmakers, to develop and produce what is described as “intelligent” electric vehicles. According to the announcement, the new venture will operate as an...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 12, 2021
A key member of President-elect Joe Biden’s economic team says the new administration will make a priority of investing in infrastructure, protecting American companies and jobs, and reducing the emissions that contribute to climate change. Brian Deese, the incoming...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 12, 2021
General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra is fond of saying the automaker is “on a path to an all-electric future,” something she underscored during a virtual CES webinar focusing on not only the automaker’s battery technology but also showing off some of the many...
by Michael Strong | Jan 12, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the auto industry has been well documented, from massive drops in sales for part of the year to automakers struggling to implement effective rules for plant workers to how companies had to alter the way they do business to survive....
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 12, 2021
It’s not as chatty as Star Wars’ C3P0, nor anywhere as cute as R2D2, but the droid-like EP1 could soon become a vital part of the e-commerce business, at least if General Motors has its way. The automaker wants to become a major player in the delivery business...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 11, 2021
A number of automakers have joined the growing push by U.S. businesses to suspend or entirely eliminate political spending in the wake of last week’s attempted insurrection by supporters of President Donald Trump. Scores of major corporations, from Hallmark to Dow,...
by Michael Strong | Jan 11, 2021
The carnage of car shows continues as the Detroit Auto Dealers Association, which organizes the North American International Auto Show, cancelled this year’s event. The show, which was last held in 2019, has been cancelled and rescheduled multiple times due to the...
by Michael Strong | Jan 11, 2021
Ford Motor Co. is shuttering its production facilities in Brazil as part of a larger reorganization of its South American operations at a cost of about $4.1 billion. The automaker announced it will stop building vehicles at its Camaçari, Taubaté and Troller plants...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 11, 2021
The Ford Mustang Mach-E, the automaker’s first long-range battery-electric vehicle, was named North American Utility Vehicle of the Year on Monday, with the Ford F-150 chosen as Truck of the Year and the Hyundai Elantra rounding things out as the Car of the Year. The...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 11, 2021
There will be an Apple car. There won’t be. There will be … there won’t be …. Few topics automotive have generated more debate and conflicting information in recent years as the subject of the purported iCar. Now, however, new reports circulating out of South Korea...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 11, 2021
Depending on how you count, BMW appears to have to emerged as the best-selling luxury brand in the United States, pushing past archrival Mercedes-Benz, which fell two spots to third place. In the fourth quarter of 2020, BMW brand sales totaled 98,750 vehicles, only a...
