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 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 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 8, 2021
With the company “on a path to an all-electric future,” General Motors is taking steps to signal major changes are coming by pairing a major new marketing campaign with a complete makeover of its familiar logo. As part of the “Everybody In” campaign, the current,...
by Michael Strong | Jan 8, 2021
General Motors and Ford are experiencing their own version of the election madness: each are claiming to be the top choice of buyers after all of the counting of full-size pickup trucks sold in 2020 has been completed. The rivalry between the two Detroit makers when...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 8, 2021
This story has been updated with new information. Nissan and Honda have been forced to cut vehicle production due to a worsening shortage of the semiconductor chips required in ever increasing numbers for today’s high-tech vehicles, with other manufacturers, including...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 8, 2021
When General Motors CEO Mary Barra goes online to talk about the upcoming Chevrolet battery-electric pickup next Tuesday, she’ll be just one of the many auto industry executives scheduled to take part in the “virtual CES.” Of all the big public events impacted by the...
by Michael Strong | Jan 7, 2021
Toyota’s autonomous vehicles will not only drive themselves to different destinations, but they’ll also decide when they need a wash — and get it. The Japanese automaker filed a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trade Market office for technology that would...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 7, 2021
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency offered the auto industry a report card pointed out shortcomings in fuel economy and emissions of greenhouse gasses. The EPA’s annual “Automotive Trends Report” released this week covered the vehicles sold from the 2019 model...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 7, 2021
(This story has been updated with additional information about the Hyperscreen technology and plans to roll the system out on future product lines.) In the automotive world, bigger has typically been equated with better. But where that was once measured in the length...
