Not all car companies want to build their own vehicles anymore. The reason is that they don’t have to. Tuesday, the contract manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry (Taiwan), an Apple (ticker: AAPL) i...
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China EV Leader BYD Enters India’s Passenger Car Market As Part Of Global Push
BYD is expanding beyond China. BYD BYD, one of the world’s largest EV makers, this week entered India’s passenger car market as part of larger push to more than double its distributor network in the w...
Mercedes-Benz and Microsoft Collaborate to Boost Efficiency, Resilience and Sustainability in Car Production
Mercedes-Benz introduces MO360 Data Platform, connecting passenger car plants to Microsoft Cloud Vehicle production efficiency expected to improve by 20 percent by 2025 Logistic teams to solve supply ...
DIMO Helps Drivers Gain and Monetize Their Car Data
One Michigan-based driver sold his car for $7,000 more than what he would have at his local dealer just by using data gathered by DIMO, an open-source, decentralized project that aims to connect drive...
Not Ready to Go Full EV? Some Car Companies Bet Bigger on Hybrids
Demand for hybrid vehicles is hot, reinforcing the view from Toyota Motor Corp. and other auto makers that the gas-electric approach will play an important role even as the industry races toward fully...
Europe’s Car Makers Cut Sales Forecast; Seek Government Help, Electric Charging Subsidy
Oliver Zipse, CEO of BMW is also president of ACEA. He is standing in front of a BMW i4 electric car … [+] (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images European carmakers ...
How GM plans to convince car buyers to make the EV switch
Electric Chevrolet Silverado shown at the New York Auto Show, April, 2022. Scott Mlyn | CNBC When people think of electric vehicles, their minds typically jump to Tesla. But Elon Musk’s company ...
Car Sales Are Down But The Outlook Isn’t So Bad
Car sales at levels usually seen in recessions. Dr. Bill Conerly based on data from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Car sales remain low, at levels usually seen only in recessions. Rising interest ra...
Former Apple Car Executive’s Battery Startup Plans $1.6 Billion Factory in Michigan
Our Next Energy Inc., an electric-car battery startup involving several former leaders of Apple secretive car project, is planning to invest $1.6 billion into a factory in Michigan to make enough batt...
McLaren’s Zak Brown Talks IndyCar, Kyle Busch In The Indy 500, A Potential Fourth Indy Car And The Shakeup Of His Race Team
McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown IndyCar Photo McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has left quite an impact in a short period of time since he acquired Sam Schmidt’s IndyCar team in 2020. On a path to taking ful...
Here’s Why The Most Popular Car Colors Are Also The Dullest
What do you get when the most popular car color in the nation is white? A white carnation. getty What, one might ask, is the point of automakers offering a full palette of paint treatments when the va...
Tesla Makes Its 3 Millionth Car After 10 Years —Goal Is To Sell 20 Million Per Year By 2030
(Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Tesla (TSLA) is firing on all cylinders and its growth phase is only getting started. Shares are about t...
Dodge tries to convert its muscle car fans from V-8 engine to EV
Since the Dodge Charger was reintroduced in 2006, Dodge has been building a reputation for making muscle cars with big engines and bold and bright paint jobs. But it plans to discontinue the gas-power...
‘I’m paycheck to paycheck.’ I make $350K a year, but have $88K in student loans, $170K in car loans and a mortgage I pay $4,500 a month on. Do I need professional help?
I’m the first of my generation to own a home and the first to earn this much annually and don’t want to mess this up. How, specifically, can a financial adviser help me? Getty Images Question: By the ...
The Next Big Battle Between Google and Apple Is for the Soul of Your Car
A few years from now, in addition to deciding your next vehicle’s make and model, you may have another tough choice: the Google model or the Apple one? Other options may include “car maker generic” an...
McLaren Unveils Crypto-Themed Car For F1 Race
McLaren Unveils Crypto-Themed Car For F1 RaceOctober 1, 2022Mclaren Debuts Crypto-Themed Car At Singapore RaceWith Singapore’s most popular motorsport event taking place this weekend, digital as...
Auto Sales: GM, Ford To Buoy New Car Market As Concerns Grow
U.S. auto sales are seen holding up in the third quarter, as vehicle inventories slowly improve but new headwinds arise. X General Motors (GM), Ford (F), Stellantis (STLA), Toyota Motors (TM) and Hond...
This ‘Cheap’ Car Brand Just Got Real Expensive
There are some brands of cars that naturally command a higher sticker price on the showroom floor: think BMW (BMWYY) , Mercedes Benz (DDAIF) , Volkswagen (VLKAF) -owned Audi (AUDVF) and its soon-...
Why Don’t You Have A Self-Driving Car Yet? This 2-Part Series Explains The Big Remaining Problems
When will you have or ride in a self-driving car? What’s stopping you? Brad Templeton / Cruise People often ask, “Where’s my self-driving car?” “Why don’t I have one and when will it come?” A lo...
Your Car Will Likely Be More Expensive
For more than two years now, buying a new car has cost a small fortune. And receiving it has become almost a luxury because it is difficult to know when it will arrive. The delivery times given by ca...
U.S. EV sales boom, on track to account for 60% of all car purchases by 2030
The International Energy Agency (IEA) released an update to their “Tracking Clean Energy Progress” report on September 23, indicating that electric vehicles (EVs) are poised for high growth in the com...
Live Longer, Look Sexier And 43 Other Reasons To Ride A Bicycle This World Car Free Day
People on bikes, Hardbrucke, one of Zurich’s busiest inter-city roads. getty Take the train. Jump on a bus. Walk. Scoot. Run. Today is World Car Free Day, a promotion created to make people thin...
Xpeng says new G9 SUV could become the EV-maker’s best-selling car
Xpeng showed off its forthcoming G9 SUV at the Chengdu auto show in August 2022. China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese electric car start-up Xpeng‘s newest mod...
Electric Vehicles Took Off. Car Makers Weren’t Ready
Sept. 18, 2022 10:04 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Auto makers racing to turn out electric vehicles have generated long wait lists. Now they must try not to disappoint customers like Louie Figue...
Ferrari’s Family Car: 4 Seats, 1 Trunk—and 800 Horsepower
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size It took a while, but Ferrari has a family car, with four doors and four seats. The iconic Italian sports-car maker, famed for its black “prancing horse” logo, rec...
What It Costs To Run And Charge An Electric Car
Not all electric vehicles are created equal with regard to energy consumption and costs. getty While they’re cheaper to run than their conventionally powered counterparts, some electric vehicles will ...
Gas-powered muscle car to take on electric rivals
2024 Ford Mustang Source: Ford DETROIT — Ford Motor has always considered the Mustang to be in a league of its own. That may soon prove true, with the seventh generation of the famed American pony car...