GM Expands Super Cruise Hands-Free Driving To More Than 400,000 Miles Of Roads

General Motors is expanding the number of North American roads where Super Cruise can be used to … [+] more than 400,000 miles General Motors Back in 2017, General MotorsGM launched the first ha...

Auto Makers Expect Car Sales to Defy Economic Gloom

Listen to article (2 minutes) Even as consumer spending cools, one place buyers continue to splurge is at the car dealership. Auto executives reporting earnings earlier this week displayed confidence ...

Ford, GM earnings preview: Will 2022 outlooks be intact?

General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. are scheduled to report second-quarter earnings on Tuesday and Wednesday, with investors worried about their guidance for the year amid fears of a recession. GM G...

Tesla Wasn’t a ‘Money Furnace’ After All

Text size Tesla’s credit metrics look better than automotive peers. They look better than many large-cap stocks too. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images It turns out that money furnaces don’t have to b...

Apple, Amazon, Meta Highlight Tech-Heavy Earnings Week

Tech giants Apple Amazon.com and Microsoft headline a busy earnings week amid growing investor fears of recession, rising interest rates and surging inflation. A little more than one-third of S&P ...

VW Board Ousts CEO Herbert Diess After Pivot to Electric Vehicles

Key shareholders in Volkswagen joined forces with labor leaders to oust Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess, who was in the midst of a push to turn the German auto company into a top maker of electr...

BYD Makes First Foray Into Japan Passenger Car Market With Three EV Models

BYD unveiled three EV models for the Japan market at a conference in Tokyo on Thursday. BYD China-headquartered BYD, the world’s largest maker of electric vehicles, held a press conference in Tokyo on...

CATL Might Bring Battery Capacity to America With Mexico Plant, Report Says.

Text size Contemporary Amperex Technology is the largest and most valuable battery maker. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg The electric-vehicle battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology might be readying its ...

U.S., China Leaders May Be On Track To Meet In November – China Think-Tank Chief

U.S. President Joe Biden listens while meeting virtually with Xi Jinping, China’s president, in the … [+] Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Nov. 15, 2...

GM CEO Mary Barra Warns Chip Shortage Will Go Into 2023. She Wants Congress to Help.

Text size Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, says the U.S. must do more to encourage chip manufacturing domestically. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images General Motors didn’t finish 95,000 cars in...

Tesla, Ford, and GM’s Plan to Unlock EV Battery Capacity

Text size Panasonic will put up an EV battery plant in Kansas. It’s the latest of a long list of planned battery plants coming to North America. David Becker/Getty Images Lithium batteries are t...

Elon Musk: ‘Lithium Batteries Are the New Oil’

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the official opening of a Tesla plant in Germany. Christian Marquardt/Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk defined energy independence for an electric-vehicle w...

Tesla Stock Stands to Gain if Musk Succeeds in Ending Twitter Deal

Text size Elon Musk announced he his ending his deal to buy Twitter, but the social media company said it plans to enforce the agreement. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images If Elon Musk succeeds in endin...

Cruise Robotaxis Keep Stalling On SF Streets, How Upset Should We Be?

A Cruise car testing in San Francisco, not stalled. (Cruise cars only carry passengers at night.) Getty Images Numerous reports have emerged of multiple robotaxis from GM’s Cruise unit stalling on San...

Tesla Still Tops the EV List. Here’s Who Makes the Most.

Text size The top five EV makers account for about half of global production. Chris Delmas / AFP via Getty Images More electric cars are being sold around the world, and companies including Volkswagen...

Rivian Cranked Up Production in Second Quarter at Illinois Factory

Rivian Automotive Inc. said it produced 4,401 vehicles in the second quarter, the latest in the electric-vehicle maker’s efforts to overcome parts shortages and production snarls to fulfill orders for...

Ford F-150 Lightning Sales Jump While Mach E Sales Dip.

Text size Sales of Ford’s F-150 Lightning pickup truck increased to about 1,800 units in June. Courtesy Ford Ford Motor released U.S. sales figures for June on Tuesday, and sales of its all-elec...

China’s Auto Sales Are Booming. Can the Rebound Last?

Text size China’s auto market is showing a robust rebound. Here: a BYD Tang vehicle at the company’s showroom in Beijing. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg While the recent recovery in much of China’s ...

Ford’s U.S. Sales Increase 32% in June, Outpacing Broader Industry

Ford Motor reported a nearly 32% increase in U.S. sales in June, beating out much of the industry as it improved truck and SUV deliveries and benefited from the rollout of a new all-electric pickup. O...

Ford U.S. sales jump in June to buck industry declines, but stock falls toward 17-month low

Shares of Ford Motor Co. F, -1.60% dropped 4.6% toward a 17-month low in morning trading Tuesday, even after the automaker reported a year-over-year jump in U.S. vehicles sales for June despite ongoin...

GM, NIO, and 3 More of the Best Car Stocks for the Second Half of 2022

Text size The average automotive stock dived about 25% in the second quarter. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The first half of 2022 was painful for the automotive sector, with most car stocks dropping fart...

Warren Buffett-Backed BYD’s EV Sales More Than Tripled In June

A BYD Tang vehicle on sale in Beijing last year. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP BYD, the China vehicle and battery maker backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, ...

Tesla Vehicle Deliveries Tumble After China Factory Shutdown

Tesla vehicle deliveries fell quarter-over-quarter for the first time in more than two years, reflecting an extended shutdown in China, supply-chain disruptions and challenges associated with opening ...

General Motors EV Partner Sees Director Buy More Stock

Text size MP Materials shares have slipped 21% so far this year Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg MP Materials stock has slipped this year, and director Randall Weisenburger bought more shares of the rare-earth...

GM Stock Has Been Hammered, Which Makes Owning a Piece of Its EV Future a Bargain

Text size GM has been showing off its Cadillac Lyriq SUV electric vehicle, priced like Tesla’s Model Y. Courtesy of Cadillac Inflation, rising interest rates, and recession fears have all conspired ag...

Toyota Stock Falls After It Cuts Production Again. Bad News for Car Prices.

Text size Toyota reduced its output forecast, citing parts shortages. Above, a dealership in Houston. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Toyota Motor updated its production plans, unveiling more cuts. Wednesda...

These software companies are unsung winners in the semiconductor industry

Mention semiconductors and chip giants such as Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and NVIDIA Corp. spring to mind, but there are other, less high-profile companies, operating in the space that d...

Tesla Sued for Employee Layoffs. Musk Calls Suit Trivial.

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Getty Images Employees laid off by Tesla have sued in response, giving investors in the electric-vehicle company one more issue to worry about. Employment has been on th...

This Is Not a Volatile Market, It’s a Declining Market

“You don’t bring me anything but down.” That Sheryl Crow lyric was running through my head this morning, as stock futures and Treasury prices both resumed their decline after yesterd...

Ford and GM Diverge on Dividend Policies. Here’s Why and What It Means.

Ford Motor and General Motors are in the same business and are based in the same state. But they couldn’t be more different when it comes to their dividend policies. Ford (ticker: F) reinstated its di...