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WASHINGTON — Auto industry newcomer Chris Smith says discussions about electric vehicles should be less about the politics and more about the product. EVs are "not a partisan thing," Smith said. They're "terrific products that American…

DETROIT -- Electric vehicle startups that promised to disrupt the automotive industry by using a software- and technology-heavy approach are now scrambling to cut costs amid the type of industry slowdown that has bedeviled Detroit…

Ford Motor Co. and South Korean battery maker SK On Co. along with its subsidiary on Thursday finalized setting up a joint venture for building and operating battery production facilities in the United States. The JV, BlueOval SK LLC, will…

Audi’s Artemis project was supposed to launch a 2.0 software generation capable of hands-off Level 4 autonomous driving, as early as 2024. Now the first production Artemis car, internally called Landjet, will only start after Volkswagen's…

General Motors is partnering with EVgo and Pilot Co. to bring electric vehicle chargers to highway corridors across the U.S. The companies plan to install 2,000 fast chargers at as many as 500 Pilot and Flying J travel centers starting…

EV sales were a bright spot with sales of EQ-badged cars nearly doubling to 23,500 units. The first half saw the brand’s EV sales rising to 45,400 units -- an increase of 134 percent. “The electric ramp up is gaining traction,” Seeger…

DETROIT -- Electric vehicle startups that promised to disrupt the automotive industry by using a software- and technology-heavy approach are now scrambling to cut costs amid the type of industry slowdown that has bedeviled Detroit…

Bosch plans to invest more than $3 billion in its growing semiconductor business by 2026 in a bid to power its way clear of the world's gnarled supply chain of chips. The investment will address a range of semiconductor industry needs,…

San Francisco, July 13: Elon Musk-run Tesla has laid off 229 annotation employees from its Autopilot team and closed one of its offices in the US. According to a regulatory filing in California state in the US and…

Scaringe said the company has begun to "assess the size and structure of our teams" and will be "as thoughtful as possible as we consider any reductions" in employee head count. Rivian carried about $16 billion in cash at the end of the…

The lawsuit seeks to set a precedent that would enable owners of Mercedes GLC and GLK vehicles to gain compensation for software that was allegedly used to trick emissions tests. The lawsuit covers nearly 50,000 GLC and GLK models and was…

Seoul: The union of Hyundai Motor said on Tuesday it has tentatively agreed with the company to build a dedicated electric vehicle (EV) plant in South Korea by 2025 amid a global electrification push. Hyundai and…

Rivian Automotive Inc. is planning hundreds of layoffs to trim its workforce in areas where the electric-vehicle maker has grown too quickly, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The cuts will focus on nonmanufacturing roles,…

Audi is not the only major global luxury brand accelerating EV production in China. BMW last month opened a new assembly plant in the northeast China city of Shenyang along with local partner Brilliance Automobile Holdings Group Co. That…

Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara bookings are now open in India. Customers can pre-book the Grand Vitara at any NEXA showroom or via Nexa website with an initial payment of Rs 11,000. In addition to this, the carmaker…

However, Geert Bruyneel, Volvo's head of global manufacturing, told Automotive News Europe that the vehicle architecture used at the new plant "will be a successor to SPA2," the automaker's newest electric-only architecture that will…

General Motors, whose vice president of corporate giving, Terry Rhadigan, sits on the museum's board, made a $500,000 grant to the museum to support development of the exhibit and educational program, "Black Innovation, Invention and…

General Motors' venerable commercial vans, the Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana, will likely go electric in 2026, forecasters say. Production of the vans is expected to remain at GM's plant in Wentzville, Mo., when they become electric…

VW has positioned the Amarok as a premium pickup, and has added safety and convenience features. Among them are more than 30 advanced driver assistance system functions, 20 of which are new to the Amarok, including park assist and speed…

International automakers account for 47 percent of all vehicles produced in the U.S. and 55 percent of all-new vehicle sales. What's more, international automakers are responsible for $22 billion in annual vehicle exports: More than…

Every winter, the holidays take many of us by surprise. The Yuletide season arrives the same time each year — we know it's coming — and yet we annually find ourselves at the last possible moment raiding the shopping malls and scouring the…

While policymakers debate whether a U.S. recession is inevitable, the real question for many in the auto industry should be whether it's relevant. It sounds preposterous on the face of it because for generations, the industry has been a…

It's clean, it's environmentally kind and it's utterly indistinguishable from ordinary car paint. But sometimes a technological innovation just makes you blink. BMW and the global coatings supplier BASF are partnering to create vehicle…

San Francisco: As recession fears grow, the US-based autonomous vehicle technology startup Agro AI, backed by Ford and Volkswagen, has laid off about 150 people and slowed the pace of hiring, making it the latest…

Berlin: German automaker Volkswagen will invest $20.38 billion to build electric vehicle (EV) batteries, creating 20,000 jobs and generating more than $20 billion in annual sales. Volkswagen broke the ground for its…

It's getting complicated for investors in semiconductor stocks, with last year's big chip shortage morphing into an inventory glut for some companies, and others getting caught up in geopolitics. The COVID-19 pandemic spurred an…

Volkswagen Group is planning major investments in China to employ “several thousand” software engineers and catch up with local rivals when it comes to equipping cars with the latest digital technology, CEO Herbert Diess said. “It's…

It's getting complicated for investors in semiconductor stocks, with last year's big chip shortage morphing into an inventory glut for some companies, and others getting caught up in geopolitics. The Covid-19 pandemic spurred an…

Vietnamese automaker VinFast, which expects to launch two electric vehicles in the U.S. market this year, is partnering with Taiwanese battery startup ProLogium Technology on solid-state EV batteries for delivery as early as 2024, VinFast…

Susquehanna said that leading or predictive company-specific data show contractions in lead times for the second month in a row, with some declines of as much as 45 percent. Some of the largest declines were for microcontroller units, or…