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BEIJING -- Chinese automaker Geely will keep working on vehicles powered by methanol even though the effort may fail, Chairman Li Shufu said. Geely, among a small number of automakers developing methanol-powered vehicles, is testing…

San Francisco: Elon Musk has elaborated on details of Tesla's new electric motor -- the Plaid carbon-wrapped motor -- and even teased an even crazier higher RPM version coming to the new Roadster. The CEO mentioned…

DETROIT -- Hyundai Motor Co. has accelerated efforts around developing air taxis and will offer services around those vehicles rather than just selling them, the South Korean automaker's COO told Reuters. Hyundai is ahead of the timetable…

DETROIT -- Hyundai Motor Co. has accelerated efforts around developing "flying cars" and will offer services around those vehicles rather than just selling them, the South Korean automaker's COO told Reuters. Hyundai is ahead of the…

Group of Seven nations backed away from plans to set a target for making sure most new cars sold are greener vehicles, instead pledging only speed up efforts to move away from combustion engines. In the final communique Sunday, the bloc…

"Being in-market for the last three decades, and four prior generations all being dedicated to two-row SUVs, there will absolutely be a little bit of an education period," Tallon said. "We're seeing a lot of momentum building even ahead of…

This year, Mazda and Toyota will start up their new joint-venture assembly plant in Huntsville, Ala., eventually employing 4,000 people to make 300,000 vehicles a year. It represents a massive capital investment — $2.3 billion. But…

Seoul: Hyundai Motor, South Korea's biggest carmaker by sales, said on Monday it will suspend its US plant for three weeks due to lack of semiconductors and routine maintenance. Hyundai Motor will halt the Alabama…

It's a feature some consumers will actually be happy to go without.General Motors, as part of its effort to conserve limited supplies of microchips, is building many full-size pickups and SUVs without the automatic stop-start technology…

While there have been complaints in some corners, other dealership service departments have shrugged off the return to in-dealership warranty audits this year."There has been no feedback to me from any dealers" complaining about warranty…

Whether a warranty audit is conducted in person or remotely can make a big difference. That's why the return of face-to-face audits is a big deal, according to dealership consultants and other experts.Automakers dialed back warranty…

New Delhi, June 12: India needs about 400,000 charging stations to meet the requirement for two million Electric Vehicles (EV) that could potentially ply on its roads by 2026, said a report on Saturday. The Grant…

INA's head of foreign trade, Alberto Bustamante, forecast in an interview on Thursday that the semiconductor shortage will begin to ease by the second half of July before returning to normal in December. The supply crunch began last year…

A Michigan EV manufacturer is nearing the finish line in its journey toward becoming a public company. Electric Last Mile Inc. plans to merge with Forum Merger III Corp., a Delray, Fla.-based special purpose acquisition corporation, or…

The suburban Detroit company plans to invest between $50 million and $75 million to design, develop and launch the platforms. "Earlier this year, some of our larger customers (came) to us and said, 'Hey, we need your help. We have our own…

BEIJING -- China's Huawei Technologies aims to develop driverless-car technology by 2025, an executive said, as the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker diversifies its business in the face of U.S. sanctions. "Our team's goal…

Buyers of Volkswagen brand's ID full-electric cars will soon be able to upgrade their vehicles with over-the-air updates and transfer their personal settings between different cars, paving the way for lucrative add-on services. The use of…

San Francisco: Apple has roped in a former BMW executive and the recently departed CEO and co-founder of EV startup Canoo, Ulrich Kranz, for its electric car project. Kranz will reportedly work on the Silicon Valley…

"We're going to see a very significant market share shift over the next four years driven by very distinct differences in powertrain strategies," Murphy said. Automakers are also aggressively pursuing the crossover segment, particularly at…

BERLIN -- Volkswagen Group expects a shortage in semiconductor supply to ease in the third quarter but sees the bottlenecks continuing in the long term, a board member told Handelsblatt newspaper. "At the moment we have reached the lowest…

The latest exotic from the House of Volkswagen Group's Bugatti brand is a stunner on the track in the form of the Chiron Super Sport. The 3.2 million-euro ($3.9 million) coupe is the latest iteration of the Chiron family line that includes…

French investigators charged Stellantis' Peugeot subsidiary over allegedly defrauding consumers with diesel engines in a broadening crackdown on automakers that has already ensnared Renault and Volkswagen. Peugeot, which became part of…

He is the owner of 'Mon Financement Automobile', his car brokerage firm, the success of which exudes high qualities and discipline of the young entrepreneur. The closer we look around ourselves, the more we see…

Hyundai Motor India has confirmed that it will launch its Alcazar SUV in India on June 18, 2021. The upcoming SUV is a three-row version of the second-gen Hyundai Creta and will come as a 6 and 7-seater SUV. The…

Frankfurt, Jun 10: Volkswagen said Wednesday that former CEO Martin Winterkorn has agreed to pay 11.2 million euros (USD 13.6 million) in compensation for what the company called his failure to quickly get to the…

The world's largest auto supplier by revenue will launch a voluntary return to the Detroit area offices after the holiday. Then in early October, it will institute a "smart work" policy. What exactly that will be has not been finalized,…

Many U.S. employers are still requiring vaccinated workers to wear masks in workplaces. Volkswagen Grou's U.S. unit said it will "no longer require masks for fully vaccinated employees after June 21, and will continue to follow CDC…

MILAN -- Ferrari has turned to a tech executive to navigate the transition towards electrification in the automotive industry, appointing Benedetto Vigna as its new boss. Vigna, a 52-year-old Italian national, currently leads the biggest…

Bradley Theodore's and Supercarrooms last supper event. May 27th 2021 In a complete Rolls-Royce setting provided by a Holman Motorcars of Fort Lauderdale, Bradley Theodore and The Supercar Chef joined forces to…

Yamaha India is all set to launch a new two-wheeler in the Indian market on June 18, 2021. Though the company hasn't announced what it would be launching at the event, several reports suggest that it could be the…