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SAN FRANCISCO -- Tesla Inc. boss Elon Musk, who has never used traditional advertising to sell cars, said that the automaker would try it and see whether it produced results. Musk said it was "ironic" that as CEO of Tesla, he now owns…

New Delhi, May 17: Honda has taken the wraps off of the e:Ny1, its very first electric SUV for the European and other similar markets. The new Honda e:Ny1 e-SUV is one of the three key SUV models that the Japanese…

San Francisco, May 17: Outgoing Twitter CEO Elon Musk has teased two new electric vehicles (EVs) during its annual shareholder's meeting, saying one new EV is already in the manufacturing process. One of the new…

Delhi, May 17: The 2023 Hero Xpulse 200 4V has been launched in the Indian market. It gets several updates over its processor. The price starts at Rs 1.43 lakh (ex-showroom) for the base variant. The top-end Pro…

Honda Cars India took to social media to announce the official unveiling date of its all new mid-sized SUV Elevate. The new Honda Elevate will be pitched directly against the likes of Hyundai Creta and will have its…

PARIS – Elon Musk will meet French President Emmanuel Macron and other political leaders on Monday at a business conference close to Paris, the Elysee Palace said, confirming earlier media reports. The Tesla CEO, who bought social network…

Tesla Inc. contributed almost one-quarter of Shanghai's total automotive production value last year, local media reported, in a sign of how quickly the electric car maker has ramped up output in China. The U.S. company, which rolled out…

'WE CONTINUE TO NEGOTIATE' A spokesperson for Champagne said Friday the "auto industry is crucial to the Canadian economy and to the hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers." "We continue to negotiate in good faith with our partners. Our…

Some manufacturing experts believe the unboxed process has the potential to reduce or eliminate familiar elements inside auto factories, including stamping, welding and painting unfinished car bodies and sending them down a long assembly…

Wrestling over control of the supply chain created friction between suppliers and automakers, which boiled over when the pandemic sparked a supply chain crisis. Suppliers bore most of the pain, but it also gave them more negotiating power…

New Delhi, May 15: The all-new Toyota Yaris Cross SUV has been unveiled for the ASEAN markets. The Yaris Cross for the ASEAN specific regions was first previewed as the Toyota Urban Cruiser Icon SUV to be a Hyundai…

The concern over facility maintenance due to cutbacks at Pomigliano — where less than half of workers making the Panda took part in Friday’s protests — is not isolated with staff at other factories also pressuring management to improve…

Delhi, May 15: Tata Motors is all set to launch a fully-electric version of its popular Punch SUV. It has been in the testing phase for a while. Now, a Tata Punch EV has been spotted for the first time. It showcases…

LONDON -- Volkswagen Group's Cariad plans to bring its delayed 2.0 software platform to market in 2027 or 2028 after the launches of key new electric models from Porsche and Audi. The original launch date for the sophisticated software…

Many of us working in the connected car space are searching for explanations for the slow consumer adoption of telematics-enabled, usage-based insurance, or UBI, programs, especially as more new vehicles are embedded with connectivity,…

It seems that software is to the auto industry what alcohol is to Homer Simpson: the cause of — and solution to — all of life's problems. Software has become a huge part of modern life. And while we've all been told that autos today have…

New Delhi, May 14: India is making progress in building its electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in order to phase out diesel vehicles in a stipulated time-frame but there is still a long way to go.…

Tokyo, May 13: As connected cars become mainstream globally, Toyota has issued an apology after it discovered that millions of customers' partial data was made public "due to misconfiguration of the Cloud…

Detroit, May 12: Chinese safety regulators have ordered Tesla to recall 1.1 million vehicles because drivers might step on the accelerator for too long, increasing the risk of a crash. The State Administration for…

New Delhi, May 12: Japanese auto major Toyota is getting all braced up to officially take the wraps off its new SUV. Named as the Toyota Urban Cruiser Icon, this new SUV will be unveiled on 15th of May. The new…

TOKYO – Export-dependent Mazda Motor Corp. expects a big surge in U.S. sales this year. That is, if it can secure enough car carriers to transport its popular product from Japan. A global shipping shortage is causing the Hiroshima-based…

New Delhi, May 12: The BMW X3 M40i has launched in India making the German luxury auto behemoth’s car lineup ever so richer in the country. The first-ever BMW X3 M40i has launched in India via the CBU (completely…

TOKYO — Electric vehicle latecomer Subaru expects to have capacity to build 400,000 such vehicles a year in 2028 by adding a second EV line in Japan, signaling a dramatic ramp-up as it tries to get 40 percent of its global sales from…

Canadian auto supplier Linamar Corp. plans to break ground “immediately” on a new plant in Welland, Ont., that will house three giga-casting presses capable of producing very large aluminum structural parts for electric vehicles.  The…

Production was previously planned to begin at the end of 2023, a Volvo spokesperson said. He declined to say when the company now expects the model to reach showrooms. The biggest all-new product debut for Volvo Cars in half a decade will…

If the sales rate reaches 70 percent, the average unused capacity utilisation rate for ICE production would rise to two thirds, Greenpeace said, basing its estimates on public information about planned capacity and projected sales. GM and…

New Delhi, May 11: South Korean auto major Hyundai has unveiled the new i20 facelift for the European market, which is scheduled to hit the market towards the end of 2023. The new 2024 Hyundai i20 facelift comes…

Cobalt, nickel and lithium prices shape the cost of producing these cathodes. All three rose sharply in price in 2022 before falling rapidly this year in response to weakening demand. The weakened demand was partially a response to…

SAN FRANCISCO/TOKYO - Panasonic said on Wednesday that it will delay the commercial production of its 4680 battery cells championed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and begin operations during the April to September period in 2024, later than…

Exterior design features are focused on maximizing aerodynamics, Alpine designers said, including two large air scoops in the front grille, air ducts ahead of the front wheels and "floating" side mirrors. Other features on the show car…