auto

Two Detroit area companies have been ordered to pay $10 million for manufacturing, selling and installing aftermarket devices that bypass car emissions controls. Diesel Ops LLC and Orion Diesel LLC were caught through a national crackdown…

"First and foremost I see this as a General Motors accomplishment. It happened at the time because we had a president and CEO who really wanted us to make a statement around the 100th anniversary of the automobile, and it was around the…

Unibody frame» Underpins passenger car, crossover, minivans and a few light trucks, such as the Ford Maverick and Honda Ridgeline» Advantages: Saves weight. Boosts fuel economy. Adds rigidity over body-on-frame. Increases interior space.…

"The architecture doesn't interfere with the top hat of the vehicle," said Mike Simcoe, global vice president of design at GM. "Structurally, the skateboard effectively stops at the floorpan. And so everything above that is free. In a…

Dealerships still are likely to present cash-back offers, a form of automaker incentive that can be applied to financing allowing interest rate reserve, West said. But special programs forbidding dealerships from adding margin are "for the…

Crews began setting up exhibition space on the sold-out 723,000-square-foot show floor at Huntington Place (formerly Cobo Hall) this week. Around 1,000 union laborers, including electricians, carpenters, iron workers and stagehands work…

Apple unveiled in June a new version of CarPlay that takes control of every screen in a car and accesses additional vehicle and driver data. This has set up a showdown with automakers.

Toyota Motor North America's first battery factory in the United States is already growing, even as construction work on the rural site in North Carolina is in its earliest phases.The Japanese automaker announced last week it would nearly…

Tesla lost a tussle over T-shirts.The National Labor Relations Board last week said it was unlawful for Tesla Inc. to prohibit employees from wearing shirts bearing union insignia, ruling in a 2017 dispute between the electric vehicle…

Karachi, September 3: A luxury sedan, a Bentley Mulsanne, was recovered from Karachi on Saturday by Pakistan Customs on information provided by a British law enforcement agency, a media report said. The vehicle,…

Volkswagen Group and Foxconn Technology Group are keeping workers on-site at factories in Chengdu after the Chinese metropolis locked down 21 million residents to contain a COVID-19 outbreak. The German automaker’s factory, jointly…

In June, BMW Group said it plans to use 3D laser scanning technology to complete digital scans of its assembly plants by early 2023. Scanning will help create more efficient floorplans for the automaker's production facilities of the…

A Polestar spokesperson confirmed the agreement to Le Monde.  The case dates back to 2017. In a June 2020 ruling, the court, ordered Polestar to pay Citroen 150,000 euros in damages as well as legal fees, and banned the use of the Polestar…

Toyota President Akio Toyoda has been a prominent voice in advocating for protecting jobs while navigating change. As chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Toyoda often cites the 5.5 million workers that form the…

Volvo will temporarily close a plant in the Chinese city of Chengdu due to local coronavirus restrictions, a company spokesman said. "Due to the lockdown in Chengdu, Volvo Cars is temporarily suspending production at a manufacturing plant…

Chennai, September 1: Hinduja group flagship company Ashok Leyland on Thursday said it has bagged orders for supply of 1,400 school buses in the United Arab Emirates making it as the company's largest ever order…

New Delhi, September 1: Hero Electric once again led the Indian electric vehicle (EV) two-wheeler segment in August, selling a record and highest-ever 10,476 vehicles in one month, followed by Okinawa Autotech at…

Stellantis plans to discontinue the Ram ProMaster City, the smaller of the truck brand's two van offerings, after the 2022 model year as the segment dwindles rapidly in the U.S. and automakers focus on adding larger electric vans instead.…

TOKYO – Electric vehicle laggard Toyota says it will plow about $5.6 billion into making more EV batteries in the U.S. and Japan, including increased capacity at a recently-announced plant in North Carolina, as the automaker plays catch up…

HAMBURG -- Volkswagen Group's supervisory board agreed on Tuesday evening to remove two seats from the automaker's 12-person management board, sources familiar with the matter said. The news comes as Porsche CEO Oliver Blume takes over as…

The University of Michigan has been awarded an $11 million federal grant that will fund research for ceramic batteries in EVs that have the potential to double range and eliminate fire risk. The U.S. Department of Energy grant, announced…

Automakers worldwide routinely rate the functionality of their automated driving systems in terms of levels, such as those standardized by the Society of Automotive Engineers. But Shibata declined to say what level future EyeSight systems…

Toyota Motor North America is amping up its plans for a battery plant in rural North Carolina, pumping another $2.5 billion into the project to allow it to build batteries for both the originally planned hybrid and now battery electric…

In a shocking incident that has gone viral on social media, a Tesla Model 3 car was backed over and crushed by a school bus. The video which was shared by the YouTube page Wham Baam Teslacam shows the bus climbing…

PARIS -- China's Geely Automobile Holdings and an oil group are in talks about taking stakes in the fossil-fuel engine unit Renault that plans to separate from its electric vehicle business, two sources close to the French carmaker said.…

New Delhi: India's e-mobility journey is on a fast track, with an estimated 45-50 million electric vehicles (EVs) on road by 2030, a new report said on Tuesday. As the EV ecosystem matures at a rapid pace, a…

New Delhi: Global passenger electric vehicle (EV) sales grew 61 per cent (on-year) to reach 2.18 million units in the second quarter this year, a new report said on Monday, as for the first time, China's BYD Auto…

General Motors is idling production at two plants this week: The main plant in Mexico that makes GMC and Chevrolet pick-up trucks as well as the Corvette plant in Bowling Green, Ky. Both plants are halting production over supply chain and…

STAVANGER, Norway -- Tesla CEO Elon Musk aims to get the automaker's self-driving technology ready by year-end and hopes it could be in wide release in the U.S. and possibly in Europe, depending on regulatory approval. Speaking at an…

Ford Motor Co.'s decision last week to cut 2,000 salaried jobs and 1,000 payroll jobs — including a significant amount in Michigan — to address what its executives say is the company's "uncompetitive" cost structure is well within the…