President Joe Biden speaks at the United Auto Workers political convention at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2024. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images DETROIT — The Biden administration’s decision to ease its timeline for all-electric vehicle adoption and give automakers more ways to meet new tailpipe emissions standards is expected … Read more
Although consumer demand for EVs hasn’t shown up in the way executives had expected, sales of the vehicles are still predicted to increase in the years to come. Andrew Merry | Moment | Getty Images DETROIT — The buzz around electric vehicles is wearing off. For years, the automotive industry has been in a state … Read more
Good morning! It’s Thursday, March 7, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. 1st Gear: Arsonists Shut Down German Tesla Plant For Weeks Tesla’s Gigafactory in Germany isn’t expected to have … Read more
Hyundai Motor Group is the world’s third-largest automaker in the world by volume — but it wasn’t always so. In the late 1980s and 1990s, Hyundai cars suffered ridicule in America for being cheap and low quality. But that is no longer the case. The three auto brands in the automaker’s stable — Hyundai, Kia … Read more
Toyota hybrid vehicles for sale at a dealership in Chicago, Feb. 6, 2024. Scott Olson | Getty Images Hybrid vehicles led the 2024 top vehicle rankings released Tuesday by influential product testing organization Consumer Reports. Such “electrified” vehicles, including plug-in hybrid models, represented six of the top 10 picks by the nonprofit consumer organization. The … Read more
Akio Toyoda, Chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation. Yoshikazu Tsuno | Gamma-rapho | Getty Images Toyota Motor is investing $1.3 billion in a Kentucky plant to produce a new all-electric, three-row SUV for the U.S. market, the company said Tuesday. The vehicle is expected to go into production between late 2025 and early 2026, according to … Read more
TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip maker, said that Toyota Motor Corp will be joining as a new investor of Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), the Taiwanese firm’s majority-owned manufacturing subsidiary in Kumamoto Prefecture on the southwestern island of Kyushu. The TSMC board on Tuesday approved an injection of no more than US$5.26 billion in … Read more
Photo: Yoshikazu TSUNO (Getty Images) Toyota is having a bad time. The company’s kei car wing has been forging crash test results, and its diesels have had “irregularities” in horsepower and torque ratings — irregularities so vast, apparently, that Japanese officials had to raid one of the company’s factories today. Jalopinions | The Best Type … Read more
A BYD Seagull small electric car is on display during the 20th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images DETROIT — Chinese automakers pose a growing threat to their American counterparts — even without selling directly to consumers in the U.S. … Read more
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a fireside discussion on artificial intelligence risks with Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, not pictured, in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Tolga Akmen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who also owns the social network X (formerly known as … Read more
