The Truth About Cars

JULY 14, 2023

We’ve been hearing for years that auto shows are a thing of the past and that the internet has killed the personal touches we all loved about the industry. But while it might be true that auto shows aren’t the extravaganzas they once were, it can also be true that there’s still life in the industry and a reason to attend.&

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 31, 2024

Auto industry executives are grappling with rising costs and a challenging economic environment, leading many to employ aggressive cost-cutting measures. At Stellantis, the latest effort to right the ship will involve a voluntary separation program for its salaried U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

One spokesperson told Automotive News that the expense would only be a fraction of the auto industry’s estimates. The good news for AM radio is that the auto industry appears poised to lose its fight. Others point to the gross overestimates of expenses related to keeping AM radio.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 18, 2022

These questions were brought up by Andrea Stroppa who noted that the only information about these audits can be found on a Twitter blog post titled, “Expanding our commitment to brand safety.” Who does the audits? Where are the audits? ” Those are the questions that Twitter is doing everything possible to avoid answering ….

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 12, 2023

We’ve been hearing about the rise of electric vehicles for years, but while they are growing rapidly in number, there’s still a disconnect between an auto industry hell-bent on electrification and the desires of the people they rely on to buy new cars.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 10, 2016

A post on a small auto-industry blog that accused startup carmaker Tesla Motors of concealing potentially hazardous suspension breakages has blown up into a major media story.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 22, 2024

Dealers are often the first group to sound concerns when something changes in the auto industry, whether they’re justified in their complaints or not.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 5, 2024

The car, which was projected to start in the mid-$20,000 range, would have helped Tesla compete against the increasingly fierce Chinese auto industry. The automaker doesn’t have a communications or PR department to respond to inquiries, but Musk posted on X, saying, “ Reuters is lying (again).”

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The announcement understandably made huge waves in the auto industry and everywhere else, honestly, but that excitement hasn’t survived the several-year wait for many people. We’re just a few weeks away from the four-year anniversary of the Tesla Cybertruck reveal event.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Either way, it seemed to be the only way to meaningfully move the industry toward battery-electric vehicles. On top of Musk’s blog post, which Tesla has recently removed from its website , I was also convinced by lectures given by Tesla’s original two co-founders, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Not without hurdles, Tesla did it.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 22, 2023

Car rental companies have long pledged to make the transition alongside their auto industry partners, and Hertz recently announced that it would be adding the Cadillac Lyriq and Chevy Silverado EV.& Automakers are going electric, which means that all the companies that rely on them will have to adapt.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 6, 2024

That said, 2026 is a long time from now, and the auto industry sometimes moves rapidly, so there are no guarantees things will go smoothly. Competitor Fisker may need to lean on Nissan for financial support, though Rivian has fleet sales and other investors to help its cause. Image: Rivian via X] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 7, 2024

There’s no shortage of $50,000-plus EVs from all corners of the auto industry, but the sub-$30,000 (or even sub-$40,000) market is pathetically tiny. While it’s true that Americans don’t buy that many hatchbacks, it’s even truer that cars like the Nissan Leaf are precisely what we need.

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Teslarati

MAY 6, 2021

Citing sources familiar with the matter, EV blog Electrek noted that Tesla had informed its employees that the company’s production capacity for Q2 2021 was already sold out — and that’s with the quarter not even halfway done. This bodes well for the EV maker’s production and delivery numbers this year. .

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 24, 2023

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety occasionally update their safety testing protocols to keep up with changes in technology and the auto industry. The NHTSA said the updates would measure pedestrian protection and detection and has asked for public comment on the matter.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 24, 2023

BYD, China’s largest electric automaker, isn’t as gung-ho about autonomous vehicles as many other auto industry giants. A company spokesperson recently said that BYD believes self-driving tech that is “fully separated from humans is very, very far away, and basically impossible.”&

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It’s a rare day this author gets to combine his interests of the automotive industry and the YouTube channel for security expert LockPickingLawyer. The whole thing is worth a watch , especially since it is produced from the vantage point of someone whose focus is on security, not the auto industry.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Striking Ford employees are heading back to the assembly line today after the United Auto Workers (UAW) union reached a tentative labor deal with the company late on Wednesday. This agreement sets us on a new path to make things right at Ford, at the Big Three, and across the auto industry.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 10, 2010

Auto industry analysts get paid to issue reports, and most of them are vastly better at data analysis and number crunching than we'll ever be. What's got us thinking this way is a blog post from. That doesn't mean, however, that sometimes their data isn't misleading.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 28, 2023

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will soon release its proposal to increase Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) requirements and General Motors has signaled its concerns regarding how much more money it will cost the automotive industry. This was verified via information found on the White House website.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 13, 2023

This is a new and exciting opportunity for all of us," Ann Carlson, the acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, told an audience of industry executives and transportation officials attending the Automated Road Transportation Symposium. "We Industry lobbyists appear to be welcoming the proposed changes.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Toyota, in Open Road Blog , the official Blog of Toyota responding to NY Times Columnist Thomas Friedman's Et Tu, Toyota? This quotation tells us all we need to know about what the auto industry would like the future to look like. As an industry they must oppose even the meager Congressional call for 35mpg by 2020.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 29, 2009

A Business Week blog reports on the survey by the Munich based consultants Bain & Co. Consumers would be buying now if there were products,” says Gregor Matthies, a Munich-based partner at Bain who specializes in the auto industry. The only problem? There are no cars for sale.

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Plug In Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Slow charging has been the key hurdle to public acceptance of battery-electric vehicles as viable distance travelers, so this breakthrough has all sorts of implications for the automotive industry as well as being a very welcome upgrade to a whole host of other portable devices.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Asia India China Europe Americas en Español em Português Login/Register to set your edition Set my edition Todays Paper Video Columns Blogs Graphics Journal Community Register for FREE Register for FREE Thank you for registering. GM has slashed product-development programs, advertising and spending on auto-show events.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Facebook Digg Reddit Newsvine More evidence that we are approaching an exciting new frontier in the automotive industry will be on display today on Capitol Hill. Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. car Because unlike the 100 m.p.g.

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Current EV

MARCH 3, 2020

March 3 rd , 2020: with the Geneva Auto Show cancelled due to the coronavirus, automakers have been forced to present their new cars via digital debuts online. Both won prestigious awards and added impetus to the public’s perception that e-mobility is where the auto industry is headed. appeared first on Current EV Blog.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Our flagship EV is the Tesla Model 3, a luxurious 4-door sedan that features up to 260-mile driving range on a full charge and is the best-selling electric car in the world,” Hertz wrote in a blog post. Overall, the ambitious and prolific order for 100,000 Model 3 sedans marks a notable step for the car rental giant.

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Volvo Cars is taking a bold lead with electrification in the auto industry. This ambitious announcement highlights Volvo’s commitment to take the industry lead and embrace a cleaner mobility. More than half are so hooked on their EVs that they say they’ll never go back to a gas vehicle (55%).

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The United States government has pulled out massive tariffs in an attempt to prevent Chinese automakers from flooding the market with cheap vehicles, but the country’s industry has found loopholes that could help it get around those actions, including manufacturing vehicles in other countries.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

From Reuters : BYD outpaced former market leader Tesla in EV sales globally in the fourth quarter of 2023, and auto industry officials say its push into Mexico foreshadows a competitive threat the Shenzhen-based automaker and others from China may pose to companies already operating in the U.S. auto sector.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s — Scott 18. Where is affordable.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

As a subscriber, you can receive our free weekly China Auto News, which keeps you informed the latest developments of Chinas automobile industry. As a subscriber, you can receive our free weekly China Auto News, which keeps you informed the latest developments of Chinas automobile industry. and Chery Automobile Co.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The auto industry is now gearing up to hash out those standards at the SAE conference in Detroit next week — and GM has a major stake in getting them out swiftly.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Though the industry has been moving in the direction of standardizing frontal crash avoidance and similar technologies for nearly a decade and insurance agencies seem eager to see them broadly implemented. But these, again, come from government-auto-industry-related partnerships and insurance agencies.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 9, 2024

The country has restricted the export of auto industry data since 2021, forcing German automakers to set up localized data hubs and limiting how much they can profit off customer data harvesting. Mercedes likewise said it was down 12 percent, with Porsche an unfortunate 24 percent decline.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Like most other modern products, vehicles have become heavily reliant on semiconductor chips in recent years and the supply chain issues witnessed since 2020 have been vexing the industry. This includes the automotive sector, even though manufacturing jobs not directly tied to the auto industry have technically kept a higher pace.

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