PHOENIX — A steady cadence of new advertisements during key events made March the best month for GMC Hummer EV reservations since the SUV version was unveiled a year ago. “Awareness is a big thing, and I think that is on our side,” said Duncan Aldred, global vice president of Buick-GMC. GMC during the NBA
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Jaguar Land Rover has hired Thomas Mueller, a former Volkswagen Group executive and autonomous driving specialist, to lead the automaker’s product engineering. Mueller replaces Nick Rogers, who left JLR at the end of the year after 37 years at the company. Prior to joining JLR on April 1, Mueller was head of advanced driver assistance
8:51 AM ET Reigning world champion Max Verstappen has likened Formula One’s Aston Martin safety car to a turtle, saying it was going too slow during its deployment at the Australian Grand Prix. Formula One has two safety cars which alternate at races, an Aston Martin V8 Vantage and a Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series. The
Rising gasoline prices have prompted some commuters to consider ditching their cars for e-bikes. Both sales and general interest in e-bikes and scooters have increased, according to several micromobility companies, since Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine sent gasoline prices soaring. With commuters seeing benefits ranging from financial savings to health improvements, experts are wondering whether
BERLIN — Volkswagen Group expects the semiconductor shortage to continue longer than expected, the automaker’s finance chief Arno Antlitz said. Supplies of semiconductors will not normalize until 2024, by which time there will still be a structural undersupply, Antlitz said in an interview with Boersen-Zeitung published on Saturday VW Group has been forced to halt
In this article 9866-HK Nio said it has suspended production due to Covid-related restrictions in the last several weeks that halted production at suppliers’ factories. Long Wei | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese electric car company Nio said over the weekend it is raising prices and suspending production as the latest
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By Maria Merano Posted on April 10, 2022 Tesla seems more serious about entering the lithium mining industry as prices for the mineral — needed to make lithium-ion batteries — continue to rise. On Saturday, April 9, Tesla CEO Elon Musk commented on the rising price of Lithium. He hinted that Tesla might mine and
Carmen Hinton was always doubtful about winning contests and prizes. So she was surprised when her name was announced last month at the NADA Show as the winner of the fifth annual Women Driving Auto Retail Video Contest. Hinton has been the service manager for the past six years at Carter Myers Automotive’s Valley Subaru
6:45 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The Beast is on top in MotoGP, with a win and the lead in the season championship. Enea Bastianini of Italy, nicknamed “La Bestia,” passed Australia’s Jack Miller for the lead with five laps to go and pulled away to win the MotoGP Grand Prix of the
Tesla will launch production of the long-awaited Cybertruck pickup out of its new Austin, Texas, factory sometime next year and is working on a dedicated “robotaxi” model using the company’s autonomous vehicle software, CEO Elon Musk said at an opening day ceremony for the plant. Musk, wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses, delivered the first
CDK Global Inc. plans to join its privately held competitors in the dealership management system market this year, perhaps giving the company more flexibility to pursue longer-term growth strategies than public shareholders want to tolerate. The decision to take CDK off the Nasdaq exchange by selling to global investment firm Brookfield Business Partners — in
In this article GM Source: Cruise A recent video posted online shows a driverless Cruise car getting pulled over in San Francisco by police who found the autonomous vehicle didn’t have anyone behind the wheel. In the video posted on April 1, the Cruise car initially pulls over to the side of the road and
The Viper V-10 Dodge Tomahawk motorcycle concept made quite an impression at its 2003 Detroit auto show reveal, but not surprisingly it never went into production. However, one motorcycle mechanic loved the concept so much he built his own Viper V-10-powered bike. Based in the U.K., Allen Millyard built this insane machine in a shed
CAKE may be best known for its stylish and highly-designed electric motorcycles. But the company’s latest teaser today seems to imply that a lighter electric two-wheeler is in the cards for the brand’s next model. It’s hard to say exactly what CAKE is working on, as the image is zoomed in to show just two
11:01 AM ET Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Jimmie Johnson pulled one glove over the carbon-fiber splint built specifically for his broken right hand. A piece of tape around two fingers outside the glove was to prevent him from using his pinkie — the digit closest to the fracture — as he drove his
PARIS — Stellantis said it has sold its remaining 25 percent stake in the auto transport company Gefco to CMA CGM, a French shipping company. The remaining 75 percent of Gefco was owned by Russian Railways (RZD). CMA CGM said Friday that it had purchased “nearly 100 percent” of Gefco’s capital. The purchase price was not
Qualcomm Inc. last week closed on its acquisition of Swedish tech supplier Veoneer’s Arriver software stack, giving the tech giant a larger foothold in the emerging mobility space. Don’t expect Qualcomm to stop there. “Qualcomm is focused on this market and this space for the long haul, and this is just the start,” said Nakul