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Lotus’ imminent rival to the Porsche Taycan, an electric sedan code-named Type 133, has been spied winter testing above the Arctic Circle in Europe ahead of a launch planned for later this year. The sedan will be the second model in the brand’s non-sports car lineup following the Eletre crossover and images show a slippery,

SHANGHAI — CATL, the world’s largest battery maker, has offered to cut costs for Chinese automakers, a move that demonstrates its market power and could also widen China’s cost advantage in electric vehicles. China’s CATL has offered smaller domestic electric-vehicle makers discounted prices on batteries, according to four people with knowledge of the terms. The discount

Sometimes it feels like the state of the autonomous-vehicle industry can only be viewed through the reflection of a fun-house mirror. The setbacks appear as seismic shudders. The progress seen as inch-by-inch developments. Certainly, the shuttering of Argo last October counts as one of the former. The demise of the Ford-and-Volkswagen-backed company has cast a

Molly Boigon has joined Automotive News as a transportation and mobility reporter in New York. Boigon, 28, previously covered K-12 education at WGBH Radio in Boston and worked as an investigative reporter at the Forward, a Jewish newspaper in New York, where she won a Rockower Award for her analysis of coronavirus positivity rates by

Here Technologies has successfully fended off competition from technology giants looking to move into high-definition mapping, which is one of the key components for autonomous driving. CEO Edzard Overbeek recently told Automotive News Europe Correspondent Nick Gibbs how the location data and technology platform provider will keep a step ahead of Google. Volvo and Google

Some of the most high-traffic venues in the country — convenience stores, big-box retailers, travel centers and quick-stop restaurants — are having an aha! moment: Adding electric vehicle chargers on site could bring in new customers to shop while their cars power up. Subway announced plans to install EV chargers this week, while BP Products

The U.S. must bolster its lithium battery cell sourcing and manufacturing strategy to compete in the expanding lithium-battery market and reach climate goals, according to Li-Bridge research. The lithium battery cell market in the U.S. is expected to reach $55 billion per year by 2030, but the current growth pace of domestic sourcing will limit

LONDON — Jaguar Land Rover said on Tuesday it is opening three new engineering hubs in Europe to develop autonomous vehicle technologies as part of its partnership with Silicon Valley artificial intelligence company Nvidia. The hubs in Munich, Bologna and Madrid will develop self-driving systems for JLR’s next generation of luxury vehicles. JLR already has

Federal regulators are reviewing whether the robotaxi made by Zoox meets requirements to travel on public roads following the self-driving company’s use of the vehicle to transport employees last week. Unlike a conventional car and the vehicles most other robotaxi developers are using, the Zoox vehicle lacks the steering wheel, brake pedal and other controls

As the importance of automotive software grows, the industry will need to do more to attract top talent in the field amid stiff competition from Silicon Valley — and quickly, experts and industry executives said. “It’s not like there aren’t a lot of great people working in this space, but compared to the density you

WASHINGTON — Tesla Inc. is recalling nearly 363,000 U.S. vehicles equipped with or pending installation of its Full Self-Driving beta software because of an increased risk of crash. The recall covers certain 2016-23 Model S and Model X electric vehicles as well as certain 2017-23 Model 3 and 2020-23 Model Y vehicles. NHTSA on Thursday said

Forget the Super Bowl ads starring Will Ferrell, the Jeep remix of “Electric Boogie” and the spot from Elon Musk’s chief critic. The most interesting transportation-related commercial to debut this Super Bowl season is one that never actually aired on network television. If you missed an advertisement called “The Distance” making the rounds on social

Even as the global microchip shortage slowly improves, some automakers are still feeling pinched more acutely than others, new data shows. Honda told shareholders this month the semiconductor shortage is bottoming out — but that it has nonetheless cut its global sales expectation for the year ahead. BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Renault and Nissan have not been

SAN FRANCISCO – Tesla will open part of its U.S. charging network to EVs made by rivals as part of a $7.5 billion federal program to electrify the nation’s highways to cut carbon emissions, the Biden administration said on Wednesday. Such a move could help turn Tesla into the universal filling station of the EV

Battery materials startup NanoGraf Corp. raised $65 million to scale up the domestic production of silicon anodes for lithium-ion batteries. NanoGraf’s series B capital raise comes on the heels of the company winning a $10 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense in November to build the nation’s first large advanced silicon oxide factory,

Commenting on his competitors’ slower move to electric vehicles, Volvo Cars’ new chief Jim Rowan said it’s a bad idea to tiptoe toward an electric future while continuing to develop combustion engine models. Hedging bets by investing in internal combustion engine and battery-electric vehicles “risks missing the market,” Rowan said on an earnings call last

WASHINGTON — Two U.S. senators on Monday urged the Federal Communications Commission to move quickly to grant some automakers, universities and others the ability to use some spectrum to deploy connected vehicle technology aimed at preventing crashes. The 5.9 GHz spectrum block was reserved in 1999 for automakers to develop technology to allow vehicles to

The nation’s public charging network, with its steep learning curve and fussy technology, is proving to be a challenge for an auto industry working hard to sell consumers on electric vehicles. While some early EV adopters are figuring out ways to navigate around broken stations, slow charging, tacked-on fees, unreliable software and myriad other hassles,