The GM logo is seen on the facade of the General Motors headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, March 16, 2021. Rebecca Cook | Reuters DETROIT – General Motors’ U.S. vehicle sales were down about 15% in the second quarter from a year ago as the automaker continues to battle supply chain issues, but showed improvement from
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Elon Musk and four of his sons met with Pope Francis at the Vatican last week and the Tesla Inc. CEO then broke 10 days of silence on Twitter to share a photo of the audience. Musk, the world’s richest individual, who is in the midst of a $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc., wrote
2:34 PM ET SILVERSTONE, England — Carlos Sainz was surprised to be told he had claimed pole position at the British Grand Prix, an achievement that felt like a long time coming for the Ferrari driver. “Holy s—-,” Sainz said on the radio. “I didn’t expect that one!” It was pole position at the 151st
The Range Rover is moving closer to Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Aston Martin in ways other than price and performance. The shopping experience is also starting to look familiar to consumers in that rarefied air. With the 2023 Land Rover Range Rover starting at $106,000, and fully loaded ones selling for more than a quarter-million, Land
In this article TSLA Elon Musk, here seen at an event in New York in early-May, is being aggressively wooed to set up facilities to produce his electric vehicles “end-to end” in resource-rich Indonesia. Taylor Hill | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Activist investors SOC Investment Group have asked federal financial regulators to investigate
2:55 PM ET Associated Press ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Chase Elliott won the pole at Road America and will lead the field to green Sunday as he attempts to defend his win on the Wisconsin road course. NASCAR’s most popular driver is coming off a win last weekend at Nashville and put himself in position
Toyota Motor Corp. has used up a key U.S. tax credit for hybrid and electric vehicles, a milestone that the automaker says will raise its costs and hinder adoption of climate-friendly cars. The company said Friday that it sold 3,876 plug-in hybrid and electric cars in June. The U.S. allows automakers to offer a $7,500
In this article TSLA A giant cowboy boot is on display outside the Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing facility during the “Cyber Rodeo” grand opening party on April 7, 2022 in Austin, Texas. Suzanne Cordeiro | AFP | Getty Images Tesla just posted its second-quarter vehicle production and delivery numbers for 2022. Here are the key
An advanced driving simulator is helping Ford Motor Co. push out new vehicles more efficiently. The simulator in Dearborn, Mich., which helped bring the Maverick and F-150 Lightning to market, uses rFpro, a driving simulation software, and lidar by scanning roads to the millimeter to create an immersive experience for the driver, a Ford official
A robot car of the General Motors subsidiary Cruise is on a test drive. Andrej Sokolow | picture alliance | Getty Images Automotive and tech executives long promised autonomous vehicles would drive better than humans, but that wasn’t the case for a fleet of Cruise cars in San Francisco this week. The company, a majority-owned
10:25 AM ET SILVERSTONE, England — A group of environmental protesters have threatened to invade the track during Sunday’s British Grand Prix. The threat was made ahead of what could be Silverstone’s record attendance, with F1 expecting 400,000 fans to attend across Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 1 Related Race day attendance may well exceed the
In this article CR Labor slowdowns and strikes at the German and Netherland ports are creating a massive pile-up of export containers bound for the U.S. that will take months to clear out. According to the bills of lading found through ImportGenius, some of the items that are exported out of these ports are critical
Toyota Motor North America sales dropped 18 percent in June to 170,155, and were off 23 percent for the quarter to 531,105 as the Japanese automaker continued to struggle with production issues amid steady consumer demand. The results left Toyota Motor trailing General Motors U.S. sales by 47,402 in the second quarter, and down 41,918
2:10 PM ET SILVERSTONE — The FIA will start enforcing rules around how much Formula One cars can bounce — or porpoise — from the French Grand Prix onwards. F1’s governing body has introduced a Technical Directive on the issue following safety concerns about the impact of the bouncing on drivers’ health. After the Azerbaijan
After lowering the price of the Bolt EV and EUV by about $6,000 for the 2023 models, Chevrolet plans to compensate customers who paid more for the vehicles this year. All U.S. customers who bought a Bolt EV or EUV in 2022 are eligible for reimbursements, Chevy said this week in a memo to dealers
11:22 AM ET Road America, carved out of the countryside of Wisconsin, is one of the greatest racetracks in the U.S. Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Sir Jackie Stewart stood on a platform overlooking the entrance of Miami International Autodrome’s Turn 6. You know the one. The broad lefthander that swept around a flotilla of
DETROIT — Automakers are expected to keep up a brisk pace of new-vehicle introductions over the next four years as the industry recovers from supply constraints and continues pivoting toward electric vehicles, according to the annual “Cars Wars” study of the U.S. product pipeline. John Murphy, a senior auto analyst at Bank of America Merrill
In this article NKLA NKLA CEO and founder of U.S. Nikola, Trevor Milton speaks during presentation of its new full-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell battery trucks in partnership with CNH Industrial, at an event in Turin, Italy December 2, 2019. Massimo Pinca | Reuters Electric truck startup Nikola is making another attempt Thursday to clear a