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Hyundai Motor Co. is ready to take the field for college football season. The South Korean automaker made a $55 million deal this month to obtain the naming rights to the Georgia Institute of Technology’s field for the next 20 years. The Yellow Jackets will now play in Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field. “Proximity

In this article STLAM-IT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT UAW Vice President Rich Boyer addresses union members during a “Solidarity Sunday” rally on Aug. 20, 2023 in Warren, Mich. Michael Wayland / CNBC WARREN, Mich. – Automaker Stellantis has threatened to move production of the current Ram 1500 pickup truck from a factory in

By mid-2024, General Motors plans to have several new electric vehicle nameplates in production, from the Chevrolet Equinox that was designed with affordability in mind to the Cadillac Escalade IQ costing four times as much. That’s also when the automaker expects to have built 400,000 EVs, on the way to reaching capacity for 1 million

In this article OUST LAZR INVZ OUST LAZR INVZ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A lidar sensor from Hesai company on top of a vehicle in Shenzhen, China on Jul. 10 2022. Jade Gao | AFP | Getty Images For investors in lidar startups, this has been a long time coming. After years of

Associated Press Aug 19, 2023, 07:34 PM ET Sam Mayer spun race leader and archrival Ty Gibbs following a late restart in the Xfinity Series race at Watkins Glen International on Saturday and went on to win for the second time in four weeks. Gibbs, a Cup Series regular and a rising star at Joe

Seven years ago, Del Grande Dealer Group was as far away from digitized as possible. Daily sales numbers, old automaker statements, payroll, inventory reporting and pricing mechanisms for new and used cars were mostly compiled by hand, recalled CEO Jeremy Beaver. “We felt like there were a lot of inefficiencies in data integration,” Beaver told

Cavan Images | Getty Images As electric vehicles proliferate, some gas stations are making expensive overhauls to add EV charging stations.  In most cases, they aren’t scrapping traditional liquid fuel pumps. But select locations, including an RS Automotive in Takoma Park, Md., and a Shell station in Fulham, England, have made a full switch. Location,

General Motors plans to eliminate about 200 engineering positions, though the employees in those roles will be able to move to other jobs. In a statement, a GM spokesperson said the automaker “is taking steps to rebalance our engineering resources to better align with our growth strategy. This will require a small number of engineers

In this article GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors Corp, is seen outside the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. Heather Somerville | Reuters A Cruise self-driving car was involved in an accident with a San Francisco Fire Department truck just one week after California

A self-driving vehicle operated by General Motors subsidiary Cruise was involved in a collision with a San Francisco Fire Department truck Thursday night at an intersection. One person, a passenger in the Cruise vehicle, complained of a headache at the scene and was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to a police

In this article GM F STLAM-IT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT United Auto Workers members on strike picket outside General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in Detroit, Sept. 25, 2019. Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT – The Oracle of Omaha is cutting exposure to the U.S. automotive industry amid union negotiations — potentially for good

Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama plans to invest $290 million to enhance U.S. production of crossovers. Hyundai designated $190 million for tooling and equipment upgrades to prepare for production of the fifth-generation Santa Fe. “Today, the legacy of the Santa Fe continues with HMMA investing $190 million to prepare our assembly plant for the next generation

In this article XPEV 9868-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Xpeng P7 electric car is on display during the 18th Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition at China Import and Export Fair Complex on November 20, 2020 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Shares of Xpeng were

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterAug 17, 2023, 09:09 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year To celebrate NASCAR’s 75th anniversary, we’re detailing our 75 favorite things about the pinnacle of stock car racing. Illustration by ESPN We are closing in on

The auto industry is right to be concerned about the drama surrounding one of the most iconic companies in American history, United States Steel Corp. U.S. Steel, one of the leading suppliers of steel products to the domestic auto industry, set a bidding war in motion last week when it announced it would assess alternatives

In this article STLA GM F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT United Auto Workers members on strike picket outside General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in Detroit with Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, far left, Sept. 25, 2019. Michael Wayland | CNBC DETROIT – If the United Auto Workers union decides to strike against Detroit’s

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems could prevent nearly 250,000 U.S. road deaths over the next 30 years, according to a study funded by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Research performed by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center found that the technology, which includes features such as automatic emergency braking and blind spot

In this article GM GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sales of the sub-$30,000 Chevy Bolt, being assembled here in Orion Township, Michigan, allowed GM to recently pass Ford as a distant No. 2 behind Tesla in EVs. Future low-cost GM EVs could benefit from the batteries being developed by Mitra Chem. Joe White