BYD, a leading Chinese EV maker, has selected Danish dealer Nic. Christiansen Group to distribute its electrified passenger vehicles in Denmark. Nic. Christiansen Group will open the first BYD store in Copenhagen this autumn, the automaker said this week. Established in 1967, Nic. Christiansen Group distributes imported cars for Hyundai, Honda, Land Rover and Jaguar
7:51 PM ET Associated Press BRAINERD, Minn. — Defending event champion Matt Hagan topped Funny Car qualifying Saturday in the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway. Paired with points leader Robert Hight for the final passes of the day, Hagan had a 3.843-second run at 331.36 mph in Tony Stewart Racing’s Dodge Charger
Ford Motor Co. was told by a jury to pay more than $1.7 billion over a 2014 rollover accident that killed a Georgia couple, according to Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal. Jurors delivered their verdict on punitive damages Friday following a 14-day trial in state court in Lawrenceville, Ga., the plaintiffs’ attorney, Gerald
1958 Maserati Source: Motorcar Studios ©2022 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s Classic cars up for auction in Monterey, California, this week are expected to shatter records. Auction sales at the Monterey Car Week are expected to total between $300 million and $490 million, according to Hagerty Automotive Intelligence, the classic-car insurance and collector-lifestyle company. Experts say
At a time when cars seem to be getting bigger and bigger, perhaps we all need to take a step back. I think it’s time to re-evaluate just what cars need to be, how much car is really necessary to move us around. It sounds like China agrees with me, at least judging by the
The BMW 5-Series, Audi A6 and Mercedes E-Class have, between them, a complete stranglehold on the European large luxury car market, their combined sales accounting for 71 percent of the segment in the first quarter of 2022. The Lexus ES that tops the U.S chart is way down at 1.9 percent of market share in
WASHINGTON — U.S. auto safety regulators will extend a deadline for public input on General Motors and Ford Motor petitions seeking to deploy a limited number of self-driving vehicles without human controls like steering wheels and brake pedals. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday made the 30-day extension of the public comment on
6:52 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Ill. — IndyCar points leader Will Power won the pole for the Saturday night race at World Wide Technology Raceway and tied Mario Andretti for series pole record. The 67th pole of Power’s career was won Friday on the short oval near St. Louis. The Australian turned a lap
As used electric vehicles become common, the largest auto auction houses grapple with how to value a car after factoring in the gradual degradation of aged batteries, which typically last eight to 10 years, or about 100,000 miles. Accurately judging the remainder of the battery’s useful life is crucial to building confidence in the used-EV
Automakers want to tap space-based communications to obtain precise positioning data and more robust connectivity for vehicles that will increasingly drive themselves. As such, Toyota Ventures joined a 2021 funding round to invest in Xona Space Systems, a San Mateo, Calif., startup that plans to launch low-Earth orbit satellites. Last month, Mercedes-Benz held a Car2space
Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis unveils the Charger Daytona SRT electric muscle car concept on Aug. 17, 2022 in Pontiac, Mich. Michael Wayland / CNBC PONTIAC, Mich. – At an event featuring headbanging ’80s music and $2 beers this week, Dodge unveiled a concept for its first electric muscle car that included an exhaust system and multi-speed
The seventh generation Ford Mustang, set to arrive in mid 2023 as a 2024 model, will be revealed at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 14 at the Detroit auto show, Ford announced on Friday. Ford will invite Mustang owners and fans, the media, and its employees to the reveal, which it is calling “The
Since its launch in 2009, the Dutch e-bike manufacturer VanMoof has gained fame for its distinctively designed bikes. VanMoof’s bikes, which follow the maxim “less is more,” have always been ideal for urban environments, especially for individuals who appreciate all things streamlined and sleek. In an effort to create the ideal city bike, VanMoof designed
WASHINGTON — U.S. auto safety regulators on Thursday asked Tesla to answer questions about its cabin camera as part of a probe into 830,000 Tesla vehicles that employ the automaker’s advanced driver assistance system called Autopilot. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in June upgraded its probe opened in 2021 to assess the performance of
12:23 PM ET As IndyCar’s youngest-ever winner, Colton Herta is drawing interest from F1. AP Photo/Darron Cummings Just call it the Curious Case of Colton Herta. This weekend marks the third-from-last event of the 2022 IndyCar season, and the final oval race of the year, on the egg-shaped World Wide Technology Raceway outside St. Louis. The
Another victim of staffing shortages, inflation and supply chain disruptions has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Cammand Machining LLC filed a petition for bankruptcy this week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit. The machine shop, which services the mold-and-die industry for automotive and aerospace customers, indicated in the filing that it was never
In this article GOOGL TSLA Tesla Model 3 Source: Tesla YouTube has removed a pair of videos from its platform which showed Tesla drivers conducting amateur vehicle safety tests using their own children in place of mannequins in the road or the driveway. The tests were to determine if a slow-moving Tesla equipped with the
It’s not called the Average Adventure, so the final day of Ultimate Adventure 2020 really pulled out the stops in terms of trial difficulty. The group locked hubs and dropped into the Bikini Trail in the Black Hills of South Dakota, but before half the group had made it through the first obstacle we had