Michigan remains in contention for a new Stellantis electric vehicle battery plant as the automaker completes the final analysis before an anticipated announcement of a site. Stellantis COO Mark Stewart said Thursday that the state “absolutely” could be home to a new plant and that it has a “great working relationship” with the Michigan Economic
In this article LCID CEO Peter Rawlinson poses at the Lucid Motors plant in Casa Grande, Arizona, U.S. September 28, 2021. Caitlin O’Hara | Reuters Electric luxury vehicle maker Lucid Group said Thursday it now has more than 30,000 reservations for its Air sedan — but any customers making reservations after June 1 will have
Porsche on Wednesday announced a $100 million investment in Washington State-based battery firm Group 14 Technologies. The automaker aims to use investments like this to become a leader in battery technology. Porsche is leading Group 14 Technologies’ Series C funding round, in which multiple companies are investing a total of $400 million, the automaker said
General Motors CEO Mary Barra remains confident that the company she’s heading will surpass Tesla in EV manufacturing. In an interview with Yahoo Finance, the executive said that GM can pivot and snatch the world’s largest EV maker title from the company headed by Elon Musk. Barra believes GM will become the eventual leader in the
Driving in tunnels is not that much of a stressful experience for most people but some drivers in the US had a few baffling minutes after witnessing an optical illusion on an onramp inside a tunnel, forcing oncoming traffic to hit the brakes. The driver filming this clip had to stop the car and wonder
Any motorsport event has the potential for things to go wrong, though it’s often the sporting vehicles that tend to encounter disaster rather than the spectators. However, in the case of one Nissan R35 GT-R, that was not the case as it slid off level ground into a body of water. The incident occurred at
A truck driver in Montville, Ohio, narrowly avoided running into several vehicles after his brakes failed last week. Dramatic footage of the event, showing the driver thread the needle between vehicles stopped on the road for a school bus, was recently released. The footage comes from the dash cams of both the runaway truck and
Authorities in the Netherlands have confiscated a Nissan GT-R after it was seen driving at 159 km/h (99 mph) through the center of Rotterdam. The incident happened late last week. Local media reports that police in Rotterdam saw the GT-R racing through the streets alongside an unspecified BMW model. When they pointed the laser gun
Police in Michigan have arrested nine individuals after five new Chevrolet Camaro models were stolen from the General Motors plant in Lansing. Michigan State Police were first alerted to the stolen Camaros at approximately 12:17 a.m. on May 2, prompting troopers to flood I-96 in order to locate them. Before long, five of the stolen
Police in Irvine, California are facing backlash after a man was charged with a felony for doing donuts in a parking lot. In a Facebook post noticed by The Drive, the department said a concerned citizen e-mailed them a video of a Mazda Miata drifting and doing donuts in the Great Park parking lot. This
Time is a precious commodity in our busy lives, and probably more so if you’ve been successful enough in your business life to buy a C8 Corvette, which takes just 2.8 seconds of it to reach 60 mph (96 km/h), or 2.6 seconds in Z06 trim. But if you are lucky enough to own something like
One of the rare 2022 Lucid Air Dream Edition models has been wrecked and sadly found its way onto Copart. Lucid capped production of the Air Dream Edition to just 520 units and while it isn’t clear if this variant is the ‘Performance’ or the ‘Range’ model, it has obviously seen better days and will
When driving in the rain, it’s extremely important to be extra cautious. This is increasingly true when piloting large vehicles like semi trucks, and a prime example of that is this massive accident that happened on a rainy Texas highway last week. The incident occurred in San Antonio on the westbound direction of I-10 near
The first year of Stellantis’ life brought many changes to the former PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles brands, including the realignment of the Europe region — now called Enlarged Europe. Within the region, nine main brands are coexisting: Alfa Romeo, Citroen, DS, Fiat, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Opel/Vauxhall and Peugeot, covering a range of segments
10:20 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — British driver Stefan Wilson spent an entire year hoping to drive in this year’s Indianapolis 500. All he has to do now is qualify. Cusick Motorsports and DragonSpeed announced Thursday that they have hired the 32-year-old British driver, virtually assuring race organizers they will fill the traditional 33-car
Put simply, the BZ4X doesn’t make all the performance poses flaunted by the latest electric crossovers. The dedicated off-road mode, called X-Mode, is borrowed from Subaru, so it has plenty of outdoorsy credibility that’s rare in this cohort. We give the BZ4X a bonus point for being able to go comfortably where the pavement ends
As electric vehicle sales pick up steam worldwide, EV charging stations are emerging as an enticing target for hackers. Chargers provide a new opportunity for “hackers looking for ways to make money,” warns Yoav Levy, CEO of Upstream Security, an Israeli provider of automotive cybersecurity platforms. “On one hand, chargers are connected to the grid,
Bosch plans to invest $528 million to develop components for hydrogen electrolysis, a technology that promises to speed adoption of so-called green hydrogen for use in transport and other sectors. The world’s largest auto supplier said Wednesday at its annual news conference that it hopes to start production of electrolyzer “stacks” in 2025, with the