Mercedes-Benz has backtracked on their plan to transition to selling only electric vehicles after 2030, with company officials saying that “market conditions” have not allowed that to happen.
The city-state of Singapore requires citizens to pay for a “certificate of entitlement” (COE) that costs over $106,000 in order to own a car.
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union will go on strike against all of Detroit’s big three automakers at the same time for the first time in the union’s history, after General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis failed to reach a labor agreement with the union before their contracts expired Thursday night.
The Taliban cannot keep the people of Afghanistan fed and clothed without massive international humanitarian aid, which they might not be getting for much longer if they keep oppressing women, but somehow the junta found time and resources to design and build a prototype “supercar” called the Mada 9.
An advocacy group has called for greater equity in car crash dummy tests, claiming that the male body has been far too favored.
A bug in the driver-assist software in Mazda vehicles has resulted in cars randomly activating their emergency braking system, leading to a recall of 35,000 2019 and 2020 Mazda3 cars.
President Donald Trump called out GM Thursday for cutting jobs and closing North American plants, whereas other automakers, such as BMW, are pouring into the United States.
Autos and mining were weak in October but oil and gas drilling rebounded.
President Donald Trump hinted at the need for a “different structure” for a bilateral trade deal with China just one day after the Commerce Department’s Tuesday determination that China has been using Vietnam to circumvent anti-steel dumping measures.
Digital license plates, which give vehicle owners a greater degree of customization and allow authorities to take over the plates to issue warnings, are coming to a number of states by the end of the year.
“Very thankful for President Xi of China’s kind words on tariffs and automobile barriers … also, his enlightenment on intellectual property and technology transfers,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “We will make great progress together!”
