Author: Automotive News Feed

France will ask automakers to help fund an expanded trade-in program to get older, polluting cars off the road with incentives for new ones.

Automakers haven’t been eager to spend the billions to build EV charging infrastructure. Now, Volkswagen is working to make it happen — not because it wants to, but as a punishment.

India is home to about 1.5 million electric rickshaws, a fleet bigger than the total number of electric passenger cars sold in China since 2011, and one that has grown without China’s significant subsidies.

In 2009, Xavier Mosquet was part of a team that advised President Barack Obama on a bailout for U.S. automakers. Now he is helping another president, Emmanuel Macron of France, to steer a path for his country’s automotive industry.

Ford earnings sink, while Tesla turns a profit. We discuss how investors and analysts responded to the news. Plus, why GM, FCA, Ford and Tesla fizzled in a key reliability study.

While other self-driving developers are focused on getting passengers from Point A to Point B, Steer is more concerned about what to do with cars after occupants leave the vehicle.

Ford earnings sink, while Tesla turns a profit. We discuss how investors and analysts responded to the news. Plus, why GM, FCA, Ford and Tesla fizzled in a key reliability study.

Ford takes lessons from its self-driving delivery service in Florida to D.C., as it prepares to establish a second hub for its self-driving business.

Instead of selling cars at first, the Lynk and CO joint venture between Volvo and Chinese automotive giant Geely first wants to crack the U.S. market by selling other merchandise.