Category: Motor Age Articles

While the industry has been touting next-gen mobility here on the West Coast, its lobbying teams in Washington have pursued a backward-looking strategy.

SK Innovation will spend $1.67 billion to build an EV battery plant in Commerce, Ga. Some think that is just the beginning.

As Ford has tried to downplay its ongoing talks with Volkswagen Group, VW CEO Herbert Diess, who last week said VW is eyeing access to Ford’s U.S. manufacturing footprint, keeps upping the ante.

Heading into 2018, U.S. auto sales appeared headed for a second-straight annual decline. But it hasn’t played out as expected: Sales have remained steady even as incentives were disciplined and prices rose further.

An investigation almost 20 years ago of suspected criminal activity at Gunderson Chevrolet, one of AutoNation’s largest dealerships, shook the automotive world and led to today’s compliance practices in the auto industry.

As new-vehicle margins continue to melt away, structuring a pay plan that rewards the FandI department but still ensures the job is done ethically and legally is one of dealers’ greatest challenges, auto retail experts said.

Enel Group’s $325 million wind farm project in Illinois will power General Motors’ factories around the Midwest when it becomes fully operational, in a step toward GM’s goal of 100 percent reliance on renewable energy by 2050.

With three weeks left in 2018, California already has had a record year for the number of manufacturers permitted to test autonomous vehicles, the number of those vehicles permitted on the road and the number of crashes involving those vehicles.

Chevrolet has launched a national employee pricing sales campaign on all 2018 and some 2019 models through the end of the year.

Auto designers today face a difficult task: designing products that are truly distinctive in the growing lineup of SUV’s and pickups on the market.