Hyundai Hides Its Hybrid Motors Inside the Transmission. Georgia’s Getting $560 Million to Build More of Them.
Hyundai Transys will spend nearly $560 million in West Point, Georgia, to build more hybrid transmissions, the part that holds…
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The Next Honda CR-V Hybrid Is Reportedly Running Late, and So Is Honda’s Plan for a Cheaper Hybrid
Nikkei reports Honda's redesigned CR-V hybrid won't start U.S. mass production until May or later. That delays the first payoff…
Nissan Lost 152,000 Sales in Five Months. China Ate 115,000 of Them.
Nissan's global sales are down 12.1% this fiscal year, and three-quarters of the drop is China. Its forecast now needs…
Volkswagen Cut a Shift on the Line That Builds Its Best-Selling U.S. Model. Puebla’s Strike Deadline Is Friday.
Volkswagen cut a shift on the Puebla line that builds its best-selling U.S. model. Workers rejected a 10.04% offer tied…
Stellantis Lined Up an Armored-Vehicle Builder for Brampton. Now It Needs the Union to Sign.
Stellantis has an armoured-vehicle maker lined up for its idle Brampton plant. The harder sell is Unifor, and the reason…
Honda Spent $1 Billion So One Ohio Line Could Build Anything. It Still Ran Out of Room.
Honda spent more than $1 billion so its Ohio lines could build gas, hybrid and electric cars interchangeably. A reported…
Washington Just Put the 2021 Tire Duties on Trial. Taiwan Didn’t Even Show Up.
The ITC will run full five-year reviews of duties on tires from Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, including Taiwan despite…
Toyota Ate a $9 Billion Tariff Bill. Now the Fight Moves to the Showroom.
Toyota's filings show a 1.38 trillion-yen tariff hit and a North American loss despite rising sales. That is why the…
Hyundai Wants Guardrails Against Chinese Cars. Its Own History Says They Only Buy Time
Hyundai's CEO wants U.S. limits on Chinese automakers. The bigger news is his admission that Chinese car tech is ahead,…
BYD Already Has an American Factory. Washington Wrote a Law Around It.
BYD has built buses in California for over a decade. Congress still wrote it out of federal transit money. That…
Volkswagen Just Wrote Off €6 Billion of Porsche. The 911 Is the Only Porsche Still Growing.
Volkswagen's roughly €6 billion Porsche write-down isn't a verdict on the 911. It's the bill for a China, SUV and…
The Plant That Built Every Modern Dodge Challenger May Soon Build Armored Trucks. Canada Already Paid $222 Million Expecting Jeeps.
Stellantis signed an MOU to sell its idled Brampton Assembly Plant, where the Challenger, Charger and 300 were built, to…
1,043 Radiators, Declared at $5.54 Each. The Parts Weren’t Fake — the Importer Was.
CBP seized 1,043 automotive radiators in Norfolk that were imported on a stolen American identity and declared at $5.54 each.…
Detroit’s Chinese-Assembly Ban Push, 4,100 More Porsche Cuts, and What Else Moved
Four separate alerts landed on the same argument today, which usually means a policy fight...
Nissan Says The Rogue Hybrid Starts At $37,065. Good Luck Finding One That Cheap.
Nissan put numbers on the 2027 Rogue Hybrid this week, and the one it wants...