Today in Automotive History: September 18, 2015 — The EPA Catches Volkswagen Cheating on Emissions
On September 18, 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency sent Volkswagen a five-page letter that would...
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Faraday Future Dodged a Nasdaq Delisting. The Fine Print Shows the FF 91 Automaker Fixed Its Books, Not Its Car Business
Buried in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the morning...
Today in Automotive History: September 17, 1854 — The Birth of the Man Who Gave GM Its First Engine
On September 17, 1854, in the Scottish coastal town of Arbroath, a butcher’s assistant and...
California Just Gave Classic Cars a Smog Exemption That Expires in 2033 — By Design
Jay Leno’s Law reads like the biggest favor Sacramento has done for classic car owners...
The U.S. Is Pumping Record Oil. That Won’t Stop the Shortage Forming at the Pump.
The national average price of diesel just crossed $6.29 a gallon, according to the U.S....
Recycled Carbon Fiber Is Forecast to Nearly Double by 2033 — BMW Just Cut It From the Car That Made It Famous
BMW’s new i3 started rolling out of Plant Munich last month, and it carries a...
GM Sold Fewer Cars in China This Year. Its China Profits Nearly Tripled.
Somewhere in the noise about foreign automakers cutting prices on gasoline-powered cars in China, a...
Modern Cars Aren’t Welded Together Anymore. They’re Glued — And That’s Exactly Why Fender-Benders Are Totaling EVs
A market research firm dropped a press release this week with a number attached: $12.36...
Jaguar Land Rover Is Cutting 4,000 Jobs, and Somehow Not One Is on the Assembly Line
Jaguar Land Rover just confirmed it is eliminating 4,000 jobs, roughly one in ten people...
BYD’s Pakistan Factory Missed Its Deadline Again — And BYD Isn’t The One Who Should Be Sweating
A car factory in the Sindh desert just blew through another deadline. On its own,...
Volkswagen Is Killing Seat To Save Its Own Spinoff — and Just Admitted To 2,600 Different Car Seat Designs
Volkswagen's plan to halve its lineup by 2030 also kills the Seat brand — and reveals a stranger number buried…
BYD Isn’t Really Betting On Robot Hands — It’s Cashing In On Something It Already Owned For Free
Every automaker eventually discovers it owns more than cars. BYD just discovered it owns something...
Uber Cut 3,300 Jobs the Same Day It Put Driverless Mustangs on London’s Streets. That’s Not a Coincidence.
On September 2, Uber’s newsroom quietly published two stories within hours of each other. One...
BYD’s Profit Jumped 30% While Sales Fell — Turns Out That Was the Plan
BYD wants the world to read this week’s earnings as an export success story. Look...