Powder Coatings Just Became a $3.6 Billion Industry. Your Car’s Paint Job Still Wasn’t Invited
A market research firm sent out a press release this week forecasting that the global...
Electric Vehicles
Volkswagen Wants to Axe Half Its Lineup. It Just Spent Three Years Building the Half It’s About to Kill
Volkswagen had a rough Friday. Group deliveries fell 8.6% in the second quarter to just...
Hyundai Just Turned On a Georgia Battery Plant. The One Down the Coast Is Still Recovering From an ICE Raid
Bartow County, Georgia doesn’t get much attention, and for a few weeks this summer that...
NTSB Says the Tesla That Killed a Katy Grandmother Wasn’t Self-Driving. That’s Not the Relief Tesla Wants It to Be
Tesla did not build the software that killed Martha Avila. That’s the headline finding from...
California Wrote An EV Rebate For Exactly Two Companies, And Tesla Isn’t One Of Them
California’s newest electric vehicle rebate is worth $3,500. The provision buried in its bill text...
Europe Just Regulated Brake Dust Like Exhaust — So Bosch Cut the Wire to Your Brake Pedal
A market research report making the rounds this week claims the global regenerative braking systems...
Mexico’s ‘Electrified’ Car Boom Is Mostly Just Hybrids, and It Picked the Worst Possible Week to Look Suspicious
Mexico’s auto distributors want you to know that electrified vehicle sales are up 44% this...
Uncle Sam Just Handed Bosch $225 Million To Make EV Chips – In The Same Business That Just Bankrupted America’s Last Champion
Bosch says it just reached “a milestone.” That part is true. It’s just not the...
Used Car Prices Climbed Again in June. Turns Out the 2021 Chip Shortage Just Never Sent Its Final Bill
Cox Automotive has a word for what happened to used-car prices in June: “normalizing.” It’s...
Thailand Just Bet $4.1 Billion It Can Out-Build the Rest of Southeast Asia on EVs
Thailand just put a number on its EV ambitions, and it’s a big one. That’s...
China Can’t Sell Cars to Its Own People Anymore, So It’s Flooding Everyone Else’s Driveway Instead
China’s passenger-car market spent June doing exactly what it’s done for the better part of...
IIHS and Consumer Reports’ New Teen Car List Isn’t Really About Price. It’s About Which Cars Are Too Light to Survive a Crash
Every year, IIHS and Consumer Reports publish a list of used and new vehicles that...
Porsche Just Killed Its Battery Factory, Its E-Bike Brand, and a Chunk of Bugatti. The Sales Numbers Are the Boring Part.
Porsche delivered 122,306 cars worldwide in the first half of 2026, a 16 percent drop...
The Cadillac Vistiq Seat Recall Is Really About the Safety Rule That Doesn’t Exist Yet
GM's fix for the Vistiq's trapped-seat defect requires new hardware, not a software patch like Hyundai used for a nearly…
Is Volkswagen’s Meltdown the Worst Crisis in Automotive History? Here’s the Case for and Against
Volkswagen has survived existential moments before. The most obvious comparison is the Dieselgate emissions scandal,...