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…
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The EV Maintenance Discount Is Real. It Works Out to About $20 a Month.
AAA's 2026 Your Driving Costs data puts the EV maintenance advantage at about $248 a year. Energy, insurance and depreciation…
Today in Automotive History: September 24, 1948 — Honda Is Founded With 1 Million Yen and a Bicycle Engine
Honda was founded on Sept. 24, 1948, with 1 million yen and a bicycle engine. The company born that day…
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...
Volvo Crammed an EV-Sized Battery Into the XC60 Plug-In Hybrid — Brussels Did the Math First
Volvo says its new long-range XC60 and XC90 plug-in hybrids are about electric range. The European Commission's rewritten utility factors…
Geely Built Its First American Car in a Factory It Didn’t Have to Build
Geely just built its first car in the Western Hemisphere, and it didn’t spend a...
Gas Prices Jumped 31.8%. The Electric Sedan Still Lost the Math by $3,080.
AAA put the cost to own a new car at $12,863 a year. The category tables say fuel efficiency is…
Honda’s Cost Overhaul Explained: What It Means for Future Hybrids and Repairs
Honda Already Told You It Was Coming for Supplier Costs. It Just Used Nicer Words....
Ford Only Recalled Two Trucks For This Brake Failure. NHTSA Wants To Know About The Other 82,040.
Ford has already fixed this exact brake failure once. The fix covered two trucks. Now...
The Fiat 500 Hybrid Sold So Well It Broke Stellantis’s Own Supply Chain
Stellantis idled its Mirafiori assembly plant in Turin for three days this week. If you’ve...
Honda’s $9.4 Billion Plan To Fight Cheap Chinese EVs Involves Buying More Parts From China
Honda wants to save $9.4 billion by 2030, and it told suppliers this spring to...
Honda Hit 1 Million Sales a Month Early. Acura’s Sedan Lineup Shrank to One Car Getting There.
American Honda says it crossed 1 million U.S. sales this year in just eight months,...
Toyota’s Grand Highlander Skipped the Screen Door on Its Grille, and Now the Feds Are Asking Why
Every three-row family SUV needs a face aggressive enough to look like it could tow...
GM Crammed 721 Horsepower Into a Corvette With a Battery the Size of a Cordless Drill
The Number Nobody’s Talking About Chevrolet just started building the least Instagrammed, most quietly important...
Hiroshi Okuda’s Real Legacy Isn’t the Prius. It’s Teaching Toyota to Build Where It Sells
Hiroshi Okuda died this week at 93, and most tributes will lead with the Prius....