Nissan Says It Wants a Million Cars a Year From Japan. It Said That in 2015, Too.
Nissan’s Japanese reorganisation revives a one-million-unit target it first announced in 2015, at the same plant, on the same export…
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China Set a Real Deadline for Self-Driving Cars. America’s Still Handing Out Permission Slips One at a Time.
Nine Chinese ministries just set a 2030 deadline for autonomous vehicles, backed by a mandatory safety standard. Ten weeks earlier,…
Trump Says Chinese Automakers Can Build Here. The Rule Blocking Them Has Nothing to Do With Factories.
A Commerce Department rule bars China-owned automakers from selling connected vehicles in the U.S. no matter where they are assembled.…
Congress Couldn’t Kill This 2013 Rule, So the EPA Just Sent It Back for Round Two
The Congressional Review Act gives Congress 60 days to kill a rule. The EPA reopened that window on waivers from…
The Federal List of Truck Driving Schools Runs on the Honor System. Nobody Checks First.
A registered driving school told investigators its classroom was inside a school bus in the back of a trailer. It…
Honda Won the World’s First Five-Star Road Safety Rating. It Says Nothing About How Safe Your Honda Actually Is.
The FIA Road Safety Index rates organisations, not cars — and its five-star tier did not exist until this year.…
The 3D-Printing Revolution in Cars Already Happened. It’s in the Tool Crib, Not on the Car.
A new large-format printer aimed at car factories has exactly the same build volume as the one before it, and…
Beijing Never Banned the Gas Car. It Just Stopped Issuing the License Plates.
VW and Toyota are slashing prices on combustion cars in China. In Beijing, only 20,000 combustion plates will be issued…
Stellantis Is Reportedly Spending €1 Billion in France to Do Work Its Suppliers Already Do
The headline is a new van at Hordain. The detail worth reading is that part of the money reportedly brings…
Stellantis Pulled the Jeep Out of Brampton. Five Days Later It Unveiled an Armoured Ram With the Company Now Buying the Plant.
Canada told Stellantis that abandoning Brampton would be a default and started a recovery process ten months ago. It has…
China’s Draft Law Would Fine Automakers, Not Drivers, for Self-Driving Violations
Beijing just answered the question every automaker building self-driving cars has been dodging: when the...
America’s Answer to the Chinese Kill Switch Has a Weight Limit. Buses Are Above It.
The U.S. connected vehicle rule stops at 10,001 pounds. The bus Norway tested weighs more than three times that.
EPA Pulls Scope 3 Emissions Guidance: What It Means for Automakers and Car Buyers
The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly edited Scope 3 emissions out of its corporate climate...
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,...
Half a Million Ford Edges May Be Drowning Their Own Engines — And Technically, No One’s Investigating Yet
Ford’s Edge has been dead since 2024. No factory builds it, no dealer orders one,...