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...
Manufacturing
Volkswagen’s Old Beetle Factory Is About to Build Iron Dome Parts. The Real Story Is Why It Had To.
Volkswagen just agreed to sell a car factory to an Israeli investment firm so it...
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…
Tesla’s Newest Recall Covers Just 19 Cars. It’s the Same Bolt That’s Failed Four Times Since 2021.
A Recall So Small It’s Almost the Point Nineteen cars. That’s the entire population of...
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...
A Chinese Supplier Just Opened a Georgia Factory to Build the Exact Tech Washington Is Trying to Ban
A ribbon-cutting in Suwanee, Georgia doesn’t usually make national news. But the one held by...
Apple’s New CEO Races Rare Porsches on Weekends. His Actual Job Title Explains Why the Apple Car Really Died
Every outlet covering John Ternus’s promotion to Apple CEO is leading with the same delightful...
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...
Canada Paid Stellantis $222 Million To Save A Jeep Plant. The Jeep Went To Illinois Anyway
When Unifor and Stellantis sat down in Toronto on September 1 to open contract talks...
VinFast’s India Localisation Reset: What It Means For The Thoothukudi Plant And Buyers
VinFast Spent The Week Explaining Its India Plans, And The Explanation Is The Story Automakers...
Nissan Called July a “Growth” Story. Its Own Numbers Show China Production Collapsing by Two-Thirds
Nissan put out a press release this week headlined “Nissan continues to see growth in...
Toyota’s $283.7M Vietnam Expansion Is a Hybrid Plan, Not an EV Plant
Toyota just put another $283.7 million into Vietnam, and the paperwork that made it official...