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Tesla Cybertruck, Ford Lightning or first available?
Tesla, General Motors and Ford Motor Co. say they have enormous waiting lists for their electric pickups. But each list likely contains many of the same names, as consumers place multiple refundable reservations to keep their options…
Ford Heritage Vault a digital window to the past
Ford's archives team curated the material over the past two years, and it piloted the collection with the help of employees, retirees and graduate students from Wayne State University.
One example Ford highlighted is a series of…
Corvette art comes with a 2023 Z06
Chevrolet is auctioning off a unique piece of Corvette artwork that comes with a rather valuable bonus: an actual car painted to look like the image.
The "Own the Color" auction, which runs June 20-24, is for a non-fungible token of the…
BrightDrop out to show what EVs can do, and make money, too
A year and a half in, General Motors' new delivery and logistics entity, BrightDrop, has outlined plans for at least two electric delivery vans, logged more than 25,000 orders from e-commerce heavyweights including FedEx Express and…
Clarios’ Holland, Mich. plant shows 12-volt batteries have a big role to play in EV era
The Holland factory has been an advanced battery hub for Clarios since 2009, when it was a division of Johnson Controls. That year, the company received a $299 million grant from the Department of Energy to build advanced batteries for…
Russian cars drop airbags, anti-lock brakes because of sanctions
A Russian automaker is building its cars without airbags, antilock brakes and other common safety features because the parts it needs are being blocked by international sanctions imposed over that country's war with Ukraine.
The…
5 of 6 publicly-traded dealership groups top $2K in per-car F&I profit
Group 1 broke the $2,500 mark during the first quarter with an average $2,504 same-store F&I profit on every deal, up 30 percent from a year earlier.
Group 1's same-store F&I revenue rose as well, to $131.9 million, up 16…
Why connected cars are among best IoT devices in providing insights on world
Without a doubt, connected cars are among the best-positioned IoT devices to provide insights into what is happening in the world. Active safety and autonomous driving are spurring the adoption of camera sensors, which can give rich,…
The latest numbers on the automotive microchip shortage
Automakers removed 27,700 more vehicles from their production plans worldwide because of the microchip shortage last week, largely driven by cuts in Asia, according to the latest estimate by AutoForecast Solutions.
That figure…