Apple Inc. alum Ed Nightingale is joining General Motors Co. to head software development for the Detroit automaker and will lead efforts to open a GM office in Seattle.

Spokesperson Kevin Kelly said there are no plans to build a Seattle facility, but GM is looking for a site that can serve as a base for the roughly 100 developers who work in ...Read more

Electric-vehicle maker Rivian had a busy third quarter, one that could prove pivotal for the startup and its promised Georgia projects.

From July to September, the California-based automaker held a ceremonial groundbreaking for its $5 billion Georgia factory and signed a lease for an East Coast headquarters along the Beltline in Atlanta.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The ongoing federal government shutdown is leaving auto sellers without key economic data and obscuring the impact of President Donald Trump's signature tariff policies.

That's because the budget lapse, among other consequences, has triggered a pause in the publication of indicators that typically inform industry decisions. ...Read more

Some time next year, the taxi taking you around town may not have a human behind the wheel.

Officials at Waymo have announced they are laying the groundwork to bring fully autonomous ride-hailing services to San Diego in 2026.

San Diego ranks “in the top 15 cities in America for ride-hailing demand,” said Aman Nalavade, group product ...Read more

Stellantis NV is recalling just over 320,000 Jeep plug-in hybrids in the U.S. over risk the vehicles’ batteries will catch fire.

High-voltage battery packs in Jeep Wrangler and Grand Cherokee models may have been built with cells susceptible to separator damage, according to a notice posted to the National Highway Traffic Safety ...Read more

Tesla shareholders have just days left to vote on whether to approve a staggering pay package for chief executive Elon Musk that could award him nearly $1 trillion in shares.

Musk could leave the company if shareholders reject the package, board chair Robyn Denholm warned in a letter to voters last week. The pay proposal is tied to ambitious ...Read more

— The Japan Mobility Show is an ocean, 6,397 nautical miles, and a world away from the Detroit Auto Show.

The vehicle mix inside the Tokyo Big Sight convention center — and the streets outside — are as different from Motown's Huntington Place as the fish in the salted Pacific Ocean versus unsalted Lake Michigan. Except the whales are in ...Read more

Ford Motor Co.'s larger SUVs and trucks outweighed a downward sales trend from the expiration of the federal government's plug-in vehicle tax credit, propelling the Dearborn automaker to a 1.6% increase year-over-year in October U.S. deliveries.

Ford's EV sales declined almost 25%, and hybrids fell 4%, while internal combustion engine vehicles ...Read more

In recent years, it’s become abundantly clear Southern California's war on smog hinges on the of adoption electric vehicles. And, for the first time in a generation, we may be headed in the wrong direction.

Southern California’s persistently sunny climate and mountains work together to form and trap smog over the region. And that the ...Read more

TOKYO — President Donald Trump arrived here this week for a wide-ranging state visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi — the same week the Japan Mobility Show opened to media. With its tariff policy, the Trump administration has been determined to open foreign markets like Japan to U.S. automakers.

It's not easy.

In exchange for a 15%...Read more

Carmakers around the world are planning to scale back production after an export freeze on a Chinese semiconductor company based in Netherlands threatened to disrupt the industry’s supply chains.

Honda Motor Co. said it has cut or suspended production this week at some plants in North America as a countermeasure to the chip shortage, which ...Read more

OAKLAND COUNTY, Michigan — My former Detroit News colleague Scott Burgess made it a practice of getting into a Porsche 911 each year as a reminder of the industry’s sports car performance standard.

The same might be said of the Mazda CX-30 Turbo SUV.

The Japanese automaker’s entry-level hellion is the SUV segment’s handling benchmark. ...Read more

While pickup trucks are still widely used for contractors and service employees, in the last decade the truck market has evolved in a lifestyle and recreation direction.

In Grasso’s Garage, we consider the 2025 GMC Canyon AT4 AEV 4WD. Consumers looking for off-road excellence, comfort and style while not breaking the bank will appreciate its ...Read more

You don’t buy a Maserati because it makes sense. You buy one because it doesn’t. Because the world has become too safe, too soft, and Bluetooth-paired, and somewhere deep inside your soul, you still crave something with noise, nerve and the kind of raw mechanical passion not ruled by algorithms.

For most of the last 50 years, Maserati has ...Read more

Stellantis NV said Thursday its third-quarter revenue rose 13% to $43.2 billion (37.2 billion euro) as the company saw "early signs of commercial progress" after a recent string of poor sales and financial results.

But the maker of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles also warned of new one-off costs as it recalibrates its business strategy ...Read more

Workers at a Volkswagen AG plant in Tennessee voted to authorize a strike after more than a year of negotiations has failed to yield an agreement, the United Auto Workers said Wednesday evening.

In April 2024, workers at the Chattanooga Assembly Plant voted 73% in favor of joining the Detroit-based union — the first foreign-owned plant in the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Amid a teardown of auto industry environmental rules, Trump administration allies quietly won another victory when a federal court voided an obscure but, at one point, hugely consequential Biden-era rule on electric vehicles.

A panel of judges for the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis nullified a March 2024 change to "...Read more

About 1,200 workers at General Motors Co.'s Detroit-area all-electric plant will be laid off as the company downsizes to a single shift in response to the slowing U.S. electric vehicle market.

The company also will cut 550 jobs at its joint-venture Ultium Cells battery cell plant in Ohio, with another 850 slated for temporary layoff. The Ultium...Read more

Ford Motor Co. and DTE Energy Co. have launched a pilot program with 15 Ford employees in southeast Michigan that compensates these F-150 Lightning owners for transferring their electric vehicle battery power to their home to reduce demand on the electrical grid at high-use times.

The pilot has begun and will run through 2026. It's part of the ...Read more