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In recent years, the Chicago Auto Show has been steering toward electric vehicles, following the ambitious state and national agenda to convert the industry from combustion engines to cleaner technology, incentivized by governmental tax credits and rebates.

While EVs are still center stage at the 2026 auto show, which opens today at McCormick ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Ford Motor Co. employee who heckled President Donald Trump during a January visit to the company's Dearborn Truck Plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official confirmed Monday.

"TJ, we got your back," United Auto Workers Vice President Laura Dickerson said during a Washington, D.C., speech ...Read more

Stellantis NV on Friday sold its 49% stake in a Canadian battery plant for $100 after the automaker behind brands including Jeep and Dodge announced $26.5 billion in electric vehicle-related losses amid a major pivot back to gas-powered vehicles.

South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution now fully owns the Windsor, Ontario, battery plant ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — America's car dealers are coming to a stark realization: The new vehicles on their lots too often cost too much, and that could create trouble for their businesses in 2026.

As the economy enters a moment of uncertainty, attendees of the annual National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Las Vegas last week kept ...Read more

Tesla, the 23-year-old company that brought green cars into the mainstream, has been pushed off its perch as the world's top electric vehicle seller.

Chinese EV manufacturer BYD sold hundreds of thousands more cars last year, and it's not just in China.

In most of the countries where the Chinese titan went head-to-head with Tesla — including...Read more

BMW’s iX model is a a luxury EV market that solves a key problem of the market segment: comfort.

The iX model’s $100K+ base price tag is par for the course in the luxury SUV market. But for that amount of money, consumers demands often surpass the quality that manufacturers deliver.

Most EV drivers mainly use their vehicles for day-trips ...Read more

OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. — The station wagon is back. And from an unlikely source.

My Toyota Crown Signia is long, sleek and roomy. Remove the badge and you might mistake the profile for the Volvo V90 Cross Country or Audi A6 Allroad, European stalwarts in the midsize wagon business. While wagons are common across the Atlantic pond, we Yanks ...Read more

Success securing a tentative contract for the United Auto Workers' first unionized foreign-owned plant in the South this week could help labor gain traction in the region and aid embattled union leaders' reelection campaigns, analysts said.

The deal announced late Wednesday night between Volkswagen AG and the automaker's assembly plant in ...Read more

The 2026 Hyundai Palisade Hybrid is what happens when a sensible accountant, a sleep-deprived suburban parent, and an environmentalist agree to stop arguing long enough to design a car. It is a large, polite, reassuring automobile that should easily woo buyers, except those who believe cars should be difficult, loud, or French.

From a distance,...Read more

LAS VEGAS — This is the year that Stellantis NV's U.S. vehicle sales must start growing again, after seven straight annual declines and prior promises that a recovery was just around the corner.

That was the blunt takeaway from a packed closed-door meeting on Wednesday between the automaker's senior executives and much of its 2,400-member ...Read more

DETROIT — General Motors Co. is strategizing for an inevitable economic downturn by paring down dealer inventory and maintaining a cash safety net, Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson said Wednesday.

Jacobson's comments to a panel of auto insiders at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank's Detroit branch provide insight into industry leaders' ...Read more

Samuel Tremblett pleaded with a 911 operator to be rescued from his burning Tesla Inc. Model Y SUV after a crash in October: “I can’t get out, please help me.”

The transcript of the 20-year-old’s emergency call was included in a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the latest to allege that a driver or passenger died after they were unable to open...Read more

General Motors Co. is strategizing for an inevitable economic downturn by paring down dealer inventory and maintaining a cash safety net, Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson said Wednesday.

Jacobson's comments to a panel of auto insiders at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank's Detroit branch provide insight into industry leaders' expectations ...Read more

Nissan has had trouble selling its electric vehicles -- the Leaf and Ariya (the latter was just recently canceled). Sales are down 94%. Probably because EVs are too expensive and too impractical for most people.

The Kicks is neither.

Which probably explains why it does sell.

What It Is

The Kicks is Nissan's smallest -- and most affordable --...Read more

Ford Motor Co.'s board of directors on Monday declared a first-quarter regular dividend of 15 cents per share.

The dividend is payable on March 2 to shareholders of record at the close of business on Feb. 13. The Dearborn automaker is scheduled to report 2025 annual and fourth-quarter earnings on Feb. 10, though Ford in December said a majority...Read more

The Teamsters of California is calling for the suspension of Waymo's operations in the state amid growing safety and job security concerns.

The union, which has 250,000 members across dozens of industries, called on the California Public Utilities Commission on Monday to indefinitely suspend the driverless car company's license to operate. The ...Read more

Self-driving cars such as Waymos could soon roam the streets of Chicago under new legislation proposed in Springfield.

A bill filed last week would authorize autonomous vehicle pilot programs in a handful of Illinois counties, including Cook, before opening the door to statewide legalization of self-driving cars in three years.

The proposal ...Read more

As the National Automobile Dealers Association prepares to meet this week in Las Vegas for its annual convention, dealers say moving online is critical for the industry to compete with digital-only vehicle marketplaces and combat the "sleazy" car salesperson trope.

The popularity of e-commerce has changed even purchases of vehicles worth tens ...Read more

A future with flying cars is no longer science fiction — all you need to order your own is about $200,000 and some hope and patience.

The Palo Alto-based company Pivotal has been developing the technology since 2009 and is nearly ready to bring it to market. The company's founder Marcus Leng was the first to fly in its real-life version of a ...Read more

For 2026, the Honda Prelude returns for the first time in nearly 25 years, exhumed from the late 20th century, when coupes were coupes, buttons clicked, and the most advanced software in your car was the radio, which mercifully never needed an update.

Naturally, I approached the new 2026 Honda Prelude with suspicion. Because nostalgia is a warm...Read more