ST. PAUL, Minnesota — The newest addition to the Minnesota Wild lineup took laps around the ice at an empty Xcel Energy Center on Monday morning, prepping for an NHL debut at the season opener Thursday.

The newcomer is more than 6 feet tall, built like a truck, with a name familiar to hockey fans: Zamboni.

Like its predecessors, this Zamboni...Read more

The redesigned 2025 Subaru Forester brings to mind my single friend Kathy, who works for Catholic Social Services. For many years, she drove solo in an oversized canary yellow Plymouth Belvedere station wagon. Is it any wonder that she now pilots a Subaru Forester? While not the Spartan suburban dream promised by Plymouth, the Forester possesses...Read more

Stellantis NV on Thursday announced a leadership overhaul amid recent financial and sales struggles, including new chief operating officers for North America and Europe and a new chief financial officer, among other moves.

For North America, Stellantis said current Jeep CEO Antonio Filosa will add chief operating officer for the region to his ...Read more

Elon Musk went all-in to get robotaxis onto roads, sacrificing a widely anticipated cheaper car, gutting teams focused on other projects and downplaying Tesla Inc.’s sales slowdown.

So when Musk finally unveils autonomous taxi prototypes late Thursday, the chief executive officer will have a lot to prove. He’s promised nothing short of a ...Read more

General Motors Co. hinted that it’s developing a lower-cost electric pickup truck that could boast a 350-mile range.

The Detroit-based automaker is working to secure a supply of lithium iron phosphate batteries in North America, said Kurt Kelty, GM’s vice president in charge of battery strategy. Chinese automakers often use LFP batteries ...Read more

Chevrolet is increasing the trim offerings of its all-electric Silverado for model year 2025, including an entry-level $57,095 truck for fleet and retail customers coming later in the model year.

General Motors Co.'s bowtie brand will also offer on the retail side a $75,195 extended-range Silverado EV LT trim for the first time and an $89,395 ...Read more

When Rivian Automotive Inc.’s shares sunk nearly 9% on Friday, analysts were puzzled as to why the electric-vehicle maker had to so drastically cut its 2024 production targets over yet another supply chain hiccup.

The answer lies in a miscommunication earlier this year between Rivian and its supplier, Atlanta-based Essex Furukawa, which has ...Read more

Stellantis NV said Monday it filed nine federal lawsuits against the United Auto Workers and two dozen union locals late last week as it tries to prevent the union from calling a mid-contract strike over its delays reopening an Illinois assembly plant.

The company said the series of lawsuits prompted a Saturday meeting with the UAW, where the ...Read more

Q: We have a 2019 Honda Accord Sport with a stick and it has 25,000 miles. We just had new Michelin all-weather tires put on the car. My wife said, "These tires are nice. The car drives much smoother now." I have heard people say that their new tires are much better than the old ones. Does the car drive smoother because of the new tires or ...Read more

Hyundai has begun electric vehicle manufacturing at its new factory near Savannah, Georgia, a major milestone in Georgia’s emergence as an EV hub.

Full production began earlier this week, and the South Korean automaker held a private opening celebration with its 1,400-plus employees on Thursday at the plant located along I-16 in Ellabell in ...Read more

Members of a United Auto Workers local in southern California were the first to authorize a strike against Stellantis NV on Thursday night — a move that swiftly prompted a federal lawsuit from the automaker alleging the union has breached its collective bargaining agreement.

A supermajority of UAW Local 230 members at Stellantis' Los Angeles ...Read more

New documents show Rivian has applied for a federal loan to help finance the $5 billion electric vehicle factory it plans to build an hour east of Atlanta, the most significant sign the company is making moves to resume construction of the stalled project.

Details about the loan application with the U.S. Department of Energy are limited, but ...Read more

Electric vehicle maker Rivian saw its shares dip Friday after the Irvine-based company cut its production targets amid ongoing supply issues.

Citing a shortage of a component used to build its electric pickups, sport utility vehicles and vans, Rivian said production could drop as much as 18% this year at its lone U.S. assembly plant.

Rivian ...Read more

There’s an irony in the Hummer nameplate being brought back as a battery-electric sub-brand of the GMC family. Given its extreme bulk, there’s a sense of GM executives paying penance for the brand’s previous gas-guzzling ways.

And despite what GMC has said since Hummer returned from purgatory, this is NOT GMC’s “first ever” EV. Not ...Read more

Electric vehicles provide energy storage, on wheels. But until now, this has been an untapped resource, unable to help shore up the power grid and back up homes and businesses during outages.

Last weekend, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law that will help harness that energy. SB 59, proposed by State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, ...Read more

NASHVILLE — Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.

Honda’s first hybrid IndyCar won big at the season finale here at the Big Michigan Music City Grand Prix Sept. 15 as Colton Herta took the checkered flag first — and Alex Palou clinched the overall driver's championship. And for customers who want a hybrid Honda of their own for the street, 2025 ...Read more

As Subaru has been absent from Grasso’s Garage, we have witnessed a slew of convertibles which are ready to enjoy fun in the sun. But today, we see a different kind of fun, and that is without the sun. I give you the 2024 Subaru BRZ-tS, Subaru’s rear wheel drive, two-door coupe.

Powered with a 2.4-liter horizontal-opposed DOHC engine with a...Read more

General Motors Co. will build its coming all-electric three-row Cadillac SUV, the Vistiq, at its Spring Hill, Tennessee, plant where the smaller Cadillac Lyriq electric SUV is already produced, the automaker said this week.

The luxury brand has two new EVs coming soon with production of the 2025 Optiq SUV starting later this fall at the Ramos ...Read more

In his first public comments since Stellantis NV confirmed it had started searching for his successor, Chief Executive Officer Carlos Tavares signaled he’s open to leaving the automaker just over a year from now.

Leaving when his contract expires in early 2026 is “one option,” Tavares told reporters Thursday at a press conference in ...Read more