Work Truck Solutions helps dealers connect with buyers
"You may need a dump truck. You may need a vehicle called a service truck that has drawers and need a crane. All of that information was missing from...
Selling cars over MSRP can backfire on dealer, brand
Selling above sticker price at a time inventory was just returning is “a bad look,” said Keith Powell, owner of Yes Chevrolet and Yes Ford near Charleston, W.Va. His group...
A record $2.7 billion in credit union car leases in 2022 — CULA
Credit unions snapped up auto loan market share in 2022, but Credit Union Leasing of America, or CULA, encountered record levels of interest in leasing from the segment last year...
BlueOval City will be Ford’s largest, most efficient plant
"When you walk in, it will not feel like a plant that you've been in before," Lisa Drake, Ford's vice president of EV industrialization, told Automotive News. "Our target was...
Tesla plans new Shanghai plant to build megapack batteries
Tesla Inc. will build a new battery factory in Shanghai, increasing investment in China at a time of brewing tensions between Beijing and Washington. Tesla will manufacture Megapack large-scale energy-storage...
The latest numbers on the automotive microchip shortage
For the first time in months, assembly plants in China led the way in weekly vehicle production cuts caused by the microchip shortage, according to the latest estimate by AutoForecast...
Why the Pentagon cares about EV battery materials
The latest moves to clarify whose electric vehicles will get a federal tax credit are also revealing something the auto industry probably doesn't think much about: The larger aim of...
NHTSA opens safety probe into Tesla that struck student in N.C.
Autopilot enables cars to steer, accelerate and brake within their lanes without driver intervention but Tesla says the feature requires "active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous."...
Tesla sued for alleged privacy intrusions of customers
SAN FRANCISCO -- A California Tesla owner on Friday sued the electric carmaker in a prospective class-action lawsuit accusing it of violating the privacy of customers. The lawsuit in the...
Car dealerships use solar panels to offset costly EV chargers
Auto brands including Ford, Cadillac, GMC and Chevrolet require dealers to have various numbers of different levels of EV chargers. Ford Model e Certified Elite dealers, for example, must have...