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Apr 10, 2022 Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Josef Newgarden won for the first time on the downtown streets of Long Beach, holding off Romain Grosjean on Sunday to make Team Penske 3-for-3 to open the IndyCar season. Newgarden led a race-high 32 laps to win a second consecutive race. Penske teammate Scott McLaughlin

PARIS – A French government spokesman said that the financial compensation for Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares was not “normal” and showed there was a need for more regulation at the European level. Tavares, who oversaw the merger between PSA Group, where he was CEO, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that created Stellantis in January 2021, is

In this article LCID With 1,050 horsepower, the new Grand Touring Performance edition becomes the most powerful version of Lucid’s electric Air sedan. Lucid Motors Electric vehicle maker Lucid is debuting a new edition of its popular and powerful Air luxury sedan. The Lucid Air Grand Touring Performance, announced Tuesday, will ship with 1,050 horsepower

4:48 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jimmie Johnson doesn’t intend to let a fractured right hand keep him off the track. On Tuesday, the seven-time NASCAR champion, who has become an IndyCar Series regular, announced on Twitter he had surgery Monday night in Charlotte, North Carolina, to repair the injury he suffered in

In a quiet San Francisco neighborhood earlier this month, three police officers stopped an autonomous vehicle driving with its headlights off and were captured on video trying to communicate with the car which had no human driver. The car’s owner, General Motors-backed Cruise Automation, has been rolling out its robotaxi service in the city since

In this article MBG-DE TSLA BMW-DE F GM 7267.T-JP With several major economies looking to cut the number of diesel and gasoline vehicles on their roads, Honda and other carmakers are attempting to develop electrification strategies that will allow them to remain competitive going forward. Aimur Kytt | Istock Editorial | Getty Images Honda plans

4:47 AM ET Italy has seized properties worth some €105 million ($114.45 million) owned by Russian former Formula One driver Nikita Mazepin and his oligarch father. The operation targeted a villa — known as Rocky Ram — located in the north of the island of Sardinia. It is part of broader efforts aimed at penalising

General Motors on Tuesday inked a deal with Glencore to secure cobalt from the global miner’s Murrin Murrin operation in Australia, as it boosts electric vehicle production to meet rising demand. The cobalt will be used in GM’s Ultium battery cathodes, which powers the Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC Hummer EV and Cadillac Lyriq vehicles, the

Maja Hitij | Getty Images News | Getty Images Elon Musk went on a tweetstorm over the weekend, lobbing numerous critiques of Twitter. But the Tesla and SpaceX CEO appears to have deleted several of his spiciest takes, as he’s dropped his plan to join the social media company’s board. Musk’s tweets included suggestions on

12:41 PM ET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A Russian go-karter who made what appeared to be a Nazi salute on a race podium is under investigation, the FIA motorsports governing body said Monday. Artem Severiukhin was filmed extending his raised right arm then laughing as he stood on the podium after winning a European

Ford Motor Co.  said on Monday it has signed a preliminary deal to buy lithium from a Lake Resources facility in Argentina, marking the first time the automaker has publicly announced where it will procure the electric vehicle battery metal. The deal is a major bet by Ford on direct lithium extraction, or DLE, a

Lithium-ion batteries are vital to a lower-carbon future. But they require a lot of energy to produce, especially when it comes to mining and refining the metals. The worldwide lithium battery market is expected to grow up to tenfold in the next decade, according to a recent report by the U.S. Department of Energy, showing

7:47 AM ET Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has accused former F1 race director Michael Masi of being disrespectful to drivers, bad at taking criticism and being a liability to the sport. Mercedes blames Masi for costing Lewis Hamilton the championship at last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after he incorrectly implemented the safety car restart

Twitter Inc.’s shares slid after Elon Musk decided not to join its board, a stunning twist to a week-long saga that’s captivated the tech community and touched off renewed speculation about the company’s future. Musk held “many discussions” with Twitter’s directors but the entrepreneur ultimately declined their offer of a board seat, Chief Executive Officer

In this article 9866-HK Nio said it has suspended production due to Covid-related restrictions in the last several weeks that halted production at suppliers’ factories. Long Wei | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese electric car company Nio said over the weekend it is raising prices and suspending production as the latest

6:45 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The Beast is on top in MotoGP, with a win and the lead in the season championship. Enea Bastianini of Italy, nicknamed “La Bestia,” passed Australia’s Jack Miller for the lead with five laps to go and pulled away to win the MotoGP Grand Prix of the

As an automotive finance veteran of nearly 30 years, Sue Wilke opposed the hybrid model of individual dealership employees managing both sales and finance and insurance. “I was a hundred percent against it,” Wilke, finance director and sales manager of Lompoc, Calif.-based RocketTown Honda, told Automotive News. She recalled an encounter with Cindy Merry, finance

In this article GM Source: Cruise A recent video posted online shows a driverless Cruise car getting pulled over in San Francisco by police who found the autonomous vehicle didn’t have anyone behind the wheel. In the video posted on April 1, the Cruise car initially pulls over to the side of the road and

11:01 AM ET Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Jimmie Johnson pulled one glove over the carbon-fiber splint built specifically for his broken right hand. A piece of tape around two fingers outside the glove was to prevent him from using his pinkie — the digit closest to the fracture — as he drove his

When the National Automobile Dealers Association revealed last month it was partnering with the National Urban League to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in auto retailing, the public announcement at the NADA Show was the easy part. Now, the association must work with the league and other key stakeholders to fill in the details of

A customer is shown a 2022 Toyota Prius at Longo Toyota in El Monte, CA on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Medianews Group | Orange County Register via Getty Images People spend a lot of money on their cars and trucks. In fact, about 16% of the average American’s total budget goes to transportation, including vehicle

4:59 PM ET Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Colton Herta broke the Long Beach track record in Saturday qualifying, and the California native will start from the pole for his home IndyCar race. Herta turned a lap at 1 minute, 05.3095 seconds on the temporary street course set up through downtown Long Beach to

Two of the largest automotive seating suppliers are building out new plants in Detroit and looking to joint ventures to capture more business from automakers increasingly conscious of their spending with minority-owned companies. Magna International Inc. formed a joint venture with LAN Manufacturing Group LLC called LN Manufacturing LLC, which plans to open a plant

In this article TSLA Danny Roman runs a sustainable, outdoor adventure company that gives biking and hiking tours in Southern California. Danny Roman Danny Roman bought a new Tesla Model X and took delivery of the car on Feb. 28, 2020. Three days later, he informed the company he was returning the electric SUV under

7:05 AM ET Charles Leclerc‘s Australian Grand Prix pole position could be at risk after he was summoned to see the stewards on Saturday evening. Leclerc has been called to see the stewards at 20:55 local time for driving unnecessarily slowly during an in-lap to the pits in Q1, the opening segment of qualifying. For

When electrification was on the horizon, Jeep knew exactly where to go with its message. The brand known for touting off-road excursions has stuck to an outdoorsy formula for its 4xe line of plug-in hybrids. The marketing transition could be seen in 2020 when Jeep started touting the quiet ride of the Wrangler 4xe months

In this article TSLA Founder and CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk speaks during a media tour of the Tesla Gigafactory, which will produce batteries for the electric carmaker, in Sparks, Nevada. James Glover II | Reuters Tesla may start production of a humanoid robot known as Optimus as early as next year, CEO Elon

8:27 AM ET Sebastian Vettel took an unorthodox way back to the pit lane during a Friday practice session at the Australian Grand Prix, and it cost him €5,000. Vettel was forced to stop his Aston Martin at Turn 10 of Melbourne’s Albert Park circuit after suffering a loss of power. To get back to

An employee of a Toyota dealership in northern Illinois died Thursday evening after being shot in the store’s parking lot, local police said. Police in Loves Park, Ill., said Anderson Toyota employee Daniel R. Johnson, 29, was shot and that “the evidence indicates this was a targeted incident and not a random act of violence.”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pictured as he attends the start of the production at Tesla’s “Gigafactory” on March 22, 2022 in Gruenheide, southeast of Berlin. Patrick Pleul | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk tweeted Tesla may get into the lithium mining and refining business directly and at scale because the cost of the