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In this article RIVN VOW3-DE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Rivian electric vehicles sit in a lot at a Rivian facility in February 22, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty Images Volkswagen’s $5 billion investment in electrical vehicle startup Rivian is a “catch-up move” for the German automaker,

Associated Press Jun 25, 2024, 12:06 AM ET RICHMOND, Va. — NHRA great John Force remained hospitalized in intensive care Monday, one day after a fiery, 300 mph crash in the Virginia Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park. John Force Racing said in a statement Monday night that the 75-year-old Force was still in a Virginia

In this article GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Cruise vehicle in San Francisco on Feb. 2, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images DETROIT – General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit on Tuesday announced former Amazon and Microsoft executive Marc Whitten as its new CEO. Whitten was a founding engineer

Open Extended Reactions Mick Schumacher will do a Formula One test with Alpine next week as the French team continues to mull over its 2025 driver lineup. Schumacher, son of seven-time world champion Michael, raced for Haas in 2021 and 2022 and is now a reserve driver for the Mercedes team. The German driver is

In this article VLKAF Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT 2025 Volkswagen Jetta VW Volkswagen on Tuesday announced updates for its 2025 Jetta sedan to boost sales amid industry-wide affordability concerns. The entry-level version of the Jetta with an automatic transmission will start at $21,995 when it goes on sale, expected by the end of

Associated Press Jun 23, 2024, 07:59 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NORTH DINWIDDIE, Va. — NHRA great John Force was alert before being taken to a medical facility after a fiery crash Sunday in the Virginia Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park. During the first round of Funny Car eliminations, the engine exploded in the 75-year-old

In this article RACE-IT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ferrari’s all-electric model won’t be launched for over a year, but early tests indicate it has all the driving traits and emotion of a true Ferrari, according to Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna. “The final judge will be the client,” Vigna told CNBC during the opening

Open Extended Reactions Alpine have entered the race to sign Carlos Sainz for 2025, sources have confirmed to ESPN. Ahead of his home Spanish Grand Prix there were reports Sainz and Williams were about to confirm a deal, but that never materialised. Sainz had been weighing up the prospect of driving for Williams or Audi,

GUANGZHOU, CHINA – NOVEMBER 17: A GAC Aion Hyper SSR electric sports car is on display during the Auto Guangzhou 2023 at China Import & Export Fair Pazhou Complex on November 17, 2023 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo by Chen Yihang/VCG via Getty Images) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images China

Associated Press Jun 23, 2024, 09:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTEREY, Calif. — Two-time IndyCar champion Álex Palou reclaimed the lead in the points standings by winning from the pole Sunday at Laguna Seca Raceway. Palou, now a two-time winner on the permanent road course, has finished on the podium in all four of

Associated Press Jun 22, 2024, 07:05 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTEREY, Calif. — Two-time IndyCar champion Álex Palou continued his mastery of Laguna Seca Raceway by winning the pole Saturday in a qualifying session dominated by Honda drivers. It was the second pole of the season for the Chip Ganassi Racing driver who has

Associated Press Jun 22, 2024, 07:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOUDON, N.H. — Christopher Bell used a three-wide, last-lap pass on Saturday to drive away and win the NASCAR Xfinity Series race for the fourth straight time at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The 29-year-old Bell needed three extra laps on the 1.058-mile track but

Open Extended Reactions A fire broke out in a McLaren unit in Barcelona on Saturday morning. Getty BARCELONA, Spain — McLaren’s Formula One hospitality center at the Circuit de Catalunya has been evacuated after a fire broke out on Saturday morning. The fire, which started moments before the final practice session of the week got underway,

BARCELONA, Spain — Mercedes have called upon police to investigate the source of an anonymous email accusing the F1 team of trying to deliberately sabotage Lewis Hamilton‘s car. The email, sent to the same list of F1 representatives that received a leak of messages purportedly linked to the Christian Horner sexual misconduct investigation earlier this

Elon Musk speaking during the Tesla Annual Shareholder’s meeting in Austin, Texas on June 13th, 2024.  Source: Tesla Inc.  Tesla’s hefty downsizing in 2023 has reduced its global headcount to just over 121,000 people, including temps, internal records suggest, indicating that the automaker has slashed more than 14% of its workforce so far this year.

Alanis King, Racing columnistJun 21, 2024, 09:57 AM ET Open Extended Reactions In his first full season in NASCAR, Shane van Gisbergen has claimed two victories the Xfinity Series. Meg Oliphant/Getty Images Last summer, three-time Australian Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen shocked the NASCAR world by winning his debut in the top-level Cup Series. It was

Workers assemble a Wuling Hongguang Mini EV, an all-electric microcar manufactured by SAIC-GM-Wuling, at a plant of the joint automaker in Qingdao in east Chinas Shandong province Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — China spent $230.8 billion over more than a decade to develop its electric car

Jun 20, 2024, 12:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Daniel Ricciardo wants to earn his seat in Formula One with Red Bull-owned RB next season and has said his eighth place in Canada had helped. The Italy-based team have already confirmed Japan’s Yuki Tsunoda for 2025 but have yet to say who will take the

Kinetic cofounders: CEO Nikhil Naikal, CTO Sander Marques, COO Chris Weber Courtesy: Kinetic Automation While electric vehicle demand is still increasing in the U.S., the sales growth rate for cars that pollute less has cooled down in 2024 due partly to the high cost of insurance and repairs for tech-laden new models. A 2024 study

Jun 20, 2024, 07:45 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Mercedes’ recent performance breakthrough left the Formula One team wondering how they had been so “dumb” in not understanding the car’s problems sooner, according to the team’s technical director James Allison. George Russell took pole position in Canada on June 8 and finished third for the

Jun 19, 2024, 12:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Canada’s thrilling race livened up the 2024 season, and Formula One heads to Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for race 10. Spain marks the start of the triple header, and a return to Europe with Austria and the British Grand Prix to follow. Formula One first came to

Henrik Fisker stands with the Fisker Ocean electric vehicle after it was unveiled at the Manhattan Beach Pier ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show and AutoMobilityLA on November 16, 2021 in Manhattan Beach, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Fisker on Monday became the latest all-electric vehicle startup to file for

Associated Press Jun 18, 2024, 03:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Arrow McLaren made yet another driver change Tuesday when it signed 19-year-old Nolan Siegel to drive the remainder of the IndyCar season. He will be the third driver to race the No. 6 this year. Siegel will replace F2 champion Théo Pourchaire beginning this

In this article STLA GM F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Employees on the assembly line produce cars in Mazda’s “Family” line of vehicles at China First Automobile Works (FAW) Group Haima Automobile Co., Ltd. April 6, 2005 in Haikou, Hainan Province, China. China Photos | Getty Images DETROIT – The traditional Detroit automakers

Jun 18, 2024, 02:35 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Brad Pitt is set to star as an F1 driver making a comeback. Lisa O’Connor/Variety via Getty Images Brad Pitt’s as-yet unnamed Formula One movie will be released globally on June 25 next year, with a North American debut two days later, F1 and Apple Original Films

In this article UBER NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Raquel Urtasun, Founder and CEO of Waabi. Courtesy: Waabi Autonomous trucking startup Waabi announced Tuesday it has raised $200 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by existing investors Uber and Khosla Ventures. Waabi’s latest funding round also includes Nvidia, a new investor

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJun 17, 2024, 11:26 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Writing Formula One‘s rule book is a thankless task. On the one hand, you have the objectives of 10 warring teams, six image-conscious engine manufacturers and tens of millions of fans; and

Car payments have skyrocketed in recent years due to a combination of high prices and high interest rates. While some relief may come soon, industry insiders say prices may still remain high for quite some time. As of May, customers were paying, on average, $760 a month for an auto loan, according to Moody’s Analytics.

In this article F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An electric Ford truck is displayed during the Electrify Expo D.C. in Washington, D.C., on July 23, 2023. Nathan Howard | Getty Images Ford Motor is ending a controversial electric vehicle dealership program that initially asked store owners to invest upward of $1 million to

Jun 16, 2024, 12:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Ferrari won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the second year in a row on Sunday after a battle with Toyota to the finish of the 92nd edition of the endurance race. Almost out of fuel and on a wet track, Denmark’s Nicklas Nielsen took