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Associated Press Jul 15, 2023, 04:38 PM ET NEWRY, Maine — A competitor was killed in a crash on the first day of a rally race through a forest in western Maine, leading organizers to cancel the event’s second day. Erin Kelly, a 48-year-old woman from Marshall, Virginia, was killed Friday when her team’s car

Vietnamese automaker VinFast is facing consumer skepticism after launching its first electric vehicle in the U.S. earlier this year. Experian data shows the EV maker with just 128 new-vehicle registrations for its VF 8 crossover from January to May. VinFast is selling the two-row VF 8 in California, the biggest EV market in the country,

Associated Press Jul 15, 2023, 05:58 PM ET TORONTO — Christian Lundgaard mastered driving in the rain when he was growing up in Denmark. He’ll have to put that to the test at the Honda Indy Toronto. Lundgaard took the pole on a wet street course at Toronto’s Exhibition Place on Saturday, finishing 0.3223 seconds

DETROIT — One of the few certainties about this year’s contract talks between the UAW and the Detroit 3 is that they will be far from routine. With two months to go before the pacts expire, union leaders are bucking tradition and employing new tactics to win meaningful gains for members in what President Shawn

In this article UBER LYFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT New York City’s yellow taxis have been a symbol of the metropolis for decades. But taxi drivers only make up about 10% of the total driver landscape in the city — giving way to Uber and Lyft. While this is in large part due

Walser Automotive Group instituted an antifraud training regimen for sales and finance personnel in 2021 after recognizing the opportunity remote deals offered scammers and finding itself fooled by fraudsters as well. The training has led to the group spotting multiple scammers, according to Walser Senior Director of Finance Jennifer Parsons, who spearheaded the antifraud effort.

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk announced his new company xAI which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe.  Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Friday that he plans for his newest venture, the artificial intelligence

Jul 14, 2023, 01:03 PM ET Dwyane Wade, the three-time NBA champ, who will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in August, already had a partial ownership stake with the Utah Jazz. The former Miami Heat star added to his portfolio with something a bit closer to home. Wade, a Chicago native,

Auto retail industry stalwart JM Family Enterprises is the lead investor in a new venture capital financing for Skaivision, a developer of computer vision artificial intelligence for automotive dealerships. JM Family declined to disclose the size of its investment, other than to note that it is in the “single-digit millions” range. The Deerfield Beach, Fla.,

Jul 14, 2023, 06:52 AM ET Mercedes will be taking a good look at McLaren’s latest upgrade for clues about how their Formula One rivals have made such a leap in lap time, technical director James Allison says. McLaren finished second and fourth in last Sunday’s British Grand Prix with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri

A global shortage of semiconductor chips was the automotive industry’s kryptonite for most of 2021 and 2022. But the crisis is now fading, S&P Global Mobility said Thursday. The chip shortage cost the industry the production of about 9.5 million light vehicles in 2021, according to S&P Global Mobility estimates, and another 3 million in

Mercedes driver George Russell says there’s no reason why McLaren can’t replicate its Silverstone podium performance level for the rest of the Formula One season. McLaren’s recent upgrade has produced a huge step forward, with Lando Norris fourth in Austria and then second at his home British Grand Prix. Teammate Oscar Piastri, who did not

Hyundai’s high-performance variant of the Ioniq 5 electric compact crossover boasts 641 hp in boost mode and can corner, drift and shift (sort of) like a gasoline-powered race car. The Ioniq 5 N is the first EV under Hyundai’s N performance subbrand and the company said more electric models will follow as part of its

Austin Lindberg, Senior EditorJul 13, 2023, 09:15 AM ET Arrow McLaren IndyCar driver Felix Rosenqvist spoke to ESPN about what he drives when he’s not at the racetrack. Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images On any given Sunday, race car drivers around the world pilot the most exhilarating automobiles on the planet. From the first practice

Kia has revealed the price tag for putting its new electric EV9 into production at its U.S. plant in West Point, Ga.: $200 million. The Korean automaker said the company will add about 200 jobs to build the three-row crossover alongside four other models at the West Point, Georgia, plant. It will be the first

In this article F GM STLAM-IT STLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT UAW President Shawn Fain chairs the 2023 Special Elections Collective Bargaining Convention in Detroit, March 27, 2023. Rebecca Cook | Reuters DETROIT — United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain promised union members he’d do things differently during contract talks with the Detroit

SAN FRANCISCO — Delays, defeat and dystopia. Tuesday marked a sobering and perhaps seminal milepost in ongoing efforts to deploy and expand the presence of autonomous vehicles in California. In the morning, the California Public Utilities Commission again delayed a vote on applications from Cruise and Waymo to expand and begin, respectively, commercial robotaxi service

In this article LCID Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Visitors walk at the Lucid Air during the Mobile World Congress 2023 (MWC), the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering on February 28, 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.  Chris Jung | Nurphoto | Getty Images Luxury electric vehicle maker Lucid Group said Wednesday that it delivered 1,404

With a single press release, Red Bull turned a routine Pirelli tyre test into one of the biggest news stories of the Formula One season. Daniel Ricciardo, back on the Formula One grid with junior team AlphaTauri, effective immediately, replacing Nyck de Vries and placing Red Bull’s Sergio Perez under enormous pressure to turn his

The U.S. EV market is growing, but not fast enough during the latest quarter to prevent unsold EVs from stacking up at some automakers’ dealerships or to allow Tesla to avoid new price cuts, according to analysts and industry data. Rising inventories and price-cutting could represent only a short-term pause in EV market growth. But

In this article GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT 2024 Buick Envista GM DETROIT – General Motors is positioning two new crossovers from Chevrolet and Buick as its answer to affordability issues left by discontinued, cheaper sedans. Affordability has increasingly become a concern among investors and consumers. Cox Automotive reports the average price paid

Associated Press Jul 11, 2023, 05:08 PM ET Two-time defending Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona winner Tom Blomqvist will make his IndyCar debut this weekend in Toronto, where he will replace the injured Simon Pagenaud in the No. 60 car for Meyer Shank Racing. Pagenaud was hurt just over a week ago during practice at

Franck Louis-Victor, a former Renault executive hired by Ford in 2021 to oversee its new businesses unit, was arrested last weekend on felony charges of arson and assault with a dangerous weapon after a domestic dispute at his home in Michigan. Louis-Victor, CEO of Ford Next LLC and vice president of Ford’s new business platforms,

Tesla vehicles parked outside a home with a Tesla Solar Roof on Weems Street in Boca Chica Village, Texas, June 21, 2021. Veronica G. Cardenas | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla agreed to pay just over $6 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought by customers who faced sudden Solar Roof price hikes in

Dealer Abraham Razick died July 8 when a plane he was in crashed in dense fog short of the runway at French Valley Airport in Riverside County, Calif. He and his wife, Alma Razick, 51, were among the six passengers on board the Cessna C550 business jet. There were no survivors. Razick, 46, was a

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJul 10, 2023, 01:51 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 As champagne corks popped in McLaren’s motorhome on Sunday evening, team principal Andrea Stella was keen to manage expectations. Speaking to members of the media after Lando Norris’ second-place finish at the British Grand Prix,

WASHINGTON — The nation’s top auto safety regulator has opened an investigation into the 2022 Kia EV6 after reports alleging loss of motive power. NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation said it received 11 complaints about the problem from U.S. vehicle owners, many of whom reported a “loud pop noise followed by a warning displayed in

Pre-owned vehicles are seen at the Roger Beasley South dealership lot on June 07, 2023 in Austin, Texas.  Brandon Bell | Getty Images DETROIT – Wholesale used vehicle prices posted their largest decline last month since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, as prices are set to stabilize during the second half of this year.

Max Verstappen is cruising towards a third world championship win but he says it’s been confusing to see the competitive order behind Red Bull changing race to race. McLaren emerged as second quickest behind Red Bull at Silverstone, with Lando Norris finishing second and Oscar Piastri fourth. McLaren made a clear step forward one race

General Motors is showing that the end of its nine-decade reign as the U.S. sales leader was just a one-year blip, not a groundbreaking shift in the industry’s pecking order. For a second consecutive year since, GM is solidly No. 1 at the halfway point. And the automaker is widening its lead over second-place Toyota