2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV SSImage: Chevrolet 75,883 total sales GM has kept its EV sales numbers close to its chest the last few years; the company has had trouble ramping up EV production. Things may have changed though as the company says it sold 75,883 EVs in 2023, up 93 percent from 2022. Looking at … Read more
Happy Friday! It’s January 12, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Jalopinions | The Best Type is Jaguar’s E-Type 1st Gear: Hertz Is Selling A Third Of Its … Read more
Image: Polestar There has been a lot of doom and gloom about EV adoption slowing down in the U.S. market lately. Sure, the electric segment hasn’t exploded here like it has in other countries, but just under 1.2 million new EVs were sold in 2023, and that’s nothing to sneeze at. A record 7.6 percent … Read more
Happy Thursday! It’s January 11, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Jalopinions | The Best Type is Jaguar’s E-Type 1st Gear: Student Loans Are Getting In The Way … Read more
Honda is getting serious about electric vehicles. The automaker, which has been a bit behind the curve when it comes to EVs, has unveiled a pair of electric concepts as part of their new Honda 0 series called the Saloon and Space-Hub at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The 2024 Honda Prologue Is … Read more
Hyundai Motor India Ltd on Monday said it will invest Rs 6,180 crore on various initiatives, including establishing a hydrogen resource centre, in Tamil Nadu. The fresh investment by the automaker is in addition to the Rs 20,000 crore it plans to deploy over a period of ten years (2023- 2032) to augment its efforts … Read more
Honda Motor Comoany is considering building an electric vehicle plant in Canada in a near 2 trillion yen ($13.83 billion) project that could possibly include in-house production of batteries, Japan’s Nikkei newsgroup reported on Sunday. The project could be one of Honda’s largest investments, the report said. The Japanese automaker is looking at multiple potential … Read more
The future of personal transportation, cars and trucks and bikes and scooters, is electric. We know this now, and we’ve known it for some time, but automakers, despite all that knowledge, have dragged their feet on actually producing electric cars. Instead, when mandates came down from on high demanding more battery-powered cars, automakers simply shelled … Read more
A Japan-based company is eyeing Manitoba as a potential spot to build a $1.6-billion lithium ion battery separator manufacturing facility, sources have told 680 CJOB. The company is considering a parcel of city-owned land near the West End Water Pollution Control Centre close to Wilkes Avenue and the Perimeter Highway. A document obtained by 680 … Read more
Photo: John Keeble (Getty Images) The Environmental Protection Agency has been the non-partisan adjudicator of vehicle emissions and fuel mileage in the United States for over 50 years. With the rise in electric vehicle sales, range has become a crucial selling point for customers. The EPA goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that its figures … Read more
