Trump Claims He’s ‘Totally For’ ‘Incredible’ EVs Despite Everything He’s Campaigned On

Trump Claims He’s ‘Totally For’ ‘Incredible’ EVs Despite Everything He’s Campaigned On

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, July 30, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Jalopinions | The Best Type is Jaguar’s E-Type 1st Gear: Trump Now Thinks EVs Are ‘Incredible’ Donald Trump … Read more

Ford Investing $3 Billion In New Trucks After Delaying Small EV

Ford Investing  Billion In New Trucks After Delaying Small EV

Ford is investing $3 billion to build more of its extremely profitable F-Series Super Duty pickup trucks at a plant in Ontario, Canada that was previously earmarked to build an electric crossover. The plant is set to be opened in 2026, and it will employ 1,800 workers to build the large work trucks. The move … Read more

GM Fined $146 Million After Millions Of Cars Failed Emissions Tests

GM Fined 6 Million After Millions Of Cars Failed Emissions Tests

Good morning! It’s Thursday, July 4, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. New York Joins California, Banning Non-Electric Vehicles After 2035 1st Gear: Almost 6 Million GM Cars Released Excess … Read more

Comedy Of Errors Led To Fisker’s Bankruptcy

Comedy Of Errors Led To Fisker’s Bankruptcy

Good morning! It’s Thursday, June 20, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Jalopinions | The Best Type is Jaguar’s E-Type 1st Gear: Fisker Messed Up At Every Turn When Fisker … Read more

Electric Vehicles Are Three Times More Likely To Hit Pedestrians Than Gas Cars

Electric Vehicles Are Three Times More Likely To Hit Pedestrians Than Gas Cars

An analysis of British road traffic accidents in a recent study concluded that battery electric vehicles and hybrids are significantly more likely to strike pedestrians than gas or diesel vehicles. According to data compiled from 32 billion miles of BEV and HEV travel and over 3 trillion miles traveled in gas and diesel vehicles, the … Read more

Cadillac Doesn’t Plan To Offer Any Hybrids

Cadillac Doesn’t Plan To Offer Any Hybrids

Image: Cadillac GM is rethinking its EV investment and finally coming around to what Toyota seems to be selling a ton of: hybrids. The first of these hybrids were needed yesterday, but we won’t be seeing them until 2027. That’s when every GM division will roll out a hybrid or plug-in hybrid model. Just don’t … Read more

Tesla Cuts Thousands Of U.S. Job Listings Following Massive Layoffs

Tesla Cuts Thousands Of U.S. Job Listings Following Massive Layoffs

Good morning! It’s Thursday, May 9, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Tesla Had A Very Interesting Week 1st Gear: Tesla Deletes Over 3,400 Job Listings Tesla just cut over … Read more

The BMW CE02 Motorcycle Uses A 3-Series Alternator As Its Electric Motor

The BMW CE02 Motorcycle Uses A 3-Series Alternator As Its Electric Motor

Image: BMW Motorrad BMW calls the 15-horsepower 48 volt electric motor in the new CE 02 electric scooter an “externally excited air-cooled synchronous motor.” That’s a really fancy way of saying that the Motorrad division of the company raided the automobile side of the company’s parts bin for a current 3-series alternator and repurposed it … Read more

Tesla Will Lay Off 10 Percent Of Its Entire Workforce

Tesla Will Lay Off 10 Percent Of Its Entire Workforce

Happy Monday! It’s April 15, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. The Hype Behind Tesla Stock Success In 2023 1st Gear: Tesla Is Cutting 10 Percent Of All Workers Tesla … Read more

These Cars Have Had The Biggest Sales Increases In 2024 So Far

These Cars Have Had The Biggest Sales Increases In 2024 So Far

Photo: Hyundai When quarterly sales figures come out, it’s common to focus on the cars that sold the most in the previous three months. That’s certainly interesting on some level, but at the same time, most of the top sellers are pretty consistent. Presumably, the Ford F-Series and Chevrolet Silverado will take the top two … Read more