Stellantis Is In Big Trouble Following Awful First Half Of 2024

Stellantis Is In Big Trouble Following Awful First Half Of 2024

Good morning! It’s Friday, July 26, 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. AAA Offers an Emergency Charging Solution When Your EV Runs Out of Range 1st Gear: Stellantis Scrambles After … Read more

I Am Swapping My Volt For A Highway Cruiser! What Car Should I Buy?

I Am Swapping My Volt For A Highway Cruiser! What Car Should I Buy?

Nick’s wife is starting a new job that requires a lot of long-distance highway travel. She is looking for something a bit more comfortable than her 2012 Chevy Volt with some updated features. With a budget of up to $45,000 what car should she buy? The 2023 Dodge Challenger Swinger Edition Was The Most Fun … Read more

Unsold Chinese EVs Are Piling Up At Ports

Unsold Chinese EVs Are Piling Up At Ports

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, April 17, 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 Toyota CH-R Is Dead in America 1st Gear: Ports Are Filling With Unsold Cars, Mostly From China … Read more

Toyota Is Crushing Its Fastest Prius: Report

Toyota Is Crushing Its Fastest Prius: Report

Image: Toyota Prior to this car arriving at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2004, no hybrid had ever run at America’s natural race track. This is it, this was the first one. This is a piece of racing history that deserves to be kept for future generations to admire. Toyota arrived to the salt with … Read more

American Automakers Doing What They Can To Avoid Building EVs

American Automakers Doing What They Can To Avoid Building EVs

Happy Friday! It’s March 15, 2024 — the Ides of March — 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. GM Just Cant Seem To Quit The Chevy Bolt 1st Gear: U.S. Automakers … Read more

The Ineos Fusilier Is An EV With A Range-Extending Engine Because EVs Can’t ‘Get You From A To B’

The Ineos Fusilier Is An EV With A Range-Extending Engine Because EVs Can’t ‘Get You From A To B’

While Mercedes backtracks on its future electric vehicle plans and Ford cuts production of its battery-powered F-150 Lightning, British automotive upstart Ineos has entered the murky waters of electrification with an EV of its own, the Fusilier. But at its launch, company boss Jim Ratcliffe made no excuses for the limitations of purely battery-powered cars, … Read more

These Are GM’s Previous Attempts At Selling Hybrids

These Are GM’s Previous Attempts At Selling Hybrids

Image: Chevrolet GM wouldn’t start offering hybrids in its vehicles until 2004 with its GMT800 platformed pickups. The first was the Chevy Silverado Hybrid. Compared to hybrids today, the hybrid system in the truck was simple and extremely mild. Rather than having a full blown hybrid system with a battery, the system consisted of an … Read more

Elon Musk Could Move Tesla Out Of Delaware After Court Blocks His Massive Pay Pack

Elon Musk Could Move Tesla Out Of Delaware After Court Blocks His Massive Pay Pack

Happy Friday! It’s February 2, 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. Walter Isaacson On Elon Musk(s) 1st Gear: Could Tesla Move To Texas? After a Delaware court ruled that Elon … Read more

GM Dealers Want Hybrids For Customers Who Aren’t Ready For EVs

GM Dealers Want Hybrids For Customers Who Aren’t Ready For EVs

GM is all in on electric vehicles. Through 2025, the company plans to spend some $35 billion on bringing more EVs to market. While that plan has had a bit of a rough start, GM’s dealers are thinking about a segment GM has essentially abandoned: hybrids. New York Joins California, Banning Non-Electric Vehicles After 2035 … Read more

Weekend News Roundup January 06, 2024

Weekend News Roundup January 06, 2024

Here we present our weekly Jalopnik series that recaps the latest in news. We’ve showcased our most read offerings as well as some you may have missed. Hyundai Considers Jumping On The Tesla Charger Bandwagon Too Consumer Reports Says These Are The Best Hybrid Cars For Less Than $35,000 In 2024 Photo: Toyota We’ve come … Read more