Stellantis is getting ready to electrify its lineup but warns that doing so will cost a lot of money, with one possible effect being that EVs will become too expensive for the middle classes. While the automaker sees the electric Ram 1500 REV pickup as its future, it says that bringing it to market in […]

Volkswagen Group’s choice of Ontario for a new battery cell manufacturing plant puts Canada in contention to land an additional auto assembly operation, as the German automaker’s luxury brand Audi weighs establishing a new North American site to build electric vehicles, auto analysts say. A Canadian assembly plant to complement the planned battery site in

Three in four vehicles in the U.S. could be electric by 2050 if certain states enact California’s ban on gasoline vehicle sales by 2035. If the 17 states that follow the California Air Resources Board’s limits on pollution also adopt California’s Advanced Clean Cars II rule, which requires all vehicles sold to be zero-emission by

Jaguar Land Rover expects free cash flow of around 500 million pounds ($622 million) for the full financial year. While that’s half the forecast of more than 1 billion pounds it gave back in 2022, it significantly exceeds a more recent estimate as supply chain snarls that dented business in the second quarter eased. JLR,

Tesla has announced it will build a new Megafactory in Shanghai, China, where the massive Megapacks will be manufactured at a rate of up to 10,000 units per year. This will be the second so-called Megafactory in Tesla’s portfolio, after the one that opened in 2022 in California, and will supplement the production from the

Toyota Motor North America (Toyota and Lexus brands) reports that its vehicle sales in the United States, during the first quarter of 2023, amounted to 469,558 units. That’s an 8.8 percent decrease year-over-year. That drop was related to the Toyota brand, as Lexus managed to slightly increase its sales. Results in Q1: Toyota: 401,306 (down

Tesla Inc. will build a new battery factory in Shanghai, increasing investment in China at a time of brewing tensions between Beijing and Washington. Tesla will manufacture Megapack large-scale energy-storage units in the new facility, which adds to its factory for electric vehicles in Shanghai. Tesla made the announcement at a signing ceremony for the

Mitsubishi Motors North America (MMNA) reports that its vehicle sales in the United States during the first quarter of 2023 decreased by nearly 21 percent year-over-year to 20,938. That’s the fifth consecutive month of decreasing sales (year-over-year), although the Japanese manufacturer says that the reason is not related to lack of demand but production constraints.