General Motors intends to delay the start of production of some of its all-electric pickups at the Orion Assembly plant in Michigan. The factory currently makes the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV electric cars, which later this year will be discontinued. The plant was set for retooling to handle Ultium-based pickups and scheduled to…
The 2024 Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid gains a new Nightshade Edition grade, but keeps its impressive fuel economy. A crossover that borrows underpinnings and a name from the ubiquitous Corolla sedan and hatchback, the Corolla Cross made its debut for 2022, but it arrived as a hybrid for 2023. So changes are minimal for 2024,…
The Tesla Model 3 and the BYD Han EV are popular electric sedans in China. The Han secured its place as China’s eighth best-selling car in H1 2023 with roughly 72,000 units sold, while the Model 3 held ground as the tenth best-selling EV, with close to 67,000 sales. A teardown specialist disassembled both their…
Kia America reports 59,164 vehicle sales in the United States in October, which is only 1.5 percent more than a year ago, but at the same time, it was the automaker’s best October ever and 15th month of consecutive year-over-year increase. So far this year, the company sold 663,838 vehicles (up 15 percent year-over-year) and…
Gabrielle Glaze felt scolded and shamed when she delivered her first son in a Birmingham, Ala., hospital, forced to observe strict rules about lying stationary through her contractions and enduring countless cervical checks from “total strangers” who seemed disappointed by her body’s progress. So when Ms. Glaze, 33, gave birth to a second son in…
The California Legislature this week passed a landmark bill that would require major companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, a move with national and global repercussions in governments’ efforts to fight climate change. A spokesman for Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, declined on Wednesday to say whether he would sign the bill. If…
Activist Maqbool Mujawar said, “You will find auto and taxi drivers carrying an illegal number of passengers (4 in autos and 7-9 in taxis) and asking for inflated fare.” The RTO has issued showcause notices to 181 auto and taxi drivers in the city suburbs for refusals and excess fares based on commuters sending pictures…
US vehicle fuel efficiency standards administered by NHTSA have encouraged automakers to build larger vehicles. The bigger the vehicle, the lower the fuel efficiency target it has to meet. Trucks and sport utility vehicles with hood heights greater than 40 inches are about 45% more likely to cause fatalities in pedestrian crashes than shorter vehicles…
United Nations — “Earth just had its hottest three months on record,” the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday. “The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting,” warned U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a statement coinciding with the release of the latest data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service…
The start of industrial-scale seabed mining to extract car battery metals from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean has been delayed after the international agency charged with overseeing the work concluded late last week that it needed more time to finalize mining rules. The action by the International Seabed Authority, which had set a July…
