The German Auto Industry, a Pillar of the National Psyche, Is Trembling
The centerpiece of Mercedes-Benz’s 140th birthday party in January was a patent application filed in 1886 by an engineer named ...
Tag: Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
How the Prius Traces Its Lineage to a 1900 Car From Ferdinand Porsche
Before there were super-hybrids, before plug-in versions, before even the vaunted Prius — the hybrid that set the modern standard ...
Ford Will Use Apple Software in New Self-Driving System
Ford Motor said Thursday that driver-assistance systems in its new electric vehicles would use Apple software, giving the technology company ...
Tesla Profit Falls Even as Car Sales Rebound
Tesla reported a decline in quarterly profit Wednesday as the company sold more electric cars but made less money on ...
The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry With It?
What kind of books will be written about the current crisis? And what will they be called? If history and ...
U.S. Electric Vehicle Sales are Down but E.V. Chargers are Booming
Recently a Bojangles restaurant in Savannah, Ga., added a new item to its menu alongside the usual fried chicken and ...
How Volkswagen’s Troubles Were Made in China
Volkswagen has problems around the world, spurring it to announce on Thursday that it would slash the number of models ...
Volkswagen Is Cutting Production as Sales in China Plunge
Volkswagen said Thursday that it would cut the number of models it offered by as much as half to reduce ...
Tesla Driver Using Autopilot in Texas Crash Is Charged With Manslaughter
A Texas man whose Tesla sedan was in an automated driver-assistance system mode when it crashed into a house last ...
Tesla Sales Surge 25% on Recovery in Europe
In the United States, electric vehicles account for only about 6 percent of the new car market. Tesla’s U.S. sales ...
BMW Will Build a New Electric S.U.V. in South Carolina
BMW said Tuesday that it would begin producing electric vehicles in the United States by the end of the year, ...
In Europe, Tesla Sales Are Rising Despite Views on Elon Musk
Europeans seem to have gotten over their antipathy toward Elon Musk.A year ago, Tesla sales in Europe were in free ...
Tesla Crash That Killed a Texas Woman Will be Investigated by Federal Regulators
The main federal auto safety agency said on Monday that it was investigating a Tesla crash that killed a woman ...
Tesla Driver Using Autopilot Crashes Into Home in Texas and Kills a Woman, Officials Say
A driver in a Tesla vehicle that was engaged in automated driver-assistance mode crashed into a house in Texas on ...
For New Car Brands, the Path to Success Is Littered With Flops
In March, with hundreds of millions of dollars sunk into the project, trial production completed and showrooms already opened, Honda ...
A Humble 3-Wheel Electric Vehicle Lands Toyota in Federal Court
A lawsuit filed in California last month offers a modern-day David-versus-Goliath tale that casts the world’s largest automaker, Toyota Motor, ...
Have You Bought a Tesla Recently? We Want to Hear From You.
Sales of Tesla electric vehicles in Europe plunged last year after Elon Musk, the automaker’s chief executive, alienated many people ...
Elon Musk’s Next Move May Be a Mega-Merger of SpaceX and Tesla
SpaceX held the biggest initial public offering of all time, but Wall Street may be expecting something even bigger from ...
How Tesla’s Stock Listing in 2010 Enabled SpaceX’s I.P.O.
Tesla had sold barely 1,000 cars when the company’s chief executive, an up-and-coming entrepreneur named Elon Musk, rang the opening ...
G.M. Plans to Develop Energy Storage Batteries as E.V. Sales Flag
General Motors plans to begin making components for large storage batteries, the company said Tuesday, joining Tesla, Ford Motor and ...
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