Williams has won its home Grand Prix in England 10 times, but at Silverstone this weekend even a smattering of points would represent success. Once a formidable front-runner, Williams drifted backward as the team budget shrank. The last of its 16 championships came in 1997, its last title fight was in 2003 and it has… Continue reading F1’s Williams Struggles to Return to Racing Glory
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Electric Car Sales Climb Sharply Despite Shortages
Americans are buying electric vehicles at a record pace, undeterred by rising prices and long waits for delivery, a further indication that the twilight of the internal combustion engine is on the horizon. Vehicles that run on batteries accounted for 5.6 percent of new-car sales from April through June, still a small slice of the… Continue reading Electric Car Sales Climb Sharply Despite Shortages
Auto Safety Agency Expands Tesla Investigation
The federal government’s top auto-safety agency is significantly expanding an investigation into Tesla and its Autopilot driver-assistance system to determine if the technology poses a safety risk. The agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said Thursday that it was upgrading its preliminary evaluation of Autopilot to an engineering analysis, a more intensive level of… Continue reading Auto Safety Agency Expands Tesla Investigation
Advanced E.V. Batteries Move From Labs to Mass Production
SAN JOSE, Calif. — For years, scientists in laboratories from Silicon Valley to Boston have been searching for an elusive potion of chemicals, minerals and metals that would allow electric vehicles to recharge in minutes and travel hundreds of miles between charges, all for a much lower cost than batteries available now. Now a few… Continue reading Advanced E.V. Batteries Move From Labs to Mass Production
Ford Quarterly Sales Were Up Slightly From Last Year
Ford Motor said Tuesday that it sold 483,688 cars and light trucks in the United States in the second quarter, slightly more than it sold a year earlier, when it was hit particularly hard by the global shortage of computer chips. Almost all automakers reported decreases in sales in the April-to-June period because the chip… Continue reading Ford Quarterly Sales Were Up Slightly From Last Year
Tesla Is Forcing the Auto Industry to Rethink How It Sells Cars
In 2019, many auto experts said Tesla was making a big mistake by deciding to sell cars only online, arguing that whatever bad feelings people had about dealerships they were essential to the car business. But the strategy, which was adopted by Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, and combines direct sales with a limited number… Continue reading Tesla Is Forcing the Auto Industry to Rethink How It Sells Cars
Ford recalls 2.9 million vehicles over a flaw in securing the gear shift in park.
Ford Motor has recalled 2.9 million vehicles because of a potential defect that could enable them to move even if the gear shift seems to be in the park position. The recalled models include 1.7 million Ford Escape sport utility vehicles from the 2013 to 2019 model years. The other models are the 2015-18 Edge… Continue reading Ford recalls 2.9 million vehicles over a flaw in securing the gear shift in park.
How Safe Are Systems Like Tesla’s Autopilot? No One Knows.
Every three months, Tesla publishes a safety report that provides the number of miles between crashes when drivers use the company’s driver-assistance system, Autopilot, and the number of miles between crashes when they do not. These figures always show that accidents are less frequent with Autopilot, a collection of technologies that can steer, brake and… Continue reading How Safe Are Systems Like Tesla’s Autopilot? No One Knows.
Goodyear Recalls Tires That Federal Government Says Had High Failure Rate
Goodyear has voluntarily recalled more than 170,000 out-of-production tires that prompted lawsuits claiming that they had caused crashes that killed or injured people, federal transportation officials said on Tuesday. The tires, which were last produced in 2003 and were sold for use on trucks and recreational vehicles, “experienced a high rate of failure on R.V.s… Continue reading Goodyear Recalls Tires That Federal Government Says Had High Failure Rate
Tesla Sales Slow as the Pandemic Hobbles Production
Tesla said Saturday that vehicle deliveries from April through June fell 18 percent from the first quarter of the year, a rare slowdown for the company caused by production problems in China. Tesla sells more electric cars than any other company and, until recently, was expanding rapidly in China, Europe and the United States as… Continue reading Tesla Sales Slow as the Pandemic Hobbles Production