Category: US Motoring Press

How to Fix a Brake Light

“I don’t know much about cars, but I know a ton about changing brake lights,” says Benjamin Hoffman, 30, a stand-up comic, food-service worker and co-chair of the New Orleans chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. In 2017, the chapter organized its first free brake-light-fixing clinic after a member had a traumatic experience with… Continue reading How to Fix a Brake Light

Tesla Might Finally Have Some Competition. From Ford.

The Mustang Mach-E and the Volkswagen ID.4, which is due in dealerships in March, go about 250 miles on a full charge — about the same as the cheapest version of Tesla’s Model Y — and start at about $43,000 and $40,000. The base Model Y starts at about $42,000, but the Ford and Volkswagen… Continue reading Tesla Might Finally Have Some Competition. From Ford.

Lack of Tiny Parts Disrupts Auto Factories Worldwide

The semiconductor shortage came out of left field, hitting the industry at a perilous moment. Sales have plunged worldwide. In Europe, for example, they were down 25 percent in 2020. This is all happening while automakers are trying to navigate a shift in basic technology from internal combustion engines to batteries, which has subjected them… Continue reading Lack of Tiny Parts Disrupts Auto Factories Worldwide

How to Keep Your Pandemic Habits

The following is a review, created for the print edition, of several longer stories that have run this week, called the 7 Day Well Challenge. Below you can find links to the full stories. Looking back on 2020, lockdowns and pandemic restrictions forced many people to start new routines. Work commutes disappeared. Fitness classes were… Continue reading How to Keep Your Pandemic Habits

The Pandemic Sank Auto Sales. Vaccines Could Bring Buyers Back.

Tesla, the world’s most valuable automaker by far, said on Saturday that globally it sold 500,000 cars in 2020, up 36 percent from the year before. The company does not break its sales down by country or continent. Updated  Feb. 11, 2021, 5:23 p.m. ET Ford Motor and most other automakers are expected to report… Continue reading The Pandemic Sank Auto Sales. Vaccines Could Bring Buyers Back.

Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot Approve a Merger They Need to Survive

Shareholders of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA, the French maker of Peugeot, Citroën and Opel cars, voted on Monday to merge in an effort to acquire the scale necessary to survive in an industry gripped by technological change and pummeled by the pandemic. The new company, to be called Stellantis, will employ 400,000 people and… Continue reading Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot Approve a Merger They Need to Survive

German Automakers Are Charged Up and Ready to Take on Tesla

Next year, Mercedes, a division of Daimler, will introduce the EQS, a battery-powered counterpart to the company’s top-of-the-line S-Class. The EQS, which will cost more than $100,000, will be the first vehicle built with Mercedes’s so-called electric vehicle architecture, the same idea as Volkswagen’s modular toolbox. Daimler says the EQS will be able to travel… Continue reading German Automakers Are Charged Up and Ready to Take on Tesla

For Companies Like Workhorse, A Race to Be the Tesla of Delivery Vehicles

A fleet operator might spend about $300,000 to own and operate a diesel truck over 20 years, but the cost of owning an electric truck may be less than half that, according to Workhorse. Between its founding in 2007 and 2019 Workhorse delivered 365 vehicles, mostly diesel trucks retrofitted to operate on batteries. Some were… Continue reading For Companies Like Workhorse, A Race to Be the Tesla of Delivery Vehicles