When I got my first briefing on the Lucid Air electric sedan at the Los Angeles Auto Show back in November 2016, Peter Rawlinson, then CTO and now CEO of Lucid, claimed that it would get over 400 miles of driving range. In the years since, Lucid has…

The second facility in Michigan dedicated to testing automated and connected vehicles is currently under construction in Ypsilanti, Mich. and it just got its first official automaker financial sponsor. At the annual Center for Automotive Research…

For the better part of the past decade or maybe longer, the Acura division of Honda Motor Company went through a serious identity crisis. As Honda products have traditionally been, Acuras were well built and reliable. However, aside from being…

When cars start driving themselves in the coming years, they will rely on sensors in order to “see” what’s around them, but they will require accurate and precise maps of the world in order to determine where they need to go. As automakers, suppliers…

Jaguar is a brand with a long and tumultuous history. Yet, despite the challenges of being part of British Leyland through the 1970s and 1980s and then two decades under the Ford umbrella, Jag is still with us. In fact, the brand actually seems to be…

BMW probably isn’t the first brand that pops to mind when you think of battery electric vehicles (BEV). While the German brand hasn’t yet jumped into the deep end with both feet on zero emissions, it began it’s development back in 2007 and launched…

In that lost time before millennials were born, the sport utility vehicle was conceived as a tool for people with truly active lifestyles, those that went beyond the even the unpaved road. They generally came into two flavors, the purpose-built…

Chinese electric vehicle startup Xpeng has just launched its second production model, the P7 sedan, which includes at least two industry firsts. The P7 is the first production vehicle to take advantage of Nvidia NVDA ’s Drive AGX Xavier platform.…

General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant has a 35-year history of being on the cutting edge for the automaker, often with mixed results. GM hopes to break that streak late next year when the factory officially becomes the company’s first…

General Motors CEO Mary Barra today announced a 50-50 joint venture with South Korea’s LG Chem valued at $2.3 billion to produce lithium-ion battery cells in Ohio. The plant will be located in Lordstown, near the recently shuttered Cruze assembly…