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More than two years after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration first issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications in the U.S., the agency is finally ready to move forward. Following…

A report in the Financial Times today claims that the consumer electronics giant Apple is negotiating to either make an equity investment or an outright takeover of the U.K.'s McLaren Technology Group. McLaren is the manufacturer of a range of…

A decade ago, in the wake of General Motors’ bankruptcy reorganization, the Hummer brand represented everything that many people considered was wrong with the automaker leading up to its collapse. Hummers were big, heavy, gas guzzling monsters in an…

Back in 2010, when Tesla was still delivering a few dozen Roadsters a month, Carlos Ghosn was a free man and CEO of Nissan and Renault. On the verge of launching the one of the first modern, mainstream electric cars, the Leaf, he projected that…

Over the past several weeks, the legendary descriptor, “arsenal of democracy” has been frequently invoked as America and the world battle to contain the impact of a coronavirus pandemic. Among other industries, automakers were quick to commit their…

This morning in Detroit, Honda revealed the all-new 10th-generation Accord sedan and while pretty much everything about it looks like a good upgrade from the outgoing model, little was truly surprising. There was however one little detail in senior…

As an analyst, writer and podcaster I'm in the incredibly fortunate position of being able to drive many different kinds of vehicles every year. I drove more than 50 different vehicles in 2017, living with most of them for a full week. About a dozen…

Nearly three months after the 2020 Ford Explorer started shipping out to dealers, the new hybrid version has finally be signed off by the EPA. While the first application of Ford's new modular hybrid system will be the most efficient Explorer to…

A lot of practical realities like cost and operational reliability mean that the kind of go-anywhere full self-driving capability people like Elon Musk aim for is unlikely to come to the mainstream anytime in the near future. Even the sort of limited…

As Ford Motor Company continues trying to transform itself, it’s model lineup seems to be transforming into a family of families. We’ve already seen the Mustang expand with the addition of electric Mach-E crossover to the traditional coupe and…