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Chinese president Xi Jinping is giving strong indications he wants to slow overcapacity growth in industries including automotive and AI

Uber is investing in Nuro and Lucid to produce robotaxis based on the Gravity SUV

A new study from YouGov reveals some very negative demographic trends for American automakers

Rivian is switching to Google Maps for the Navigation in its EVs

GM announced that the Ultium Cells joint venture battery plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee will convert at least some of its production capacity from nickel manganesse cobalt aluminum cells to lithium iron phosphate

24% of Cadillac's US sales volume in the first half of 2025 was electric and the brand is likely to remain commited to EVs to support a global expansion

Stellantis wants to make sure that its customers keep new vehicles connected as long as possible so it has simplified and reduced the cost of connected vehicle packages

The Republican majority in congress has approved a massive tax and spending bill that will add trillions to the US debt and make electric vehicles more expensive for American car buyers after Sept 30 2025

Automakers need to have more robust testing and validation processes in place for software before pushing out over-the-air updates

V1.5 of Ford BlueCruise adds automated overtaking capability

Redwood Materials is expanding from just battery recycling to integrating energy storage from second life EV batteries

After spending a week driving a 2025 Mini Countryman EV, I found it delivered better than expected range, but there are still issues with public charging infrastructure

Uber and its fomer CEO Travis Kalanick are reportedly in talks to buy the US assets of automated driving system developer Pony AI

Intel has decided not pursue competing against the likes of Nvidia, Qualcomm, NXP, Huawei and Horizon Robotics in the automotive chip market and is shuttering its automotive division.

The day after visiting Ford's still unfinished lithium iron phosphate battery plant in Marshall, MI, we visited the LG Energy Solution plant in Holland, MI that has recently undergone an expansion and is now the first in the US to be producing LFP cells at scale. While Ford is planning to use its cells in new EVs, LGES is targeting the stationary energy storage market

Despite the controversy and opposition from some local residents in Marshall Michigan, Ford is progressing with construction of its first lithium iron phosphate battery plant for EVs with production due to start in 2026.

On June 22, 2025 Tesla finally launched a robotaxi service in Austin Texas and it almost instantly started violating traffic rules.

China's vehicle production capacity is almost double the sales in 2024

After abandoning range extended EVs in 2019, BMW is reportedly bringing an EREV back to the lineup with the new iX5 REX

After 15 years Nissan is finally launching an all-new, much improved late, but is it too late to the market in the US to be a success?

The big congressional budget bill includes a ban on states regulating AI which probably means that they cannot regulate automated vehicles either.

A new survey commissioned by BMW indicates a higher level of consumer optimism in electric vehicles than a recent AAA survey

GM is moving more than half a million units of vehicle production capacity from Mexico to plants in the US and spending $4 billion to do it

The Trump administration's war on green technologies has caused construction on two more battery related facilities to halted

LG Energy Solution has begun production of lithium iron phosphate cells at its newly expanded factory in Holland, MI, the first large scale production of this battery chemistry in North America