Cars
  • How Automakers Are Propping Up Used Car Prices

    By Nick Carey, Reuters

    Two lanes apart at a noisy, fast-paced auto auction near Detroit, two vehicles show why major U.S. automakers have a problem with used cars. In one lane of the Manheim auction facility, a black 2015...

  • FILE PHOTO --  A Tesla Model X is photographed alongside a Model S at a Tesla electric car dealership in Sydney

    In the Electric Car Market, Tesla's Not The Only Game in Town

    By Nick Cunningham, Oilprice.com

    Volvo became the first major auto company to announce the phase out of the internal-combustion engine from its lineup. The Chinese-owned Swedish car company announced on July 5 that every car it...

  • FILE PHOTO: Volvo logo is seen at the 2017 New York International Auto Show in New York

    Here’s the Strategy Behind Volvo’s Big Move Into Electric Cars

    By Niklas Pollard, Reuters

    All Volvo car models launched after 2019 will be electric or hybrids, making it the first major traditional automaker to set a date for phasing out vehicles powered solely by the internal combustion...

  • An overall view of the assembly line where the BMW X4 is made at the BMW manufacturing plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina March 28, 2014. REUTERS/Chris Keane

    Bad News for Automakers: The Average US Household Can't Afford a New Car

    By Sarah O'Brien, CNBC

    As wages stagnate and the cost of living continues to rise, paying for a new car is a challenge for consumers, according to a new study. The report by Bankrate.com shows that in all but one of the 25...

  • Assembly workers work on the underside of 2015 Ford Mustang vehicles on the production line at the Ford Motor Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Flat Rock, Michigan, August 20, 2015.  REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

    Why Your Next Ford Could Be Made in China

    By Paul Lienert and David Shepardson, Reuters

    Ford Motor Co ( F.N ) said Tuesday it will move some production of its Focus small car to China and import the vehicles to the United States in a long-term bet on low oil prices and stable U.S.-China...

  • Did the Obama White House Protect GM?

    Did the Obama administration purposefully hide problems with GM cars? Were they panicked that a massive recall of GM products would undermine one of President Obama’s most self-congratulatory...

  • General Motors

    GM Facing New Probe by Federal Prosecutors

    By Emily Flitter and Aruna Viswanatha and BEN KLAYMAN, Reuters

    Federal prosecutors are examining whether General Motors is criminally liable for failing to properly disclose problems with some of its vehicles that were linked to 13 deaths and led to a recall...

  • Tesla Stock Races Ahead on Visions of Electric Future

    By Jonathan Berr, The Fiscal Times

    Tesla Motors is once again the talk of the automotive world, thanks in part to its planned “Gigafactory.”

  • Tesla’s Doing Just Fine Without Apple’s Juice

    By Jonathan Berr, The Fiscal Times

    Tesla Motors, the electric vehicle maker run by billionaire Elon Musk, just closed the books on its best year yet and Wall Street is cheering.

  • Volkswagen plant Tennessee

    UAW's Big Loss in Tennessee Is a Win for Workers

    When workers rejected organized labor in Chattanooga last week union officials were described as “stunned.” Shelve the shock. Why would workers at a VW plant in Tennessee have voted to join the UAW?...