Another Deadly Airbag Recall Could Hit 49 Million Cars
Good morning! It’s Thursday, August 1, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
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Samsung Electronics workers declare a second strike in South Korea
Members of the National Samsung Electronics Union stage a rally as they begin a three-day general strike outside the company’s foundry and semiconductor factory in Hwaseong on July 8, 2024. …
Kinetic rolls out robots to fix electric cars, and someday robotaxis
Kinetic cofounders: CEO Nikhil Naikal, CTO Sander Marques, COO Chris Weber Courtesy: Kinetic Automation While electric vehicle demand is still increasing in the U.S., the sales growth rate for cars …
How American carmakers lost ground in China
American automakers and their non-Chinese counterparts are fighting an existential battle, as local rivals in China outpace them. Chinese companies flush with government investments and subsidies have leapfrogged the competition …
Hyundai may add hybrid production to $7.6 billion Georgia plant
Jose Munoz, chief performance officer of Nissan Motor Co., speaks during the 2018 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, Michigan, Jan. 15, 2018. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | …
‘Extremely Dumb’ Arson Attack Means Tesla’s German Plant Won’t Have Power For 10 More Days
Good morning! It’s Thursday, March 7, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
How Hyundai Motor Group became the world’s third-largest automaker
Hyundai Motor Group is the world’s third-largest automaker in the world by volume — but it wasn’t always so. In the late 1980s and 1990s, Hyundai cars suffered ridicule in …
Amazon car-buying seeks to reshape dealerships
The total addressable market for new and used car sales in the U.S. is estimated to be somewhere between $2.5 trillion and $3 trillion, according to the National Automobile Dealers …
China poses growing threat to U.S. auto industry
A BYD Seagull small electric car is on display during the 20th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) Vcg | Visual China Group …
Investors realize they were too optimistic
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., November 16, 2023. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC …