Automakers Sold Driver Data To Insurance Companies For Next To Nothing Your car has been spying on you and collecting data. That alone is worrying to many, but a recent letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by two U.S. Senators show something even more sinister: That data is being sold for pennies on the dollar to insurance companies. Read more…

Why Won’t Automakers Tell Us How Often People Actually Charge Their Plug-In Hybrids? On paper, plug-in hybrids offer the best of both worlds — electric power for daily driving and gas power for longer trips — but to get the most out of a PHEV, you have to charge it. Take the Toyota RAV4 Prime, for example. It has a 42-mile electric-only range, is rated at 94 MPGe and can drive 600 miles on a single… Read more…

Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners.

The Chevy Volt Was So Ahead Of Its Time Automakers Are Just Now Catching Up When General Motors and Chevrolet unveiled the plug-in-hybrid Volt back in the early days of the Obama administration, then-CEO Rick Wagoner said the car was “a great way to open our second century.” The reveal just happened to coincide with GM’s centennial. Well, nine model years and two generations later, the Volt… Read more…

Foreign Automakers Outproduce Big 3 In The U.S. For The First Time Ever Overseas automakers built more vehicles in the U.S. than actual domestic brands did in 2023. That’s the first time that has ever happened. It should be noted this stat doesn’t include EV companies like Tesla, Rivian and Lucid. Still, it signals a big shift in American manufacturing. Read more…

These Automakers Are The Best In The World, According To Our Readers Earlier this week we asked our readers to tell us which automaker is currently the best in the world. While there was a wide variety of answers, it’s difficult to deny that Japanese manufacturers have garnered a favorable reputation. The only American automaker that had any significant support was a divisive choice,… Read more…

Headache-Worthy Cars, Car Buying Horror Stories And Blameless Automakers In This Week’s QOTD Roundup Some cars are just total pains in the ass to own. They could break down all the time, be impractical for daily life or any number of other headaches, but sometimes it’s worth it. Sometimes a car is so good to drive or nice to look at or historically significant that owners will look past the fact they are a mess in… Read more…

These Automakers Have Never Made A Bad Car, According To You There are a lot of different car companies building a lot of different cars. So it stands to reason that all of them have, probably, at some point had at least one off day and built a bad car, right? Read more…

These Are The Reasons Our Readers Love Their Favorite Automakers Favorites are usually beloved for a reason. Earlier this week, we asked you why you love your favorite automakers. Readers replied with a multitude of different makers, but there were a few general trends. First, people obviously love it when their cars don’t break down. Second, enthusiasts like cars that look cool… Read more…

Elon’s Offering, But Automakers Aren’t Interested In Licensing Tesla’s Full Self-Driving System Over the past year, Tesla showed off its Full Self-Driving advanced driver assistance tech in an underwhelming demo video shared by big boss Elon Musk. The tech has also been associated with all manner of high-profile crashes and driving misdemeanors in recent months, so it might come as no surprise that no other… Read more…

Right-To-Repair Is Catching On And Automakers Are Pissed Good morning! It’s Thursday, November 9, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

Keeping AM Radios In EVs Could Cost Automakers Billions One of the downsides of electric vehicles is that the electric motors interfere with AM radio signals. If your husband loves to listen to talk radio, you’d probably think that’s a good thing, but it could be a real problem in an emergency if you need to tune in for updates, which is why lawmakers want automakers to… Read more…

Automakers Delay Electric Vehicle Spending as Demand Slows Growth is brisk but slower than expected, causing automakers to question their multibillion-dollar investments in new factories and raising doubts about the effectiveness of federal incentives.

What to Know About the Automakers’ Deals With the U.A.W. With tentative agreements in place, a six-week strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis could soon come to an end. But the union’s rank-and-file members still need to approve the deals.

Automakers Are Pumping The Brakes On The EV Transition The transition to electric vehicles is supposed to be a matter of when not if. However, automakers are starting to seem a little hesitant about what resources they should pour into EV production. Manufacturers have had supply issues building electric vehicles as well as trouble actually selling the ones they have… Read more…

Japan’s automakers are keeping sports cars alive in the EV era Image: GettyIn auto enthusiast circles, there have been two widely shared sentiments in recent years: auto shows are dying off, and the onset of electrification will bring about the death of sports cars and driving fun. While the latter statement is heavily debatable, the former isn’t. Even before the covid-19 pandemic, fewer and fewer automake…

Automakers Have No Idea What Used EVs Should Cost Good morning! It’s Monday, October 23, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

These Are The Biggest Automakers In The World By Revenue There was probably a time when you could pretty much guess at which automakers would be in the top twenty for revenue in a given year. With ongoing consolidation and merging, there are seemingly fewer parent companies every year. But with the proliferation of Chinese automakers and their recent reaches beyond the… Read more…

Failing To Meet CAFE Standards Could Cost Automakers Over $14 Billion In Fines Good morning! It’s Tuesday, October 3, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

Automakers Should Be Freaking Out About Student Loan Debt It’s been a hell of a few years for American automakers; profits have been good, very good. Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis have made $250 billion since 2013, with another $32 billion on the way by the end of the year according to Economic Policy Institute. But there are dark clouds gathering for the Big 3 just… Read more…