A person could be forgiven for thinking that all the hoopla in the business press about Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has raised Americans’ awareness of battery electric vehicles (EVs) and other…
Car companies sold 21.1 million cars and light trucks in China in 2015. The market has become the world’s largest by far, and a sales lifeline to global manufacturers. The growth of…
Douglas A. McIntyre December auto sales are expected to be a bit below December 2015 totals, but full-year totals could top 2015's record of 17.4 million units sold.
As the stock market inches toward the end of the year, among the four car manufacturers that sell the most cars in the United States, there is one clear loser in the…
Chevy has taken discounts to an extreme level, with incentives as high as $10,000 for several of its trucks and sport utility vehicles.
December's car sales are expected to be the best for any month of 2016, and the manufacturer with the best results is market leader General Motors.
Incentives alone won't sell cars, sport utility vehicles and pickups, and that means that carmakers are going to have to take steps to reduce inventories, and the traditional method for doing that…
GM has just laid off 1,300 workers as demand slows for its small sedans and coupes. GM factory workers have reason to continue to worry about employment in 2017.
Douglas A. McIntyre The holidays are a particularly cruel time to lay off people, or to tell them they will be laid off soon. That has not stopped a number of companies from doing so.
If you think that new cars and light trucks are getting more expensive, you're right. The average transaction price for a new vehicle hit an all-time high in 2016.
American corporations have been even more aggressive that professional sports franchises in the adoption of the term "Indian" or pejorative terms for Native Americans, images of Indians and the names of specific…
New car registrations in the European Union for the month of November totaled 1.15 million units, and the top-selling carmaker there is Volkswagen.
At the end of November, General Motors reported that it had an 84-day supply cars and light trucks in its inventory. Many of those were Chevy Camaros and Buick Enclaves.
Paul Ausick Short sellers are taking an aggressive run at Tesla Motors, though the same powerful and frequent rumors keep moving Tesla's shares.
Lithium is the critical component of the lithium-ion batteries that power smartphones, laptops, and cars. Global demand for lithium batteries is expected to reach 1.7 billion units in 2016 and rise 17%…