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LOS ANGELES — After a stumble out of the gates with its first-in-a-series 2023 bZ4X, Toyota is introducing a smaller concept with a similar shape likely to one day slide beneath the back-on-sale bZ4X in an expanded battery-electric lineup for the Japanese automaker. The Toyota bZ Compact SUV Concept shown late Wednesday before the start

WASHINGTON — Two fatal crashes, both involving Tesla Model 3 sedans with driver-assist technology, were reported during the Sept. 16 to Oct. 15 period, according to federal data released Tuesday. Both crash deaths happened in California, though many of the details are redacted or considered confidential, NHTSA data shows. Tesla’s Autopilot driver-assist system has been

Self-driving vehicles may take a long time to hit the road in large numbers. The sensors driving much of their progress, however, are starting to go mainstream. Lidar technology is trickling into human-driven vehicles in some cases. In others, it’s finding scale in different industries. The latest example of lidar for human-driven vehicles came earlier

Driverless cars have been just around the corner for nearly a decade. Yet after ambitious promises by CEOs of automakers and startups and buy-in from investors to the tune of more than $200 billion, there is not yet one fully autonomous vehicle on public roads in the U.S. today. And it isn’t even all that

Volvo Cars’ CEO Jim Rowan sees electric vehicles reaching price parity with their fossil fuel-burning counterparts a lot sooner than many. How soon? Roughly two to three years from today. Furthermore, Rowan said: “There’s no way that any company should be relying on government subsidy to be successful.” The former Dyson executive ,who took the

Automakers and battery suppliers are in search of a vehicular holy grail — a battery chemistry for electric vehicles that sharply reduces charging times and greatly increases range while remaining cheap and easy to mass produce. Unprecedented sums of money are being poured into battery research to find such a solution, and battery performance has

There’s a phrase that keeps getting tossed around in the autonomous vehicle business: trough of disillusionment. Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said it on General Motors‘ recent earnings call, and Aurora Innovation CEO Chris Urmson used a variation of to describe where the industry is right now. Their comments came after Ford and Volkswagen-backed Argo AI

Volvo is setting lofty U.S. sales expectations for its EX90 crossover, the Swedish automaker’s most significant launch since the XC40 in 2017, foreshadowing the brand’s future technology, design and sustainability efforts. Volvo Car USA CEO Anders Gustafsson said the seven-seater, introduced Wednesday in Sweden, will become the brand’s No. 1 volume EV in the U.S.

Ned Curic joined Stellantis in 2021 as chief technology officer from Amazon, where he led Alexa Automotive. The former Toyota and Microsoft executive is charged with executing Stellantis’ plan to generate $20 billion in software-related revenue by 2030, from services and subscriptions, features on demand, and data and fleet services. Curic spoke with Automotive News

As automakers call on the U.S. government to rethink a plan to limit tax credits for electric vehicles, they’re facing opposition from an unexpected source: their own suppliers. Car giants such as Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. say the government should loosen the terms of the $430 billion Inflation Reduction Act to allow