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Self-driving truck startup Gatik will expand its operations through an agreement with new partners Georgia-Pacific and KBX to deliver paper goods to 34 Sam’s Club hubs and stores in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area. For Gatik, which concentrates on traveling shorter “middle mile” truck routes and foregoing interstate travel, the new partnership represents substantial growth […]

MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has asked Mexico to probe alleged worker rights violations at a Mexican auto-parts plant owned by Italian-French carmaker Stellantis, the fourth such investigation under a revised trade deal. The U.S. request for Mexico to look into possible rights abuses at Teksid Hierro de Mexico in the northern border state

To fine-tune plans to distribute, sell and market its first electric vehicle, the GV60, Genesis Motor North America took the unusual step of partnering with a dealer. And at the time, he wasn’t even a Hyundai dealer. The GV60 EV launched last week in Los Angeles with its first shipment to Genesis Santa Monica, a

The Rivian R1T, one of the first electric pickup trucks on the market, is “way underpriced,” according to a manufacturing expert known for his sometimes blunt assessments of electric vehicles from Tesla Inc. and others. The R1T also could use some engineering and production changes to reduce its manufacturing cost, according to Sandy Munro, head

It’s shaping up to be an ugly summer for the auto retail industry, which is relearning an old lesson: You can’t sell what you don’t have. A dearth of new vehicles, fueled by a gummed-up supply chain, drove double-digit sales declines for six of the seven automakers reporting for May. Collectively, those automakers’ U.S. sales

Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk‘s “super bad feeling” about the economy could be the auto industry’s “canary in the coal mine” moment, signaling a recession for an industry whose bosses have shown no signs of concern. Musk said the electric carmaker needed to cut about 10 percent of its workforce in an email to executives

Jaguar Land Rover celebrated Queen Elizabeth’s 70 years on the throne with 26 vehicles in the Platinum Jubilee Pageant and the donation of a Defender 130 to the British Red Cross. The pageant on Sunday, June 5, was scheduled to feature two of the queen’s Land Rover Defenders, three Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles from

FCA US, a subsidiary of Stellantis, pleaded guilty and is paying more than $300 million in criminal penalties to resolve a federal investigation that it conspired to mislead regulators and consumers about the emissions control systems in 101,482 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Ram 1500 models. The affected vehicles were equipped with the company’s second-generation EcoDiesel

Toyota will introduce the fifth generation of its innovative hybrid technology in the 2023 Toyota Corolla Cross, giving the all-wheel-drive subcompact crossover an extra 25 hp while delivering a 23 percent boost in combined fuel economy over the model that went on sale last year. The Corolla Cross Hybrid, equipped with a standard electronic awd

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK — The Justice Department on Thursday charged the U.S. business of Stellantis with criminal conspiracy in its multi-year emissions fraud probe surrounding vehicles with diesel engines. Reuters reported last week FCA US, now part of Stellantis, had agreed to plead guilty to a criminal conspiracy charge arising from its efforts to evade emissions