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After deciding in 2021 to drop both its largest sedan and top-end SUV from U.S. showrooms, Toyota will replace them starting this year with vehicles carrying a venerated Japanese nameplate — though one largely unfamiliar to American consumers. Toyota Motor Corp. will launch an SUV version of the Crown sedan and sell it in North

In her 30 years in the auto industry, Julie Herrera has learned several tricks of the trade. One piece of advice she has for other dealers: When hiring, hire service technicians first. “If you’re getting an opportunity on a new point or a buy-sell, start immediately with securing technicians,” said Herrera, dealer principal of Toyota

Electric vehicles make up only about one-tenth of the global market. But automakers and suppliers are preparing for the next generation of components, with solid-state batteries, axial flux motors — and now, 800-volt electrical systems that promise to cut charging time in half, sharply reduce battery size and cost and increase drivetrain efficiency. So far,

Honda Motor Co. is dropping the Insight gasoline-electric hybrid in the U.S. to focus on hybrid versions of three core models — the CR-V crossover and the Accord and Civic. Honda said Thursday it will discontinue production of the Insight at its Greensburg, Ind., plant in June. The Insight was the first gasoline-electric hybrid sold

Tesla is preparing to resume production at its Shanghai plant on Monday following a three-week stoppage, having received the go-ahead from local authorities, two people familiar with the matter said. The Shanghai factory, located in the Pudong district east of the city’s Huangpu River, suspended production March 28 after the city started rolling out lockdown

EV startup Rivian Automotive has named its first chief sustainability officer, Anisa Kamadoli Costa, who will oversee the automaker’s climate goals, including carbon neutrality in its own operations by 2028. Costa most recently held the position of chief sustainability officer at Tiffany & Co. and served as president of the Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Rivian

Volkswagen Group said on Thursday its preliminary first-quarter operating return on sales jumped to 13.5 percent from 7.7 percent in the same period of 2021, but the impact of the war in Ukraine and supply chain bottlenecks was still uncertain. “The effects of the further course of the Ukraine war still cannot be predicted with

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares on Wednesday took a bullish stance on the U.S. market despite rising fears of a downturn. Speaking at the automaker’s annual shareholders’ meeting, Tavares said Stellantis was confirming its forecast for double-digit operating income margin this year, and added that expected sales in North America, especially in its highly profitable U.S.

The Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer SUVs became the biggest models in the Jeep family when they arrived last fall. But that status will be short lived. Extended versions of the burly utility vehicles, the Wagoneer L and Grand Wagoneer L, debut at the New York auto show Wednesday as the brand looks to contend directly

In a quiet San Francisco neighborhood earlier this month, three police officers stopped an autonomous vehicle driving with its headlights off and were captured on video trying to communicate with the car which had no human driver. The car’s owner, General Motors-backed Cruise Automation, has been rolling out its robotaxi service in the city since