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Autoline This Week is the first stop for auto executives, insiders and consumers looking for the latest automotive news. Each week John McElroy, one of the deans of the Detroit automotive pr...

You cannot believe how many laws regulate the auto industry. So many that it’s almost impossible to keep track of. But two legal eagles, Kev...

You’ve heard of the chip shortage that crippled automotive production. But you probably haven’t heard about the critical shortage of headlam...

Lordstown Motors changed its business plan. Instead of building electric trucks, it’s going to have Foxconn build them for it—in the plant t...

Automotive suppliers have strong opinions about the automakers they sell parts and services to. Some automakers have great relations with th...

Powered roads, where EVs pick up electric power from the road as they drive, is a dream that goes back decades. But now a convergence of tec...

Every year the SAE Foundation chooses a recipient for its Leadership Award. This year it chose GM President Mark Reuss. At the awards banque...

Five years ago, foreign automakers saw China as an unending source of growth and profits. Not anymore. Today, companies like Volkswagen and...

In addition to the terrible loss of lives, the tragic lines of refugees and brutal war crimes, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is upending the...

It takes a certain type of person to be an entrepreneur. But even those people need to know their strengths and weaknesses and how to avoid...

Gill Pratt, Toyota’s Chief Scientist, says we’re going to hear a lot more about the company’s move into electric cars. Up to now Toyota’s pu...

Batteries for electric cars are extremely expensive. But Tal Sholklapper, the CEO of Voltaiq, a battery design consultancy, says that cost i...

Despite the perception that auto shows are losing their appeal, Foresight Research says the public is just as interested in auto shows as it...

Multimatic, PEM Motion and Ettractive are three Canadian companies with expertise in turning ideas into reality. Here’s their advice on what...

General Motors is jumping into online retailing with both feet. It’s launching a web portal called CarBravo to sell used cars, including non...

They used to call it the Rust Belt. But Midwest states like Michigan are actually at the leading edge of a revolution in new mobility. Smoke...

The public is hyper aware that a wave of electric cars is about to hit the market. But the public doesn’t know a lot about the public EV cha...

CES is renowned for being a mecca for tech companies. Even so, for 2022 it’s attracting a record amount of automotive exhibitors and speaker...

There is a critical shortage of automotive technicians in the US. Car dealerships, body shops and automotive repair facilities can’t find th...

The auto industry is learning how to slash the time it takes to develop new cars and components with a technology called Digital Twins. By s...

Automakers are heavily investing in EVs. The Biden Administration wants 50% of all new cars to be electric by 2030. Yet, the US depends on C...

The Ford Motor Company has laid out an ambitious plan to transform the company by the end of this decade. It has to transition to electric,...

Cybersecurity is a threat that no automaker or supplier can handle on its own. So the auto industry formed an Auto ISAC: an information shar...

Automotive safety technology can prevent accidents and save lives. But it can also be maddeningly annoying. All those beeps, buzzes and warn...

China’s automotive industry used to rely on foreign automakers and suppliers to develop cars and technology. Not anymore. China set a goal t...

The auto industry knows the future is with electric vehicles. But it’s also facing a slew of new legal issues that EVs bring with them. Batt...

Power Play is a new book about the history of Tesla. Its author, Wall Street Journal reporter Tim Higgins, interviewed hundreds of people bo...

Magna makes all the major components that go into cars. It even assembles cars for various automakers, something that no other Tier 1 suppli...

The Automotive Hall of Fame has already Inducted some of the most famous names in the history of the industry. Now it's reaching out to indu...

Alfonso Albaisa is the Senior VP of Design at Nissan. He talks about how he had his team design the new Nissan Z sports car, incorporating n...

Mark Rosekind is a former NHTSA administrator. Now he’s with autonomous vehicle startup Zoox, which was recently bought by Amazon. Zoox has...

The auto industry is working hard to reduce its carbon footprint. And while everyone is aware of the big push to electric cars, there are ot...

China cornered the global market for the critical metals and minerals needed to make EV motors and batteries. Now the Biden Administration w...

Over the next three years there will be a flood of electric vehicles hitting the market. Can the electrical grid handle the load? How about...

Autonomous vehicles are not years away from going into commercial operation. They’re already on the road today providing rides to the public...

The auto industry got clobbered by a shortage of chips. It could also face a shortage of critical materials needed to make batteries and mot...

At some point the pandemic will end and people will be able to go back to the office. But many will opt to keep on working from home. The au...

Automotive suppliers who make parts for piston engines know their future is threatened by electric cars. They have three choices. 1. jump on...

Connected car technology can dramatically improve vehicle efficiency and safety at the same time it slashes emissions. Better still, it cost...

A year ago the future of the Canadian auto industry looked doubtful. But then GM, Ford and Stellantis announced billions of dollars in inves...

Automakers must meet government mandates for Zero Emission Vehicles. They’re investing billions of dollars to develop battery electric cars....

Automakers around the world are struggling with a shortage of computer chips that is bringing their assembly lines to a grinding halt. How d...

Car dealers are creative and adaptive. They adjusted to lockdowns and social distancing caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and learned how to m...

The auto industry is transforming itself to make electric vehicles. But EVs need 30% fewer labor hours to manufacture and could eliminate te...

Hydrogen fuel cell cars are not going mainstream anytime soon. But they make a lot of sense in other parts of the transportation sector, suc...

When the auto industry shut down last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic it lost a lot of production. Even now, car dealers are running on ba...

Elaine Buckberg, the Chief Economist at General Motors, provides her economic outlook, the need for more stimulus, why the stock market is s...

Ford and Nissan are going through the largest new product launches in the history of their respective companies. Mark LaNeve is the Head of...

Automakers are going through a historic transition on multiple fronts. They have to develop a lineup of electric cars. They have to learn al...

To develop connected and autonomous cars and provide smart mobility doesn’t require a lot of natural resources. It requires a lot of brain p...

Today’s cars are the safest they’ve ever been, but they could be even safer. Part of the problem is the cost of new safety technology, part...