Tag: Cars

Google's new self-driving prototype car is presented during a demonstration at the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. (AP photo)

Departing Congress leaves self-driving cars without direction

Joe Williams · December 20, 2018 2:24 pm

Trump and Detroit

Richard Burr · December 14, 2018 8:00 am

The Fuel That Wouldn’t Die

Tony Mecia · December 14, 2018 7:59 am

Employees look over 2018 Honda Accord vehicles on the customer preparation line at the Honda of America Manufacturing Inc. Marysville Auto Plant in Marysville, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. More than three decades afterÂ Honda Motor Co.Â first built an Accord sedan at its Marysville factory in 1982, humans are still an integral part of the assembly process -- and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.

Business, labor groups tell administration to pressure Japan on cars

Sean Higgins · December 10, 2018 9:19 pm

General Motors CEO Mary Barra speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. GM announced it would stop making the Chevy Cruze at its Lordstown, Ohio, plant, part of a massive restructuring for the Detroit-based automaker.

GM plant closures may hinge on the definition of one word

Sean Higgins · December 7, 2018 5:00 am

A 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan moves on the assembly line at the Windsor Assembly Plant, Friday, May 6, 2016 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Fiat Chrysler to open new plant in Detroit

Sean Higgins · December 6, 2018 9:41 pm

General Motors CEO Mary Barra speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. GM announced it would stop making the Chevy Cruze at its Lordstown, Ohio, plant, part of a massive restructuring for the Detroit-based automaker.

GM CEO rebuffs Ohio senators in meeting over plant closure

Sean Higgins · December 5, 2018 11:16 pm

Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess walks to speak with reporters after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, in Washington.

EU automakers say tariff threat reduced following White House talk

Sean Higgins · December 5, 2018 3:47 pm

Google-owned Waymo launches self-driving ride-share fleet

Joe Williams · December 5, 2018 1:29 pm

In this Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018 photo, traffic on 42nd Street makes it's way around a ride-hailing car picking up passengers outside Grand Central Terminal in New York.

Beltway Confidential

Uber and Tesla chart the future of American transportation

Tiana Lowe Doescher · December 4, 2018 10:23 pm

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross speaks in Oxon Hill, Md.

Highly anticipated auto tariff hinges on EU trade talks, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says

Sean Higgins · December 4, 2018 5:14 pm

Machine operator Ed Lloyd works on the rear end of a General Motors Chevrolet Cruze at Jamestown Industries, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, in Youngstown, Ohio. Jamestown Industries supplies parts for the Chevy Cruze. GM said Monday that Lordstown will stop making the Chevy Cruze by March, at a cost of 1,400 union jobs on top of the 2,700 lost there since President Donald Trump took office. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Washington backlash tests GM’s resolve on factory closings, layoffs

James Langford · December 4, 2018 5:00 am