General Motors is planning to bring Google’s Gemini AI assistant to around four million vehicles across the US. Model year 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles with Google built-in will be eligible for the AI upgrade, which will be rolled out via over-the-air software updates for GM’s infotainment system “over several months,” […]
As the price of gasoline hit a two-year high on Tuesday, dealers are looking to stock their lots with electrified vehicles, but they won’t come cheap according to reports.
China has succeeded in the global mass market and is using the Beijing Auto Show to move upmarket. It is also pushing driver-assistance systems into low-cost vehicles.
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The auto design world is full of advanced 3D visualization tools and VR sculpting platforms, but your average new car still enters the world as a sketch. Those sketches traditionally see endless iteration and refinement from all angles before being turned into 3D models by hand, some dying in the digital world, others sculpted into […]
Mariana Minerals is operating what it says is the world’s first autonomous mine, extracting and refining copper in Utah to meet surging demand for the costly metal.
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Tesla gets all the self-driving headlines, but Chinese XPENG rolled out its version, called VLA 2.0, in March 2026. Can its success in China be repeated globally?
Part of what has held back electric cars has been the cost. But an influx of used vehicles over the next three years could bring prices down dramatically. In 2025, just 123,000 leases on EVs expired. That is expected to more than double to 300,000 in 2026, and double again to 600,000 in 2027 and […]
EV’s must reach 80% of the U.K. new car market by 2030. This quota is unsettling the market as Chinese rivals advance. There will be casualties, unlikely to be Chinese.