Today: October 05, 2024
Today: October 05, 2024

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Business|Economy|Technology

Tesla's 2Q profit falls 45% to $1.48 billion as sales drop despite price cuts and low-interest loans

Tesla’s second-quarter net income fell 45% compared with a year ago as the company’s global electric vehicle sales tumbled despite price cuts and low-interest financing

Tesla's 2Q profit falls 45% to $1.48 billion as sales drop despite price cuts and low-interest loans
Business|Economy|Technology

Tesla sales fall for second straight quarter despite price cuts, but beat analyst expectations

Tesla’s global sales fell for the second straight quarter despite price cuts and low-interest financing offers, another sign of weaking demand for the company’s products and electric vehicles overall

Tesla sales fall for second straight quarter despite price cuts, but beat analyst expectations
Business|Economy|Technology

Electrify America charging network must navigate patchwork of utility rates, government regulations

If Jigar Shah doesn’t do his job correctly, the company with the second-highest number of fast-charging electric vehicle plugs could lose money or EV owners could have to pay more to fill up

Electrify America charging network must navigate patchwork of utility rates, government regulations
Business|Technology

STORY REMOVED: US--Tesla-Musk Pay, 5th Ld-Writethru

Please disregard US--Tesla-Musk Pay, 5th Ld-Writethru published on Jun

STORY REMOVED: US--Tesla-Musk Pay, 5th Ld-Writethru
Business|Technology

Elon Musk sees another big advisory firm come out against his multibillion dollar pay package

A second shareholder advisory firm has come out against reinstating a pay package for Tesla CEO Elon Musk that was voided earlier this year by a Delaware judge

Elon Musk sees another big advisory firm come out against his multibillion dollar pay package
Business|Lifestyle|Technology

Average US vehicle age hits record 12.6 years as high prices force people to keep them longer

Cars, trucks and SUVs in the U.S. keep getting older

Average US vehicle age hits record 12.6 years as high prices force people to keep them longer
Business|Technology

ChargePoint CEO expects more electric vehicle stations as use and EV sales keep growing

Sales growth of electric vehicles in the U.S. has started to slow, and polls show it’s due in part to anxiety over running out of battery power and too few charging stations

ChargePoint CEO expects more electric vehicle stations as use and EV sales keep growing
Business|Political|Technology

Flexible underpinnings of new big Stellantis vehicles will help company navigate political changes

On the surface, the platform beneath a new generation of automobiles has little to do with politics and elections

Flexible underpinnings of new big Stellantis vehicles will help company navigate political changes
Americas|Business|Economy|News

Longshoremen at key US ports threatening to strike over automation and pay

Determined to thwart the automating of their jobs, about 45,000 dockworkers along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts are threatening to strike on Oct. 1, a move that would shut down ports that handle about half the nation’s cargo from ships

Longshoremen at key US ports threatening to strike over automation and pay
Americas|Business|News|World

Trump pledges tariffs and repeats false claim of Chinese automakers building big Mexican factories

Former President Donald Trump has repeated false claims that Chinese automakers are putting up large factories in Mexico

Trump pledges tariffs and repeats false claim of Chinese automakers building big Mexican factories
Business|Economy|News

UAW's rift with Stellantis raises fear that some US auto jobs could vanish

U.S. autoworkers warn that a dispute between their union and Stellantis over delays in reopening a shuttered factory in Belvidere, Illinois, is much bigger than that one plant

UAW's rift with Stellantis raises fear that some US auto jobs could vanish
Lifestyle|News|Technology

US seeks new pedestrian safety rules aimed at increasingly massive SUVs and pickup trucks

The U.S. government’s road safety agency wants the auto industry to design new vehicles including SUVs and pickup trucks so they reduce pedestrian deaths and injuries

US seeks new pedestrian safety rules aimed at increasingly massive SUVs and pickup trucks
Business|News|Technology

Ford to shift electric vehicle strategy by building new lower-cost pickups and a commercial van

Ford Motor Co. is changing its electric vehicle plans and now will focus on making two new electric pickup trucks and a new commercial van

Ford to shift electric vehicle strategy by building new lower-cost pickups and a commercial van
Business|News

Possible work stoppage at Canada's two largest railroads could disrupt US supply chain next week

Canada’s two largest railroads are starting to shut down their shipping networks as a labor dispute with the Teamsters union threatens to cause lockouts or strikes that would disrupt cross-border trade with the U.S. Both the Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National railroads have stopped taking certain shipments of hazardous materials and refrigerated products

Possible work stoppage at Canada's two largest railroads could disrupt US supply chain next week
Economy|News

US stands by decision that 50 million air bag inflators are dangerous, steps closer to huge recall

U.S. auto safety regulators say they stand by a conclusion that more than 50 million air bag inflators are dangerous and should be recalled

US stands by decision that 50 million air bag inflators are dangerous, steps closer to huge recall
News|Technology

Tesla in Seattle-area crash that killed motorcyclist was using self-driving system, authorities say

Authorities in Washington have determined that a Tesla that hit and killed a motorcyclist near Seattle in April was operating on the company’s “Full Self Driving” system

Tesla in Seattle-area crash that killed motorcyclist was using self-driving system, authorities say
Education|Health|News|Opinion

After crash that killed 6 teens, NTSB chief says people underestimate marijuana's impact on drivers

A horrific crash that killed six high school girls in Oklahoma two years ago has the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the risk of driving after using marijuana

After crash that killed 6 teens, NTSB chief says people underestimate marijuana's impact on drivers
Business|News

Baltimore bridge collapse: Ships carrying cars and heavy equipment need to find a new harbor

Manufacturers and shippers are scrambling to figure out where they can load or unload cargo while the main operations at the Port of Baltimore remain closed due to Tuesday’s deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge

Baltimore bridge collapse: Ships carrying cars and heavy equipment need to find a new harbor
Business

What's at stake as 13,000 workers go on strike at major US auto makers

About 13,000 auto workers have walked off the job at three targeted factories after their union leaders couldn’t reach a deal with Detroit’s automakers

What's at stake as 13,000 workers go on strike at major US auto makers
Business|News|Technology

Tesla driver tells police he was using 'self-drive' system when his car hit a parked police vehicle

A Tesla apparently operating on one of the company’s automated driving systems crashed into a parked police vehicle Thursday near Los Angeles, narrowly missing an officer who was managing traffic at another crash

Tesla driver tells police he was using 'self-drive' system when his car hit a parked police vehicle
Environment|News|Technology

Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles

Across the U.S., thieves have been targeting electric-vehicle charging stations, intent on stealing the cables, which contain copper wiring

Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles
News|Technology

Nissan warns owners of older vehicles not to drive them due to risk of exploding air bag inflators

Nissan is urging the owners of about 84,000 older vehicles to stop driving them because their Takata air bag inflators are at high risk of exploding in a crash and hurling metal fragments

Nissan warns owners of older vehicles not to drive them due to risk of exploding air bag inflators
News|Science|Technology

Waymo is latest company under investigation for autonomous or partially automated technology

The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo’s self-driving vehicles

Waymo is latest company under investigation for autonomous or partially automated technology
Business|News|Technology

US seeks information from Tesla on how it developed and verified whether Autopilot recall worked

Federal safety investigators want Tesla to tell them how it developed the fix in a recall of more than 2 million vehicles with the company’s Autopilot partially automated driving system

US seeks information from Tesla on how it developed and verified whether Autopilot recall worked
Business|News

US to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicles in 5 years and set performance standards

Automatic emergency braking will have to come standard on all U.S. new passenger vehicles in five years

US to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicles in 5 years and set performance standards

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