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Just four months ago, Cruise had reason to celebrate. California regulators had approved the self-driving car company’s request to provide around-the-clock fared passenger service in San Francisco, marking a major win for a company that had been operating under strict guidelines. The company had permission up until then to charge for driverless rides covering a small percentage of the city’s streets between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Cruise was partly up against concerns over incidents where the driverless cars blocked traffic or…

The founder of an electric truck company is expected to face significant prison time when he is sentenced Monday in a fraud case that highlights the financial carnage left behind by a crop of electric vehicle startups and their promoters.A federal judge in Manhattan will sentence Trevor Milton, founder and former CEO of the truck company Nikola, after a jury found him guilty last year of one count of securities fraud and two counts of wire fraud. Milton was accused of pumping up the value of Nikola stock by making…

General Motors (GM) disclosed plans to lay off 1,300 workers from two Michigan plants as it ends production of the iconic Chevrolet Camaro and electric Chevrolet Bolt. GM will lay off 945 workers from the Orion Subsystem facility in Lake Orion, Mich., according to a new Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification letter. The company is ending production of the Chevrolet Bolt model built at the plant on Dec. 18. Another 369 workers represented at the Lansing Grand River Assembly/Stamping facility are also…

Dec. 15, 2023 11:00 pm ETListen to article(2 minutes)At a 2018 meeting with a senior General Motors team, Chief Executive Mary Barrastunned the room with a sharp U-turn. She killed plans for a new high-end Cadillac that already had gushing reviews from the automotive press. Her reason: the car’s gas-guzzling V-8 engine. Barra, deep into her quest to turn GM into an electric-car powerhouse, decided it would send the wrong message to showcase another splashy Cadillac—the GM brand known for innovation—that leans on…

Earlier this year, General Motors (GM) announced that it would not offer Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in the company’s upcoming electric vehicles (EVs). Back then, the brand had hinted that it was taking this step to accelerate subscription services. A couple of days ago, however, the company stated that it was taking this step because of safety. Whatever the reason, GM is dropping Android Auto and Apple CarPlay and people are unhappy with it. Ford, on the other hand, is doing the opposite. The CEO of Ford, Jim Farley,…

Cruise Beleaguered autonomous car startup Cruise has laid off 900 workers, equal to about a quarter of its workforce. The news comes a day after nine executives were also dismissed. The General Motors-backed firm has suffered a series of setbacks in recent months, triggered by an accident on the streets of San Francisco in October when one of its self-driving cars came to a halt on top of a woman, pinning her to the ground just moments after she’d been hit by a human-driven car. The incident caused the woman serious…

Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving development subsidiary, will lay off almost a quarter of its workforce—about 900 employees—the company announced Thursday. The cuts are part of a broader restructuring to focus the robotaxi unit on a narrower path to commercialization. Instead of expanding its commercial robotaxi service to multiple US cities, the company will relaunch its currently paused service in just one.Cruise wants to “enhance our safety standards and processes before we scale,” company co-president and CTO Mo…

Stephen Edelstein/Digital Trends They say good things come to those who wait. General Motors is hoping customers will take that maxim to heart. The 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV, an electric crossover SUV sharing the name of a similarly sized gasoline model, but nothing else, was first shown in the summer of 2022 and quietly entered production a few months ago. But few cars have made it to customers due to production issues that have plagued not just the Blazer, but all of GM’s new EVs, which use a shared component set…

There’s something I’ve always found a bit odd about Tesla’s Supercharging stations — most of them don’t have a roof. So, what are you supposed to do if you pull up in need of a charge and there’s a torrential downpour going on? I guess you’re out of luck. Have fun rushing out to get drenched while you’re trying to get the charger in.While some other automakers are adding roofs to their charging stations, there seems to be a split on how that is being implemented. While Mercedes is doing a really nice job of this…

Updated Dec. 10, 2023 1:17 pm ETAuto dealers across many parts of the country say electric vehicles are becoming too hard a sell for buyers worried about the range, reliability and price of these models.When Paul LaRochelle heard Ford Motor was coming out with an electric pickup truck, the dealer was excited about the prospects for his business. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Updated Dec. 10, 2023 1:17 pm ETAuto dealers across many parts of the…