Chinese battery giant CATL is shifting its focus upstream, warning that lithium mining has become the industry’s main bottleneck—rather than mineral processing, an area...
AI Cuts Automotive Design Cycles as Engineers Evaluate Thousands of Variants
Jaguar Land Rover Doubles Aerodynamic Iterations After AI Surrogate Models
Engineering teams in the auto...
Chinese Makers Top Japanese in May Europe Auto Sales Amid Subsidies Return
Despite EU Tariffs, Chinese EVs Hold Price Edge and Expand in Europe
Chinese automakers...
General Motors has struck a long-term chip supply and innovation partnership with Micron Technology, aiming to secure the memory and storage components needed for...
Mercedes-Benz is expanding the use of connected-vehicle data to help public authorities improve road safety and infrastructure upkeep. The company says it is providing...
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released a draft mandatory national standard for L3/L4 autonomous driving systems, with an implementation date...
As 2026 passes its midpoint, the autonomous driving industry’s biggest debate is no longer confined to research labs—it is increasingly being fought on production...
China’s toughest-ever electric-vehicle battery safety regulation—GB 38031-2025—begins enforcing on July 1, 2026, replacing a “time-to-warning” requirement with a stricter “no fire, no explosion” standard....
Volkswagen is set to end its autonomous driving software partnership with Bosch after a €1.5 billion investment failed to deliver the competitive edge the...
Volkswagen Weighs Plan to Cut Up to 100,000 Jobs
VW CEO Blume Pitches Sweeping Restructure, Potential €130B Investment Plan
Restructuring Talk Spurs Fears of Factory Closures...