Not so very long ago, Ohio-based Lordstown Motors Corp. was one of the darlings of an emerging crop of electric vehicle (EV) makers who promised to shake up the dusty, moribund, hidebound, sclerotic legacy carmakers. Lordstown, with an emphasis on pickups and commercial vehicles, had the look of a promising new entry. Perhaps not the …
The EV race boils down to family feuds
The plan Ford Motor outlined this week puts the No. 2 U.S. automaker squarely back in the electrification game after literally years of dithering as an exhausting leadership struggle ensued at the very top of the company with the departure of former CEO Alan Mulally more than five years ago. Since Mulally left, Ford has …
First the brilliant Q45, now Infiniti as…Nissan-plus?
Infiniti took quite the nosedive in 2020, with sales plunging to 5,783 from 2019’s nearly 11,000. Yikes! Obviously, the pandemic took its toll. So, too, did reports that parent Nissan Motor plans to turn Infiniti into a sort of “Nissan-plus” brand. But rear not, Nissan Motor’s COO and chief performance officer, Ashwani Gupta, told Automotive …
EVs will get the needed boost from a problem-solving Biden
Traditionalists, naysayers and fair-minded experts in and around the car business have seen this before. They’ve seen the ebb and flow of the promise of electric vehicles (EVs) for decades. And they largely remain skeptical. Skeptical because they’ve seen EVs come and go and come and go again. EVs, in fact, have been the next …
June 11, 2021 | Commentary, First on the Grid Like Comments (0) |
With Cybertruck lurking, Tesla puts lipstick on the Model S
Tesla remains a force in the auto industry and a leader in the battery-electric car space. Nonetheless, the share price is down 14% this year in the face of increasing competition from…well, almost every legacy carmaker and even a handful of start-ups. And let’s face it: the Model S is nearly a decade old. The …
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