General Motor Vehicles

India's steel-to-energy JSW Group is in early talks with Chinese automaker Leapmotor to license technology to build electric vehicles in India, according to people familiar with the discussions. Under the technology licensing agreement, JSW would use Leapmotor's platform to manufacture EVs in India under its own brand name.

A group of major automakers on Wednesday said they were forming a new company to provide electric vehicle charging in the United States in a challenge to Tesla and a bid to take advantage of Biden administration subsidies. The group includes General Motors, Stellantis, Hyundai Motor and its Kia affiliate, Honda, BMW and Mercedes Benz.

Mercedes-Benz on Thursday said US drivers could power some of their luxury vehicles with ChatGPT in a test program starting June 16. Compatible with some 900,000 vehicles that have the automaker's "MBUX" systems, ChatGPT will download over the air after drivers opt in via a Mercedes app or by voice command, the company said. The test will last thre...

Electric vehicle charging companies are cautiously embracing Tesla's charging technology as the main US standard, mere days after Ford and GM said they were adopting it, but questions remained about how any interoperability would work. The rare agreements between Tesla and each of the two US automakers, who among them control more than 60 percent o...

Apple supplier Foxconn said on Wednesday artificial intelligence applications would strongly drive demand for its server business this year but reiterated 2023 overall would be a flat one for the company on global economic woes.

Used electric vehicle sales in the United States rose 32 percent in the first three months of 2023 as prices fell, data provider Cox Automotive said on Friday. The group said the average retail listing prices for used EVs was around $43,400 (nearly Rs. 35 lakh), down 4 percent from the same quarter last year and significantly below the average new...

General Motors plans to phase out widely-used Apple CarPlay and Android Auto technologies that allow drivers to bypass a vehicle's infotainment systems, shifting instead to built-in infotainment systems developed with Google for future electric vehicles. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto systems allow users to mirror their smartphone screens in a vehi...

General Motors is exploring uses for ChatGPT as part of its broader collaboration with Microsoft, a company executive told Reuters."ChatGPT is going to be in everything," GM Vice President Scott Miller said in an interview last week.

General Motors Co is exploring uses for ChatGPT as part of its broader collaboration with Microsoft Corp, a company executive told Reuters on Friday.

Auto Expo 2023, the country's recently concluded auto show, saw five global launches and 75 products make their debut. The biennial auto show saw a record 6.36 lakh visitors on the general public days from January 13 to January 18, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM).

Fiat parent Stellantis has concluded it can't currently make affordable electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe and is looking at lower-cost manufacturing in markets such as India, its chief executive told reporters. If India, with its low-cost supplier base, is able to meet the company's quality and cost targets by the end of 2023, it could open the doo...

Automakers are planning to double their spending on the development and production of millions of electric vehicles to nearly $1.2 trillion (roughly Rs. Rs. 98.4 lakh crore) through 2030, analysis by Reuters reveals. Manufacturers have forecast plans to build 54 million battery EVs in 2030, representing more than 50 percent of total vehicle product...

Drivers using advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla Autopilot or General Motors Super Cruise often treat their vehicles as fully self-driving despite warnings, a new study has found. About 40% of users of Autopilot and Super Cruise - two systems with lockout features for failing to pay attention - reported systems had at some point switched...

General Motors' startup unit Cruise LLC said Thursday it had recalled and updated software in 80 self-driving vehicles after a June crash in San Francisco that left two people injured.

China has drafted rules to regulate the self-driving industry, and said that the country should adopt autonomous vehicles in passenger transport with care. The country's Ministry of Transportation said it will encourage the use of autonomous vehicles like taxis in easily controlled scenarios, such as low traffic areas, and has sought public advice ...

India's steel-to-energy JSW Group is in early talks with Chinese automaker Leapmotor to license technology to build electric vehicles in India, according to people familiar with the discussions. Under the technology licensing agreement, JSW would use Leapmotor's platform to manufacture EVs in India under its own brand name.

A group of major automakers on Wednesday said they were forming a new company to provide electric vehicle charging in the United States in a challenge to Tesla and a bid to take advantage of Biden administration subsidies. The group includes General Motors, Stellantis, Hyundai Motor and its Kia affiliate, Honda, BMW and Mercedes Benz.

Mercedes-Benz on Thursday said US drivers could power some of their luxury vehicles with ChatGPT in a test program starting June 16. Compatible with some 900,000 vehicles that have the automaker's "MBUX" systems, ChatGPT will download over the air after drivers opt in via a Mercedes app or by voice command, the company said. The test will last thre...

Electric vehicle charging companies are cautiously embracing Tesla's charging technology as the main US standard, mere days after Ford and GM said they were adopting it, but questions remained about how any interoperability would work. The rare agreements between Tesla and each of the two US automakers, who among them control more than 60 percent o...

Apple supplier Foxconn said on Wednesday artificial intelligence applications would strongly drive demand for its server business this year but reiterated 2023 overall would be a flat one for the company on global economic woes.

Used electric vehicle sales in the United States rose 32 percent in the first three months of 2023 as prices fell, data provider Cox Automotive said on Friday. The group said the average retail listing prices for used EVs was around $43,400 (nearly Rs. 35 lakh), down 4 percent from the same quarter last year and significantly below the average new...

General Motors plans to phase out widely-used Apple CarPlay and Android Auto technologies that allow drivers to bypass a vehicle's infotainment systems, shifting instead to built-in infotainment systems developed with Google for future electric vehicles. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto systems allow users to mirror their smartphone screens in a vehi...

General Motors is exploring uses for ChatGPT as part of its broader collaboration with Microsoft, a company executive told Reuters."ChatGPT is going to be in everything," GM Vice President Scott Miller said in an interview last week.

General Motors Co is exploring uses for ChatGPT as part of its broader collaboration with Microsoft Corp, a company executive told Reuters on Friday.

Auto Expo 2023, the country's recently concluded auto show, saw five global launches and 75 products make their debut. The biennial auto show saw a record 6.36 lakh visitors on the general public days from January 13 to January 18, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM).

Fiat parent Stellantis has concluded it can't currently make affordable electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe and is looking at lower-cost manufacturing in markets such as India, its chief executive told reporters. If India, with its low-cost supplier base, is able to meet the company's quality and cost targets by the end of 2023, it could open the doo...

Automakers are planning to double their spending on the development and production of millions of electric vehicles to nearly $1.2 trillion (roughly Rs. Rs. 98.4 lakh crore) through 2030, analysis by Reuters reveals. Manufacturers have forecast plans to build 54 million battery EVs in 2030, representing more than 50 percent of total vehicle product...

Drivers using advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla Autopilot or General Motors Super Cruise often treat their vehicles as fully self-driving despite warnings, a new study has found. About 40% of users of Autopilot and Super Cruise - two systems with lockout features for failing to pay attention - reported systems had at some point switched...

General Motors' startup unit Cruise LLC said Thursday it had recalled and updated software in 80 self-driving vehicles after a June crash in San Francisco that left two people injured.

China has drafted rules to regulate the self-driving industry, and said that the country should adopt autonomous vehicles in passenger transport with care. The country's Ministry of Transportation said it will encourage the use of autonomous vehicles like taxis in easily controlled scenarios, such as low traffic areas, and has sought public advice ...