Police in Dunellen, New Jersey, pulled off an unconventional distracted-driving crackdown last month when an officer spent a six-hour shift disguised as a roadside shrub. The undercover cop, planted beside the 100 block of North Washington Avenue—a busy, pedestrian-heavy downtown…
Kumho Tire has reported a 24% rise in second-quarter operating profit, driven by increased original equipment (OE) supply in North America and Europe, as well as higher sales of replacement tires. The Korean tire maker posted consolidated sales of KRW1,332…
Dongfeng Nissan has lifted the curtain on the upcoming NX7 SUV for the Chinese market, a compact electrified model positioned below the larger NX8. The new SUV borrows an evolved styling language and the brand’s latest tech, with the first…
Lucid Group Inc. is implementing a sweeping operational reset to slash $1.4 billion in cash burn this year, as new CEO Silvio Napoli tightens financial and operational discipline after quarterly results missed Wall Street estimates. The cost-cutting plan includes slashing…
China’s electric-vehicle market, long the engine of global EV growth, has abruptly reversed course. Year-on-year deliveries of new battery-electric cars fell 14% through the first half of 2025, according to the China Passenger Car Association, with 4.7 million EVs registered…
Toyota Motor Corp. reported a fiscal first-quarter net profit of 1.48 trillion yen ($9.4 billion) on August 4, 2026, nearly doubling its 841 billion yen profit from the same period a year earlier. The Japanese automaker attributed the surge to…
Federal regulators have launched a preliminary investigation into potential front suspension failures in nearly 1.2 million Tesla vehicles after receiving 156 complaints alleging link failures that could compromise steering control. The probe covers certain 2018–2020 Model 3 sedans and 2021–2023…
Revoy, a San Francisco startup, has introduced a swappable electric trailer for diesel trucks, which can cut emissions by 85 percent. The 575 kWh plug-in module is available to fleet operators with a per-mile subscription model. This innovative solution turns…
LiveWire, the electric motorcycle brand majority-owned by Harley-Davidson, received a formal warning from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on July 23 after its stock traded below $1 per share for a month. The deficiency letter triggered a six-month window…
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has named Mark Cameron as its new North American CEO, tapping the 15-year company veteran to spearhead a bold push to transform the automaker’s U.S. operations into a revenue juggernaut. Cameron, who currently heads the global…