Showing posts with label Vehicles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vehicles. Show all posts
Friday, May 15, 2026

Big 3 salaried labor cuts of 19% return levels to pre-pandemic era

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 Detroit automakers have cut more than 20,000 U.S. salaried jobs as AI threat looms    

Honda to reverse EV missteps at a cost of $9 billion amid lost focus on its famed gasoline engines

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  Honda shares rise over 7% as investors shrug off first operating loss in nearly 70 years ... Honda swung to an operating loss of 414.3 bil...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

It's OK when I do it: Hypocritical Trump lauds $36 billion Japanese investment in U.S. oil and gas, one week ago bashed Reagan era $25 billion equivalent in U.S. automotive sector

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But Trump's sin could end up dwarfing Reagan's by 22 times.     Trump lauds Japan’s pledge to invest $36 billion in U.S. oil, gas an...
Friday, February 13, 2026

The U.S. state capitalist EV boondoggle comes to an end, shape-shifting automakers take well-deserved $50 billion hit

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    Detroit Automakers Take $50 Billion Hit as EV Bubble Bursts ... Following years of investments into EV technology, the Detroit Big Three...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Ford Motor blames tariff timing and fires at an aluminum plant for earnings miss when it was its electric vehicle business

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  Ford reports worst quarterly earnings miss in four years, guides for better 2026   ... On an unadjusted basis, the company’s net loss of $...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Trump cuts vehicle fuel economy goal to 34 mpg by 2031 from 50 mpg by 2031 under Biden

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  CNBC . AI says the current US light duty vehicle fleet gets about 26 mpg.
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Donald Trump is building out the police state on the nation's roads through U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol's license plate reader program

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 Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns ... Once limited to policing the nation’s boun...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

Nissan Leaf EV comes down with a bad case of thermal runaway at the grocery store in Littleton Colorado

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Thursday, September 11, 2025

CNBC has a good table of all the stuff that cost more in August 2025

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I had to shell out a grand for new brake lines on one old car last month, and nearly half that on a tune-up for the other. Beats buying a ne...
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Redesigned Ford Expedition, an ICE vehicle which gets 18/19 combined mpg, sees best sales in 21 years

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Ford’s  redesigned three-row Expedition SUV is seeing explosive growth. The Detroit automaker reported Wednesday that it sold 8,724 Exped...

GM to make new EV production cuts in Tennessee and Kansas City according to Reuters

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  ... GM will stop production of two electric Cadillac SUVs at its assembly plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, during the month of December, ...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Population adjusted vehicle miles traveled in the first half of 2025 is lower than at the bottom of the Obama travel depression in 1H2014

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Ain't got no where to go, I guess, with all that new delivery availability spawned by the pandemic.    
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

OMG the dumbest line in this story: people who buy trucks often use them to haul things

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 Well no shit, Sherlock. The Electric Pickup Truck Boom Turned Into a Big Bust ... many electric versions just aren’t up for the task.  ... ...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Power hungry data centers break the utility model of socializing electricity costs: Seventy percent of last year's increased electricity cost was the result of data center demand

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   As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act ... Monitoring Analytics, the independ...
Friday, August 8, 2025

EV sales achieve record high 9.1% of total sales of passenger vehicles in July, 90.9% sold still internal combustion lol

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  EV sales soar as Trump axes $7,500 tax credit: ‘People are rushing out’ to buy, analyst says Consumers are racing to buy electric vehicle...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Population-adjusted total-vehicle-miles-traveled in the United States is lower in April 2025 than at any point in the Obama depression and is down almost 9% since the April 2005 peak twenty years ago

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The average price of a new vehicle in 2024 ran ahead of inflation from 1978 by about 75%

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  The average price of a new vehicle in 1978 was about $5,780. Adjusted for inflation to 2024, that would be about $27,852.  The actual aver...

The $3.45 average price of gasoline in 2024 was not quite 7% higher than the inflation adjusted price of $3.23/gallon from 1978

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 Gasoline prices are moderating slowly in 2025 even as the inflation-adjusted price rises to $3.27. Gasoline actually averaged $3.27 in the ...

Adjusted for population growth, total vehicle sales in the United States in 2024 are down 35% since the peak in 1978

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 At the same time, the average age of a vehicle on the road in 1978 was about 6.6 years, compared with 12.6 years in 2024, up 91%.        
Monday, July 14, 2025

The average vehicle on the road is now 12.8 years old, a new record as of May 2025

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