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The company will focus on making hybrid and gas-powered vehicles, as well as smaller, more affordable EV models.

Ford Motor Co. is pivoting away from its once-ambitious electric vehicle plans amid financial losses and waning consumer demand for the vehicles

Nearly a quarter of U.S. auto manufacturing capacity sat idle at the end of last year. But firing up that extra space isn’t so easy. Some automakers have more flexibility than others and many affordable EVs and gas cars built abroad can’t just be made in the U.S. without losing…

Most people who just drive their cars every day or buy a new one every decade or so never see this, but the automotive industry works off a global rules-based order. Safety regulations tell the car companies what they can and cannot build; the same is true for emissions regulations.…

Trump’s 25 percent tariff could ‘level the playing field’ for Chinese brands insulated from the US market, analyst say.

President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on autos not made in the U.S. and certain auto parts will send ripple effects through an industry that is already being pummeled by steel and aluminum import duties and on-again, off-again 25% levies on Canada and Mexico

Trump will levy duties of 25 percent on all imports of fully assembled vehicles from April 3

President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel imports this week are likely to wreak havoc on American auto manufacturing, industry leaders say

The smaller the car company, the more conservative the approach to electrification—that seems to be the theme, anyway. While some automakers have pushed forward with full-on EV efforts, other automakers have been testing the waters with much more subtle efforts to understand just how customers will respond to a changing…