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United Automobile Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain speaks as UAW members and their supporters gather for Solidarity Sunday at the UAW Region 1 office in Warren, Michigan, on August 20, 2023. The rally takes place just 25 days before the union’s contract with the Big Three automakers is set to expire. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Ahead of possible strike, auto workers accuse Stellantis, GM of stonewalling negotiations

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press

A Tesla Model S electric vehicle displayed at a Tesla Motors Japan store

Tesla ordered to disclose how many cars have been issued an Autopilot update allowing them to drive with no hands for longer periods

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press

Mitsubishi sales person Matthew Boston walks past a new Mitsubishi Mirage for sale at El Cajon Mitsubishi on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in El Cajon, Calif. At a time when auto buyers increasingly want pricey SUVs and trucks and fewer want small cars, the Mirage remains the lone new vehicle whose average sale price is under 20 grand — a figure that once marked a kind of unofficial threshold of affordability. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

American new car shoppers now only have one option under $20,000 as automakers jettison compact vehicles

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press

File – Traffic moves along the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. If the auto industry boosts electric vehicle sales to the level the Environmental Protection Agency recommends, any reduction in pollution could prove more modest than the agency expects. The Associated Press has estimated that nearly 80% of vehicles being driven in the U.S. — more than 200 million — would still run on gasoline or diesel fuel. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Automakers are bashing the EPA plan for emissions limits. Environmentalists contend ‘it isn’t enough’

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press

EV charging

Getting off Elon’s network: 7 major automakers join forces to build North American EV charging network

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press

File – A man works in a shoe maquiladora or factory, in Leon, Mexico, Monday, Feb. 7, 2023. While the USMCA’s broad impact has been slight, it has nevertheless been aiding workers on the ground and the main beneficiaries have been in Mexico. (AP Photo/Mario Armas, File)

Trump’s renegotiation of the NAFTA free trade deal is helping workers—in Mexico

By Paul Wiseman, Mark Stevenson, and others

FILE – The ARC Automotive manufacturing plant in Knoxville, Tenn., is shown on July 14, 2015. (Adam Lau/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP)

Company behind exploding airbag inflators involved in 2 deaths says it can’t ensure that product won’t cause future incidents

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press

A Rivian R1S electric sports utility vehicle (SUV) charges at a ChargePoint, Inc. public EV charging station in Redondo Beach, California on June 12, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Tesla’s charging network moves closer to becoming the industry standard as yet another carmaker joins its fold

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press

FILE – Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra speaks during the opening of contract talks with the United Auto Workers on July 16, 2019, in Detroit. Barra was the second highest paid woman CEO in a survey done by AP and Equilar. She received a base salary of $2.1 million, a $6.3 million performance-based bonus, $1.1 million in perks and $19.5 million in stock and option awards, for a total pay package of $29 million. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

General Motors is the latest car company to cut a deal with Tesla to use their massive charging network

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press

A 2023 Volvo C40 electric vehicle is displayed at a dealership, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Exeter, N.H. Leasing is starting to look like the cheapest way to get an electric vehicle, because the U.S. government is giving it a big advantage. Dealers can apply up to the full $7,500 U.S. tax credit to leases of all electric vehicles regardless of where they’re made.(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

The easiest way to get a $7,500 tax credit on an electric car is to lease it and consumers are getting hip to the game

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press

PLACENTIA, CA – OCTOBER 09: Both airbags of a white Chevrolet Suburban deployed after it crashed into a parked GMC Yukon pushing both SUVs through the glass windows of the storefront at a Goodwill store in Placentia on Tuesday, October 9, 2018 (Photo by Leonard Ortiz/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

You may be among the 33 million drivers with potentially deadly airbag inflators in your car

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press

A mechanic works on a truck inside a Chevron Corp. gas station in Albuquerque

Average age of cars on U.S. roads hits a record high as soaring prices means people can’t afford to replace them

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday that ARC Automotive should recall 67 million inflators in the U.S. because they could explode and hurl shrapnel.

Maker of air bag inflators that regulators say pose a ‘risk of death’ refuses recall request

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press

Brian O'Hara

Hyundai and Kia’s software patch is no match for TikTok, a screwdriver and a USB cable as auto theft soars nationwide

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press

Carmaker Stellantis is offering staff buyouts as it tries to cut 3,500 hourly workers in response to the ‘increasingly competitive global market’

By Tom Krisher and The Associated Press