ICYMI: Slate Auto: Inside the EV startup, stealth production facility backed by Jeff Bezos www.cnbc.com/2025/06/07/j...

GM news: After an outsider/Tesla veteran only lasted a year leading its manufacturing, GM returns to hiring from within (it's hard to build cars and manage a company's operations that are as vast as GM): pressroom.gm.com/gmbx/us/en/p...

Used vehicle prices ease from tariff fear-buying highs but remain elevated: www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/t...

‘Car Wars’: Five auto insights investors should know from top BofA analyst: www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/a...

I kind of miss in-person annual shareholder meetings. It was a love/hate relationship covering them but way more interesting with a live audience/shareholders. (Monitoring GM’s and just not the same).

Ford reports 16% sales increase in May amid employee pricing, tariffs: www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/f...

Jeep shows off new Cherokee SUV, confirms hybrid model amid turnaround plan after years-long sales declines: www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/j...

Updated with internal memo to employees from Filosa: Auto giant Stellantis appoints Antonio Filosa as new CEO cnb.cx/3Hgrj7B

Toyota Motor is targeting significant growth in plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, or PHEVs. The automaker plans to increase PHEVs from 2.4% last year to roughly 20% of its U.S. sales volume by 2030, according to company sources. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/28/t...

Was going to say I don't know how I feel about this but I don't like it: Stellantis uses AI to bring back late ‘Imported from Detroit’ ad voice for a new patriotic campaign www.autonews.com/stellantis/an-stellantis-ai-ad-campaign-0523/

Toyota redesigns America’s top-selling RAV4 SUV to exclusively be a hybrid www.cnbc.com/2025/05/20/t...

Here at Toyota’s HQ for the first time. Really impressive campus.

President Donald Trump wants automakers to build more vehicles in the U.S. with American parts, but it’s not as easy as it might seem. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/m...

GM unveils new 'groundbreaking' EV battery tech, aims to be first to market cnb.cx/3F9Q7xj

GM hires ex-Tesla, Aurora exec Sterling Anderson to newly created position of chief product officer cnb.cx/4diISQm

Used vehicle pricing barometer jumps to highest level since 2023 amid auto tariffs: www.cnbc.com/2025/05/07/u...

Luxury carmaker Ferrari warns of U.S. tariff risks after 17% jump in first-quarter profit cnb.cx/3GBqPJ1

Inside GM’s decade-long battle to revive Cadillac as the quintessential American luxury car brand: www.cnbc.com/2025/05/05/g...

Ford CEO says Trump's tariff reprieve is helpful, but more changes needed; wants Ford to be rewarded for current production and exports cnb.cx/4jXYhI2

Ford CEO Jim Farley touts American manufacturing, says “we never left” … unlike others. Farley says what if others who import vehicles invested as much as Ford in the US? Farley says 4 million more vehicles a year would be manufactured in the U.S.

".. The joint letter is uncharacteristic, if not unprecedented, for the automotive industry. Such organizations rarely, if ever, sign on to a single joint message." @mikewayland.bsky.social @cnbc.com $GM $F $STLA $AN www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/a...

Trump wants automakers to move vehicle production to the U.S. Why it’s not that simple: www.cnbc.com/2025/04/23/t...

NEW: Auto groups lobby Trump administration against parts tariffs in rare unified message www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/a...

NEW: Hertz CEO 'encouraged' by Ackman's 'significant' stake in the company, he tells employees in a message viewed by CNBC: www.cnbc.com/2025/04/18/h...

NEW: Nissan aims to 'max out' U.S. production plant amid Trump's tariffs cnb.cx/42JHH8R

It’s all about inventories now. And how fast they’ll shrink. @mikewayland.bsky.social @cnbc.com $GM $F $STLA www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/u...

NEW: Nissan aims to 'max out' U.S. production plant amid Trump's tariffs cnb.cx/42JHH8R

The auto industry is having an unprecedented challenge in trying to plan out their businesses. It’s “no longer the exception” … it’s pretty normal, says Magna CEO Swamy Kotagiri.

Elkann says company is hopeful regarding Trump's comments yesterday about "help" for some automakers: www.cnbc.com/2025/04/14/a...

Stellantis Chair John Elkann, who's leading search for a CEO, says “painful” tariffs are putting U.S. automotive industry “at risk.”

NEW: $GM adjusting U.S. production amid Trump's tariffs, including the cancellation of previously announced downtime the week of May 12 at its Spring Hill plant in Tennessee: "The company continues to update and revise production schedules as part ... " www.cnbc.com/2025/04/14/a...

Auto stocks rise as Trump says he wants to 'help' some car companies cnb.cx/42IztOd

Trump’s ongoing 25% auto tariffs expected to cut sales by millions, cost $100 billion www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/a...

GM cutting jobs, idling Canadian electric van plant due to 'market demand' cnb.cx/4ie4AGa

Lincoln to keep importing Nautilus from China, but price increase ‘likely’ if tariffs persist autonews.com/ford/an-linc... via @mikemartinezan.bsky.social

Fain on tariffs: “Tariffs are a tool in the toolbox. They are a first step ... They are a start to stop the bleeding" of free trade deals such as NAFTA/USMCA. But says they need to be implemented strategically.

Fain on accusations the union is "flipflopping" by supporting Trump's tariffs: "We aren’t Democrats. We’re not Republics. We’re trade unionists.” Says union can back actions without agreeing with candidates.

Fain accuses Trump and Republicans of stealing “money from the public to pay for billionaire tax cuts.”

Fain now criticizing Trump for "trampling" of rights; deportations for no reasons; protest arrests; not upholding First Amendment.

Fain says the UAW has fought for an "end to the free trade disaster” under both Democrats and Republicans.

UAW President Shawn Fain on current state of politics: "Both sides talk about bulls*** issues to hype up their fanbase ... We have a different way of doing politics … we see politics as a negotiation.” Says union is not on the side of Trump (following support for tariffs).

Carmax misses bottom-line earnings expectations and pulls long-term financial targets amid Trump's tariff rollercoaster.

Canada's 25% auto tariffs REMAIN in effect. Here's how they differ from the U.S. cnb.cx/3RcmWwa

Bessent, when asked about sectoral tariffs such as autos, said the 90-day pause DOES NOT APPLY.

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent says Mexico and Canada are part of the 90-day pause and universal 10% tariff, HOWEVER, again, those countries as well as the autos were not part of the reciprocal tariffs.

SO ... unclear if the auto tariffs will be changed, as Trump mentions reciprocal tariff pullback, but Wall Street seems optimistic: www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/t...

NEW: Canada’s 25% auto tariffs are in effect, but there are MAJOR differences compared to Trump's U.S. levies: www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/c...

Jamie Dimon says a recession is 'likely outcome' from Trump's tariff turmoil cnb.cx/4lf6TeC

After downgrading GM, Bernstein also says stay away from Ford Motor shares as 'tariff man' uncertainty increases: www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/s...

Scooplet: GM axing Cadillac XT6 crossover, extending production of another vehicle in Tennessee www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/g...