A Week With: 2023 Mazda CX-5 Carbon Edition AWD

A Week With: 2023 Mazda CX-5 Carbon Edition AWD

Utility vehicles seem to be crowding out every other kind of vehicle, except for pickup trucks, on American streets and roads. So, it is no surprise manufacturers based around Detroit are exiting the old-line passenger car business, probably forever, and replacing...
Recycling EV Batteries Looms as a Game Changer

Recycling EV Batteries Looms as a Game Changer

As EVs go from niche to mainstream automakers are facing serious challenges lining up supplies of critical materials like lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese. But such shortages may be a relatively short-term problem. Within the next decade, as much as 80% of the...
New Vehicle Buyer Loyalty Drops for Third Straight Year

New Vehicle Buyer Loyalty Drops for Third Straight Year

GM won the “Overall Loyalty to Manufacturer” Award for the eighth straight year as part of S&P Global Mobility’s 27th Annual Loyalty Awards. New vehicle buyers are less loyal now than they were last year — substantially less so than three years ago. Some of the...