BMW and Great Wall say the $741 million JV, Spotlight Automotive, also will produce EVs for the Chinese automaker. It will build a production facility in Jiangsu Province, where it is expected to manufacture 160,000 vehicles a year.

In the 2018 J.D. Power Initial Quality Study, Kia came in second with the second-highest score ever. In the advanced powertrain field, the automaker is moving aggressively into hybrids.

The Polestar CEO hopes to see an end to the acceleration wars, saying, “As soon as you’re beyond the 4.0-second (mark) and zero to 100, all that feels just flipping fast anyway and you’re not able to detect the difference anymore.”

Infiniti’s world-first variable-compression-ratio turbo 4-cyl. engine is migrating to high-volume Nissan vehicles, starting with up-market versions of the Altima sedan.

The latest in a series of flamboyant concepts conceived under the guidance of Mercedes-Benz design boss Gorden Wagener, the Electric Silver Arrow is to act as a one-off figurehead for the company’s new EQ sub-brand.

Electric vehicles already are having an impact on the industry despite their slender market share, say speakers at the Tech Crawl 2018 event sponsored by Autocom of Bloomfield Hills, MI.

The third-generation Insight isn’t a space pod or Prius wannabe. It is a beautiful, bullet-proof Honda that will look good in anybody’s driveway and starts at less than $23,000. That’s a value proposition that will put dents in CUV sales charts.