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Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley announces the automaker's new BlueOval Battery Park in February 2023.

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  • Business

Ford Motor CEO 'welcomes' Trump's move to ease tariffs on automakers

President Trump is easing some of his tariffs on the U.S. auto industry. But what will the overall impact of these economic policies mean for the nation's biggest carmakers? Ford Motor CEO weighs in.

May 01, 2025
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  • Alejandra Marquez Janse,
  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • and 1 more
A pickup truck is raised for display at a car dealership in Alhambra, California, on March 27, 2025. After President Trump announced significant tariffs on imported vehicles and parts, automaker stocks fell sharply. But sales at dealerships rose, at least in the short-term, as buyers try to get ahead of the anticipated price spikes in the coming months.

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  • Business

Tariff chaos sends some drivers racing to buy, while others pump the brakes

With tariffs on cars, materials and parts threatening to send auto prices up, some shoppers are racing to lock in vehicles at pre-tariff prices. Others plan to drive their current rides into the ground.

April 10, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
A worker manipulates a block of aluminum in a French smelter in 2022. President Trump has increased tariffs on imported aluminum from 10% to 25%, while also removing exceptions from tariffs on steel. Both metals are crucial raw materials for the automotive sector.

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  • Business

Automakers brace for higher costs as steel and aluminum tariffs kick in

Tariffs on steel and aluminum are increasing to 25% — not the 50% that President Trump had recently threatened, but high enough to be a headache for automakers.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
A car carrier trailer drive to cross to the U.S. at Otay Commercial port in Tijuana, Mexico on January 31. President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs on Mexico and Canada, set to go into effect on Tuesday, would hurt the Mexican economy — but also hurt auto plants in the U.S.

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  • Business

Auto industry braces for a blow from 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico

The White House describes the tariffs as a response to inadequate border and drug enforcement. They are forecast to add thousands of dollars to the price of vehicles.

March 04, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
Trucks move past cargo containers at a port in Bayonne, N.J., in 2021. The state is adopting California's Advanced Clean Trucks rules, which require at least 7% of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission for model year 2025. Dealers are petitioning for a delay, so far unsuccessfully.

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  • Business

'We are not California': New Jersey dealers push back on electric truck rules

Vehicle dealers are pushing back on rules that would increase the number of electric trucks sold in New Jersey. It could be a preview of a brewing fight over state rules about cars.

December 23, 2024
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
A Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck is displayed for sale at a Ford dealership on Aug. 21 in Glendale, Calif. Ford says it is upending its electric vehicle strategy for North American vehicles to focus on hybrids, citing consumers' demands for affordability and longer ranges.

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  • Business

Ford scraps all-electric SUV plan, saying drivers want hybrids

Ford will write down hundreds of millions of dollars because of the pivot. A key reason for the change, an analyst tells NPR, is that big batteries bring big costs.

August 21, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
BYD electric cars wait to be loaded onto a ship at a port in Yantai, China, on April 18. China has rapidly become a major auto exporter, but tariffs have kept cheap Chinese EVs out of the U.S. market — so far.

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  • Business

China makes cheap electric vehicles. Why can't American shoppers buy them?

American drivers want cheap EVs. Chinese automakers are building them. But you can't buy them in the U.S., thanks to tariffs in the name of U.S. jobs and national security. Two car shoppers weigh in.

May 06, 2024
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  • Camila Domonoske
American lawyer and consumer activist Ralph Nader, whose book 'Unsafe at Any Speed', led to the passage of improved car safety regulations. He is at a Senate hearing at Washington triggered by his publication.

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  • History

Ralph Nader, Consumer Crusader

Whether it's pesticides in your cereal or the door plug flying off your airplane, consumers today have plenty of reasons to feel like corporations might not have their best interests at heart. At a moment where we're seeing unprecedented product recalls, and when trust in the government is near historic lows, we're going to revisit a time when a generation of people felt empowered to demand accountability from both companies and elected leaders — and got results. Today on the show, the story of the U.S. consumer movement and its controversial leader: the once famous, now infamous Ralph Nader.

April 18, 2024
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By:
  • Rund Abdelfatah,
  • Ramtin Arablouei,
  • and 7 more
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd at a campaign rally Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio.

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  • Politics

Trump says some migrants are 'not people', and warns of 'bloodbath' if he loses

Former President Trump claimed he will protect Social Security and warned of a "bloodbath" in the auto industry if he loses the election at a rally for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio.

March 17, 2024
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  • Elections

Trump bets big on Michigan with rally on GOP debate night as UAW strike continues

Seven Republicans will join the second GOP debate Wednesday but the front-runner, former President Donald Trump won't be one of them. Instead, Trump will head to Michigan to court autoworkers.

September 27, 2023
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  • Franco Ordoñez
Tesla vehicles recharge in February in Corte Madera, Calif. The government wants to accelerate the transition to electric vehicle, but how fast the country can actually move is being hotly debated.

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  • Business

How fast can the auto industry go electric? Debate rages as the U.S. sets new rules

Automakers are building more electric vehicles, but the EPA wants to set rules pushing them to go even faster. Environmental groups say that's essential; traditional carmakers say it's not feasible.

July 06, 2023
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  • Camila Domonoske
BMW is warning the owners of about 90,000 older vehicles in the U.S. not to drive them due to an increasing threat that the air bags can explode in a crash.

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  • Business

BMW warns that older models are too dangerous to drive due to airbag recall

The warning covers vehicles from the 2000 through 2006 model years that previously had been recalled to replace the faulty and dangerous air bag inflators.

May 05, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Electric cars charge at a hub in downtown Milan on March 23. Starting in 2035, all cars sold in the European Union will be zero-emission vehicles.

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  • Technology

All new cars in the EU will be zero-emission by 2035. Here's where the U.S. stands

European Union states agreed to a plan after adding an exemption for cars that run on e-fuels. In the U.S., efforts to phase out gas-powered cars include future bans in several states.

March 30, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
A 2023 Chevy Camaro 2SS Convertible is seen at a dealership in Wheeling, Ill., on  Wednesday. General Motors said it will stop making current generation of the brawny muscle car early next year.

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  • Business

GM will stop making the Chevy Camaro, but a successor may be in the works

The Chevrolet Camaro, for decades the dream car of many teenage American males, is going out of production early next year. But General Motors says another generation may be in the works.

March 23, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Tesla cars are loaded onto carriers at the automaker's plant in Fremont, Calif., on May 13, 2020. The company is recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles with its "Full Self-Driving" system.

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  • Business

Tesla recalls nearly 363,000 cars with 'Full Self-Driving' to fix flaws in behavior

Tesla is recalling the vehicles to fix problems with the way the "Full Self-Driving" system behaves around intersections and following posted speed limits. The fix will come in a software update.

February 16, 2023
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