Larry P. Vellequette

15 hours ago | autonews.com | Larry P. Vellequette |Urvaksh Karkaria |Eric Freedman

An EV6 charges at a LaFontaine Kia dealership in Michigan. The goals of CARB’s Advanced Clean Cars II regulations — 35 percent ZEV penetration in model year 2026, 43 percent a year later and so on until 100 percent in 2035 — can’t be reached.

2 days ago | autonews.com | Kurt Nagl |Hans Greimel |Larry P. Vellequette |Urvaksh Karkaria

Nissan also is in talks with Mitsubishi and Honda about joint manufacturing in the U.S., where global companies are trying to source more product.

4 days ago | yahoo.com | Larry P. Vellequette

What’s at issue? The California Air Resources Board passed a regulation in 2022 called Advanced Clean Cars II, or ACC II. It mandates that 35 percent of vehicles an automaker produces and delivers for sale, which can include vehicles wholesaled to dealers and not yet sold to retail customers, in the state for the 2026 model year must be zero-emission (electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles or plug-ins, though PHEVs only receive partial credit).

4 days ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Larry P. Vellequette

The new-vehicle lot at White River Toyota in White River Junction, Vt., looks like any other midsize dealership across the country: Customers eye pickups and SUVs that are parked door-to-door, with sedans and crossovers nearby, hybrids and combustion vehicles in good supply, and a couple lonely electric vehicles. But it is not how this lot and hundreds of other new-vehicle dealerships across Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, California, Oregon and Washington will look later this year.

4 days ago | autonews.com | Larry P. Vellequette |John Irwin |John Huetter

U.S. tariffs on vehicles and parts work differently for imports from the U.K., Canada, Mexico and China than they do for the rest of the world.