Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union voted overwhelmingly Friday morning for a possible strike at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis—the maker of Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep—setting the stage for a potential major strike at the country’s three biggest automakers, four years after a strike at GM cost the automaker nearly $4 billion.

The United Auto Workers Union announced Friday its strike authorization vote passed with "near universal approval" from its 150,000 members at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis.

"Final votes are still being tabulated, but the current combined average across the Big Three was 97% in favor of strike authorization," it said in a statement. "The vote does not guarantee a strike will be called, only that the union has the right to call a strike if the Big Three refuse to reach a fair deal."

Five years ago, there were a dozen models of new cars that sold for less than $20,000. In 2023, there was only one: the spartan Mitsubishi Mirage hatchback, which accounted for about 5,300 of the 7.7 million new vehicles sold in the U.S. in the first half of the year.

Balanced news on car manufacturers pledge to increase number of EV chargers. 

Nvidia Corp. and MediaTek Inc. will partner on technology to power advanced vehicle infotainment systems that can stream video or games or interact with drivers through artificial intelligence, the companies announced Monday.

The agreement, which will include MediaTek systems and Nvidia software, was made public at the Computex technology trade show in Taipei, Taiwan, according to Reuters.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing to keep AM radio in the nation’s cars.

A bipartisan group in Congress has introduced the “AM for Every Vehicle Act.” The bill calls on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require automakers to keep AM radio in new cars at no additional cost.

A small round key has unlocked a world of fame and fortune for two balaclava-clad women who are among the most in-demand entrepreneurs in Atlanta.

That key is one of a handful the so-called Boot Girls use mostly around Buckhead, an upscale Atlanta neighborhood, to unlock metal brackets attached to vehicles parked on private property, like one Jaguar on May 5, when I spent the evening with the boot removal Robin Hoods.

"Can I get a picture real quick?" the owner of the car asked the pair while handing me his phone in the fading afternoon light. "I support ya'll."

It’s going to be yet another good year for electric cars.

They will account for nearly a fifth of global automobile sales in 2023—it was 4% in 2020—a report by International Energy Agency (IEA), a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization, has said. E-cars sales are set to grow by 35% to reach 14 million in 2023, it noted.

General Motors and Hyundai on Tuesday announced new investments in U.S. battery manufacturing plants totaling $8 billion.

The new facilities will help the automakers meet local sourcing requirements required to qualify for federal electric vehicle tax credits.

GM is partnering with Samsung SDI on a $3 billion plant that is set to open in 2026 at a yet-to-be-disclosed location.

All new vehicles become used cars and trucks once they’re sold.

It’s an obvious statement, but one that needs to be laid out to explain the root cause for ongoing inventory and pricing issues in the U.S. used vehicle market, which has been a barometer for the country’s inflation levels.