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After an underwhelming start to its EV deployment with the Solterra 2 years ago, Subaru has listened the complaints and brought a heavily re-engineered version to the New York Auto Show along with a second new EV called the Trailseeker

Hyundai Motor Group's three brands are still very much interested in auto shows and brought lots of new machines to the New York Auto Show

As the Trump instigated a trade war with the world, China is now fighting back by banning exports of rare earth permanent magnets and that will soon lead to all sorts of production disruptions if this conflict isn't resolved

Two new electric pickup trucks have popped up recently that should be coming to market in the next 2 years. The question is, will there still be a market for them?

Global Navigation Satellite Systems or GNSS are an extremely valuable tool in localization anywhere on the planet. Unfortunately a variety of factors can cause errors of up to 10 meters but Swift Navigation has developed a means of providing correction factors to enable 2 cm accuracy

CATL is reportedly in talks to acquire a controlling interest in Nio's battery swapping network in China. Nio's network of more than 3,000 swap stations has done more an 70 million swaps on the 675,000 Nio vehicles on the road

Automakers are already responding to the Trump tariffs by suspending many imports while they determine how to move forward. 

Telemetry has published its first ever market research report, a forecast of global light duty vehicle sales for the period 2025 to 2035 with breakouts by regions and powertrains along with base, conservative and aggressive scenarios.

The full report is available to purchase at https://www.telemetryagency.com/2025-light-duty-vehicle-report

Tariffs on imported vehicles and other products coming into the US are on -- for now. While prices are expected to jump significantly if the tariffs stay in place for any length of time, for the moment at least 2 automakers are holding the line

It's the beginning of the quarter so we've got a first look at Q1 2025 sales including a significant collapse for Tesla, but most other electrified vehicles sales increased in the quarter.