UPDATE 3/4/2021: that the CEO of Stellantis, Jeep's parent company, now says he is open to ending the company's use of the Cherokee name, and that conversation with Cherokee nation on the issue is ongoing. A representative from Jeep declined to make further comment on the matter, and representatives with the Cherokee Nation did not immediately respond to a request for comment.For the first time, the Cherokee Nation is asking Jeep to change the name of its Cherokee and Grand Cherokee vehicles.Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation Chuck Hoskin, Jr.“I’m sure this comes from a place that is...…UPDATE 3/4/2021: that the CEO of Stellantis, Jeep's parent company, now says he is open to ending the company's use of the Cherokee name, and that conversation with Cherokee nation on the issue is ongoing. A representative from Jeep declined to make further comment on the matter, and representatives with the Cherokee Nation did not immediately respond to a request for comment.For the first time, the Cherokee Nation is asking Jeep to change the name of its Cherokee and Grand Cherokee vehicles.Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation Chuck Hoskin, Jr.“I’m sure this comes from a place that is...WW…

UPDATE 1/21/2022: An astute Reddit user posted a photo of the new USPS mail truck, looking every bit as . . . picturesque as we had expected, on the street in Saticoy, California. This would seem to indicate that the launch of the new postal trucks is right on schedule, since they're expected to be in service within a year. However, it was not out for testing; a U.S. Postal Service spokesperson told Car and Driver on Friday that the truck in the Reddit photo is "a full-scale design model of the NGDV being unloaded for a commercial [photo] shoot." The spokesperson emphasized that this is...…UPDATE 1/21/2022: An astute Reddit user posted a photo of the new USPS mail truck, looking every bit as . . . picturesque as we had expected, on the street in Saticoy, California. This would seem to indicate that the launch of the new postal trucks is right on schedule, since they're expected to be in service within a year. However, it was not out for testing; a U.S. Postal Service spokesperson told Car and Driver on Friday that the truck in the Reddit photo is "a full-scale design model of the NGDV being unloaded for a commercial [photo] shoot." The spokesperson emphasized that this is...WW…

While EVs are still in the single-digit area of overall vehicle sales, they continue to climb and have already surpassed the. Now it seems that the made by automakers are getting a boost from another part of the country.Massachusetts is joining California with a plan to ban the sale of new gasolined-powered cars by 2035. Governor Charlie Baker released a that includes the reduction of emissions from passenger cars. Massachusetts states that 27 percent of statewide emissions come from light-duty vehicles (passenger vehicles). The goal is for the state to reach net-zero fossil-fuel emissions...…While EVs are still in the single-digit area of overall vehicle sales, they continue to climb and have already surpassed the. Now it seems that the made by automakers are getting a boost from another part of the country.Massachusetts is joining California with a plan to ban the sale of new gasolined-powered cars by 2035. Governor Charlie Baker released a that includes the reduction of emissions from passenger cars. Massachusetts states that 27 percent of statewide emissions come from light-duty vehicles (passenger vehicles). The goal is for the state to reach net-zero fossil-fuel emissions...WW…

Skip to Content From the February 2020 issue of Car and Driver.If the self-driving car is the promised land, then today's ever proliferating driver-assist features are the desert. Diminished claims and "it's harder than we thought" mea culpas from self-driving's loudest advocates suggest we'll be wandering here for many years to come.At least the technology is meandering in the right direction, though. Thanks to recent software updates, the most sophisticated systems—Cadillac's Super Cruise and Tesla's Autopilot—are more capable today than they were initially. This report on those systems...…Skip to Content From the February 2020 issue of Car and Driver.If the self-driving car is the promised land, then today's ever proliferating driver-assist features are the desert. Diminished claims and "it's harder than we thought" mea culpas from self-driving's loudest advocates suggest we'll be wandering here for many years to come.At least the technology is meandering in the right direction, though. Thanks to recent software updates, the most sophisticated systems—Cadillac's Super Cruise and Tesla's Autopilot—are more capable today than they were initially. This report on those systems...WW…

Ford announced during its fourth-quarter earnings report that it will invest $22 billion in electric vehicles and $7 billion in autonomous vehicles through 2025. The electric-vehicle stake is an increase over the $10 billion already pledged to help Ford compete in the race to bring electric vehicles into the mainstream. In part, Ford may be throwing the money down to compete with , but it stopped short of announcing exactly when, or if, it will transition to an all-electric passenger-vehicle fleet as General Motors has pledged to do. What it has announced is that a majority of its vehicles...…Ford announced during its fourth-quarter earnings report that it will invest $22 billion in electric vehicles and $7 billion in autonomous vehicles through 2025. The electric-vehicle stake is an increase over the $10 billion already pledged to help Ford compete in the race to bring electric vehicles into the mainstream. In part, Ford may be throwing the money down to compete with , but it stopped short of announcing exactly when, or if, it will transition to an all-electric passenger-vehicle fleet as General Motors has pledged to do. What it has announced is that a majority of its vehicles...WW…