This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for August 28, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. For those who attend the annual CES every January in Las Vegas, one of the most miserable parts of the week used to be the wait in the taxi line to get around all the different venues hosting events and suites where companies were holding meetings. Las Vegas is a city that relies heavily on tourism and large conferences and is notoriously u

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for August 27, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. At its Investor Day in Seoul yesterday, Hyundai Motor Company CEO Jose Munoz made a number of important announcements about the brand's plans through the remainder of this decade. The larger Hyundai Motor Group, which also includes the Genesis and Kia brands, has been on a roll this decade, growing to become the third-largest automaker grou

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for August 26, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. When Ford announced that it would be producing its upcoming Universal Electric Vehicle platform at its Louisville assembly plant, it also included the news that production of the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair would be ending. The last of those two crossovers left the Louisville line in December 2025, and with them, about one-quarter of Li

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for August 25, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Over the past decade, Nvidia has dramatically shifted its business, increasingly moving away from its roots as a developer of graphics chips to power computer video games to commercial applications powering artificial intelligence. While much of the media attention has focused on the costly Nvidia GPUs that power the growing number of data

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for August 21, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Hyundai Motor Group's premium Genesis brand is preparing to launch its first-ever hybrid model in the midsize GV80 SUV. The hybrid drive system is based on Hyundai's next-generation electrified architecture, which has already launched on the Hyundai Palisade and Kia Telluride. Until the new system launched, Hyundai used a system consisting

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for August 20, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Today's episode is a little bit different from the usual news story, as I'm providing some thoughts on the Ford Fathom. As usual, Ford has begun trickling out little bits of news ahead of the formal introduction of a major new product. Inevitably, these teasers raise as many questions as answers, and one of the questions I've heard several

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for August 24, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Over this past weekend, trade talks between Canada and the U.S. aimed at avoiding new 25% tariffs on a wide variety of goods imported from Canada broke down in the final hours. The failure to reach an agreement was not that surprising, as Canada, like many other countries, has found the Trump administration to be an unreliable negotiating p

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for August 18, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Today in South Korea, Hyundai unveiled a completely redesigned version of one of its bestselling models, the Tucson compact crossover. Following its usual pattern, Hyundai isn't taking an evolutionary approach with its design but is instead going off in a whole new direction. It turns out that we got our first hint of what to expect with t

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for August 18, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. While numerous companies developing automated long-haul trucks, including Kodiak and Plus AI, are based in California, until recently none of them have been allowed to actually operate these vehicles in their home state. California regulations have limited automated driving to light-duty vehicles in part due to pressure from trucking unions

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for August 17, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Over the past decade, there have been numerous fatal crashes involving vehicles operating with various levels of driving automation. Most of those have involved Tesla vehicles, which are technically still Level 2, even for the so-called Full Self-Driving, meaning that the human driver must be supervising the automation and ready to take ove

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for August 14, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. The midsize XT5 crossover is the oldest model in the current Cadillac lineup, having been launched 10 years ago as a replacement for the SRX. The XT5 has been produced in both the U.S. and China for those respective markets, but China got a new generation of it in 2024, while the aging model carries on here. A new generation XT5 isn't expec

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for August 13, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. It's been one year since Ford announced its Universal Electric Vehicle platform would be produced using a new assembly process at its Louisville, Kentucky factory. In December 2025, Ford wound down production of the Escape and Lincoln Corsair crossovers at the plant and began gutting the 3-million-square-foot factory. After hauling away 25,