This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for October 12, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. While America continues to play politics with what sort of energy we should be using to propel vehicles, the rest of the world continues to leave us in the dust. So far this year, battery-electric vehicles only account for 5.74% of U.S. vehicles and total electrified models, including hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and BEVs, account for 26%, wi

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for October 8, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Besides the Panasonic/Tesla partnership, LG Energy Solution has been one of the clear leaders in producing lithium-ion batteries for vehicle electrification in the U.S. Their plant in Holland, Michigan, was one of the first to produce these batteries here, and joint ventures with GM, Honda, and Stellantis had the company well positioned to

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for October 7, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. For a brand with as much history as Jaguar, it's kind of a shock to realize that we're coming up on a decade since it last unveiled a new product. In November 2016, Jaguar unwrapped the i-Pace, its first electric vehicle, at the Los Angeles Auto Show. After getting off to a good start, i-Pace sales waned due to a variety of quality issues a

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for October 6, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Back in May 2026, Stellantis hosted a capital markets day to lay out its revised global product plan under new CEO Antonio Filosa. Those of us who attended in person got to see a wide range of upcoming vehicles that will launch over the next several years for North America and the rest of the world. Stellantis is planning to reveal several

When General Motors relaunched the Chevrolet Bolt at the beginning of this year, the company indicated it would only be available for a limited time. Now we know just how limited. Production is expected to wind down in the first half of 2027, giving the new Bolt a run of only 18 months. That raises an obvious question: Why would GM invest hundreds of millions of dollars re-engineering the Bolt and moving its production from Orion, Michigan, to Fairfax, Kansas, for such a sho

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for October 2, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Ford has announced that as part of its growing motorsport portfolio, it will be returning to the World Rally Championship in 2028 with a full factory team. The headline of the press release reads in part "How Rallying Is Our Road Car Future." While Ford has pulled back from building cars in the past decade with more of a focus on crossovers

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for October 1, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. In motorsports, engineers will tell you that you have to read the technical regulations twice, once to see what they say, and then a second time more thoroughly to see what the rules don't say. It's those gaps that provide the opportunity to get ahead of the competition. Over the last several decades, we've seen a clear trend of drivers mov

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for September 30, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Within a few weeks of each other in early 2025, both General Motors and Ford announced that they were developing lithium manganese rich or LMR cells for future electric vehicles. Most of the batteries used in current EVs sold in North America are nickel-manganese-cobalt cathode chemistry, with about 80% of the cathode being nickel and th

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for September 29, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Over the past year, we've seen numerous announcements from Chinese companies about the introduction of EV charging systems topping 1 MW, including CATL, BYD, and Geely, and they are rapidly building out networks of these much faster chargers. BYD has also announced that the second generation of its subcompact Seagull that has gained atte

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for September 28, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Earlier this year, Lexus announced that its variant of the three-row electric crossover triumvirate that also includes the Subaru Getaway and Toyota Highlander would be called the TZ 450e. It's based on the same core underpinnings as the Toyota and Subaru, but has a more premium look and feel to it. While Toyota has delayed the launch o

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for September 25, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Ever since General Motors started introducing its modern electrified vehicles with the 2010 debut of the Chevrolet Volt, the automaker has also been working on creating a circular ecosystem for batteries. In the early 2010s, following the production launch of the Volt, GM started with second-life applications. As prototype Volts from the

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for September 23, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. UK-based Wayve has been on a roll for the past year. The developer of assisted- and automated-driving software has won a third production deal with an automaker, with today's announcement that it will be supplying Mercedes-Benz. Previously, Wayve got production design wins from Nissan and Stellantis to provide software for hands-off and