N.Y. Times news on Electric and Hybrid vehicles

1. Ford Rejigs E.V. Plans After Suffering Billions in Losses

   Ford, which once had a lead on other established automakers, said on Monday that it will use new materials and methods to lower the costs of electric vehicles.

2. China’s Automakers Are Taking a Shortcut to European Markets

   Ships carrying Chinese cars are using the Red Sea and Suez Canal even as other vessels still sail around Africa in fear of attacks by the Houthi militia.

3. Car Companies Are Paying Tariffs So You Don’t Have To

   But automakers can’t absorb the cost forever and will soon begin to raise new car prices, analysts say.

4. California Start-Up Will Buy Assets of Bankrupt Swedish Battery Maker

   Lyten will acquire German and Swedish factories built by Northvolt, which declared bankruptcy in March.

5. Trump Will Slow, but May Not Stop, the Rise of Electric Vehicles

   President Trump and Republicans in Congress are eliminating federal incentives to buy electric vehicles, but carmakers need to keep selling and investing in them.

6. Jury Says Tesla Was Partly to Blame for Fatal Crash

   Lawyers for the family of a woman struck and killed by a Tesla sedan in 2019 argued that the company’s Autopilot software should have avoided the crash.

7. Mercedes and Porsche Squeezed by U.S. Tariffs and Slowdown in China

   Germany’s leading luxury automakers are sharply scaling back expectations for the rest of the year.

8. Ford Is Latest Carmaker to Blame Tariffs for Profit Slump

   The company estimated that duties on imported cars and car parts would cost it $2 billion this year.

9. Volkswagen Is Hit Hard by Trump’s Tariffs

   The German automaker said U.S. import duties erased about $1.5 billion from its profit in the first half of the year, and it lowered its forecasts for the full year.

10. The Country Where 76% of Cars Sold Are Electric

    Subsidies, hydroelectricity and a manufacturing powerhouse neighbor are moving the cars into Nepal faster than almost anywhere else.

11. How Trump’s Japan Deal Could Give Japanese Cars a Leg Up in the U.S.

    President Trump’s 15 percent tariff on cars from Japan has angered U.S. automakers, which make cars in Canada and Mexico subject to 25 percent tariffs.

12. Morton Mintz, Muckraking Crusader for Consumers, Dies at 103

    As a longtime Washington Post reporter and an author of 10 books, he held corporate America accountable for safe pharmaceuticals and cars.

13. Tesla Earnings Show Falling Profit as Car Sales Slow

    Elon Musk has said robotaxis are the company’s future, but most revenue still comes from cars.

14. Stellantis Says Profit Plunged as Tariffs Began to Bite

    The company, which owns Jeep, Peugeot, Fiat and other brands, said it might soon have to begin raising prices.

15. Joby Will Buy Blade’s Helicopter Taxi Business for $125 Million

    Joby Aviation, which is developing electric aircraft, will acquire the passenger business of Blade, a New York helicopter operator, for $125 million.