Michael Martinez

The 2022 North American International Auto Show will take place in both Detroit's Huntington Place convention center and around downtown Detroit with indoor and outdoor interactive displays.

Ford plans to use Mobileye's Road Experience Management technology on future versions of its BlueCruise driver-assist system.

Ford, VW, Volvo and Tesla are among the automakers using technology to understand exactly where cobalt and other materials they use in EV batteries come from.

The $112,595 Hummer Edition 1 — the only version available for the first year — will be classified as a heavy-duty pickup.

Ford will double its planned EV production capacity to 600,000 globally by the end of 2023, CEO Jim Farley said.

In Europe, Ford had a loss of $52 million, compared with a loss of about $440 million last year. Vehicle sales in the 20 key European markets fell 35 percent.

The automaker said it delivered 241,391 vehicles in the quarter -- 73 percent more than a year earlier.

One site will focus on pickup trucks. The other will feature twin battery plants. More than 11,000 jobs are expected to be created under a US$11.4 billion project designed to make Ford an EV leader.

The CEO has reversed the company's stock slide and has Wall Street excited with its focus on profitable vehicles and software services.

Volkswagen wants to overtake Tesla to become the world's largest seller of electric vehicles by 2025 -- and analyst firm LMC Automotive says it's on track to do so.

Automakers won't meet an ambitious new U.S. goal aimed at addressing climate and countering China's rapid rise as a leading EV and battery hub.

Data analytics firm We Predict studied about 19 million vehicles between the 2016 and 2021 model years.

This marks the second-straight year the New York show has been canceled due to the coronavirus. Organizers expect the show to return in April 2022.

Ford said it had expected a net loss for the quarter but performed better because of strong demand, lower incentives and a favorable mix of more profitable vehicles.

Quarterly vehicle deliveries rose 121 percent. Most were Model 3 sedans or Model Y crossovers.