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President Donald Trump’s shifting stances on trade and tariffs have upended the planning of many companies that provide parts and equipment to big automakers.

Aurora Innovation is putting a human back in front of the wheel of big rigs operating in Texas, reversing course less than three weeks after the company began commercial autonomous service.

GM has hired Sterling Anderson, the former director of Tesla’s Autopilot program and a co-founder of autonomous startup Aurora, as chief product officer overseeing all vehicle development.

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management has amassed a nearly 20% stake in Hertz in a bet on the rental car company’s turnaround plan and that tariffs will boost the value of its vehicles.

Edmunds projects Q1 car sales totaling 3.8 million vehicles, the strongest start to the year since 2021. Promised U.S. tariffs could jack up sticker prices once inventories are depleted.

General Motors plans to step up its program of buybacks by repurchasing $6 billion in shares and raising its dividend. The move comes as the industry faces uncertainty about threatened tariffs.

General Motors is cutting almost half of the workforce in its Cruise driverless car unit, according to an internal memo and people familiar with the matter, part of a previously announced plan.

U.S. auto safety regulators are probing General Motors Co. over concerns that more than 870,000 of its full-size pickup trucks and SUVs face the risk of engine failure.

General Motors Co.’s Cruise self-driving car unit will exit the robotaxi business, a retreat from a market that proved costly and full of reputational pitfalls for the automaker.

The Detroit-based automaker is working to secure a North American supply of lithium iron phosphate batteries, according to its vice president of battery strategy.