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Another wave of electric vehicles is on tap for 2023 as automakers leverage new and freshened sheet metal to drive showroom traffic against a rising tide of economic and market headwinds.

Crossovers and pickup trucks dominate the list of key showroom introductions in the year ahead, though some top-selling cars also will undergo makeovers, with Honda rolling out its 11th-generation Accord. As we saw in 2022, supply bottlenecks in the wake of the pandemic upended or delayed some light-vehicle launches, and 2023 likely will see more disruptions, especially on vehicles with parts sourced in China.

Among major brands, Chevrolet — one of the big sales winners of 2022 though the third quarter — and Toyota have ambitious launch schedules planned, while Ford — another gainer this year — and Honda have at least two major launches on deck. It will be a quiet year for Nissan, Jeep, Hyundai and Kia. With solid market gains in 2022, each have another key …

In 2020, we met COVID-19.

Last year was all about the microchip shortage.

In a refreshing reminder of what the Before Times were like, 2022 didn't have one ongoing story that dominated the auto industry.

Instead, it marked a return to many of the topics that automakers, dealers and suppliers had been talking about before we all got sidetracked for a good while:

Electric vehicles — which there are a lot more of.Self-driving cars — which still aren't much of a thing.The future of franchised dealerships — which still is a thing, despite the best efforts of Tesla and Carvana.And, of course, the omnipresent Elon Musk — who still hasn't produced the Cybertruck or robotaxis he said were imminent pre-COVID.

As a result, this was the first time since those halcyon days of the last decade that we at Automotive News weren't immediately certain what to consider the year's top story. The lingering inventory and supply shortages? The t…

SHANGHAI -- Tesla suspended production at its Shanghai plant on Saturday, according to an internal notice and two people with knowledge of the matter, bringing ahead a previous plan to pause most work at the plant in the last week of December.

The U.S. automaker cancelled the morning shift and told all workers at its most productive manufacturing hub they could start their break, said the people and the notice seen by Reuters. The company did not give a reason.

Reuters reported earlier this month that the electric car giant planned to suspend Model Y production at the plant from Dec. 25 to Jan. 1.

The suspension comes among a rising wave of infections after China eased its zero-COVID policy earlier this month, an abrupt move welcomed by businesses and the public but heavily disrupting business operations in the short term.

One of the people said workers at Tesla and its suppliers have also been falling sick as part of this wave, posing challenges …

Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio Inc. unveiled two models at a glittering annual customer event on Saturday evening, expanding its lineup in a bid to grab a bigger share of the market as demand for cars in the nation slows.

At the weekend event in Hefei in central Anhui province, Shanghai-based Nio launched a revamped ES8, an iteration of the original electric sports utility vehicle it’s been selling since 2018, and a new pure electric coupe dubbed the EC7.  

With a starting price of 488,000 yuan ($69,800), the coupe targets buyers who want more space as well as sporty performance. The new ES8 will start at 528,000 yuan. Deliveries are expected to kick off in May and June, respectively.

Nio Day, first held in 2017, is a gathering for corporate partners, customers and media meant to foster brand loyalty and a sense of community around the carmaker.

Nio on Saturday also presented its latest generation of battery swapping stations, which allo…

As the 117th Congress winds down, the Senate on Thursday evening passed bipartisan legislation that would provide dealers LIFO tax relief.

"Senate passage of the bill is great progress to provide dealers on LIFO much needed relief due to the pandemic and supply chain issues," Mike Stanton, CEO of the National Automobile Dealers Association, said in a statement Friday morning.

However, the House did not vote on its version of the LIFO relief bill on Friday, instead focusing on a nearly $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package that will avert a federal government shutdown. That bill was passed by the House and sent to the White House before Congress adjourned.

A new Republican-majority Congress will convene at the beginning next year.

In April, U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., introduced a bill — the Supply Chain Disruptions Relief Act — which would allow dealerships that use the "last in, first out" inventory accounting to wait until 2025 to replace …

A conversation with Automotive News Senior Editor Dan Shine about the biggest stories and issues affecting the dealership service drive, as well as the finance and insurance office in 2022.

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Auto exports from China have surged this year as domestic automakers look to establish themselves beyond their home market.

Through September, a total of 2.2 million passenger cars, trucks, buses and other vehicles were exported from China. That is up 54 percent from the same period last year and already more than double the average from 2012 through 2020.

Electric vehicles are the biggest contributor to the surge, with 342,000 passenger EVs exported in the first three quarters of the year.

That is 29 percent of all vehicle exports in this segment and a big increase from 2019, when EVs accounted for just 2 percent of exports.

There are several factors driving China’s EV export growth. Its dominance of EV battery and materials supplies has allowed domestic auto markets to ramp up production.

Western automakers are using the country’s lower production costs and established supply chain to churn out EVs for customers around the globe as inter…

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Tesla Inc.'s soaring stock price produced a nearly $23.5 billion windfall for Elon Musk last year, making him the highest-paid CEO at publicly traded U.S. companies in the auto industry by far, according to the Automotive News/Equilar CEO Compensation study.

Most other CEOs in the industry got sizable pay increases in 2021 as well, even though none came remotely close to matching the value of Musk's stock options alone. The median for all CEOs was $12.3 million, which represents a 78 percent increase over the median of those same CEOs on last year's list, which was $6.9 million.

For CEOs who have been in their positions for at least two years, median compensation rose 90 percent from 2020, said Courtney Yu, Equilar's director of research.

Jensen Huang of Nvidia, who topped last year's survey, ranked No. 2 behind Musk with total compensation of $560.9 million. Huang's compensation, which included $996,216 in salary and $506.8 million in stock option gai…