Ford swaps EV plans for trucks

Happy Friday morning. This is Car Alerts with your weekly recap of the latest car news and market happenings.

In today’s edition:

• Ford pivots EV plans

• Toyota Tundra gains popularity

• Porsche cuts 2025 GT3

• Best selling cars of 2024

• Recent recalls

• and more

MARKETS📈

HEADLINES📰

Ford’s EV plans change as it invests $3B into its heavy-duty trucks at Canada facility (TechCrunch)

Toyota Tundra catching up on American competition in pickup segment (S&P)

Rise in inventory and incentives help satisfaction increase with manufacturer websites (J.D. Power)

The 25 bestselling cars, trucks, and SUVs of 2024 so far (C&D)

Porsche 911 GT3 is dead for 2025 as Porsche USA removes ability to order from website (CarBuzz)

Tesla's California car registrations fall for third straight quarter (Reuters)

Most small SUVs perform well in rear crash prevention evaluation (IIHS)

Volkswagen in major deal to produce one million solid state batteries for EVs (AE)

Fisker cleared to sell North American EVs for $46.25 million (TechCrunch)

BMW M2 is MotorTrend’s 2024 “Performance Vehicle of the Year” (MT)

Trump’s mate, JD Vance, favors subsidizing gas cars over EVs in policy push (IE)

Porsche Ibérica celebrates its anniversary with the Cuarenta Edition (Porsche)

2025 Mazda CX-5 lowers price, brings back base 2.5 S model (C&D)

RECALLS

Hyundai recalls 62,000 vehicles: Hyundai Veloster N, Elantra N, Kona N, and Genesis G70

A Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid battery fire recall involves more than 24,000 minivans

Fiat Chrysler has recalled more than 340,000 vehicles with front seat airbags that could fail

That’s all we have for you this week. We’ll see you next Friday morning with more car content.

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