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The companies have acknowledged that there’s little hope of repairing most of the affected vehicles until June or later, roughly nine months after they announced the recalls.
The recall comes after a two-year investigation by safety regulators into crashes that happened while the company’s Autopilot driving system was in use.
United Auto Workers members have approved a new contract with GM, the first Detroit automaker to get a ratified deal that could end a contentious and lengthy labor dispute.
The United Auto Workers union hadn’t posted vote totals yet, but workers at several large factories who finished voting in the past few days have turned down the deal by fairly large margins.
The government has been investigating Autopilot for crashing into emergency vehicles parked on freeways, as well as hitting motorcycles and crossing tractor-trailers.
The Mitsubishi Mirage is the last car available for under $20,000, and even it appears to be headed into oblivion.
General Motors, BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes and Stellantis said Wednesday they will share in a multibillion dollar investment to put 30,000 plugs in urban areas and along travel corridors.
The EPA is proposing requiring as many as two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032.
The recall, part of part of a larger investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration into Tesla’s automated driving systems, is the most serious action taken yet against the electric vehicle maker.
The recall applies to Dodge Magnums, Chargers and Challengers, as well as Chrysler 300s. The affected model years are 2005 to 2010.
The U.S. government has opened a formal investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot partially automated driving system after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles.
Tesla founder Elon Musk took to a witness stand Monday to defend his company’s 2016 acquisition of a troubled company called SolarCity against a lawsuit that claims he’s to blame for a deal that was rife with conflicts of interest and never delivered the profits he’d promised.