Hyundai Recalls Half A Million Cars, Tesla Kills Model S And X, And More: Today’s Top Car News

From a massive six-figure recall on the Hyundai Palisade, to Trump’s plan to lure Mercedes-Benz from Europe, to the end of two Tesla EVs, things aren’t the way they were yesterday. Here, we’ll round up the biggest news stories of the last 24 hours on AutoBlog and divvy them up into bite-sized chunks that get right to the heart of the story, allowing you to go deeper if you want.

Hyundai recalls 570,000 Palisade SUVs

Per the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 568,576 Hyundai SUVs have a problem with their third-row side curtain airbags, which may deploy improperly. The issue means Hyundai is forced to issue a recall over the malfunction, which puts the Palisade SUV in violation of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards for occupant ejection mitigation. Curtain airbags help control debris and mitigate the risk of an occupant being thrown from the vehicle in a crash. To read more on the issue, check out our full coverage below.

Read More: Almost 570,000 Hyundai Palisades Recalled Over Third-Row Airbag Failure

Dead: Tesla Model X and S

Tesla’s game-changing Model S and its SUV counterpart, the Model X, are dead. The Model S catapulted EVs into the mainstream public consciousness back in 2012 and inarguably set the standard for what people expected from EVs for years to come. Other automakers spent billions trying to catch up to, and in some cases surpass, what Tesla had done. Now, the two are dead. Tesla made the announcement to shareholders before the end of the year. To read more on the abrupt cancellation, follow our coverage below.

Read More: DEAD: Tesla Is Killing Off the Model S and Model X

GM loses money by cancelling its EVs

General Motors insists it still believes in an electric future, but its latest letter to shareholders tells a different story. After publishing its full-year results, the automaker confirmed it will significantly cut EV production in 2026, despite electric vehicles bringing nearly 100,000 new customers to the brand last year. They blame their losses on an abundant amount of “EV-related charges”, but most of them were self-inflicted. To read more on GM’s future EV plans (or lack thereof), read on below.

Read More: GM’s EV Losses Weren’t From Making Cars—They Were From Canceling Them

Trump attempted to lure Mercedes out of Germany

Mercedes-Benz Group AG CEO Ola Källenius confirmed that the Trump administration attempted to persuade the automaker to move its global headquarters from Germany to the United States. In an interview with German outlet The Pioneer, Källenius said the proposal came about a year ago through US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The offer included tax relief and other incentives intended to relocate the company’s executive base out of Stuttgart. To read more on Mercedes’ big fat “no,” click the link below.

Read More: Trump Tried to Lure Mercedes Out of Germany—CEO Flatly Said No