Welcome to The Downshift, or TDS for short, The Drive’s morning news roundup serving the biggest automotive headlines from around the world. The Downshift summarizes news items in a few sentences, with links to other sites to get the deeper story. Here’s your bulletin for Tuesday, August 11, 2026. General Motors and Samsung’s joint battery plant in Indiana won’t involve GM at all, it turns out, as the automaker has decided to sell its 49.99% stake in the $3.5 billion project to its partner, making it fully owned by Samsung. The facility was announced three years ago and is still in development. [Automotive News] Stellantis decided to bring a Chrysler Pacifica nobody asked for…
GM Sells Joint EV Battery Plant to Samsung: TDS
