Top News:
- Tesla earnings report to be watched for progress toward 55,000 sales goal, SUV – Automotive News: Cars, not batteries, will take center stage as Tesla reports earnings later today.
- INDIA: Tata Motors puts diesel Nano on hold – Just-auto: Tata Motors has decided against using a two cylinder 800 cc diesel engine in the Nano in the near future due to issues related to “refinement and economics”.
- Tesla earnings report to be watched for progress toward 55000 sales goal, SUV – Automotive News: Cars, not batteries, will take center stage as Tesla Motors Inc. reports earnings later today. Tesla investors will scour…
- Safety regulators probe Fiat Chrysler SUV recall fix in U.S. – Reuters: U.S. safety regulators have opened an investigation into a potential wire-related fire hazard from a recall repair by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles implemented last year on more than 660,000 SUVs in the United States.
- European carmakers seek delay to tougher emissions testing – Reuters: European carmakers are lobbying for a … on an unrealistically smooth surface and taping up car doors and windows.
- Safety regulators probe Fiat Chrysler SUV recall fix in US – Reuters: Fiat Chrysler spokesman Eric Mayne said the automaker is cooperating in the new NHTSA probe and has reiterated service instructions for dealership…
- Daimler opens first motorway hydrogen fill station – Just-auto: Daimler, Linde and Total have jointly opened Germany’s first motorway hydrogen filling station at a service area in Geiselwind on the A3 between…
- Vehicules), shows employee numbers in the sector falling in 2014 as the country continues its struggle to return to pre-recession performance.
- Fiat beeps at ‘powerless’ analysts – FT: In one of the more bizarre earnings calls, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles last week glossed over profits and losses and instead set out its case for car…
- Changan Investors Get Ford Focus in China – WSJ: The big up-and-comer in China’s car market lately has been Ford. The up-and-coming way for investors to access this success is through Ford’s China…
- How self-driving tractor-trailers may reinvent what it means to be a truck driver – Washington Post: Daimler Trucks North America showed off a self-driving truck in a glitzy ceremony Tuesday at the Hoover Dam, offering a reminder of the coming era of…
- BMW postpones Russia assembly plant decision – Automotive News: BMW said it had postponed a decision about whether to build an assembly plant in Russia because of the uncertainty…
- Daimler says Nevada license to help self-drive trucks gain traction – Reuters: While companies such as Google have dominated the headlines with advances in driverless cars, Daimler board member Wolfgang Bernhard told…
- BMW CEO says Russia assembly plant decision postponed – Reuters: Separately, BMW’s Chief Financial Officer Friedrich Eichiner said he expected a mid triple-digit-million euros windfall in 2015, from fair-value gains on…
- China’s Dongfeng names new chairman amid merger reports – Automotive News: Chinese state-owned automaker Dongfeng Motor said today that a provincial Communist Party official would become its new…
- China’s Dongfeng denies rumours of merger with FAW and announces Zhu Yanfeng as new … – Ibtimes: … authorities, or expressed any relevant intention to any authorities,” Dongfeng Motor Group said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange.
- GERMANY: BMW sets Q1 records, affirms healthy 2015 outlook – Just-auto: BMW Group sales volume, revenues, profit before financial result and profit before tax all reached new highs in the first three months of 2015.
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Other news, rumors, and gossip:
- Opel Group CEO Dr. Neumann Announces All-new Next Generation Opel Astra – Gm: Russelsheim. Continuing an eight-decade long tradition of Opel compact models, Opel Group CEO Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann will unveil the all-new Astra at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt (September 17 to 27, 2015)…
- 2015 Nissan Leaf: The Anti-Tesla – Autoomobile: While it might offer the longest range or comes with a powerful electric engine like the Tesla, the Nissan Leaf is one of the best electric cars to own now…
- BMW adds Apple Watch connectivity – Newcarnet: which can be downloaded free from the Apple iTunes Store – to keep users updated on the car’s current…
- What to look for in Tesla earnings – Marketwatch:
- Tesla Motors, Inc. Earnings: 3 Questions for Elon Musk – Motley Fool: When electric-car maker Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA ) reports first-quarter results Wednesday after market close, investors will be looking for…
- Volkswagen Offers New Apple Watch Connectivity Features – Cars: Add Volkswagen to the list of automakers planning to offer a connected-car app to allow users to operate certain functions of their VW via their new…
- China’s car demand falls to lowest level since December – Scmp: China is the world’s biggest car market, with the number of vehicles sold rising 6.9 per cent to 23 million last year, from 13.9 per cent in 2013,…
- Who Would Be Interested In Tesla’s Home Battery? – Yahoo:
- Could Free Tuition Help Fiat-Chrysler Keep Its Employees? – Cheatsheet: In a rather unexpected move, Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles (or FCA) plans to offer free college tuition to all of the 118,000 employees at its Chrysler, Jeep,…
- Top 5 Upcoming Automobile Technologies – Cartrade: If you believe that your new car model is laced with latest equipment and nothing can beat it in next 5 years, then take a pause, and try to give a short…
- Nissan GT-R gets totaled by mechanic – Inautonews: A new incident with a Nissan GT-R is coming into our attention as the particular Japanese sports car has been completely ruined recently. According…
- Tesla Motors Inc CEO’s Brother Buys Shares For Just $9.96 – Learnbonds: Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon isn’t the only Musk on the company’s board. His brother Kimball also owns a substantial part of the…
- Volkswagen installs custom speed dials drawn by children to prevent speeding – Dailymail: Volkswagen New Zealand has released a creative and heart-warming advert in a bid to engineer safer drivers. Hiring the help of a number of…
- Volkswagen puts finance offers behind dealers’ used car push – Am-online: Volkswagen is backing an “As Good As New” used car campaign with finance discounts and free servicing in order to tempt consumers to its…
- Volkswagen introduces Car App for Apple Watch – Industryleadersmagazine: Just like that, today, the German car manufacturing auto mobile company, Volkswagen debuts Car-Net system, an app for Apple Watch. The VW’s…
- Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang Raises the Bar for Handling – Ford: The all-new Ford Shelby GT350 builds on Carroll Shelby’s original idea – transform Mustang from a great everyday car into a dominant road racer, elevating it to a new level.
- Europe Electric Car Sales Booming – Cleantechnica: The Nissan LEAF saw good continuing sales as well, with 3,300 units sold – which is, more or less, a record with regards to units sold in a single…
- More Electric Cars Are Coming, but Will You Want to Buy One? – Dailyfinance: But one automaker noticeably absent from the rush to battery-electric cars is Toyota (TM). You’d think that the company that has sold more hybrids…
- Tesla to open seven new service centers in Japan by end of 2015 – Japantimes: PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA – U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors Inc. will open seven new service centers in Japan by the end of the year to boost…
- VW Apple Watch Car-Net app compatibility model list – Product-reviews: Volkswagen has just announced that its Car-Net app will be coming to the Apple Watch, although no release date has been specified. Once VW…
- Andreas Renschler to chair the Supervisory Board of MAN SE – Volkswagenag: During the 135th Annual General Meeting on May 6, 2015, Andreas Renschler, member of the Board of Management with responsibility…
- Volkswagen Renschler to replace Piech as MAN chairman – News: Volkswagen said on Tuesday it was creating a commercial vehicles group to align its truck divisions MAN and Scania, pushing its long-standing…
- Chinese auto giant announces new chairman – Ecns: Jilin provincial CPC official Zhu Yanfeng took over as chairman of Dongfeng Motor, and the carmaker announced its former chairman Xu Ping will…
- One thousand jobs cut at Oshawa’s GM plant; what’s next? – Durhamregion: The announcement that General Motors is cutting 1,000 jobs at its Oshawa assembly plant this year is the latest hit in job losses that leaves local…
- This solar-powered race car will be street-legal by July – Mashable: When Mashable last wrote about eVe, the vehicle had just smashed … “The aim of the record was to prove that electric cars can travel very long…
- Daimler’s Futuristic Self-Driving Truck Hits U.S. Roads: Video – Motorauthority: Daimler, which controls a number of truck brands including the likes of Freightliner, Fuso, Mercedes-Benz and Western Star, and is the biggest…