Archives for February 2015

Today delayed due to trip to Toyota Mirai line-off, story to follow

• GENEVA MOTOR SHOW: Nissan teases next Micra – Motoring: Nissan has revealed the first teaser image of the ‘Sway’ concept car that’s expected to preview its next-generation Micra city-car at next week’s Geneva …
• Why Tesla Shares Could Drop 70% – Benzinga: Analysts at Bank of America are not buying into the Tesla Motors Inc hype. In fact, analyst John Lovallo just cut his price target for the …
• UK: Ricardo unveils new prototype electric motor – Just-auto: Ricardo has unveiled its new electric vehicle motor in prototype form as part of a collaborative research and development project RapidSR – Rapid Design and Development of a Switched Reluctance Traction Motor.
• Enter the ICar – Bloombergview: Instead of buying and owning an Apple or Google car, like you would a Ford or … Indeed, creating an alternative to the traditional automobile is one of …
• Honda’s Bumpy Road to Recovery – Bloombergview: Honda President Ito, who many view as the more visionary of the two, is out of a job. Toyota appears to have fully recovered following a major safety …
• February Auto Sales Rise Despite Weather, Dockworkers – Detroit Bureau: Faced with bitter cold weather that has cut into new cars sales in New England and put key automotive hubs in the Southeast into the deep freeze, car sales appear to have held their own during February.

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• Clean Diesel, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, or Electric? Volkswagen Chooses All of the Above – Motley Fool: In the United States, diesel cars are well in the minority, accounting for only … in the meantime, showing a longer-term commitment to electric cars.
• Why GM’s Strange New Cadillac Ad Makes Sense – Motley Fool: What is General Motors (NYSE: GM ) thinking with its latest new Cadillac ad? I asked that same question last year, when GM got America’s attention …
• Tesla Motors Inc. in 2014: 3 Soaring Charts and 1 Flat Stock Price – Motley Fool: With Tesla Motors’ (NASDAQ: TSLA ) fourth-quarter results released recently, investors can look back to see how the electric-car maker performed in …
• Sibling rivalry: Volkswagen goes ‘allroad’ with Europe-bound Passat Alltrack – Digitaltrends: Volkswagen will travel to next month’s Geneva Motor Show to unveil a rugged-looking version of the Europe-only Passat Variant dubbed Alltrack.
• 5000 Workers at General Motors Plant in Brazil Strike In Response to Company’s Layoff Plan – Latinpost: A General Motors logo is shown at the General Motors Technical Center, where today Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra held a press conference on …
• The race to build the better battery the world desperately needs – Vox: He dismisses as “foolhardy” the industry forecasting that predicts that 25 years from now, electric, fuel-cell, natural gas, and plug-in hybrid cars will …
• With Hot Escalade, Cadillac Loves To Leave Well Enough Alone – Forbes: As Cadillac executives reconstruct the brand around new luxury-performance sedans and a coming small utility vehicle, a fresh system of alphanumeric nomenclature and a redefinition of what Cadillac stands for, there’s one big internal obstacle in their way — and it isn’t General Motors CEO Mary Barra. She’s onboard.

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