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- Driverless trucks: economic tsunami may swallow one of most common US jobs – Guardian: It seems highly likely that competition between the various companies developing these technologies will produce practical, self-driving trucks within…
- Elon Musk Is Really Boring – Bloomberg: But Musk, the chief executive of both SpaceX and the electric car company Tesla, is quite proud of this pit. He started digging as a spur-of-the-moment thing one weekend at the end of January. The idea came to him while sitting in a traffic jam early …
- Unite Members Angered, Surprised by Opel Sales Talk – Bloomberg: Len McCluskey, general secretary at Unite, expresses his concerns about talks between General Motors and PSA Group regarding the potential sale…
- Hyundai, Kia’s Europe sales jump 14.3 pct on-year in Jan. – Yonhap: Sales of South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and its smaller affiliate Kia Motors Corp. in Europe jumped…
- PSA intends to keep Opel as a German brand, reports say – Automotive News: PSA Group CEO Carlos Tavares intends to keep Opel as a German company if the French automaker acquires the money-losing brand from General…
- India’s Tata Motors, Microsoft ink technology collaboration deal – Reuters: Tata Motors Ltd and Microsoft India on Thursday announced a strategic collaboration on the technology front to make driving a more personalized experiences for the customers, the companies said in a joint statement.
- China To Add 800000 Charging Points To Support Booming NEV Market – Forbes: New Energy Vehicles include electric vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). Last year 507,000 NEVs were sold in China and this…
- GM’s Opel, Peugeot lagging rivals in strong European market: ACEA – Reuters: General Motors CEO Mary Barra presents the new Opel Astra during the media day at the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany …
- GM, PSA Lose European Ground as Carmakers Mull Regional Deal – Bloomberg: Industrywide registrations jumped 10 percent to 1.2 million vehicles, with demand at Fiat Chrysler surging 15 percent. GM is in talks on a possible sale…
- Brexit Puts UK’s Vauxhall in Crosshairs After Peugeot-GM Deal – Bloomberg: With German politicians already lobbying to protect jobs at Vauxhall’s sister brand Opel and Peugeot parent PSA Group, part-owned by the French…
- Toyota moves to avoid trade friction with US – Nikkei: Toyota Motor is growing nervous about U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policy as he is taking a tough stance on imported vehicles and…
- Honda CR-V’s excellence marred by balky controls – Freep: For a company that builds some very quick cars, Honda sometimes moves with glacial slowness. The 2017 CR-V compact SUV is a prime…
- Electric Car Frenzy Putting Oil Companies On Edge – Yahoo: The massive wealth of the 20th century was all about the oil boom, but the 21st century is going to be about lithium as electric vehicles move in to replace traditional vehicles. The global economic implications are vast and far-reaching, and for new …
- Tesla set to begin car sales in S. Korea in May – Yonhap: U.S. electric car maker Tesla Motors is soon set to launch its vehicles in South Korea, the local government said Thursday…
- UAW steps up organizing efforts with automakers – Freep: In Fremont, Calif., the newest front for the UAW, a worker at Tesla Motors captured national attention when he wrote a blog post complaining about low…
- Is This the Electric Car That’s Going to Trump Tesla? – Bloomberg: Moreover, with an electric motor and active air dampers at each wheel, and all that weight down in the battery lowering the center of gravity, the car…
- Uber: the biggest challenge for our self-driving cars is finding cities to test them in – CNBC: Pilot models of the Uber self-driving car is displayed at the Uber Advanced … the company had to pull autonomous cars from the road in December.
- How Elon Musk Is Rewarding a Heroic Tesla Owner – Fortune: A Tesla owner who heroically used his Model S to slow down an out-of-control vehicle on Germany’s Autobahn is being rewarded for his good deeds.
- Why Toyota Only Sold One Prius in China Last December – Bloomberg: While Toyota Motor Corp.’s iconic gas-electric hybrid car continues to sell in other markets almost two decades after the first one was sold in Japan in…
- FCA shares jump on GM speculation; Barra still not interested – Automotive News: Barra with Marchionne at the White House. GM isn’t interested in a merger with Fiat Chrysler or any other major automaker, a source told .
- Toyota Shifting Bet from Conventional Hybrids to Plug-Ins – Detroit Bureau: Toyota, the company that gave the world its first mainstream gasoline-electric vehicle, says it now expects plug-ins to gain traction faster than…
- Bosses defend Peugeot-Opel deal under political fire – Reuters: * PSA CEO will pledge to keep Opel German – source (Adds German government, more sources comment)