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- The Electric Car Revolution Now Faces Its Biggest Test – Bloomberg: The Tesla exception shows what happens when an electric car reaches parity with fuel-burning competitors in both price and function. Unlike the Leaf and the BMW i3, the Tesla Model S is quicker than similarly priced gasoline cars, has a long driving …
- Cobalt Prices To Rocket As Tesla And Apple Scramble For Supplies – Yahoo: GM, Toyota and Ford have no battery manufacturing experience, and all are taking cue from Tesla and China’s BYD because they make both. Likewise, Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes don’t produce batteries, sourcing them to Samsung, LG Chem and…
- Tesla’s big Model 3 bet rides on risky assembly line strategy – Reuters: Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk took many risks with the technology in his company’s cars on the way to surpassing Ford Motor Co’s market value.
- Audi A8 to beat Mercedes-Benz S-Class as first fully autonomous car – Autocar: Next-generation model of Audi’s flagship saloon will be capable of Level 3 autonomy when it goes on sale later this year
- Tesla bets big on Model 3 production gamble – Reuters: Tesla’s Elon Musk is making a bold move to shorten production times for the highly anticipated Model 3 electric car, which could help Tesla meet demand and finally start making money.
- Opinion: why diesel faces an uphill struggle for respectability – Autocar: Sensationalism often clouds the facts behind important matters, and it has been brought to a whole new level today
- French Auto Investors Relieved By Election Outcome As Round 2 Looms – Forbes: French auto stocks Renault and Peugeot both zoomed ahead Monday after opinion polls indicated a candidate favorable to industry, the centrist…
- 570bhp Jaguar F-Pace SVR spotted winter testing ahead of 2017 reveal – Autocar: The brand’s hot SUV will go on sale in 2018; it will use the supercharged 5.0-litre V8 found in the F-Type SVR
- Sweden arrests second suspect over deadly truck attack – Reuters: Swedish police said they had arrested a second suspect linked to the deadly truck attack in Stockholm this month.
- No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes On the Flying Car – New York Times: On a recent afternoon, an aerospace engineer working for a small Silicon Valley company called Kitty Hawk piloted a flying car above a scenic lake…
- Elon Musk says plan to merge humans with machines is aimed at stopping a ‘Terminator’-style scenario – CNBC: When asked if Neuralink was a “counter for Skynet”, Elon Musk replied that it was the “aspiration” behind his new venture.
- Tesla’s Big Model 3 Bet Is Riding on This Risky Strategy – Fortune: Tesla (tsla) Chief Executive Elon Musk took many risks with the technology in his company’s cars on the way to surpassing Ford Motor’s (f) market…
- New-car glut weighs on prices, profits – Automotive News: Goyal pointed to a conversation he had with a dealer who anticipated selling a used pickup to a customer, only to see him buy a new truck thanks to…
- Japan dreams of a hydrogen society – Automotive News: “This is a very challenging goal,” conceded Yoshikazu Tanaka, chief engineer of the Mirai fuel cell sedan, which Toyota launched in 2014 and now…
- BMW dealers cry out for more 5 series – Automotive News: As the launch of the redesigned 2017 BMW 5 series ramps up, dealers have a common refrain: More cars! “We just don’t have enough product,” said…
- Mustang-Camaro rivalry takes root in China – Automotive News: Few feuds are as fanatical as the Ford Mustang-Chevy Camaro throwdown, a decades-old emblem of American consumer demand for…
- GM may lead stampede out of Venezuela – Automotive News: Now that General Motors is pulling out of Venezuela, the question on the minds of … While GM was embroiled in legal troubles of its own that led to the…
- VW whistleblower was a U.S. executive – Automotive News: A new book on the VW diesel emissions scandal asserts that it was an American VW executive who first disclosed VW’s criminal acts to regulators.
- Can Buick’s Avenir track Denali’s ascent? – Automotive News: While Buick’s high-end Avenir may have a hard time matching GMC’s Denali in the U.S., it has huge potential in China, where Buick logs more than 80 percent of its global sales.
- Detroit execs see no breakthrough in Japan – Automotive News: And General Motors says it’s fine with its current niche toehold, selling a … GM, which sold 1,228 Chevrolet and Cadillac vehicles last year in Japan,…
- New airbag injury highlights Honda&’s struggle – Automotive News: Despite an aggressive and far-reaching effort to recall and repair vehicles with potentially deadly Takata airbag inflators, Honda…
- Porsche dealers want more than a Panamera wagon – Automotive News: The Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo, shown at the New York auto show, will give Porsche dealers a five-seat Panamera to sell for the first time.
- Critics fear Trump will tap auto exec for NHTSA – Detroitnews: Car-safety advocates say Trump will likely pick an industry executive for top highway safety post
- There are reasons for Tesla valuation – Automotive News: Some simple things help that valuation: Tesla’s year-to-date sales are up double digits and outpacing the industry, and comScore data show demand…
- MB gives 2018 S class a new range of engines – Automotive News: The re-engineered Mercedes-Benz S-class sedan unveiled at the Shanghai auto show will get its first six-cylinder engine in the U.S. in more than a…
- O’Reilly dump gets customer feedback – Automotive News: Mercedes-Benz, the first company to pull its ads, said it received an avalanche of customer support. Of nearly 400 customer emails received,…
- Mercedes E-class convertible offers awd for the first time – Automotive News: The redesigned Mercedes-Benz E-class convertible will get all-wheel drive for the first time to help its sales in the northern U.S. The…
- OFF-ROAD? – Automotive News: Toyota’s FT-4X concept, a compact crossover introduced at the New York auto show this month, is packed with funky features and daring design cues…
- Toyota to take Mirai for a spin in China – Automotive News: As China becomes a more demanding market for low- and zero-emission vehicles, Toyota Motor Corp. intends to find out whether its…
- Land Rover hits Landwind headwind – Automotive News: Land Rover is having no luck quashing the brazen — and successful — Chinese copy of its Range Rover Evoque, Jaguar Land Rover CEO Ralf Speth…
- Mini’s 5th ‘superhero’ to be an EV – Automotive News: Parent BMW Group operated a fleet of electric Mini E test vehicles in the U.S. beginning in 2009. Now Mini plans to add an electric vehicle to its lineup.
- Convenient, compelling EV charging – Automotive News: Anyone paying attention to mainstream news should notice a steady, growing stream of headlines about electric vehicles and EV charging. The space…
- Sleeker 10th-gen Honda Accord – Automotive News: Spy photos of Honda’s 10th-generation Accord midsize sedan reveal a more sloping roofline than the outgoing version. Also visible: a grille and…
- Ford must do better with Lincoln luxury – Automotive News: While I appreciate Lincoln’s tack as the anti-Bimmer, its offerings seem superficial, like piling pillows on a Ford Fusion or, in this case, a ’98 Nav…
- Time to pull the plug on EV subsidies – Automotive News: For the first 200,000 electric-drive vehicles sold by an automaker, the federal government gives consumers a $7,500 tax credit. California and several…
- Nissan must watch fleet sales like a hawk – Automotive News: Nissan North America Chairman Jose Munoz reminded us of an important point when he said he would be happy to have more fleet business: Fleet…
- Used-car demand going strong at dealer groups – Automotive News: The company is reviving its AutoNation USA name for a series of used-vehicle stores. The first two of the company’s five planned standalone used-car…
- Another 10%: Nissan hits goal on female managers – Automotive News: One out of every 10 management-level positions at Nissan in Japan is held by a woman as of this month, up from fewer than two out of every 100 in…
- Mercedes hints at new styling with Concept A Sedan – Automotive News: … said Gorden Wagener, head of design for Mercedes parent Daimler, during the unveiling of the…
- Developing hydrogen beyond the car market – Automotive News: Tokyo launched its first hydrogen fuel cell city bus in March, a 77-seater made by Toyota. It is the first of some 100 fuel cell buses Tokyo wants in…
- Ex-Honda store chief barred from auto sales as he awaits trial – Automotive News: The former general manager of a St. Louis-area Honda dealership has been barred from working in auto sales while awaiting trial on charges he…
- Construction starting on $95M auto parts plant in Detroit – Freep: The Free Press previously reported that Flex-N-Gate planned to build a plant to supply parts to Ford and that the deal came together in just half a…
- Classmates once told Mark Fields he was crazy to work for Ford: Now he’s the CEO – CNBC: For Ford Motor CEO Mark Fields, the love of cars started early; he still remembers the set of Matchbox cars his dad bought him for his 6th birthday.
- Chung Eui-son off to Beijing to discuss marketing strategy amid China sanctions – Yonhap: Chung Eui-son, Hyundai Motor Co.’s vice chairman, flew to Beijing Monday to inspect Hyundai’s assembly lines in China…
- Uber’s CEO Plays With Fire – New York Times: Travis Kalanick’s drive to win in life has led to a pattern of risk-taking that has at times put his ride-hailing company on the brink of implosion. By MIKE ISAAC APRIL 23, 2017. Continue reading the main story Share This Page. Continue reading the …
- Does the U.S. Auto March Sales Indicate the Industry Is Losing Steam? – Yahoo: Sales gain at Nissan (NSANY) and General Motors (GM) could not compensate for the sales decline at Ford (NYSE:F), Honda (HMC), Toyota (TM),…
- The troubles of a car’s stereo system – Autocar: Bugatti Chiron’s interior Even a £2million hypercar isn’t necessarily a great auditorium for great sound quality to be enjoyed
- Is the EV killing the performance car? – Autocar: Being two-hundredths of a second quicker to 62mph than anyone else is scientifically a big deal, but is ultimately, inconsequential to a car’s merit. Everyone is building EVs, you see, and many are still building performance cars. Some are doing both. 0-62mph in 2.3sec, 0-62mph in 2.28sec, etc. Who decides what a ‘performance’ car is anyway?
- How Mercedes is taking hints from its rivals – Autocar: The Mercedes-Benz Concept A saloon was revealed in Shanghai, and I expect it’ll take a considerable chunk of sales away from the Audi A3 saloon