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- Ford exploring strategic alliance with Mahindra – Reuters: Ford Motor Co and Indian automaker Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd announced they are exploring forming a strategic alliance, as traditional automakers increasingly collaborate to meet the threat of competition from technology-focused firms.
- Hyundai’s Genesis G70 revealed – Yahoo: Hyundai is a manufacturer that appears to have no fear whatsoever of taking on the establishment, even in an area of the vehicle market it’s not…
- New Way to Track Auto Innovation: Patent Filings – WSJ: Car makers feeling heat from Silicon Valley on autonomous-car technology have sharply boosted their U.S. patent filings. Among their innovations: removable steering wheels and a drone to locate robot-taxi passengers.
- Redefine the back-seat driver role in driverless cars – FT: As more companies put self-driving cars on real world roads for testing – with the help of the laissez-faire Trump administration, which last week…
- Audi takes lead in automated driving, but others wary to follow – Reuters: German carmaker Audi is taking a lead in bringing more automated … That is not our logic, he told at the car show.
- Ford Reunites With Mahindra to Raise India Bet as GM Exits – Bloomberg: Ford and Mahindra formed a partnership for three years, aiming to cooperate in areas including mobility programs, connected vehicle projects,…
- Ford, Mahindra Reunite to Ally for New Generation Vehicles – Bloomberg: … maker Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. to explore a partnership for electric vehicles and other…
- Kia Stonic priced from £16,295 in the UK – Autocar: Stonic could prove to be one of Kia’s best-sellers – it undercuts the Nissan Juke by around £600
- GM to recall 2.5 mn vehicles in China over Takata airbags – Yahoo: General Motors will recall more than 2.5 million vehicles in China over concerns about airbags made by troubled Japanese giant…
- London’s Black Cabs Going Electric Spurs Aluminum Restart – Bloomberg: The taxi maker is investing $400 million to build electric vehicles fitted with an aluminum chassis and the U.K. plans to phase out fossil-fuel vehicles by…
- GM’s Canadian Workers Are Striking to Stop More Jobs Going to Mexico – Fortune: Workers at General Motors’ CAMI auto assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, walked out on strike late Sunday after the labor union Unifor failed to reach…
- GM Ontario plant workers strike as talks with union fail – Reuters: Canada’s Unifor union said its members at General Motors Co’s CAMI auto assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario are on a strike from 1059 pm local time Sept. 17 as it failed to reach a tentative agreement with the automaker.
- Using the EPA to Prop Up Big Coal – New York Times: . The Trump administration is unflinching in its misbegotten campaign to protect the coal industry…
- BRIEF-Unifor says GM Ontario plant workers have taken strike action – Reuters: * Unifor says members of Unifor local 88 at CAMI automotive in Ingersoll have taken strike action after company failed to address a key job security issue Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
- BRIEF-GM Canada says were not able to complete agreement with Unifor – Reuters: * General Motors says were not able to complete agreement with Unifor; encourage Unifor to resume negotiations, continue working together to secure agreement Source:
- Canada’s Unifor union goes on strike at GM’s Ontario plant – Reuters: Canada’s Unifor union said its members at General Motors Co’s CAMI auto assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario are on a strike from 1059 pm local time Sept. 17 as it failed to reach a tentative agreement with the automaker
- Hyundai Life Insurance cuts one-third of staff – Yonhap: Hyundai Life Insurance, an insurance unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, has recently cut a third of its…
- GM workers in Ontario strike – Detroitnews: ‘Workers are standing up for good jobs. Not just for themselves, but for entire community,’ Unifor union chief says
- Ford Mondeo gets heavy price cuts in bid to fend off SUV threat – Autocar: Ford has slimmed the line-up and reduced the prices of its Mondeo range in a bid to attract more fleet buyers to the hatchback. The Vauxhall Insignia…
- This Company Has a Way to Make Robots Safer for Humans – Bloomberg: Now, in a development that’s drawn interest from car makers including Volkswagen, entrepreneurs Roman Weitschat and Hannes Hoeppner, working…
- Can Tesla propel Panasonic into top supplier ranks? – Automotive News: TOKYO – As Tesla’s gigafactory steps up electric-vehicle battery production in Nevada, the future looks brighter for Japanese electronics giant…
- O’Connell leaves Tesla – Automotive News: SAN FRANCISCO – Diarmuid O’Connell, Tesla Inc.’s vice president of business development who led the automaker’s fight to sell its cars through factory-owned stores, has left the company, reported. O’Connell, 53, who joined Tesla in 2006, was…
- Low-key ads mark autonomous era – Automotive News: Tesla’s grandly named Autopilot system gained notoriety in the summer of 2016 after a fatal accident involving a Tesla vehicle that had the feature…
- Volvo marketing ‘has to be different’ – Automotive News: After a few dormant years, Volvo has roared back under the ownership of China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, rediscovering its Scandinavian…
- Bugatti’s single model could be a four-door – Automotive News: FRANKFURT – Supercar maker Bugatti – the crown jewel in the Volkswagen Group portfolio – is considering building a four-door model set to go…
- GM’s complex relationship with IT – Automotive News: General Motors and its information technology operations have had a complicated relationship over the last 30 years. They’ve moved in together,…
- Bringing more mobility to marketing – Automotive News: GTB, the dedicated advertising agency for Ford Motor Co., recently hired Tito Melega as its new global chief creative officer. Melega, 50, comes to the…
- Genesis G70 has a bit of German DNA – Automotive News: The car, which launches next year as a 2019 model, will be the first real test of whether the Hyundai Motor Group’s spun-off luxury marque can build…
- Ghosn plans 12 new EVs, more platform sharing – Automotive News: PARIS – Nissan and Renault will expand their electric car offerings and dig deeper for cost savings in component sourcing and manufacturing under…
- Ford CEO Hackett to speak at congress – Automotive News: Ford CEO Jim Hackett, who spent two decades running a Michigan office-furniture- maker, will be a keynote speaker at the World…
- Bentley takes the leap to Level 3 – Automotive News: FRANKFURT – Bentley will roll out Level 3 autonomous driving capability across its range starting two years from now, CEO Wolfgang Duerheimer…
- Seat man undercover for Ford – Automotive News: The mystery of a seemingly driverless Ford Transit Connect spotted last month on the streets of Arlington, Va., has been solved. It was an experiment…
- BMW: Join autonomous group now – Automotive News: The German automaker aims to develop a scalable Level 5 self-driving system for its upcoming iNEXT model and then work backward to an easier..
- No shades of Perot-era drama with IT this time – Automotive News: DETROIT – General Motors’ previous in-house information technology … But at the time of the GM-EDS separation, the automaker wanted to…
- Visteon argues for more centralized controls – Automotive News: To make progress in selling its augmented reality head-up display, Visteon needed automakers to adopt centralized control of electronic features.
- Mazda upgrading US dealership network – Automotive News: TOKYO – Mazda Motor Corp. has embarked on a three-year dealership upgrade targeting more than 100 outlets across the U.S. as part of its push to…
- Honda’s packs N-Box with surprises – Automotive News: But Honda Motor Co. wants to change their dowdy image on both counts with its next-generation N-Box, the best-selling nameplate in that uniquely…
- Honda EV hops back in time – Automotive News: Honda made waves last week at the Frankfurt auto show by unveiling an electric car that at first glance appears to be a 1970s Volkswagen Rabbit.
- Fiat is freshening lineup – Automotive News: 500X:? Fiat’s subcompact crossover will be freshened in 2019, given typical product intervention cycles. 124 Spider: The convertible two-seat roadster…
- Crossovers to pad Chrysler’s lineup – Automotive News: Tipo/Neon: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has studied importing the compact Fiat Tipo sedan into the U.S. from Europe and likely rebadging it as a…
- Big goals and bigger grille for BMW X7? – Automotive News: Frankfurt – BMW CEO Harald Krueger has high expectations for the new X7. “We are targeting to be the No. 1 in our [large luxury SUV] segment,” he…
- Is disclosure form about GM security? – Automotive News: “New GM disclosure form riles dealers” (Sept. 4) was thorough and well-written, but I wonder if we might be overlooking a possible General Motors…
- What good is an EV in a disaster? – Automotive News: The farthest an evacuee from Miami could get in the average, fully electric vehicle would be Palm Beach. Talk about anxiety from driving your EV too…
- New autonomous-vehicle policy borders on neglect – Automotive News: And the government’s recent regulatory guidance on self-driving cars, which are in the toddler stage, makes us want to reach for the phone and call…
- Beyond Bond – Automotive News: Aston Martin is adding ambassadors including Tom Brady, right. But James Bond, played by Sean Connery here, isn’t done for. Shown are the…
- Chinese seek keys to US – Automotive News: Notably absent was Lynk & CO, a sibling brand to Volvo that is being launched by parent Geely. Lynk & CO executives say they plan to sell 125,000…
- GM plots next phase of IT overhaul – Automotive News: While not the driving force behind monumental decisions such as exiting …. The IT transformation, Mott said, was self-funded and each year never…
- PSA factories appear ‘more efficient’ than Opel plants, Tavares says – Automotive News: FRANKFURT — PSA Group factories appear to be more productive than plants operated by the automaker’s newly acquired Opel/Vauxhall business,…
- Driverless taxis might be riderless, too – Automotive News: Fifty-five percent of respondents said they would not consider riding in a fully self-driving vehicle, although 71 percent would consider riding in a…
- North Korea fuel prices soar after U.N. sanctions capping supply – Reuters: Gasoline and diesel prices rose sharply in North Korea after its sixth nuclear test and as the U.N. Security Council imposed new sanctions capping fuel supply, market data analysed by on Monday showed.
- BRIEF-Unifor says has not secured a tentative agreement with GM unit – Reuters: * Unifor says master bargaining committee has not been successful in securing a tentative agreement with GM unit
- General Motors workers on strike at Cami Assembly plant in Ontario – Freep: Workers at a General Motors plant in Ontario where the popular Chevrolet … The membership of Unifor Local 88 working at the GM CAMI Assembly…
- New G70 Compact Sedan Helps Hyundai Define Korean Luxury For Its Genesis Brand – Forbes: Genesis, the two-year-old standalone luxury division within Hyundai Motor Corp., took a major step toward becoming a viable premium brand on…
- Dodge sees payoff on its Demon hype – Detroitnews: Limited-run Dodge Demon has helped boost Challenger sales and cement muscle-car image
- Future bright for EVs – Detroitnews: Last week was Drive Electric Week, and Michiganians across the state are beginning to realize the many benefits of driving an electric vehicle (EV).
- The Dangers of the Hackable Car – WSJ: Congress is proposing new standards that car companies must meet to guard against cyberattacks. Car makers are beefing up their software to make…
- GM and China joint venture to recall more than 2.5 million vehicles, watchdog says – CNBC: GM and its China joint venture will recall over 2.5 million vehicles due to faulty airbag inflators, a watchdog said.
- Australia new vehicle sales flat in August – Reuters: Australian sales of new vehicles were unchanged in August, though a jump in commercial sales augured well for business …
- More than 1 million Ford Explorers may face recall on fumes – Automotive News: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has taken an interim step toward prompting the recall of 1.3 million 2011-2017 Ford Explorers,…
- General Motors is Recalling 2.5 Million Cars in China Over Faulty Airbags – Fortune: General Motors (gm, +0.10%) and its joint venture in China, Shanghai GM, will recall more than 2.5 million vehicles due to faulty airbag inflators,…
- New cabs for London drive re-opening of Welsh plant – FT: Investors are also optimistic about demand from electric vehicle makers. … The London Electrical Vehicle Company, which was formerly called the…
- The electric vehicle revolution is ‘a huge opportunity’ for this robotics giant – CNBC: Electric vehicles are an opportunity for ABB to work with smart cities of the future, Chairman Peter Voser said.
- Fiat Chrysler Beats Ford – Forbes: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. is beating Ford Motor Company, on Wall Street. Fiat Chrysler’s shares have gained 143.70% for the last twelve months…
- GM, China JV to recall over 2.5 million vehicles over airbags: watchdog – Reuters: General Motors and its joint venture in China, Shanghai GM, will recall more than 2.5 million vehicles due to faulty airbag inflators, China’s top quality watchdog as said.