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- VW, China partners to recall 4.86 mln vehicles over Takata air bags: watchdog – Reuters: The recall comes after the watchdog asked the German automaker, General Motors Co (GM.N) and Daimler AG’s (DAIGn.DE) Mercedes-Benz earlier …
- Tesla delays electric semi-truck reveal – Yahoo: reported in August that Tesla was developing a long-haul, electric semi-truck that could drive itself and move in “platoons” that followed a lead vehicle, according to an email discussion of potential road tests between the car company and the …
- In the future, cars will be data-collection machines – Detroitnews: Value of data gathered from new-vehicle buyers may soon exceed the price of their cars
- Facelifted Lexus RC F to use more powerful atmospheric V8 – Autocar: Lexus will extract more power from the naturally aspirated 5.0-litre V8 engine of its RC F when the car is facelifted for 2018. The BMW M4 and Audi…
- Carmakers can expect sales surge after Irma, Harvey – Detroitnews: Back-to-back hurricanes have automakers and dealers accounting for losses as they prepare to get people back on the road
- Volkswagen to recall 4.86m vehicles in China over Takata airbags – FT: Volkswagen and its joint venture partners in China will recall 4.86m vehicles in the country because of faulty airbags, China’s quality watchdog has…
- Poland pins hopes on electric-vehicle future – FT: A cursory glance at a European map of publicly available charging points indicates that Poland is unlikely to be the electric car driver’s destination of…
- China’s carmakers develop an appetite for foreign markets – FT: Chinese factories already export Buicks and Volvos to the US market, while Ford will move global production of the Focus to the country in 2019.
- Carmakers update workers’ skills to drive next generation – FT: As a result, Volvo has expanded its research and development workforce and taken on 800 workers since early 2016, bringing the total to 6,100,…
- Kia Motors hires ex-BMW designer as style head – Reuters: Kia Motors Corp has hired as its head of styling Pierre Leclercq, a former designer at BMW and Great Wall Motor , in a move expected to help the South Korean automaker reverse its fortunes in its top market China.
- Musk now targets October to unveil Tesla semi truck – Reuters: Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said the electric carmaker is tentatively scheduled to unveil its planned semi-truck in late October, about a month later than the billionaire had earlier estimated
- Elon Musk says ‘unreal’ Tesla semi truck set for October unveiling – CNBC: Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday that the company’s “unreal” semi truck was tentatively set to be unveiled in October.
- Elon Musk Will Reveal Tesla’s Semi Truck In October – Fortune: Tesla CEO Elon Musk will unveil an all-electric semi truck on Oct. 26 in Hawthorne, Calif., home to the automaker’s design studio and the billionaire…
- Tesla To Unveil Electric Semi Truck That Elon Musk Calls A ‘Beast’ – Forbes: The restless billionaire tech industrialist tweeted out today that Tesla will reveal its biggest (and presumably costliest) electric vehicle to date: A…
- Elon Musk Just Set A Date To Show Off Tesla’s Semi Truck – Forbes: Roadsters, sedans and SUVs are a good start, but Tesla Motors and founder Elon Musk are out to prove that electric vehicles can also be super-sized.M
- How China Should Go Electric – Bloomberg: Their efforts to pick winners and losers, however, aren’t likely to fare any better with electric vehicles than they have with traditional cars. Finally, China…
- Waymo CEO Says Self-Driving Trucks May Precede Taxis – Bloomberg: John Krafcik, chief executive officer of Alphabet’s Waymo division, said Wednesday he’s exploring at least two paths for its self-driving systems and…
- Senators weigh impact of self-driving trucks – Detroitnews: Washington – Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday weighed the potential for self-driving trucks and large commercial vehicles to improve…
- Here’s When Having a Self-Driving Car Will Be a Normal Thing – Fortune: The self-driving car revolution is gaining speed-and will change our everyday lives in ways big and small. In recent weeks, announcements from…
- As the era of driverless cars looms, can self-driving trucks be far behind? – Washington Post: “The prospect of self-driving trucks raises a very different set of issues from self-driving cars,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) said. Stakeholders, he said…
- Apple’s real innovation is killing the instruction manual – Yahoo: The new iPhone X has tons of new features that Apple hopes will set the … Perhaps the most overt example is with Tesla whose founder supposedly…
- Nissan promotes manufacturing exec Martin to Alliance role – Automotive News: The Alliance was created in 1999 to help the Renault and Nissan achieve better economies of scale. Alliance Chairman Carlos Ghosn lately has been…
- BMW Targets $2.4 Billion Cut to Parts Costs in E-Car Shift – Bloomberg: BMW AG aims to cut roughly 2 billion euros ($2.4 billion) from its annual purchasing bill by squeezing costs for transmission components and other…
- Spare Parts – @ToyotaMotorCorp: An important element for winning the trust of vehicle users (customers) is the spare parts supply system. This includes not only the obvious producer…
- Ex-BMW design wunderkind Bangle resurfaces and riffs on ‘banality’ – Automotive News: The famed former BMW boy wonder who talks really, really fast, but perhaps not as fast as he thinks, pointedly avoided automotive clients at Chris…
- GM puts pieces in place to take on Uber as Cruise, Maven expand – Automotive News: Ride-hailing apps and car-sharing services have been called existential threats to automakers as we know them, but General Motors Co. is looking to…
- How Does a Ballgown Compete with a $40 Million Bugatti? – New York Times: Inside were 26 of the rarest cars in the world, made between 1937 and 2015, including a 1938 Bugatti T-57SC Atlantic, a car valued at about $40…
- Daimler’s Smart-Car Song Dances Around Self-Driving Challenges – Bloomberg: . Elisabeth BehrmannSep 13, 2017 6:48 am ET. () — In a musical fantasy…