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- GM warns Canadian union it could wind down striking SUV plant – Reuters: General Motors Co on Wednesday warned leaders of Canada’s Unifor labor union that it will start to wind down production of its popular Chevrolet Equinox sport utility vehicle at an Ontario factory unless workers there call off a month-long strike.
- Britain plans billion-pound boost for electric cars as part of climate change plan – Reuters: Britain will spend one billion pounds to promote electric and other low-emission vehicles, and step up spending on research and innovation, as part of plans to invest 2.5 billion pounds ($3.3 billion) by 2021 to help meet its climate change targets.
- 679bhp McLaren MSO R coupe and Spider revealed – Autocar: Pair of technically identical models created for one customer; both get 679bhp engines
- Shell buys operator of electric vehicle charging stations – FT: Royal Dutch Shell revealed on Thursday plans to acquire an operator of electric vehicle charging stations in a pact that highlights expectations that the…
- Sports car maker Aston Martin counts on an SUV to drive its future – Reuters: The arrival of Aston Martin’s DBX sport utility vehicle in 2019 could help more than double sales of the British sports car maker by early next decade, its chief executive told .
- GM to Idle Detroit Car Factory Amid Slow Demand – WSJ: General Motors Co. GM 0.58% plans to close a Detroit factory through the end of the year and deepen production cuts to slow-selling cars the plant…
- Norway seeks to trim lavish electric car subsidies – Reuters: Norway plans to trim lavish tax breaks for Tesla and other electric cars that have given it the world’s highest rate of battery-vehicle ownership, the right-wing government proposed on Thursday.
- Norway’s electric car owners face ‘Tesla tax’ – FT: Norway is proposing a “Tesla tax” that would hit owners of the heaviest electric cars in a move that critics say will undermine the Scandinavian…
- Paris plans to banish all but electric cars by 2030 – Reuters: Paris City Hall, already under attack over the establishment of no-car zones, car-free days and fines for drivers who enter the city in cars that are more than 20 years old, said it was not using the word ban but rather introducing a feasible …
- Oxford to become first UK city to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre – Reuters: The university city of Oxford has unveiled plans to ban petrol and diesel cars from its centre as part of the most radical set of …
- Toyota seeking to halve Japan car models as domestic market shrinks – Reuters: Toyota Motor Corp is aiming to halve the number of car models it sells at home by 2025, a person briefed on the matter said – the …
- Toyota may halve vehicle lineup in Japan – Nikkei: With disruptive new trends occurring, including the rise of car sharing and electric vehicles, Toyota knows that is has to change its traditional sales…
- BMW to Outsource China Mini Car Making to Great Wall – Bloomberg: BMW AG is working on a deal to outsource the manufacturing of Mini cars in China to Great Wall Motor Co., the country’s biggest SUV maker,…
- Kobe Steel chief admits scandal has hit trust as car checks spread – Guardian: … Motors is among the manufacturers checking whether its cars contain falsely certified parts supplied by Kobe Steel. Photograph: via Getty Images.
- Yamaha to show new Gordon Murray iStream sports car at Tokyo – Autocar: Yamaha’s 2015 Tokyo motor show Sports Ride Concept Compact two-seater looks on course to reach production as development continues
- LG Chem targets big automakers with Polish battery plant – Reuters: South Korean battery maker LG Chem will produce 100,000 electric car batteries a year in Poland to meet demand from global automakers ditching diesel and petrol engines.
- Insurers to work with tech firms on risks from drones, driverless cars – Reuters: The World Economic Forum is bringing insurers, tech firms and governments together to find ways to tackle risks from new …
- BRIEF-Ford says started production of EcoSport SUV at its Romania plant?? – Reuters: * Ford says started production of the new Ford EcoSport small SUV at its Craiova, Romania, assembly plant?? Source text – (
- Russia’s Avtovaz to recall 20000 Lada XRAY cars – Reuters: Russia’s Avtovaz is recalling almost 20,000 of its new Lada XRAY cars to check for a possible electrical fault, the …
- London regulator will defend decision not to renew Uber’s licence in court – mayor – Reuters: London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Thursday that the city’s transport regulator will defend its decision in court not to renew Uber’s licence to operate in the British capital.
- Oxford aims for world’s first zero emissions zone with petrol car ban – Guardian: As vehicle technology develops, the zero-emissions zone will extend to cover all non-electric vehicles, including HGVs, in the whole of the city centre by 2035, according to the joint proposals by Oxford city council and Oxfordshire county council.
- Electric cars: China’s highly charged power play – FT: Welcomed by environmentalists, the move also plays into the vision of state planners who see the electric vehicle market as an industry it can compete…
- How Connected Cars Could Change Your Life On The Road In The Next 3 Years – Forbes: For example, Volvo’s Concept 26 car (named, Volvo says, for the 26 … Volvo predicts that soon, drivers may actually choose longer routes to their…
- This Mini Could Breach China’s Great Wall – Bloomberg: The world’s biggest car market has traditionally raised a great wall of tariffs and … The hefty taxes that China levies on imported cars are still a powerful…
- Britain presents spending plan to meet climate emission targets – Reuters: Britain’s government laid out plans on Thursday on … low-emission vehicles, including helping consumers to pay for new cars.
- Different Ads, Different Ethnicities, Same Car – New York Times: All of these are part of Toyota’s marketing campaign for its new Camry. But which commercial you get to see may depend, in part, on what ethnicity you…
- General Motors checking impact of Kobe Steel data cheating – Reuters: General Motors [GM.N] is checking whether its cars contain falsely certified parts or components sourced from Japan’s …
- Netherlands wins its seventh world solar car challenge in Australia – Reuters: The Netherlands claimed a seventh World Solar Challenge title on Thursday after its solar-powered car drove the length of …
- Kobe Steel chief executive says trust in company ‘has fallen to zero’ – FT: Asahi Kasei, Mitsubishi Motors, Takata, Suzuki and Toshiba, and others have admitted to falsifications or substandard work over the past few years.
- China monthly vehicle sales rise again; may miss annual target -industry body – Reuters: China’s vehicles sales rose in September for a fourth straight month, an industry body said on Thursday, but added that the …
- Paris plans ban on combustion-engine cars by 2030 – Reuters: Paris authorities plan to ban by 2030 all combustion-engine cars – including those fuelled by both diesel and petrol – an official at Paris City Hall said on Thursday.
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX lands another big win in making reusable rockets the future – CNBC: Tuesday’s launch marked SpaceX’s fifteenth launch of 2017, and was the second one this week.
- Exclusive – Alphabet’s Waymo demanded $1 billion in settlement talks with Uber: sources – Reuters: Alphabet Inc’s Waymo sought at least $1 billion (£754.8 million) in damages and a public apology from Uber Technologies Inc as conditions for settling its high-profile trade secret lawsuit against the ride-services company, sources familiar with the proposal told .
- Toyota’s Empire Must Shrink – Bloomberg: Imagine you went shopping for a Toyota Motor Corp. minivan in Japan with 3 million yen ($27,000) in your back pocket. Which of these models would…
- Renault Samsung, union signs wage deal for this year – Yonhap: Renault Samsung Motors Corp. and its union on Thursday sealed a wage deal for this year, after staging no strikes for the…
- China September Auto Sales Rise 3.3% on Demand for Premium Cars – Bloomberg: Among carmakers offering mass-market models, Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. boosted sales by 13 percent to a record 108,872 units in September,…
- UK to Boost Low-Pollution Energy as It Moves to Cap Bills – Bloomberg: Clean transport developers such as electric car makers and those promoting hydrogen as a road fuel, like Royal Dutch Shell Plc, may also find…
- BMW will outsource Mini production in China to Great Wall, report says – Automotive News: BMW is working on a deal that will bring manufacturing of the iconic Mini brand to China for the first time, according to people with knowledge of the…
- Electric cars may one day become cheaper than traditional vehicles, top CEO says – CNBC: The price of an electric vehicle depends largely on the cost of the batteries that power them, and those expenses are set to rapidly decline in the near future, according to a top Japanese business executive. “The cost of battery is now dropping very …
- Falling battery costs could make electric cars less pricey, Mitsubishi Electric chief says – CNBC: The price of an electric vehicle depends largely on the cost of the batteries that power them, and those expenses are set to rapidly decline in the near…
- China vehicle sales rise for fourth straight month: industry body – Reuters: China’s vehicles sales rose in September for the fourth consecutive month, an industry body said on Thursday, underscoring …
- Toyota plans to halve Japan car models by 2025 – source – Reuters: Toyota Motor Corp is planning to halve the number of car models it sells in Japan to about 30 by 2025 to focus on more popular models in a shrinking market, a person briefed on the matter told on Thursday.
- Howes: Tesla plays auto game by Silicon Valley rules – Detroitnews: This amazing accomplishment is being greeted, well, differently by investors than it would if, say, General Motors Co. Chairman Mary Barra copped to…
- This time, Ford’s reliance on trucks, SUVs is different – Detroitnews: He’s also pushing to make every Ford sold in the United States a connected vehicle within two years and to shift money from gas and diesel engines to…B
- Self-driving shuttles get first public test in Detroit – Detroitnews: Detroit – Two self-driving electric shuttles ferried people on a cool October night to a downtown parking garage within blocks of the nation’s largest…
- Automakers, EPA underestimate the speed of innovation – Detroitnews: Meanwhile, Mazda just announced a step change in gasoline engine efficiency: homogeneous charge compression ignition, which Mazda achieved…
- Payne: Kia’s affordable Stinger GT challenges Porsche Panamera – Detroitnews: And in the nose-bleed section there’s the jaw-dropping, $205,000 Aston Martin Rapide, surely the most beautiful sport sedan ever conceived. But why…
- Jaguar-Land Rover reveals 2018 Range Rover PHEV – Autocar: Jaguar-Land Rover Australia has released details on the new 2018 Range Rover line up including the new P400e plug-in hybrid electric vehicle…
- Toyota plans big cuts to its model lineup in Japan, source says – CNBC: The automaker currently sells around 62 models in Japan, where car sales have been declining as the population ages.
- Toyota plans to halve the number of models it sells in Japan, source says – CNBC: Toyota Motor Corp. is planning to halve the number of cars it sells in Japan to about 30 by 2025 to focus on more popular models in a shrinking market…
- Great Wall Motor Halts Trading After BMW Tie-Up Reports – Bloomberg: The stock jumped 14 percent on Wednesday after www.iautodaily.com, a Chinese website, reported Great Wall and BMW will set up a joint venture in…
- Business leaders say no NAFTA better than bad deal – Reuters: Business leaders attending a U.S.-Mexico CEO … to cancel NAFTA, or make a bad NAFTA, Vogel said in an interview with . He said content rules for auto parts were still negotiable, despite shock in …
- Self-driving, electric shuttles test in Detroit – Detroitnews:
- BMW Talking with Great Wall about EV Deal in China – Detroit Bureau: The new venture will be based in Changshu, according to . … joint venture to produce cars in Changshu,” said a BMW executive told .
- Nissan GT-R/C tested: we drive remote control supercar – Autocar: Not your average road test: Matt Prior takes a 542bhp GT-R for a spin – using a PlayStation controller
- Why 2017 will go down as the beginning of the end of the internal combustion engine – Washington Post: Electric vehicles no longer seem like a futuristic fever dream, but they remain a rarity on most American city streets, accounting for less than 1 percent…
- California seeks to ease rules on self-driving cars – Reuters: FILE PHOTO: A self-driving car being developed by nuTonomy, a company creating software for autonomous vehicles, is guided down a street near …
- Car Industry Sees `Lose-Lose’ Outcome in Trump Nafta Changes (1) – Bloomberg: The auto sector is sounding alarms on the Trump administration’s efforts to overhaul Nafta, with North America’s top parts supplier…
- Car Loan Boom Led by Lloyds Stokes Fears of Losses as Sales Dip – Bloomberg: As U.K. car sales drop for the first time in six years, Britain’s banks could be forgiven for getting nervous about their 24 billion pounds…
- The World Must Spend $2.7 Trillion on Charging Stations for Tesla to Fly – Bloomberg: The industry shift to battery-powered cars is being helped by government efforts to reduce air pollution by phasing out fossil fuel-powered engines.
- China’s Great Wall Motor shares jump after report on BMW tie-up – Reuters: Chinese carmaker Great Wall Motor’s Hong Kong shares leapt as much as 19 percent on Wednesday morning …
- Peugeot planning introduction of electrified SUVs – Yahoo: Speaking at the UK press launch of the new seven-seat 5008, product manager Simon Broome said an electrified version of the smaller 3008 was on…