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- Fiat Chrysler recalls 646,394 SUVs for brake issue – Reuters: FCA US LLC, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV’s U.S. arm, said it was voluntarily recalling about 646,394 SUVs in the United States to check shields that protect brake boosters for proper installation.
- Exclusive: One Ford, two systems – U.S. carmaker revamps China strategy amid EV push – Reuters: U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co is overhauling its China plans as its global “One Ford” strategy is holding it back in the world’s biggest auto market, two high-ranking company insiders told .
- Tesla shares fall on warning of Model 3 bottleneck – Reuters: Shares in Tesla Inc were down 2 percent in trading before the bell on Tuesday after the luxury electric vehicle maker said its planned ramp-up for the new Model 3 mass-market sedan faced production bottlenecks.
- Fiat Chrysler recalls 710K SUVs for braking problem – Detroitnews: The recall covers 2011 to 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokees and Dodge Durangos
- European Commission to host battery technology summit – Autocar: Technology, car making and chemical executives are all invited in an attempt to play catch-up with China
- Seat Arona: orders now being taken for £16,555 Nissan Juke rival – Autocar: Seat’s new SUV will enter one of the most fiercely contested classes when it arrives in showrooms this November
- Fiat Chrysler Recalls A Recall for 646000 SUVs – Forbes: Fiat Chrysler is recalling about 646,000 sport utilities because dealers may not have correctly fixed a brake problem during a recall in 2014, according…
- Nissan to show electric concept, sporty Leaf in Tokyo – Automotive News: Alliance partner Mitsubishi Motors Corp. plans its own electric crossover at the Tokyo show, a coupelike four-wheeler dubbed the e-Evolution Concept.
- Maruti Suzuki sales growth slows in September as Tata, Hyundai launch new cars – Nikkei: Maruti Suzuki India, the nation’s largest car maker, reported a weaker-than-expected growth in September sales, even as…
- Jaguar drives into the record books, again – Yahoo: We’re extremely proud to have supported Graham in this incredible world-beating achievement,” said Jeremy Hicks, Jaguar Land Rover UK’s MD.
- Fiat Chrysler Recalls Over 700000 SUVs at Risk for Brake Defect – WSJ: DETROIT-Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said Tuesday it is recalling 709,837 sport-utility vehicles sold in North America with a potential braking…
- Tesla falls behind on Model 3 deliveries – Autocar: Brand blamed ‘production bottlenecks’ for delivering just over one-seventh of its target in the third quarter
- GM promises more electric vehicles, paid for by SUVs – Reuters: General Motors believes in an all-electric future, GM global product … and open a battery plant this year with Chinese partner SAIC Motor Corp Ltd.
- The Electric Future, Waymo Documents, Uber: DealBook Briefing – New York Times: A self-driving car demonstration in Arizona by Waymo, a sister business of Google. The company accuses the engineer Anthony Levandowski of…
- Home state of Mercedes, Porsche appeals diesel ban – Automotive News: The German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, home to Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, said it would appeal against a court ruling obliging it to…
- New car sales expected to jump in September – Detroitnews: August was a mixed month for U.S. auto sales, with General Motors Co. sales up for the month, and Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles…
- Nissan Accused of Snooping in Labor’s Latest Fight for the South – Bloomberg: Automakers have battled hard to keep organized labor from gaining traction in the U.S. south. Mostly, they’ve won — as Nissan Motor Co. did when…
- Corrected: Nissan to recall all new cars sold in Japan in last 3 years – Reuters: (Corrects paragraph 15 to say dealers, not automakers, register vehicles with the government before delivery, not sale)
- Electric car owners ‘can drive for free by letting energy firms use battery’ – Guardian: Nissan and one of the UK’s biggest challenger energy suppliers, Ovo, will offer the “vehicle-to-grid” service to buyers of the Japanese carmaker’s new…
- 2017 Skoda Kodiaq Scout: more rugged model costs from £32,330 – Autocar: Off-road-styled variant of Skoda’s new seven-seat SUV gets more underbody protection and Off-Road Assist
- Technology could help UBS cut workforce by 30 percent: CEO in magazine – Reuters: the technology behind driverless cars, drones and voice-recognition software — is seen by the …
- 2017 Volkswagen Polo available for order priced from £13,885 – Autocar: Bigger, all-new Ford Fiesta rival is to be topped by 197bhp GTI
- Uber boss to meet London transport chief in bid to keep licence – Reuters: Uber’s new global boss Dara Khosrowshahi will meet London’s transport regulator on Tuesday as the taxi hailing app fights to keep its licence in one of its most important foreign markets.
- VW, BMW, JLR among automakers rushing to put Saudi women behind wheels of their models – Automotive News: Toyota Motor, whose vehicles made up 32 percent of all those sold in Saudi Arabia last year, tweeted a picture of a female driver standing next to a…
- Tesla deliveries rise in third quarter, but Model 3 faces ‘bottlenecks’ – Reuters: Luxury electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc said on Monday its deliveries rose 4.5 percent in the third quarter from the prior-year period, but said “production bottlenecks” had left the company behind its planned ramp-up for the new Model 3 mass-market sedan.
- Uber’s CEO is holding crunch talks with London regulators to try to overturn its ban – CNBC: Khosrowshahi will discuss TFL’s decision to not renew Uber’s operating license in London.
- Audi exec shares views on adding EVs, cutting big engines – Automotive News: … The Volkswagen Group subsidiary is striving to take the early lead in the race to offer … sister brand Porsche when he met with Europe Correspondent…
- EPA Chief’s Calendar: A Stream of Industry Meetings and Trips Home – New York Times: . WASHINGTON…
- Uber Document Shows Ex-Google Engineer Possessed Secret Files – WSJ: Google parent Alphabet Inc. has produced a long-anticipated document in the high-stakes legal battle with Uber Technologies Inc. that showed the ride-hailing company knew a former Google engineer had confidential Google files before buying his self-driving-car startup.
- Nissan Recalls 1.2 Million Cars After Unauthorized Inspectors Discovered – Bloomberg: Nissan Motor Co. will recall about 1.2 million vehicles sold in Japan after regulators discovered unauthorized inspectors approved vehicle quality,…
- Nissan’s Quick Fix – Bloomberg: Nissan Motor Co. said it would call back almost all the cars it produced over the last three years in Japan, or about 1.2 million vehicles, …
- Tesla Is Dropped by Climate Fund That’s Beaten 97% of Its Peers – Bloomberg: Tesla Inc. is overvalued, according to a climate fund that has beaten 97 percent of its peers. “We don’t see upside,” Thomas Sorensen, who manages…
- Uber’s ‘Game of Thrones’ could threaten new CEO Khosrowshahi’s drive to clean up the $70 billion firm – CNBC: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s push to clean up the firm could be derailed by ex-CEO Travis Kalanick’s power play.
- Elon Musk: More rockstar than CEO – CNBC: recently attended Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla announcements in Australia. Here’s what the reporter observed.
- Toyota shuts Altona plant and leaves thousands out of work – Guardian: A Toyota staff member at the manufacturing plant in Altona, Melbourne. The last Camry has rolled off the production line. Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/…
- Why Marchionne thinks EVs threaten the planet – Automotive News: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne believes that a widespread move to electric vehicles could be catastrophic because it has the…
- Key Document Is Unsealed in Waymo’s Trade Secrets Case Against Uber – New York Times: SAN FRANCISCO – Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car unit, has been fighting in the courts for months to gain access to a key document in a trade…
- Nigeria to Detroit to Alabama: An auto emigre’s tale – Detroitnews: Today, Chukwudolue oversees production of Honda’s innovative, all-new 2018 Odyssey minivan in Lincoln, Alabama, a century after blacks fled the…
- MARKET BUZZ: Geely Jumps 8%; MS Upgrades Stock – Nikkei: Geely Automobile rallies 8% to HK$23.75. Morgan Stanley raises automaker to Overweight and doubles target price to…
- London After Uber: Readers Speak Out – New York Times: The recent decision not to renew Uber’s license in London has generated outrage, cheers and, for many, profoundly mixed feelings about an affordable, convenient service from a company whose flaws have been well documented. We asked…
- London’s Uber Ban Raises Questions on Race and Immigration – New York Times: But at street level, the city was buzzing with more uncomfortable questions – like the one that troubled Mr. Shinwari, himself an …. London’s taxi wars predate the Brexit referendum but have been fought along similar dividing lines.
- GM Plans 20 All-Electric Models by 2023 – Bloomberg: … most of its profit with large sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks, plans to have a lineup of both battery-powered cars and hydrogen fuel-cell autos,…
- Here’s The Top-Secret Report Of What Uber Knew Before It Acquired A Controversial Trucking … – Forbes: Waymo had sued Uber in February accusing it of misappropriation of trade secrets, following the acquisition of a self-driving truck startup called Otto.
- ‘We understand what needs to be fixed,’ Tesla says after bungling Model 3 production goals – Washington Post: The company attributed that to production issues. Tesla’s stock dropped … “There’s nothing in that car that doesn’t need to be there. Everything has a…
- Uber board set for contentious meeting over ex-CEO’s power – Reuters: The board of Uber Technologies Inc, including two new appointees of former Chief Executive Travis Kalanick, will meet on Tuesday to consider proposals that diminish the co-founder’s influence, strip early investors of supervoting power and secure a multibillion-dollar investment, sources said.
- India’s Tata to build 1000 electric vehicle charging spots – Nikkei: Tata Power looks to establish a network of 1,000 electric-vehicle charging terminals here in the Indian capital in five years, responding…
- Porsche GT3 Touring to be followed by more ‘pure’ driver’s cars – Autocar:
- Facebook Strengthens Reviews After 10 Million Saw Russian Ads – Bloomberg: Facebook Inc. outlined plans to strengthen its advertisement systems and disclosed that about 10 million people saw ads linked to Russian efforts to…
- Putting the ‘S’ In Tesla – Bloomberg: Tesla’s S-curve is starting to look more like a sheer cliff-face. As an investor, you either relish the challenge or peer over the edge with a smidgen of…
- Toyota, Honda among Japan carmakers checking inspections – Nikkei: Mitsubishi Motors, which joined the Nissan group after a 2016 fuel-economy scandal, is also looking into its inspection practices, as are Subaru and…
- Death of gas and diesel begins as GM announces plans for ‘all-electric future’ – Washington Post: After nearly a century of building vehicles powered by fossil fuels, General Motors – one of the world’s largest automakers – announced Monday that…
- Nissan braces for heavy cost of regulatory shortfall – Nikkei: Nissan Motor is scrambling to initiate a recall equivalent to more than double its annual domestic sales volume following the revelation of a…
- Fiat Chrysler CEO focuses on goals amid tech doubts – Detroitnews: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne said he’s focusing on the Italian-American carmaker’s five-year strategy as…
- General Motors to ramp up electric vehicle plans, 20 new models planned over next 6 years – CNBC: The company’s all-electric Chevy Bolt went on sale earlier this year in California and select markets and has recently begun nationwide sales. With a…
- Fiat Chrysler CEO says spin-off his preferred option for Magneti Marelli – Reuters: A spin-off is the option favoured by Fiat Chrysler (FCA) Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne to unlock value from components …
- Nissan looks to lift Leaf with infrastructure expansion – Automotive News: The range of the new Nissan Leaf (shown) is 378 km under Europe NEDC homologation guidelines. That’s up from 250 km for the model it replaces.
- Fiat Chrysler will press on with Magneti Marelli spinoff next year, Marchionne says – Automotive News: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will push ahead with a plan to separate auto parts unit Magneti Marelli next year, CEO Sergio Marchionne said,…
- Uber’s UK boss quits as firm battles to keep London licence – email – Reuters: Uber’s top boss in Britain will quit the taxi hailing app, according to an email seen by on Monday, as the company prepares to meet the London transport regulator in a bid to keep operating in one of its most important foreign markets.
- Apple faces down Qualcomm, Ericsson over EU patent fees – Reuters: … Apple, the automotive industry and product makers say a fairer approach is to link …
- Automakers Plan Electric Car Blitz Even as Tesla Burns Billions – Bloomberg: Here are two facts that defy logic: By the end of the year, electric-car maker Tesla Inc. will have burned through more than $10 billion…