From her early work fighting against freeway expansions around Los Angeles to her tenure as chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols has spent more than five decades grappling with transportation’s role in contributing to pollution and climate change. Now as co-chair of the Coalition for Reimagined Mobility along with Ford Motor Co.
Month: March 2022
A lot of dealers have discovered that installing powerful fast chargers for electric vehicles — as some brands are requiring dealerships to do — is a complicated, expensive and time-consuming exercise. “It’s quite an undertaking,” said Florida dealer Alan Starling. The Orlando-based Starling Automotive Group has six dealerships, including GMC and Cadillac franchises, that need
In this article FDX FedEx EP1 cart by Brightdrop Source: Brightdrop FedEx plans to test electric carts to make deliveries on its signature Express routes in 10 U.S. and Canadian cities throughout 2022. The company hopes electric delivery carts will help address a major challenge it faces in every big city it serves: lack of
After the speech Elon Musk delivered to Giga Berlin workers at the plant’s grand opening on March 22, the Tesla CEO took many questions from the audience. They covered various topics, including Tesla’s expansion to other markets, new product launches, new battery tech and more. One of the questions was about the new body colors
Plastic Omnium reached a deal to buy AMS-Osram’s automotive-lighting business for 65 million euros ($72 million), a move aimed at supporting the French firm’s push into new market segments. The companies said the transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022 and didn’t comment further on integration plans, according to a statement
2:26 PM ET JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Formula One has confirmed this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will go ahead as planned despite an attack on a nearby oil facility. An Aramco oil depot 10km east of the Jeddah street circuit was in flames on Friday evening, with a large plume of black smoke visible
DETROIT — Tim Edmunds, a former UAW official at Local 412 in Warren, Mich., pleaded guilty Friday to embezzling $2.2 million in union funds and to money laundering. He could face up to nearly five years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan The guilty pleas come roughly
Trucks come off the assembly line at GM’s Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup truck plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, July 25, 2018. John Gress | Reuters DETROIT – General Motors will halt pickup truck production at a factory in Indiana for two weeks next month due to an ongoing shortage of semiconductor chips that
We drove the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS, Ford patented a hydrogen combustion engine, and Jay Leno drove an unrestored 1931 Auburn 8-98 A. It’s the Week in Reverse, right here at Motor Authority.Porsche put us behind the wheel of the 718 Cayman GT4 RS on the Streets of Willow circuit in California, and we
By Eric Ralph Posted on March 25, 2022 After several weeks of work and occasional glimpses of the hardware and installation process, it’s now clear that SpaceX has outfitted part of its next Starship prototype with a truly unique Starlink satellite dispenser. It remains to be seen if this particular assembly is simply a pathfinder
PARIS – Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo has warned that the automaker’s retreat from Russia creates a “very complex situation” for the company, weighing on profits and sales as it seeks to accelerate a multiyear turnaround effort. In an internal video for employees on Thursday, de Meo said Renault will make the security of
4:03 AM ET Germany’s Nico Hulkenberg will race for Aston Martin at Formula One’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in Jeddah, the team said on Friday, with four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel failing to recover from COVID-19 in time for the race. Vettel missed the season opener in Bahrain last weekend after testing positive for the
The inline-six, a classic engine design noted for durability, fuel efficiency and smoothness, will return to the Dodge and Jeep lineups this year. Stellantis said Friday its new Hurricane 3.0-liter twin-turbo six-cylinder engine — designed and engineered from a clean slate — fits front-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles such as the Jeep Wrangler and Grand Cherokee, Ram
Uber Technologies Inc. will list New York’s yellow taxis on its app, the first alliance of its kind in the U.S. in an effort to ease a driver shortage and pressure on fares. Uber’s shares jumped 5 percent. The ride-hailing giant reached a deal with the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission’s technology partners,
Customers experience new energy electric vehicles at a Tesla store in Shanghai, China, On December 4, 2021. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images A slew of electric vehicle companies operating in China have been forced to raise the prices of their cars as the cost of raw materials shoot up. Some companies like
NIO moves ever-closer to delivering its ET7 luxury sedan. The company announced the first batch of EVs has officially rolled off its assembly line in Hefei, China. ET7 deliveries remain on schedule to arrive to NIO reservation holders in China beginning March 28. NIO ($NIO) is a publicly-traded EV automaker founded in China in 2014. Since then,
The new Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS is at the top of its model range for a host of reasons, not least of which is its on-track ability. What happens when you take one for a long road trip on normal stretches of pedestrian tarmac though? Henry Catchpole just drove one 1,700 miles (2,735 km)
Stellantis is continuing to build vans at its factory near Moscow, even as rival Renault has bowed to pressure to exit its sizable operations in Russia. Stellantis’s Kaluga factory is operating at a low level, a spokeswoman said Thursday, though the plant may have to shut down because of logistical and supply problems. After weeks
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