In this article GM GM President Mark Reuss announces a $2.2 billion investment in the automaker’s Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in Michigan for new all-electric trucks and autonomous vehicles on Jan. 27, 2020. Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT – General Motors is creating a new China-based premium import business focused on sales of high-margin, “iconic vehicles”
Month: March 2022
After two dramatic races at Road America and VIR, the Hyundai TCR race cars arrive at the pivotal Laguna Seca race where they battle it out to the very last lap which will affect their standings in the Drivers and Manufacturers Championship. #Motorsports #LagunaSeca #HyundaiRacing
German automaker Volkswagen, has announced a long-anticipated generation 3.0 software update for its entire lineup of ID. electric vehicles. The 3.0 update includes a slew of new and optional upgrades to features like automated driving, charging performance, and the AR Heads-up Display. Table of contents Volkswagen’s background on OTA software updates As Volkswagen’s global ID.
The Range Rover Velar has been an impressive luxury SUV from the moment it hit the market a few years ago and in updated 2022 guise, it seems to be even better. Land Rover unveiled the updated Velar in August last year and while the updates made are only minor, they add to what was
Volkswagen Group of America plans to spend at least $7.1 billion in North America through 2027 to build up its local EV production capacity — including construction of a battery plant as well as overhauls of its assembly plants in Puebla and Silao, Mexico — and bolster interim ICE-powered production as part of a push
After declaring this month that they had no intention of doing so, Volkswagen executives are now rethinking their plans to keep production of the retro-styled electric minivan, the ID Buzz, anchored exclusively in Hanover, Germany, with North American production now a possibility. So what changed between March 10 and March 21? Consumer reaction — especially
12:13 PM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — The sense of relief almost matched the flood of emotion as the opening bars of the Italian national anthem rang out over the Bahrain International Circuit on Sunday night. After 45 races without a single victory, Ferrari finally reclaimed the top two steps of Formula One’s podium, and with
Ford Motor Co., seeking to fill the leadership team of its newly created Ford Blue division, said Kiersten Robinson, its top human resources executive, would become general manager of Ford Blue’s family vehicles as well as president of Ford’s operations in Mexico and Canada. Robinson will report to Kumar Galhotra, president of Ford Blue, and
The robots will take the most tedious, most dangerous jobs first, in most things. Trucking is no exception. Autonomous driving engineers are squarely focused on long-haul freight, the interstate runs with almost no complexity save for a slow curve or an E-ZPass lane. As such, those routes are some of the simpler challenges on the
In this article RIVN F 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Ford DETROIT – Ford Motor’s 2022 F-150 Lightning pickup will have an electric range of up to 320 miles, according to final Environmental Protection Agency estimates released Monday by the automaker. The top range of the all-electric pickup is 20 miles higher than Ford initially estimated,
Fisker on Monday announced a driver-assist system for its Ocean electric crossover SUV, which scheduled to start production in November. Dubbed Fisker Intelligent Pilot (or FI Pilot for short), the system is built around a suite of sensors that includes an 8-megapixel front camera (part of a surround-view camera array) and what Fisker calls the
BMW has a pretty busy launch schedule this year when it comes to electric vehicles. It will unveil the i7 flagship electric sedan based on the next-generation 7 Series next month, followed by the iX1 compact electric SUV in the second half of the year. While prototypes of the battery-electric iX1 have been out and
SHANGHAI — Mercedes-Benz said it opened a research and development center in Shanghai that will focus on mobility technology. The center, its second R&D site in China, will work in tech fields such as connectivity, automated driving and big data, the company said in a statement. Mercedes-Benz did not elaborate on the size of the
General Motors is pulling back the curtain to show viewers the genesis and development of its first electric pickup, the GMC Hummer. A one-hour documentary called Revolution: GMC Hummer EV will premiere Sunday, March 27, on the History Channel, GMC and A+E Networks said last week. The film shows how the GM team launched the
4:52 AM ET Haas boss Guenther Steiner said the U.S.-owned Formula One team’s return to form in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix could not have been scripted any better. Kevin Magnussen finished fifth for the team at the Sakhir desert track on Sunday. The result was the outfit’s highest finish since the Austrian Grand Prix
Last week’s destructive earthquake in Japan could exacerbate the global microchip shortage, just as the tally of vehicles removed from factory schedules so far this year passes the 1 million mark. Renesas Electronics Corp., a major producer of automotive chips, last week halted production at three Japanese plants following a 7.4-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday, March
Andy Kunz knows what makes a city great. After all, he has degrees in fine arts and urban design and a background in landscape architecture and urban planning. But it took a more whimsical, or you could say magical, experience during his childhood to draw him toward his passion, high-speed rail: It was the 1971
In this article 9868-HK A Xpeng P7 electric car is on display during the 18th Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition at China Import and Export Fair Complex on November 20, 2020 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng will hike the price of its
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