Month: September 2022

Traffic fatalities on U.S. roads declined in the second quarter, halting an almost two-year rise even as Americans are driving more. Some 10,590 people died in car crashes from April through June, down 4.9 percent from the same period in 2021, according to estimates the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released Monday. Fatalities had been
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Commercial electric vehicle startup Volta Trucks has confirmed that the first Volta Zero truck has been completed at contract manufacturer Steyr Automotive’s plant in Steyr, Austria. There’s a caveat, though; this is not the first customer vehicle. The milestone vehicle is the first of a series of second-generation “Production Verification” prototypes and will form part
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The German supplier Mahle has shaken up its management team, naming Arnd Franz, currently head of parts-maker LKQ Europe, as CEO and promoting Markus Kapaun to CFO from head of finance and accounting Europe, the company said Monday. Franz’s position was most recently held by Matthias Arleth, who was appointed CEO in October 2021 but
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New ideas in how to control vehicles and how to build them better have earned 11 suppliers a total of 12 Automotive News PACE Awards for 2022. Continental, American Axle & Manufacturing and Magna International are among the winners. Yazaki Corp. won two PACE awards. Automotive News announced the winners Monday night at a gala
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Dinosaurs abound at this year’s Detroit auto show. No, this isn’t the start of a joke about local automakers living in the past or President Joe Biden’s visit last week. Dozens of lifelike dinosaur replicas are scattered around the convention hall as part of an attraction organizers are calling Dinosaur and Off-Road Vehicle Encounter. There’s
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HANOVER, Germany — Daimler Trucks is migrating its battery chemistry to a formula that eliminates nickel and cobalt to improve durability and reduce competition with the passenger car business for scarce materials. Daimler will gradually move its vehicles to lithium iron phosphate batteries it has developed in partnership with China’s CATL. Iron and phosphate cost
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A Tesla owner claims that control of their vehicle was handed over to a European driver after the company accidentally filled in the wrong VIN information on the continent. Reddit user Robert Quattlebaum, u/darconeous, claims in a story posted to r/teslamotors that shortly after taking delivery of a Model 3, his partner discovered that something weird
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Uber Technologies Inc. said Monday a hacker affiliated with the Lapsus$ hacking group was responsible for a cyber attack that last week forced the ride-hailing company to temporarily shut several internal communications. Uber said the attacker had not accessed any user accounts or the databases that store sensitive user information such as credit card numbers,
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As more autonomous vehicles operate in pilot programs and limited commercial deployments in multiple states, questions linger over how they should interact with law enforcement. Some autonomous driving tech companies have encountered problems. In April, a robotaxi operated by General Motors-backed Cruise was pulled over by San Francisco Police Department officers for driving without its
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The supplier International Automotive Components Group used the Detroit auto show as a chance to highlight its products — not at a booth, but on a gown worn by one of its top executives. IAC Group said a team of its designers and seamstresses created the bespoke gown for Iwona Niec Villaire, its chief administrative
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