Month: March 2023

After the long winter break, the Formula 1 World Championship returns this weekend with the Bahrain Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit. The 2023 season doesn’t bring much in the way of new car designs, after last season’s complete redesign, but there’s a new race in Las Vegas to look forward to (one of
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Volkswagen Group expects strong increases in vehicle sales and revenue this year as the automaker benefits from full order books and better access to semiconductors. Revenue is forecast to grow by 10 percent to 15 percent, indicating 2023 revenue of 307 billion euros  to 331 billion euros. Global deliveries are expected to rise 14 percent
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12:56 PM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — Lewis Hamilton fears Mercedes will be a long way off the pace of its rivals at this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix after he finished Friday practice eighth fastest. Fernando Alonso set the pace during Friday’s evening session in Bahrain, with Hamilton’s best effort 0.636s slower than the Aston Martin
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WASHINGTON — Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling about 144,000 Tundra full-size pickups in North America because the tonneau covers might detach from the vehicle while driving. The recall affects certain 2022-23 Tundra pickups equipped with optional Toyota-genuine tonneau covers. Toyota said about 130,000 of the vehicles are in the U.S. “A tonneau cover that detaches
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HAMBURG – Volkswagen Group’s supervisory board was meeting on Friday to discuss plans for two new factories in North America,  two people familiar with the matter said. One will be a production plant and the other will be a battery cell factory. While the board is expected to approve a site for its Scout brand
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Mercedes-Benz’s China unit is tapping China’s largest battery maker, CATL, and two major battery material recyclers – GEM Co. and Brunp Recycling Co. — to recycle retired batteries used in electrified vehicles.  The four companies will form a so-called closed-loop battery recycling project, according to a memorandum of understanding signed Monday, GEM and Brunp said
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