Month: May 2023

Stellantis has announced an investment in Lyten, a Silicon Valley startup that is developing lithium-sulfur EV batteries made with three-dimensional graphene that promise reduced weight, higher energy density and a simpler bill of materials. The two companies announced the tie-up on Thursday. They would not disclose the size of the investment, other to say that Stellantis
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Associated Press May 25, 2023, 11:17 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — IndyCar driver Stefan Wilson had surgery to repair a fractured vertebrae that he suffered in practice for the Indianapolis 500, and car owner Don Cusick said Thursday that he was “in great spirits and feeling better.” Wilson was about halfway through a two-hour practice Monday
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Hyundai and Kia are under pressure from lawsuits and regulators after a wave of car thefts last year. The wave was prompted by TikTok video that showed how to hot-wire Hyundai and Kia vehicles that lack an anti-theft device. Here’s the fallout by the numbers: 9 million: Hyundai and Kia vehicles on the road without
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The Federal Highway Administration said it awarded a $9.58 million grant to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to conduct connected-vehicle technology research. The university’s Transportation Research Institute will use the money to prepare the city’s infrastructure for vehicle technology testing and deployment under the Ann Arbor Connected Environment Reimagined project, according to a
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BMW will roll out at least four variants of its full-electric i5 as it expands the drivetrain choice of its 5 Series family. The i5, which will compete against luxury battery-electric cars including the Mercedes EQE, was unveiled on Wednesday along with its combustion engine sibling, the eighth-generation 5 Series sedan. The battery-electric i5 variants
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Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving subsidiary Waymo will put its driverless vehicles on Uber Technologies Inc.’s ride-hailing and food delivery platform later this year. Uber customers in metro Phoenix, where Waymo operates, will be able to use a set number of driverless vehicles for rides and deliveries, according to a joint blog post by the companies Tuesday.
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In this article GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT GM’s first all-electric Cadillac Escalade will be called the “Escalade IQ,” which continues Cadillac’s EV naming strategy that so far includes the Lyriq crossover and upcoming Celestiq ultra-luxury sedan. GM DETROIT – General Motors on Monday confirmed plans to introduce an all-electric version of its
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It’s a little known fact that without software, today’s cars would not move, let alone perform thousands of functions. The automotive industry is set to change more in the next five years than in the previous 50 years, driven in large part by the arrival of the Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV). SDVs are fundamentally altering the
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