Month: May 2023

TOKYO — The rebranded Tokyo auto show wants to become the “Davos of Mobility.” Imagine a who’s who meetup of business leaders from the traditional automotive industry and whiz kids from innovative startups in artificial intelligence, software and renewable energy. But instead of gathering at a snowy Swiss ski resort, they do it on the
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Deion Sanders, the former NFL star who’s preparing for his first season as head coach at the University of Colorado, showed off his customized Ford F-650 Super Duty on social media. The truck, which has a 7.3-liter V-8 engine and is designed for heavy commercial use, retails for about $150,000 before Sanders’ personalizations. “You gotta
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Associated Press May 21, 2023, 06:53 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Alex Palou will lead the field to green in the Indianapolis 500 after the young Spaniard put together the fastest four-lap pole run in history Sunday, edging Rinus VeeKay and Felix Rosenqvist to give Chip Ganassi Racing its third consecutive pole in “The Greatest Spectacle
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Geely’s LEVC London cab unit is pinning its hopes on a new groupwide platform for larger passenger vehicles to deliver the scale effects it has so far lacked for its flagship TX plug-in hybrid. LEVC, short for London Electric Vehicle Company, started production of the TX cab in 2017 at a new facility near Coventry,
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Toyota isn’t just winning the battle for Hispanic consumers — it’s dominating the nation’s second-largest ethnic group, in a triumph that’s more than 30 years in the making. The brand accounted for five of the top six nameplates sold to Hispanics in 2022, according to U.S. new-vehicle registration data from S&P Global Mobility. The Toyota
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Associated Press May 19, 2023, 02:27 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Rarely has someone as accomplished at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as Bobby Rahal looked so uncomfortable there. That will happen when you’re asked about the future of your own kid on your race team. Yet there he sat Friday morning, overlooking the famed yard of bricks
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A new manufacturing process developed by supplier giant Magna International Inc. and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory could soon make it possible to reduce aluminum parts suppliers’ reliance on new aluminum. The process — Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion — allows a company to collect scrap and leftover aluminum trimmings and directly
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