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Applications are open for the 2023 Automotive News PACE Awards and PACEpilot program. The PACE Awards recognize traditional and nontraditional suppliers around the world for new product, process and business model innovations. Entries must be innovations that have been commercialized by a sale to an automaker. PACEpilot recognizes post-pilot pre-commercial innovations in automotive and future
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Not everyone in Marshall, Mich., where Ford Motor Co. is building a $3.5 billion battery plant, is thrilled about the plan. “I think their idea that we need 2,500 jobs here is just nuts,” 72-year-old Dale Borders, who lives in a log cabin several miles from the Ford site, told The Detroit News last week,
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7:45 AM ET Christian Horner has dismissed suggestions legendary car designer Adrian Newey will leave Red Bull for a rival team. Newey is considered the best technical mind of the modern Formula One era, having designed championship winning cars for Williams, McLaren and Red Bull, who he joined in 2006 and where he is currently
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Lidar maker Luminar Technologies’ new contract manufacturing facility is up and running ahead of schedule. Expected to open later in the second quarter of this year, Luminar’s Monterrey, Mexico, factory is producing and shipping its Iris sensors to Volvo, company spokesperson Milin Mehta told Automotive News. They will be installed in the Swedish automaker’s EX90
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9:42 AM ET ESPN News Services World Rally Championship driver Craig Breen has died after a crash in a pre-event test in Croatia, Hyundai Motorsport said in a statement Thursday. Breen was 33. The team said co-driver James Fulton was unharmed in the incident just after midday local time. Motorsport.com reported that Breen’s car went
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9:11 AM ET Long Beach is one of the most picturesque stops on the IndyCar calendar. Greg Doherty/Getty Images You’ll find Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles located two blocks off the Long Beach Grand Prix’s landmark Turn 11 hairpin corner. Not only is Southern California’s sweet and savory cultural tentpole a longstanding fixture in movies,
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6:22 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — Chase Elliott will return to racing this weekend at Martinsville Speedway after he missed the past six NASCAR Cup races with a broken left leg. The 27-year-old Elliott was injured in a snowboarding accident in Colorado in early March. The 2020 Cup Series champion rehabilitated in Colorado
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