Month: September 2022

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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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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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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SHANGHAI – Tesla is reevaluating the way it sells electric cars in China, its second-largest market, and considering closing some showrooms in flashy malls in cities like Beijing where traffic plunged during COVID restrictions, two people with knowledge of the plans said. The shift would put more emphasis on stores in less-costly suburban locations that
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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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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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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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Volkswagen Group plans to list its Porsche luxury sports-car business on the  stock market listing in late September or early October Here are key facts about the structure of the listing: Share capital Porsche’s share capital is being split in two: 455.5 million ordinary shares and the same number of preferred shares, totalling 911 million
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More than 1,000 Ford Mustangs from every era were on hand for last week’s reveal of the seventh-generation pony car. Ford Motor Co. summoned Mustang owners from around the U.S. to Detroit to take part in the event. Some came from as far as Tacoma, Wash., with cars joining the procession along a nine-state, cross-country
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Legacy auto companies are chipping away at Tesla’s formidable early-mover lead in electric vehicles as they introduce new models and ramp up production flows. New registrations of full-electric vehicles in the U.S. surged among non-Tesla brands in the first seven months of the year. According to data from Experian, legacy automakers and other startups posted
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Sep 13, 2022 Lewis Hamilton fears he might have the first winless season of his Formula One career because he thinks Max Verstappen and Red Bull are “almost unbeatable”. Seven-time world champion Hamilton has won at least one race in every season stretching back to his rookie year, 2007. Mercedes has crept closer to the
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