Month: December 2022

BERLIN — Volkswagen Group and Italy’s Enel have formed a joint venture to build 3,000 high-speed charging points across Italy for electric vehicles, investing 100 million euros ($105.38 million) each, VW said. The charging points will be accessible to drivers of cars made by all manufacturers at 500 locations by the end of 2023 and
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Self-driving yard truck developer Outrider has developed a system to robotically connect electric and pressurized brake lines to trailers and container chassis. The Golden, Colo., company’s TrailerConnect system uses robotic arms from Yaskawa Electric Corp. and reduces the need for drivers to constantly get in and out of truck cabs to manually make the connections.
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Spain will focus on producing less-advanced semiconductors used in domestic industry after its ambitions to make cutting-edge microchips have failed to attract investment to date, according to people familiar with the government’s plan. Following losing bids for production facilities to Germany and the U.S. this year, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is concentrating Spain’s 12.3-billion-euro ($12.9
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11:54 AM ET Williams boss Jost Capito has stepped down as team principal after two years at the helm. The team confirmed his departure on Monday. Technical director François-Xavier Demaison will also leave the team. Capito joined Williams as CEO in December 2020, becoming boss of the Formula One 1 team in July the following
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About 270 union workers at an Autoneum plant in Bloomsburg, Pa., reached an agreement last week with the Swiss automotive insulation supplier, ending a nearly weeklong strike by Local 1700. Chief among worker complaints was Autoneum’s position that workers pay 5 percent more of their health care costs outside of usual yearly increases. In a
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SAN DIEGO — To bring new technologies to market faster, electric vehicle battery makers need to manage data in creative ways and consider different business models, industry executives said the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference on Dec. 6 “Companies that are able to build data infrastructure to understand what goes into their products and how they’re
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The Williams Formula 1 team announced on Monday the departure of its CEO and Team Principal, Jost Capito. The motorsports veteran and brains behind Ford’s original Focus RS and F-150 Raptor only joined Williams at the end of 2020, having postponed retirement plans to join the squad following its sale to U.S. investment firm Dorilton
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9:24 AM ET Associated Press Tony Stewart‘s Superstar Racing Experience is moving to ESPN and a new night as the network plans to use the all-star summer racing series to revitalize its “Thursday Night Thunder.” ESPN said Monday it signed a multiyear agreement with Superstar Racing Experience that begins in July. SRX will air on
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PRAGUE — Volkswagen Group is postponing its decision on where to locate a planned gigafactory for electric car batteries in eastern Europe beyond 2022. VW pointed to the current economic environment in announcing the decision on Thursday. “Volkswagen AG and its battery company PowerCo are continuously evaluating suitable sites for their next gigafactory in Europe,”
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Despite widespread electric vehicle buzz, studies show most Americans have never been EV passengers, let alone drivers. Their most likely first experience? A rental car, said Gregory Scott, spokesperson for the American Car Rental Association. Car rental companies are committing to sustainable mobility, Scott said. It’s an important statement, as the American Car Rental Association’s
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Skoda may exit China amid intense competition from local brands in the world’s biggest market. “We will look together with our Chinese joint venture partner at how we want to continue there,” Skoda CEO Klaus Zellmer told Automotive News Europe sister publication Automobilwoche. Skoda’s withdrawal from China would allow parent Volkswagen Group to concentrate its
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