Month: February 2023

A true action-packed movie is hardly complete without depicting a vehicle exploding or becoming damaged beyond repair, right? At least, that’s probably how director Michael Bay feels. A study by Scrap Car Comparison found the Transformers director is the most dangerous in Hollywood, having wrecked 354 vehicles across his filmography. In his 15 films, he
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Feb 23, 2023 Ferrari have moved their Formula One head of strategy Inaki Rueda out of the line of fire with Ravin Jain taking the high-pressure role on the pit wall for the season starting in Bahrain next week. A team spokesperson said Jain, an Oxford physics graduate who joined the team in 2016, would
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As General Motors introduces newer and longer touch screens in its vehicles, it also may have found a way to wipe away fingerprints and other oily residue that users leave behind — without the help of a human. The automaker recently patented a process that would use light from violet micro-LEDs — alongside the red,
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Sometimes it feels like the state of the autonomous-vehicle industry can only be viewed through the reflection of a fun-house mirror. The setbacks appear as seismic shudders. The progress seen as inch-by-inch developments. Certainly, the shuttering of Argo last October counts as one of the former. The demise of the Ford-and-Volkswagen-backed company has cast a
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In this article NKLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nikola Motor Company Source: Nikola Motor Company Electric heavy-truck maker Nikola said Thursday it produced 133 battery-electric trucks in the fourth quarter, but delivered just 20 to dealers, generating revenue that fell well short of Wall Street’s expectations. Nikola said it made a series of
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Volkswagen Group will build its own production plant in the U.S. for its new Scout brand, company sources told Automotive News Europe sister publication Automobilwoche. The automaker was considering using contract manufacturers Foxconn or Magna to build the vehicles. However, those plans are off the table. “The decision to build the plant ourselves has been
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7:58 PM ET Associated Press FONTANA, Calif. — NASCAR postponed the Xfinity Series race at Fontana to Sunday night because of steady rain at Auto Club Speedway on Saturday. Practice and qualifying sessions for both weekend races at Fontana had already been canceled because of consistent, heavy rain from an extraordinary Southern California storm. The
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Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares’ 2022 pay fell 14 percent to 14.9 million euros ($15.71 million), the maker of Jeep, Ram, Dodge and Fiat vehicles said in a filing on Friday. Tavares did not receive a retention bonus in 2022, compared with a bonus of about 2 million euros in 2021, the filing showed. Stellantis reported
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In this article F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ford CEO Jim Farley announces at a press conference that Ford Motor Company will be partnering with the worlds largest battery company, a China-based company called Contemporary Amperex Technology, to create an electric-vehicle battery plant in Marshall, Michigan, on February 13, 2023 in Romulus, Michigan.
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Feb 23, 2023 SAKHIR, Bahrain — Reigning world champion Max Verstappen topped the opening day of preseason testing as Formula One returned to action in Bahrain. The three-day test at the Bahrain International Circuit is the only chance teams will have to run their cars on track ahead of the opening race at the same
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By Joey Klender Posted on February 24, 2023 Tesla’s preferred choice for its potentially-upcoming vehicle production plant in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has one major roadblock if the automaker eventually lands there: water. Tesla has been mulling several locations in Mexico for its newest EV production plant, and its ideal location is Nuevo Leon, a Mexican
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Molly Boigon has joined Automotive News as a transportation and mobility reporter in New York. Boigon, 28, previously covered K-12 education at WGBH Radio in Boston and worked as an investigative reporter at the Forward, a Jewish newspaper in New York, where she won a Rockower Award for her analysis of coronavirus positivity rates by
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In this article LCID Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT People test drive Dream Edition P and Dream Edition R electric vehicles at the Lucid Motors plant in Casa Grande, Arizona, September 28, 2021. Caitlin O’Hara | Reuters Luxury electric vehicle maker Lucid appears to have a demand problem. The company said during its fourth-quarter
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Toyota is benefiting from a shift toward more fuel-efficient powertrains in Poland, where overall sales rose 21 percent in January. Demand for hybrids such as the Japanese automaker’s Yaris Cross, Yaris and Corolla boosted the powertrain’s sales 67 percent to 7,820 units last month, according to figures from Dataforce. That increased Poland’s hybrid market share
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5:18 AM ET The Haas Formula One team reckon they will save $250,000 (£207,914) in freight costs this season after slimming their pitwall perch down to a three-seater. The U.S.-owned outfit’s new seating arrangement caught the eye among all of the attention on the 2023 cars testing in Bahrain. Instead of the usual six or
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