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Transformation to Mobility Company? Ford Returns to Detroit.
As part of an $11.1 billion investment in global electric vehicles announced earlier this year, Ford says it will sell electrified vehicles that “offer exciting experiences and enhanced capabilities based on what people need and want – including the all-new Mustang-inspired battery-electric SUV in 2020.” Continue reading
Drinking the Electrolyte? Audi Plans to Sell 800K EVs in 2025
This regulation-prompted strategy – searching for an advantage and customers – means every third buyer or leasee would take an e-model by the middle of the next decade – customers who have thus far shunned driving “green vehicles” at this level. During 2017 Audi sold 1.9 million vehicles globally. Do the math and that means a huge shift in the market. In the U.S. during 2017 Audi sold 227,000 vehicles. Continue reading
Ford Enlarges Transit Fire Recall in North America
In potentially unsafe Transits, water intrusion into the module may result in rapid flashing of the turn signals, loss of the instrument cluster display, loss of heater and air conditioning controls, and loss of multimedia including radio, screens and the SYNC system. Continue reading
Mahindra, Ford to Co-Develop SUVs, EV, Connected Car Blends
Mahindra and Ford also agreed to evaluate co-development of a compact SUV and electric vehicle, along with sharing powertrain portfolios, including the supply of Mahindra powertrains to extend Ford’s product range. Continue reading
Posted in electric vehicles, engineering, manufacturing, new vehicle, transportation
Tagged autoinformed.com, Chennai, Ford in India, Ken Zino, Mahindra
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70 Years Porsche Sports Cars at Retro Classics
The Porsche Museum is celebrating “70 years of the Porsche sports car” at this year’s Retro Classics exhibition on March 22–25, 2018, at the Messe Stuttgart trade fair center. Continue reading
Posted in engineering, marketing, milestones, news analysis, performance, racing, shows and events
Tagged 70 years of the Porsche sports car, 911, 944 Turbo Cabriolet, autoinformed.com, Dirk Werner, Hans Herrmann and Kurt Ahrens, Ken Zino, Le Mans 1986, Le Mans long-distance race in 1986, Marc Lieb, Messe Stuttgart trade fair center, orsche Track Experience, Porsche 961, Porsche Museum, Porsche Type 915, Retro Classics, Walter Röhrl
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Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi and Didi Chuxing Sign Chinese Car-Sharing MoU
Automotive Alliance to explore future business opportunities with global Chinese transportation company. Continue reading
3000 Mirai Hydrogen Fuel Cells Sold in California
In the ongoing attempt to describe and promote the unknown, not unlike Plato’s Allegory of the Cave applied to auto companies, Toyota Mirai, a “mass-produced” hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, surpassed 3000 sales in the California. Continue reading
More Significant Stories, Trends of 2017. And 2018?
A real victory starting in 2016 came from the work of the Union of Concerned Scientists. (Trump of course wants to ban the word and work of “science” because of its relentless search for the truth that in personal practice Trump has banned as a guiding principle for the largest democracy in the world.) Continue reading
Ford Finally Will Offer F-150 Diesel Engines
The best in class bragging – if it sticks – will see an engine rated at 11,400 pounds of towing capacity and 2,020 pounds of payload capacity, with a BiC diesel of 250 horsepower and 440 lb.-ft. of torque. The diesel is available for both 4×2 and 4×4 F-150 pickups. Continue reading
Happy New Year! Another 800,000 Deadly Takata Airbags Recalled
This latest recall addresses model year 2010 vehicles ever registered in the states of Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Continue reading
Posted in customer satisfaction, engineering, litigation, recalls, safety
Tagged air bag recalls, autoinformed.com, Ken Zino, nhtsa, safety defects
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Significant Stories, Trends of 2017. And 2018?
However, journalists staring down a blank screen, an opaque prelude to more 2018 deadlines, do not have the option to Tweet and constantly Run away from the responsibilities of the job. Here is AutoInformed on some significant automotive related stories of the 2017 year, with our wry awareness, as always, that columnists conduct their education – sometimes not perfectly informed – in public. Continue reading
Posted in alternative fuels, auto news, AutoInformed Editorial, autonomous vehicles, customer satisfaction, engineering, fools 'n frauds, labor issues, litigation, marketing, recalls
Tagged autoinformed.com, automated and electric vehicle technologies to form different vehicle and new transportation paradigms?, electronics, engineering, environment, fools 'n frauds, Ken Zino, litigation, pew research center, race relations, recalls, Trump Racism
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Dieselgate Once Again – Porsche to Fix Dirty V6 Diesels
It is no coincidence that in June, the respected German Magazine Der Spiegel first reported the “irregularities.” It also pointed out the existence of a cheating cartel consisting of Audi, BMW, Daimler, Volkswagen and Porsche that lasted for many years. The outgoing German government was complicit in allowing the cartel and the emissions in the view of critics because so many jobs were at stake. Continue reading
Audi e-tron FE04 to open Formula E Season in December
Favorites? “That’s hard to answer in Formula E – especially before this season, said defending champion and Audi driver Lucas di Grassi. “I have very strong expectations of Renault and Mahindra. At the same time, we should have Virgin, Andretti and Jaguar on our radar as well. Continue reading
Autonomous Vehicles Buying Stampede – GM and Strobe
LIDAR uses light to create high-resolution images that provide a more accurate view of the world than cameras or radar alone. As self-driving technology continues to evolve, LIDAR’s accuracy will play a critical role in its deployment. Long gone is the original fantasy that State and Federal road markings would be adequate. – they don’t even work for human directed vehicles. Continue reading
Posted in autonomous vehicles, design and styling, electronics, engineering
Tagged autoinformed.com, autonomous vehicles, GMM, Ken Zino, lidar, NYSE: GM, TSX
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