by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 19, 2020
Volvo’s designers and engineers are studying the wider use of sensors to alert drivers to the threat posed by the use of smartphones and touch screens. Distraction has become a fact of life, but Volvo’s safety research and behavioral science work suggests that when...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Oct 19, 2020
The “King of Bling” is back in all-new form. The original Cadillac Escalade redefined what a premium sport-utility vehicle was all about, though Caddy seemed to have lost its direction with recent iterations. Now the big beast is getting a complete makeover for 2021...
by Michael Strong | Oct 16, 2020
Earlier this year, General Motors shut down its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center to convert the long-serving plant to a new purpose: electric vehicle production. With a new purpose, comes a new name: Factory ZERO. The company revealed the new name – and its new sign...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 16, 2020
Daimler AG says its financial outlook has improved dramatically in the third quarter after a steep drop in the first half of the year due to the rapid spread of COVID-19 around the globe, which is beginning to reappear across Europe. The company’s rebound during the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Oct 16, 2020
In a society that puts a premium on respect for elders, Euisun Chung has spent decades in the background as his now octogenarian father led the Hyundai Motor Group. But, in recent years, the 49-year-old heir-apparent started to come out of the shadows, laying out some...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Oct 16, 2020
U.S. automotive safety regulators are now looking into reports that Takata may have concealed defective seatbelt components potentially impacting tens, evens hundreds of millions of vehicles sold around the world during the last two decades. Japanese authorities...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Oct 16, 2020
Foxconn, the Chinese company that produces the Apple iPhone, wants to take on a similar role in the emerging electric vehicle market, creating a platform that EV startups could use and then producing their vehicles in one of its own factories. Foxconn isn’t alone. On...
by Michael Strong | Oct 16, 2020
Ford Motor Co. on Friday reported its third quarter sales in China jumped 25.4% compared with the year-ago period, totaling 164,352 vehicles. It Is the company’s best result in nearly four years in the world’s largest automotive market. It was also a 3.6% increase...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 16, 2020
Cruise, General Motors’ autonomous vehicle subsidiary, is ready to start testing on the streets of San Francisco without safety drivers in the vehicles, Cruise CEO Dan Ammann said in a blog post. Cruise received a permit from the California DMV to remove the human...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 15, 2020
After frustrating Democratic Senators by not providing substantive answers to a variety of questions, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett did provide some small insight about her views on climate change during her confirmation hearing Wednesday. Climate...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Oct 15, 2020
By teaming up with mega-supplier Magna International, Fisker Inc. appears to have locked in place plans to bring its Ocean battery-electric vehicle into production by 2022. Magna also will provide the underlying platform for the all-electric SUV, company founder...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Oct 15, 2020
The U.S. EV market is set to get a lot more crowded in the next several years and, as the heart of every one of those vehicles, the battery pack could provide a competitive edge. So hopes Bollinger anyway, the suburban Detroit startup filing for a patent on a new...
