Through the course of the current Covid-19 pandemic, one of the hardest hit groups in a number of cities have been police officers and other emergency responders. In Detroit alone, several hundred police officers have been infected and more than a…

Back in March of 2018, Ford held a background briefing in Dearborn where it announced that going forward, all of its redesigned utility vehicles would have an electrified powertrain option. While that briefing wasn't explicitly discussing Lincoln…

Engineering is the application of scientific principles to create technology that solves actual problems. At CES 2020 in Las Vegas, Bosch is showing off an example of how engineering works. Bosch is getting a CES Best of Innovation award for a…

For most of the past year we’ve been listening to Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles , making the argument for further industry consolidation in order to spread the costs of developing the advanced technologies that are needed to…

Customers and Tesla enthusiasts got a chance to check out the new Tesla Model 3 sedan, sit inside it… [+] and get specs on the car in person for the first time in Denver at the Tesla showroom at the Cherry Creek Mall May 03, 2018. The Model 3 is…

Blockchain as a concept has burst forth from the backchannel discussions among technologists over the past year into the mainstream consciousness. While the chances are now pretty good that even non-technically oriented people have at least heard the…

During the 2016 Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View, Calif., in May, there were countless news reports of the bright orange Maserati Ghibli that Qualcomm was showing off. Those reports all focused on the fact that the car was running…

For the past 100-plus years, the internal combustion engine has been the heart of the automobile. But for the last 40, tiny slices of silicon have increasingly been the brains that tell the muscles including the cardiac muscle that is the engine what…

It's been nearly four years since Ford announced that it was contributing the core code of its SYNC AppLink system to an open-source project. The hope was that other automakers and infotainment providers would adopt the open platform known as…

Over its 10 years of working on automated driving systems, Waymo has kept important details of its technology notoriously secret. While that’s a perfectly reasonable stance to take when developing such a new technology in a very competitive industry,…