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2019 Hyundai Kona Electric – Even A Frigid Winter Can't Stop This Battery Crossover

When people think of leaders in the electric vehicle sector, brands like Tesla, Nissan and maybe even GM come to mind. Hyundai Motor Group on the other hand probably does not and that’s a shame. While HMG which consists of the Hyundai, Kia and…

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2017 Ford Fusion – Refreshed Looks, More Luxury and More Speed

Given all the attention given to small crossover utilities these days, one could be forgiven for thinking that they have completely taken over the market for anything that isn’t a full-size pickup truck. While that wouldn’t be an unreasonable…

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The Fuel Cell Vehicle Rollout Has Begun But Infrastructure Remains A Problem

In late October of this year, Toyota finally began U.S. customer deliveries of its long-awaited Mirai fuel cell electric vehicle and by the end of 2015 it should be highest volume FCV yet. That’s not saying a lot given that neither of the previously…

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Nikola Teams Up With General Motors For Batteries, Fuel Cells And Manufacturing

When Nikola Motors announced its plans to get into the pickup truck market with the Badger earlier this year, one of the many questions raised was where it would be built and what technology it would use. We now know a lot more as General Motors has…

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Ford-Volkswagen-Argo Investment Deal Closes, Argo AI Expands To Europe

Nearly a year after it was first announced in New York, the collaborative investment deal between Ford, Volkswagen and Argo AI officially closed today. Pittsburgh-based Argo AI now has a foothold in Europe as Volkswagen’s Autonomous Intelligent…

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Adding Some Statistical Perspective To Tesla Autopilot Safety Claims

“Figures never lie, but liars always figure.”
“Tell me which side of the argument you are on and I will give you the statistics to prove you are right.”
Variations of those quotes have been around for ages and the origins are debatable. However,…

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2020 Lincoln Aviator, Putting The Sport In Quiet Luxury Utility Vehicles

A decade ago, if Cadillac and Lincoln had launched all-new and directly competing products into the market at the same time, most observers would have likely predicted the Cadillac to the clear winner. But it’s now summer 2019 and the two brands that…

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Ford CEO Jim Hackett On Human Centered Design And Unleashing Talent

The F-150 is to Ford Motor Company what the iPhone is to Apple AAPL . It’s part of a whole suite of products, but in terms of revenue and profit, it really stands alone and by a wide margin. On the eve of launching a redesigned version of the best…

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GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Auto Plant Is Now ‘Factory Zero’

For several decades now, the sprawling General Motors assembly plant that straddles the border of Detroit and Hamtramck has been officially known as the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center. Within GM and the larger community, it is more often referred…

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NXP Acquires OmniPhy To Help Ramp In-Car Networking To Gigabit Speeds

Now that Qualcomm’s multi-year effort to acquire NXP has been abandoned, the Dutch chipmaker is taking some of the $2 billion breakup fee it got to grow its core business. Already the leading semiconductor supplier to the auto industry, NXP is…

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