If you have a car built in the last decade or so with anything but the most basic radio setup, chances are it has some voice recognition capability. If it does, the technology behind your car’s ability to understand what you say almost certainly…
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Chevrolet Starts Building Bolt EVs As Wall Street Salivates For Tesla Model 3
In recent weeks, Tesla Motors stock has recovered virtually of all the value it had lost since the beginning of 2016 after the Palo Alto, Calif., electric vehicle maker gave Wall Street analysts a tour of its re-tooled assembly plant. With just over…
Transition To Autonomous Cars Will Take Longer Than You Think, Waymo CEO Tells Governors
John Krafcik, the CEO of Waymo, stands with the Jaguar I-Pace vehicle, March 27, in New York…. [+] Self-driving car pioneer Waymo will buy up to 20,000 of the electric vehicles from Jaguar Land Rover to help realize its vision for a robotic…
Volvo Completes First Autonomous XC90 For 2017 Public Drive Me Test Program
Volvo has been extremely busy on the autonomous driving front in recent weeks with major announcements about partnerships with Uber and Autoliv . This week the Chinese-owned, Swedish automaker has rolled out the first of a fleet of partially…
Ford Delays Commercial Automated Vehicle Launch To 2022
Over the past month as much of the world has hunkered down trying to limit the spread of the coronavirus, one of the most frequent questions that comes up is the fate of the all the big ticket product plans that automakers had committed to. Top of…
2020 Nissan Leaf Plus Crosses The 200-Mile Threshold
When Nissan launched the second-generation Leaf at the end of 2017, despite being a significant improvement in almost every way compared to the original, it still came up slightly short in some respects. The problem is that it arrived around the same…
GM-Lyft And Audi-Silvercar Deals Point To Shift To Cars As A Service
Audi and General Motors have kicked off 2016 with investment announcements that point to where they and other automakers believe the future of the business is going as vehicles become more technologically advanced and expensive. General Motors…
2017 Ford Escape Brings Expanded Connectivity Options And Services
The second-best selling nameplate in the current Ford lineup behind the perennially leading F-series trucks is the Escape. With more than 126,000 units sold through the first five months of 2016, the only Ford car that comes close is the Fusion with…
With Delphi Spinning Off Powertrain To Focus On Autonomy, Is Intel Acquisition Next?
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Delphi Automotive, the supplier that can trace its roots back to Charles Kettering’s Dayton, Ohio, lab in the early days of the industry, is going all-in on the future of mobility. The company that was once…
2020 Hyundai Venue Establishes A New Entry Point For Crossovers
If it’s a business day in 2019, there must be another crossover utility vehicle being announced somewhere in the world. Sure enough this day happens to coincide with the first press day of the 2019 New York Auto Show and Hyundai is here with the…