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As we continue down the path toward deploying automated driving (AD), the companies involved are increasingly recognizing the need to convince the people that will ride in automated vehicles (AV) that the technology is actually safe. That’s no easy…

A decade ago this week, General Motors became the first automaker to bring an automated vehicle to CES, and then-CEO Rick Wagoner was the first to keynote the annual Las Vegas technology show. Plenty has changed since then as the U.S. auto industry…

General Motors CEO Mary Barra today announced a 50-50 joint venture with South Korea’s LG Chem valued at $2.3 billion to produce lithium-ion battery cells in Ohio. The plant will be located in Lordstown, near the recently shuttered Cruze assembly…

General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant has a 35-year history of being on the cutting edge for the automaker, often with mixed results. GM hopes to break that streak late next year when the factory officially becomes the company’s first…

Chinese electric vehicle startup Xpeng has just launched its second production model, the P7 sedan, which includes at least two industry firsts. The P7 is the first production vehicle to take advantage of Nvidia NVDA ’s Drive AGX Xavier platform.…

It's no secret that the end-game for ride-hailing firms like Uber, Lyft and Didi Chuxing is to replace tens of thousands of human drivers with autonomous vehicles. In the past year, Uber has launched its own autonomous vehicle development program,…

In that lost time before millennials were born, the sport utility vehicle was conceived as a tool for people with truly active lifestyles, those that went beyond the even the unpaved road. They generally came into two flavors, the purpose-built…

In an American automotive market that finally peaked and started to decline in 2017, there was still some good news in certain segments, including pickup trucks and small crossover utilities. Against the backdrop of the collapsing sales of smaller…

BMW probably isn’t the first brand that pops to mind when you think of battery electric vehicles (BEV). While the German brand hasn’t yet jumped into the deep end with both feet on zero emissions, it began it’s development back in 2007 and launched…

In the span of my time so far on this planet, I’ve seen a lot of “sporty” car models come and go. Few have lasted for more than a couple of product generations and they have often evolved into something far different than the original design brief as…