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Automotive Industry
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By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is proposing an Electric Vehicle fee to fund the Federal Highway Administration.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
The lowest price EV will be available soon in truck and SUV form.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
EV startups have come and gone, the latest is TELO, the Urban Adventure Vehicles from California. Can they do what others have not been able to do?
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
The U.S. has had a turbulent start to the new year in pretty much every product category, yet the Auto Industry has been hit especially hard by the destructive nature of the DEATH of NAFTA due to Tariffs as well as Tariffs on just about the whole world, so how is this affecting EVs specifically for the U.S.?
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Last mile delivery, service, inner city deliveries, etc. the list is long on how EV startups and legacy OEMs have called and attempted to deliver electric vans, can this EV startup from 2023 beat them all and survive?
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Eight of the world's largest automakers desire to lead, innovate, create and drive forward has reach fruition.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Is a MOU signed by Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi Motors meaning they are merging to be one auto company? Find out more here.
By Anthony Fongaro, in Automotive Industry,
This ban on upcharges and shady tactics went from taking effect on July 30th to an infinite delay.
By Anthony Fongaro, in Automotive Industry,
These setbacks are due to software issues, more advanced safety systems, and a large lean toward EVs.
By Anthony Fongaro, in Automotive Industry,
While ICE vehicle's average transaction was $48,247, EV average transactions were 8.5% higher, at $52,345.
By Anthony Fongaro, in Automotive Industry,
New car prices are on the decrease and factories are cutting shifts.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
U.S. EV sales have set another record, but how much growth is it and who is leading among all auto companies?
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Starting January 1, 2024 Consumers can choose to transfer their new clean vehicle credit of up to $7,500 or used clean vehicle credit of up to $4,000 to the car dealer effectively lowering the vehicles purchase price, will this jump start the EV Revolution of sales?
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
What does a company do when so many others have changed their approach to a charging port standard, Join the Party!
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Honda and Acura signed on to use the GM Ultium platform and will have their first SUVs out soon, which do you like?
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
AEHRA is the latest EV startup from Italy, welcome to the Milan fashion version of EV.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
A new RV trailer is here developed by Lightship RV, is it the answer to preserving EV and ICE towing range?
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Kia, South Korea automaker is slated to start production of the EV9 full size EV after agreement was reached with the Korean Metal Workers Union.
By Drew Dowdell, in Automotive Industry,
You could be rolling around on pine sap and recycled soda bottles later this year.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Lightyear 0 is starting its initial production run of the world most aerodynamic solar car.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
The days of yearly reviews, raises and maximum auto production might be coming to an end as OEM auto companies find bigger profits in controlling production.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Not much more can be said other than another year, another round of fun filled commercials. Here we are posting all the Auto ones to watch, discuss and enjoy.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Rimac Automobili, an EV Hyper Auto builder has become two companies expanding their ability to deliver superior electrification technologies to the auto industry.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Consumer reports has released their latest reliable electric vehicle report. This report can be taken in many ways, but the data is great info for all auto companies as they make the move to EVs.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Some would say after your two most populous provinces ban new ice auto sales that it was inevitable for Canada to do this but affective June 29th 2021 Canada's government has banned all new ICE car and light truck sales starting January 1st 2035 onward.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Yamaha opened the books for excepting orders for their new Hyper-EV electric motor with up to 350 kW power output per motor, 1.4 MW total in four motor AWD configuration.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Project Z is the focus of Hino USA to offer zero emission Class 4 to 8 trucks to the market in the USA by 2024. March 12, 2021 Hino and Cummins announced a deal that will allow Hino to move to zero emissions sooner as they convert to Cummins motors.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
During 2020 Pandemic, auto sales continued in Norway giving electric auto's a 54% market share allowing the country to stay on track to stop all gas and diesel auto sales starting in 2025.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Could a modular engine similar size and shape to a battery module be the answer to hybrid auto's and commercial trucks is the question Libertine of the UK believes they have answered.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Alpha Motor Corporation releases for reservations the WOLF two person electric pickup truck. Available in AWD or FWD with with a 3000 lbs towing capacity, zero to sixty miles per hour in 6.2 seconds and a 275 mile range.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Magna's eBeam technology brings electrification to todays pickups removing the need to have a separate EV platform.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Electric is the future and FedEx is delivering sustainability by partnering with BrightDrop for all new first-to-last-mile automotive products and ePallets as they electrify delivery of packages.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
February 23rd 2021 the USPS awarded to Oshkosh Defense a contract for delivering up t 165,000 U.S. built vehicles over the next 10 years to modernize the postal delivery fleet. This will be made up of gas powered, Hybrid and electric vehicles with the first auto's set to be delivered in 2023.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
FedEx has committed to being Carbon-Neutral by 2040 by going Green Globally with an initial investment of $2 Billion dollars for auto electrification, sustainable energy and carbon sequestration.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
What is ZETA you ask?
This is the first industry-backed coalition of 28 businesses and growing covering employees in all US states advocating for a national policy that supports the sale of electric vehicles only starting in 2030 of light, medium and heavy-duty auto's. This group calls for the accelerated transition to EVs.
By William Maley, in Automotive Industry,
How much did the two spend on consultants to come up with this name?
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Detroit Michigan has been chosen to ensure that AKASOL's customers comply with Buy America Act regulations, which dictate that they must purchase locally-produced battery systems.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Automakers are planning to bring to market 100's of electric automobiles by 2025 and a german research company may have solved one of the biggest problems surrounding making them profitable.
By William Maley, in Automotive Industry,
...That whole autonomous-vehicle will be our savor to ride-hailing services.... that may not be exactly true...
By Drew Dowdell, in Automotive Industry,
...in a market that continues to decline, EVs are doing well...
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
...more torque, better power density, and 10 percent further range...
By Drew Dowdell, in Automotive Industry,
...banding together to bring about safer autonomous vehicles...
By Drew Dowdell, in Automotive Industry,
.... 68% of current truck owners believe that current pickups are overpriced.
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
95% of Auto's sold in 2018 globally were ICE, what should we expect in 2030?
By G. David Felt, in Automotive Industry,
Federal officials from the EPA have ended negotiations with California.
By Drew Dowdell, in Automotive Industry,
Consumers think that with names like Co-Pilot 360, ProPilot, or Autopilot, the car should be able to drive itself.
By William Maley, in Automotive Industry,
The next-generation BMW and Mercedes-Benz compacts may be quite similar
By William Maley, in Automotive Industry,
Even NADA's CEO is wondering where are the affordable vehicles
By William Maley, in Automotive Industry,
A light sprinkle could cause some major headaches for self-driving vehicles
By William Maley, in Automotive Industry,
We'll give you a clue: What types of vehicles are flying off dealer lots?
By William Maley, in Automotive Industry,
20 percent cut in salaries and an unknown number of people will be laid off
By William Maley, in Automotive Industry,
Did we mention the fire that involved FF's only pre-production FF91?
By William Maley, in Automotive Industry,
Still is vowing to work with the national government to establish a national standard
By William Maley, in Automotive Industry,
BMW, Daimler, and Volkswagen are involved in the investigation
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By A Horse With No Name · Posted
2004, only 89K. My wife works from home, my retired mother kept it for years as a back up car, she drove my dads car most of the time until my father passed. I got eight plus good years out of it. Timing belt snapped. -
By trinacriabob · Posted
Yes! I do see some old Maverick, which we'd refer to as a "toad." I didn't know you had a Chevy Aveo. What year and how many miles on it? Which part of it gave up the ghost? Yes, I remember your stories about your '78 Olds Cutlass Supreme with a 260 V8 that you beat to hell and back. My dad would have gone off on me if I didn't baby the cars I was handed down to make them last a long time, the first of which was also a Cutlass Supreme. In a way, I sort of liked one thing about that magenta colored AI Cutlass Supreme. The front modification from 1981 was referred to as the shovel nose grille. The AI version keeps it slightly canted back, eliminates the shovel nose, and references the car to the full size Oldsmobile line-up. -
By G. David Felt · Posted
One of my coworkers used his AI bot to create this video! Enjoy Gollum.mp4 -
By G. David Felt · Posted
My issue is the complexity over having an EV motor on the axel. I honestly do not get the need for this type of transmission. Software can usually handle adjustments to optimize efficiency. This story nails it why the dual stage EV9 Motors are better than using an eCVT. The Kia EV9 Has Motors Unlike Any Other EV -
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