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Mirai Reflects Toyota’s Faith in Fuel-Cell Future
Toyota plans to match last year’s output of 3,000 units this year and again in 2019. But its FCV program targets no fewer than 30,000 sales – including 12,000 in Japan – early in the next decade, including Mirais and anything else that might be in the pipeline.
By Roger Schreffler • April 23, 2018 -
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U.K. Company Rolls Out Peer-to-Peer EV Charging
Bookmycharge.com works in a way similar to Airbnb by bringing together those with chargepoints and those wanting to charge, taking reservations and payments via its website. The cost is a flat-rate amount set by the chargepoint owner.
By Alan Harman • April 23, 2018 -
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Volvo XC40 Vaults Into Sizzling CUV Segment
Volvo takes on competitors in the rapidly growing small luxury CUV segment with its all-new ’19 XC40, featuring interior panache, powerful driver-assistance systems and an IKEA-worth of Scandinavian design touches.
By Bob Gritzinger • April 19, 2018 -
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Ford’s Light-Duty Diesel Pickup Claims MPG Leadership
When Ford revealed its F-150 Power Stroke engine earlier this year, engineers said 30 mpg highway was their target. Testing by the EPA confirms that rating for the truck that goes on sale in May.
By Bob Gritzinger • April 19, 2018 -
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Audi Takes 805-HP e-Tron GT From Screens to Tracks
Conceived as a virtual race car for the 15th anniversary of the Gran Turismo video game on Sony’s PlayStation 4, Audi has turned the e-Tron Vision Gran Turismo into reality as part of a marketing campaign built around its new e-Tron electric-vehicle sub-brand.
By Greg Kable • April 18, 2018 -
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Toyota Aims for Bolder, More Exciting Interiors
Color and pattern are playing a bigger role than before inside the brand’s U.S. vehicles.
April 18, 2018 -
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Hybrid Sales Set Record in 2017 As EVs Gain Ground
Hybrid sales, when factoring out Toyota, are less than 3% in all major markets except Japan.
By Roger Schreffler • April 17, 2018 -
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Giddyup Call for Expediting Autonomous-Car Development
Adient’s advanced-development director offers guidelines for the industry effort of creating autonomous vehicles that will make today’s cars look Jurassic.
By Steve Finlay • April 17, 2018 -
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Cork Touted as Affordable Luxury Trim for Interiors
The material already has been mass produced as an interior door garnish in the Hyundai Grandeur Hybrid and was a finalist for a 2017 Society of Plastics Engineers Innovation award in the U.S.
April 13, 2018 -
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Automakers Pitch Higher-Octane Future
GM’s head of powertrain heads to Capitol Hill to present the auto industry’s case for creating a single, higher-octane fuel standard for the U.S. as a path toward more fuel-efficient and powerful internal-combustion engines.
By Bob Gritzinger • April 12, 2018 -
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Acura Engineers Pull Back RDX Skin
Acura engineers built a “tree trunk” subframe into the rear of the all-new RDX and employed hot-stamped inner and outer door rings to assure chassis rigidity.
By Bob Gritzinger • April 12, 2018 -
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IAV Sees Huge Potential With 3D-Printed Pistons
With 3D printing, a piston can be created one layer at a time, and a super-strong honeycomb lattice can replace the solid material, reducing mass about 25%. The supplier says it will have a 3D-printed piston running in a prototype diesel engine soon.
April 12, 2018 -
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SEG Readies 48V Tech Play as Life After Bosch Begins
Owned by China’s ZMJ, SEG lays claim to being the world’s largest supplier of stop/start systems. It’s looking for growth through additional high-tech products and a bigger footprint in North America.
By David Zoia Editor • April 12, 2018 -
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Nissan Declutters Altima Interior, Aims for Serenity
Nissan designers working on the Altima wanted fewer controls, or ones more logically placed, to create open-ness.
April 11, 2018 -
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The Impending EV Fiasco
Where are all the BEV buyers going to come from? California and its cohorts are mandating sales in their markets grow from roughly 60,000 BEVs to more than 1 million a year.
By John McElroy • April 11, 2018 -
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Ring Drive Suggests Future EV Powertrain
Orbis Driven’s unique approach to using an electric motor to drive a ring gear draws inspiration from as far back as the 1898 Lohner-Porsche EV.
By Bob Gritzinger • April 11, 2018 -
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Wards 10 Best Interiors Nominees Color Our World
Green, orange, red, navy and shades of brown spice up the industry’s newest interiors. Forty all-new or significantly redesigned interiors are being evaluated this year.
April 10, 2018 -
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VW’s Roster of EVs, SUVs in China Growing
Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess says the automaker’s China product range is to be entirely renewed and expanded by 2020, with nine new models launching this year.
By Alan Harman • April 5, 2018 -
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Nissan Targets 1 Million EV Sales Annually By 2022
Under the automaker’s midterm electrification plan it will develop eight new all-electric vehicles, launch an EV in China under different brands; introduce an electric “kei” mini-vehicle in Japan; offer a global crossover EV; and electrify new Infiniti models from fiscal year 2021.
By Alan Harman • April 5, 2018 -
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Gasoline Loses Ground Among Oz Car Shoppers
Australia’s share of new-vehicle sales with gasoline engines last year was 75.3%. Among intending buyers over the next four years, only 61.9% think their next vehicle likely will be gasoline-powered.
By Alan Harman • April 3, 2018 -
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Future Engineers Take FIRST Step Into Robotics
“When we’ve got a strong team, we want to keep it strong,” says General Motors’ Tim Grewe, whose sons were on a world champion team a few years ago. “The most important thing is to keep getting the kids exposed to science and engineering.”
By Alan L. Adler • April 3, 2018 -
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Autonomous-Driving Simulation Tackles Kangaroo Issue
Thanks to dramatic advances in deep learning and computer vision, simulation technology offers a much safer and faster road to the future of self-driving vehicles than road testing in the real world ever will.
By Danny Atsmon • April 3, 2018 -
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’18 Hyundai Kona Ready for Small CUV Battle
The Korean automaker smartly took its time to develop a U.S.-specific vehicle with the Kona and pays off with expressive styling, a superb level of available content, buttoned-up driving dynamics and pricing that does not break the bank.
By James M. Amend • March 30, 2018 -
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Magna South Carolina Plant to Supply BMW With Seats
Magna will create a total of 610 jobs at the 255,000-sq.-ft. facility, which will supply seats for BMW X models built elsewhere in Spartanburg County.
March 29, 2018 -
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Survey Says Consumer Desire to Own Vehicles High
Alternative transportation services will supplement not replace ownership, says NADA’s Jonathan Collegio.
By Steve Finlay • March 29, 2018
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