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What Geeked Me at CES
Many OEMs seem to be trying to make sense of how exactly they can translate their combustion-age success to the electric era.
By Joe Harary • Jan. 28, 2020 -
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Win the Competition for Customers with Artificial Intelligence Tech
As competition for customers intensifies, dealers can stand out from the crowd by offering better customer experience and by being the first in line when customers are ready to buy. See how artificial intelligence can help your dealership do both.
Jan. 28, 2020 -
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Automakers are evaluating their long-term strategies, revisiting their product mix, and approach to both retail and manufacturing approach along the way.
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Toyota Supplier Focused on Interiors of Future
Toyota Boshoku’s MX191 concept, looking ahead to future autonomous driving, brings together a range of technologies focused on safety, comfort and energy savings.
By Roger Schreffler • Jan. 27, 2020 -
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Genivi Targets Connected-Vehicle Cockpit
Looking beyond the open Linux-based IVI platform to virtualization and common approaches for integrating OS and middleware in the connected-vehicle cockpit.
Jan. 27, 2020 -
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Driving Out Software Fragmentation in Automotive
Dan Cauchy, executive director of Automotive Grade Linux, discusses the open-source automotive software platform at CES 2020. To date, 11 major manufacturers are using AGL, accounting for 60% of worldwide vehicle shipments.
Jan. 23, 2020 -
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2020 Ford F-Series Super Duty Stakes Best-in-Class Claims
Just as the competition improves the Chevrolet Silverado HD, GMC Sierra HD and Ram Heavy Duty, the refreshed ’20 Ford F-Series Super Duty resets the bar in terms of towing, hauling and technological sophistication.
By Christian Wardlaw • Jan. 23, 2020 -
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DOT Grants Back Development of Autonomous-Vehicle Industry
The grants emphasize research in urban, suburban or rural areas and include freight, personal mobility and public transportation.
By Tod Northman, Emmanuel Sanders, Alexander Ehrenschwender • Jan. 22, 2020 -
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Wind River Doubles Down on Automotive
Wind River is leveraging 40 years of software development and an ecosystem of partnerships to develop and deliver comprehensive software solutions for automotive OEMs and suppliers.
Jan. 17, 2020 -
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Price Cap Eliminated for Wards 10 Best Engines & Propulsion Systems
WardsAuto Managing Editor Tom Murphy assured a crowd of 400 powertrain executives and engineers that removing the price cap will not lead to a list dominated by exotic sports cars.
Jan. 17, 2020 -
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2021 Yukon Gets New Engines, Interior, Tech to Take on Rivals
GMC’s large SUV grows bigger and more upscale and adds an off-road addition in a bid to shift out of its perennial No.3 position in the segment.
By Doug Newcomb • Jan. 16, 2020 -
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Detroit Auto Show to Include Semi-Autonomous Shuttles
This is the first year the North American International Auto Show will be in June rather than January. Organizers plan both indoor and outdoor events.
By Steven Finlay • Jan. 15, 2020 -
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The Propulsion Conundrum
Increasing battery capacity is expensive, so ZF is adjusting the driveline to squeeze maximum mileage out of a battery charge while offering leading transitional powertrain solutions.
By Jörg Trampler • Jan. 13, 2020 -
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2020 Toyota Highlander Banks on Bland Predictability
While the all-new ’20 Highlander gets significant updates, Toyota plays it safe given the model’s sales dominance in the three-row CUV segment.
By Doug Newcomb • Jan. 13, 2020 -
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ZF Promising Semi-Autonomous Tech for Under $1,000
ZF considers its coAssist system as Level 2+ because its technology allows for driver-initiated automated lane changes. Testing in a Buick Regal this week at CES shows more work must be done before the system is ready for market late this year.
By Tom Murphy • Jan. 7, 2020 -
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Electric Buses Could Help Appease Disgruntled Chileans
With protesters and riot police still clashing on the streets, Chile’s transport minister plans to replace more than 2,000 buses in Santiago’s unloved transport system with new quieter, cleaner vehicles, with electric vehicles being prioritized.
By Tom Azzopardi • Jan. 6, 2020 -
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Turn EV Charging into New Experience
Imitating gas stations is no way to create an EV charging infrastructure. There are startups with better ideas.
By Drew Winter • Jan. 3, 2020 -
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We are Embarking on a Dangerous Decade
With electrification and autonomy, the automotive industry is about to swirl into the center of a historic maelstrom.
By John McElroy • Jan. 2, 2020 -
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New Mercedes Compacts Right Past Wrongs
Each of the cars are wrapped in emotional exterior styling, boast surprisingly roomy interiors for their class and leverage responsive turbocharged 4-cyl. engines.
By James M. Amend • Jan. 2, 2020 -
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2020 Wards 10 Best Engines & Propulsion Systems Quick Hits
A pro-and-con summation of all 26 powertrains evaluated in the 2020 competition. Many comments come directly from editor scoresheets.
By Tom Murphy • Dec. 27, 2019 -
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Making Sure Electric Fleets Have the Juice to Deliver
Whether moving packages or people, if there are constraints such as guaranteed delivery times, ride times and wait times, a vehicle’s battery strength is one of the variables that must be considered when deciding what vehicle to send to what traveler at what time.
By Anne Mellano • Dec. 26, 2019 -
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2020 Nissan Sentra Has Winning Performance, Looks
The new eighth-generation Sentra is a pleasant surprise, with a peppy engine, an attractive appearance inside and out and good feature content.
By Christie Schweinsberg • Dec. 23, 2019 -
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All-Inclusive List for 2020 Wards 10 Best Engines & Propulsion Systems
This year’s list of winners reflects an industry that is trying to do it all with heart-pounding fire breathers, capable pickups that don’t need V-8s, family cars that don’t need V-6s and a battery-electric CUV that is fun to drive.
By Tom Murphy • Dec. 20, 2019 -
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Chevy Corvette LT2 Small-Block V-8 Answers Call
With a radically new mid-engine placement, the LT2 also may finally silence critics calling the camshaft-in-block an elder statesman.
By James M. Amend • Dec. 20, 2019 -
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Hyundai Kona Electric Goes the Distance Again
Despite all the luxury BEV newcomers in 2019, the mass-market Kona still has one of the longest-range lithium-ion battery packs in the industry.
By Christie Schweinsberg • Dec. 19, 2019 -
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Ram’s 3.6L V-6 With eTorque Offers Something Special
The workhorse Pentastar engine was a Wards 10 Best pick for 2019. Judges deemed it so well done and technologically clever with its 48V mild hybrid system, that it’s a returning winner for 2020.
By Steven Finlay • Dec. 18, 2019
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