Advanced aluminum casting technologies increase critical component application possibilities for vehicle weight reduction.Over the past two decades, spurred by government regulated corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) and clean air regulations...
Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a 4-stroke, direct-injected (DI) gasoline engine that will be fitted in a production subcompact car (Japanese market) by the end of this year.In conjunction with the new DI engine is another crucial item: a...
Barely a footnote in an announcement that had been expected for months, General Motors Corp.'s decision to build a new global 4-cyl. engine in Tonawanda, NY, holds an important clue in the vexing search for competitive labor peace with the United...
AUSTIN, TX -- Heads will not turn when the all-new 1997 Camry drives by, and it's hard to imagine many 14-year olds will ever fall asleep dreaming of someday owning one."Sterile," "bland" or "an appliance" are some of the dismissive adjectives...
Automakers occasionally conjure up some curious strategies for peddling their wares -- and now "pedaling" is taking on a literal meaning. With a peculiar twist on the warm-`n'-fuzzy, '90s-style "relationship marketing" that's the current rage...
It's over. The arguments, the wrangling, the discussion, the regulation, the speculation. For the past few years -- really, since the 1990 California Air Resources Board (CARB) decree obliging automakers to sell electric vehicles (EVs) in...
ST. PAUL, MN -- 3M Corp. gets a charge out of lithium polymer batteries (LPB) and the company says it expects drivers of future electric vehicles will as well.With a $27.4 million grant from the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) 3M...
Most automakers are sharpening the tactic of sprinkling new-vehicle launches here and there throughout the calendar year -- making it more difficult than ever to place a definitive date on the start of the new model year.Rather than wait for every...
Mercedes-Benz AG hopes to decide by the year 2000 whether its experimental fuel cell technology is ripe for a volume production program, President and Chief Executive Helmut Werner says at a mid-May unveiling of the NECAR II in Berlin.NECAR II is...
At 155 mph (250 km/in) we slide right in the E50, this newest, mightiest version of the recently released, doe-eyed E-class Mercedes. We must move out of the passing lane because the driver behind us is flashing his headlights insistently. It's...