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Navigating Auto Industry Evolution from 1967 to Present

Green Fleet Magazine

Dhaval Kikani reminisces on his 57-year career as an engineer in the auto industry and the innovations that saw commercial success, and the experiments that did not.

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Hyundai IONIQ 5 named Best Electric 5 Passenger SUV for families: Report

Teslarati

The Hyundai IONIQ 5 was named the Best Electric 5 Passenger SUV for Families in the 2024 Best Family Cars Awards by Parents, an online magazine. Parents turned to auto industry experts with kids to nominate and vote on the top cars for families this year.

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Elon Musk is TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year

Teslarati

Elon Musk has been dubbed by TIME Magazine as its 2021 Person of the Year. The award, which the magazine gives to an individual or group who most shaped the previous 12 months, for better or worse, has been ongoing for nearly a century.

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CAR report quantifies automotive’s position as a leading high-tech industry

Green Car Congress

Percentage of Global R&D Spending by Industry, 2013. Source: Booz & Company “Global Innovation”; Battelle R&D Magazine; Center for Automotive Research 2012. Additionally, the auto industry provides 16% of total worldwide R&D funding for all industries. Click to enlarge. Source: IRI 2013, CAR. Click to enlarge.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk earns another Person of the Year Award

Teslarati

Just days after being dubbed as TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year , Tesla and SpaceX CEO received yet another Person of the Year Award, this time from the Financial Times. He did, after all, lead a small pure electric car maker into a force that triggered a historic shift in the world’s auto industry towards EVs.

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Jaguar Wants Small, Luxury City Car With Good Gas Mileage

Green Car Reports

Traditionally, small city cars haven’t been viewed by the mainstream auto industry or most car buyers with much enthusiasm. magazine at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show, Jaugar design boss Ian Callum revealed that the British. Now they’re so trendy that even renowned luxury brands like Jaguar want to build one.

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Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

Plug In India

The interesting thing is before electric cars were popular, no one in the auto industry or mainstream media even questioned where petrol or the metals used in engines are coming from. The Lithium extraction industry is open to more sustainable raw-material extraction.

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