The Truth About Cars

JUNE 23, 2023

Power has released its Initial Quality Study for 2023 and the big takeaway seems to be that the automotive industry continues to fumble. While new-vehicle quality improved for 12 of the 33 brands ranked in the study, some of the names at the top of the list were a big surprise. Initial Quality Study. Power's 2023 U.S.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

With previous professional experience as CEO of Asian Operations for Chrysler Group and the CEO of General Motors China Group, Murtaugh provides keen insight into Pinnacle’s planned expansion in 2014, focused heavily on Asian markets.

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MAY 12, 2014

The CAM/PwC study highlighted such optimization measures as downsizing in combination with turbocharging and cylinder deactivation. The study also noted that the Group had launched extremely energy-efficient all-electric cars during the evaluation period in the form of the e-up! General Motors Corp.; Honda Motor Co.;

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JULY 17, 2012

General Motors’ OnStar subscribers can now rent out their idle vehicles through the RelayRides marketplace, leveraging OnStar connectivity already active in their vehicles ( Earlier post ), and with no need to hand over their keys. other consumers, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The plaintiffs represent a series of class actions suits asserting that vehicles sold by Ford, Honda, General Motors, Toyota, and Volkswagen have “recorded and intercepted [owners’] private text messages and call logs.” Image: General Motors] Become a& TTAC insider. Cars have cameras that face inward and outward."

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Teslarati

APRIL 25, 2023

With the popularity of electric vehicles continuously rising, legacy automakers like Honda are reevaluating their place in the general auto industry. Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are particularly making strides in the global automobile business. Now, Honda is setting ambitious goals for its electrification business.

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MAY 17, 2012

In response, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Renewable Fuels Association charged that the study was fundamentally flawed. The study claims mechanical damage and suggests degraded engine performance, emissions and durability on conventional vehicles from the use of E15 or E20 fuel. We believe the study is significantly flawed.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 16, 2024

A New York Times study has further fuelled this fear by revealing that some drivers’ driving behaviours are being reported to the insurance companies by the connected technology of their vehicles, which is impacting the premiums these vehicle owners pay for insurance coverage.

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JUNE 9, 2016

The study provides a comprehensive lifecycle analysis (LCA), or cradle-to-grave (C2G) analysis, of the cost and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a variety of vehicle-fuel pathways, as well as the levelized cost of driving (LCD) and cost of avoided GHG emissions. The study only addresses possible vehicle-fuel combination pathways—i.e.,

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JULY 22, 2009

A new study by a two researchers at the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) found that during this period both the unemployment rate and the cost of gasoline influenced buyers’ decisions concerning the fuel economy of vehicles purchased. mpg US (11.6 L/100km) in October 2007 to 21.3 Sivak and Schoettle.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 9, 2024

Despite surveys indicating that most drivers don’t actually like the touchscreen trend and numerous studies suggesting that they’re actually less safe than earlier designs, the industry has stuck with them. The response to this has been varied.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 31, 2023

Just about every modern vehicle outweighs its ancestors by a staggering amount and a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) study has claimed that an extra 1,000 pounds increases the chance of crash fatalities between vehicles by 47 percent. Image: General Motors] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The Auto Alliance represents 77% of all car and light truck sales in the United States, including the BMW Group, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz USA, Mitsubishi Motors, Porsche, Toyota, Volkswagen Group of America and Volvo Car USA.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

The report, supported by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, measures the technological nature of today’s auto industry and compares it to other sectors of the economy often viewed as technologically advanced. One study surveyed by the CAR group found auto companies make up one-quarter of the top 20 corporate spenders on R&D globally.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

One of GM’s innovations involves the creation of a shape memory alloy (SMA) heat engine for power generation from waste engine heat. More than half of the 1,300 patents filed by General Motors Co. The move toward electrification is requiring us to reinvent the DNA of the automobile, requiring massive amounts of innovation.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

Our goal is to play a decisive role in shaping the transformation of the automobile. Mauer studied vehicle design and began his career at Mercedes-Benz in 1986, holding various functions until 2000, including design responsibility for the A-Class, SLK and SL models as well as Smart design.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In their study, they used three different alternative powertrain/fuel models: less aggressive, moderately aggressive and very aggressive, applied across four developed economies (United States, Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea) and four developing economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Doerzaph says the framework being designed and subsequently documented as a set of design principles will serve as a reference guide by designers of apps and driver systems for connected automobile and related wireless devices, with driver safety and ease of use as a focus. Also vital is securing communication networks from hacking.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: Alec Brooks The AC Propulsion experiment thus became an obscure footnote in the tortuous saga of the green automobile.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM) and the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM) sent a letter to US House and Senate Energy and Water Appropriators in support of additional funding to complete research into the impacts of mid-level blends of ethanol. Source: Joint IEPR/TC workshop. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

Here’s what they said: Emad Dlala, Lucid Motors, vice-president of powertrain Upstart Lucid Motors hasn’t built many cars, but it’s built a reputation with the record-setting, 830-kilometer driving range of the Air Grand Touring Performance sedan. The 2021 U.S. Infrastructure Law is providing $7.5 In February, Ford announced a new $3.5

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 23, 2024

According to a US study conducted by independent market research company Qualtrics, 96% of respondents said they would want to have access to wireless charging. They are creating “Matrix Charging,” an automated conductive charging system with a connector on the underside of the automobile and a charging plate on the ground.

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JULY 15, 2010

Previous studies comparing BEVs and FCEVs have reached similar conclusions that only limited-range BEVs are workable, with somewhat different crossover ranges between BEVs and FCEVs arising from different input assumptions for the two technologies.Li Mathias (2010) Electrochemistry and the Future of the Automobile. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A focus on tailpipe CO2 emissions has distracted away from the impact of car production, suggests Professor Frank Figge who co-authored the ‘Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing’ study. There is a mixed picture among European manufacturers. GM achieved a sustainable value of minus €9.87 billion from 1999 to 2007.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The study looked at the relationship between these two economic indicators and purchase decisions and concluded that the unemployment rate accounted for 89 per cent of the variance in vehicle sales; while both the unemployment rate and the price of petrol has a significant effect on the average fuel economy of the vehicles purchased.

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JANUARY 24, 2021

What we expect from the Biden Administration is to simply make one of their policies to make gigafactories across the whole country at scale in order to turbo-charge and protect their biggest automobile companies such as Ford Motor Co. and General Motors. —Simon Moores of the UK’s Benchmark Minerals Intelligence.

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Historically, being one of the five locals that created the Mid America Electric Automobile Association in 1992. Jim’s Candidate Statement: The Mid America Electric Automobile Association (MAEAA) defined our post COVID world by addressing three questions—who are we, what do we do, and how do we do it? I own a solar farm company.

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MAY 16, 2009

General Motors has released a white paper that evaluates the CO 2 reduction potential of extended-range electric vehicles (E-REVs) as well as plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), in combination with multiple vehicle charging scenarios, as compared to conventional hybrids. Study Methodology. Adapted from Tate et al. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 9, 2023

Someone would need to build the roadside sensors that capture vehicle data, someone would need to operate hubs that determine how to manage traffic, and someone would need to build the kind of automobiles that could respond to that without driver involvement. In April, the FCC granted waivers to Audi of America, Ford Motor Co.,

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MARCH 24, 2010

EN-V is propelled by electric motors in each of its two driving-mode wheels. The motors not only provide power for acceleration, but also bring the vehicle to a stop. Power for the motors is provided by lithium-ion batteries that produce zero emissions. The Miao EN-V model. Click to enlarge. Autonomous operation. Group (SAIC).

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MAY 28, 2022

The Electric Vehicle Market Update, the fifth in a series of reports tracking EV growth point outs, The disruption of the supply chain during Covid has affected the automobile industry in the last few years. But now we are going to replace the engine altogether with more efficient electric motors and that is going to be a game-changer.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

The thermal and cold neutrons produced by HFIR are used to study physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and biology. Recent studies have found that the discharge reaction in Li-air batteries is strongly affected by electrolyte and solvent composition and is driven by complex reaction kinetics. Instruments.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. BYD also developed the motors and software for the system.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But this often happens without either side of the argument having a firm understanding of how much information is actually being obtained inside today’s automobiles. While we’ve covered the topic frequently , articles have typically focused on specific issues rather than overall scope. Stellantis brands (e.g.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Since then Daimler , Ford Motor Company , General Motors , Stellantis and Volkswagen Group, have committed an additional $152 billion in investments, a sum four times their combined 2019 operating profits. An additional $60 billion plus in investments have also been made in more than 70 EV start-ups wanting in on the game.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. He knew very little about making cars but proved to be a quick study. executive who has studied BYD. He started BYD with a modest goal: to edge in on the Japanese-dominated battery business.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. is eaten alive by aligators.

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