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San Antonio Hyundai Dealer Removes Landmark

The Truth About Cars

Over the weekend, your author happened upon a rural Ford dealership seemingly frozen in time, still using signage from past decades and proudly eschewing whatever cold corporate design is currently being foisted upon dealer principals by The Suits in Dearborn. It was neat to see a store embrace its heritage.

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Tesla’s move to Texas labeled ‘betrayal’ of California, a way to escape paying taxes

Teslarati

A recent article from the San Antonio Express-News indicates that Musk and Tesla have betrayed its California workers who have built the electric automaker from a longshot success story to the most highly-valued car company on Earth.

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Alcoa unveils major advance in aluminum manufacturing technology; new Micromill targeting future automotive aluminum products

Green Car Congress

Additionally, automotive parts made with Micromill material will be twice as formable and at least 30% lighter than parts made from high strength steel. The Micromill continuous casting technology is designed to meet that growing demand for automotive sheet, with the flexibility to serve the industrial and packaging markets as well.

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3 AutoNation USA retail outlets obvious up to now this while

Baua Electric

Alternative places in Texas come with Corpus Christi, Houston, Katy and San Antonio. AutoNation disclosed in February that it had 20 backup AutoNation USA retail outlets beneath construction, with a minimum of part of them slated to obvious within the upcoming while. retailing 229,971 unused cars in 2022. ranks Refuse.

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

Cars That Think

Unitree ] We present an avatar system designed to facilitate the embodiment of humanoid robots by human operators, validated through iCub3, a humanoid developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. Nissan and Akachan Honpo are working on a project to make life better with cars and babies. IHMC ] Thanks, Robert!

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2022 Ford F-150 Lightning First Drive: Ford’s most valued model is now electric

Charged EVs

Used by individual owners and businesses alike, pickups are a massive part of the auto market—20 percent in 2021, totaling nearly 3 million units, according to Motor Intelligence. A big part of the Lightning’s appeal has turned out to be a use case that has nothing to do with on-road performance. vehicle line for more than 40 years.

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Toyota investing $1B in new TNGA plant in Mexico, realigning North American manufacturing; expansion in Guangzhou

Green Car Congress

As part of this strategy, Toyota will invest approximately US$1 billion to construct its newest North American manufacturing facility in the state of Guanajuato in Central Mexico to produce the Corolla. million cars and trucks (more than 2.35 million cars and trucks (more than 2.35 TEMA), headquartered in Erlanger, KY.,

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