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NTSB: Ford BlueCruise engaged in fatal San Antonio, TX crash

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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has noted that an ill-fated Ford Mustang Mach-E that was involved in a fatal crash with a Honda CR-V in San Antonio, Texas, on February 24, 2024, had its BlueCruise active driving assistance system engaged. The incident resulted in the death of the CR-V’s driver.

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San Antonio Hyundai Dealer Removes Landmark

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Not all are so lucky, such as a San Antonio Hyundai dealer who is currently removing what many are describing as a local landmark. According to the dealer group’s head of marketing, it’s not part of the “Hyundai experience.” 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

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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. Would he be living part-time in a $50,000 home in Starbase, Texas to help with SpaceX projects?

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UPS makes largest purchase of renewable natural gas yet in the US: 170M gallon equivalents over 7 years

Green Car Congress

RNG is a key part of UPS’ strategy to increase alternative fuel consumption to be 40% of total ground fuel purchases by 2025, supporting the logistics leader’s efforts to reduce the absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its ground fleet 12% by 2025. Salt Lake City, Utah; San Antonio, Texas; Shreveport, La.; Atlanta, Ga.;

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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. Alcoa has secured a strategic development customer, and from its pilot Micromill facility in San Antonio, TX, has also conducted successful customer trials.

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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

Nissan and Akachan Honpo are working on a project to make life better with cars and babies. The research is part of the Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats institute (RETHi) is led by Purdue University, in partnership with SEAS, the University of Connecticut and the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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