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Majority of workers at Mercedes-Benz plant sign up for UAW

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A majority of workers at the largest Mercedes-Benz factory in the U.S. Most workers have signed up for the union at the company’s Mercedes-Benz U.S. Mercedes also says the site was the first major production facility outside of Germany, calling it the “nucleus of the automotive industry in Alabama.”

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Junkyard Find: 1982 Mercedes-Benz 300 D With 417k Miles

The Truth About Cars

Here's a very solid Mercedes-Benz W123 oil-burner that now languishes in a self-service boneyard in Phoenix, Arizona. 417,046 miles is about the same as traveling 16-¾ times around Earth (using a great circle route, of course), and that distance is impressive even by Mercedes-Benz diesel standards. market 300 D.

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Tesla FSD Beta vs Mercedes-Benz DrivePilot comparison shows big difference in tech

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This gave the impression that Tesla’s Autopilot and FSD Beta are lagging behind legacy auto’s driver-assist systems. The Mercedes-Benz EQS’ DrivePilot system is quite similar to the Honda Legend’s in the way that it is classified as an SAE Level 3 system. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 deal, affordable Honda and Toyota EVs, Civic and Elantra hybrids: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

Honda Space-Hub Concept – 2024 CES Honda may be a late-starter with mass-production EVs, but as communicated last week with the Saloon and Space-Hub concepts and by company executives, it has big plans for later in the decade—including multiple platforms underpinning a unified Series 0 architecture. sales in calendar year 2023.

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Shanghai auto show: Complete map about exhibitors' booths

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NIO XPeng , and Li Auto 's booths were all in Hall 6.1, The organizers of the upcoming Auto Shanghai 2023, which will start on April 18, have announced the booth locations of all exhibitors. and Li Auto is 6A04 in Hall 6.1. The absence of Tesla in these maps means it will not be at the Shanghai auto show. 6A01 NIO Hall 6.1

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US Auto Industry Down 8% Since 2019

CleanTechnica EVs

It’s time for another one of our quarterly US auto sales reports. No other media outlet compares US auto industry trends with as much history and depth as we do in these. First, before getting into the automaker comparisons for the second quarter of 2023 versus the second quarters of 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, […]

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At CES, legacy automakers scramble to keep up in AI arms race – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Not so long ago, automakers boasted about horsepower and towing capabilities in their cars and pickups, but in the fast-changing world of technology that now dominates the auto industry, software-driven enhancements are prominent in consumers’ minds. “We don’t have any know-how, even in Honda.”

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