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Detroit 3 tease finds, together with Ford F-150

Baua Electric

Within the conference middle, Ford additionally plans to sing their own praises its just lately unveiled Mustang GTD and off-road-focused Mustang Mach-E Rally. Stellantis is predicted to unveil a minimum of one automobile. ” The post Detroit 3 tease finds, together with Ford F-150 appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. .

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Ford Rumored to Dump Parking Assist Moving Forward

The Truth About Cars

In a conference call heard by CarBuzz , Ford COO Kumar Galhotra said the parallel parking feature doesn’t see a lot of use and could likely be eliminated without creating an uproar while saving Blue Oval an estimated $10 million per year.& Active Park Assist has been around for over a decade at this point.

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Team from autonomous EV startup NIO wins car hacking contest at DEF CON 25

Green Car Congress

At the conference held, last week in Las Vegas, researchers and hackers devised a series of challenges to understand the vulnerabilities of our connected world. The NIO US “Robamierdas” team won the First Place Prize which included a new Ford F-150 pickup truck (donated by Derive Systems) and the coveted lifetime DEF CON “ Black Badge.”

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Team from autonomous EV startup NIO wins car hacking contest at DEF CON 25

Green Car Congress

At the conference held, last week in Las Vegas, researchers and hackers devised a series of challenges to understand the vulnerabilities of our connected world. The NIO US “Robamierdas” team won the First Place Prize which included a new Ford F-150 pickup truck (donated by Derive Systems) and the coveted lifetime DEF CON “ Black Badge.”

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Industry report says steel can deliver weight savings to meet CAFE targets; aluminum growth in LDVs to peak around 2018

Green Car Congress

The report, based on WSD’s independent consultation with steel, aluminum and automotive experts, is formally being presented to steel executives today at the worldsteel Annual Conference in Moscow. Earlier post.). —“AutoBody Warfare”. Aluminum automotive sheet deliveries will show spectacular gains through 2018, the WSD report says.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012.

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GM on the brink…

Revenge of the Electric Car

President-elect Barack Obama signaled his intentions Friday to help the auto industry, calling it “the backbone of American manufacturing” during his news conference. “I But Ford executives said much of the cash was spent on one-time actions related to promoting the company’s new F-150 pickup truck. billion in the third quarter.

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