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Hagerty Canceling Detroit Concours d'Elegance for 2024

The Truth About Cars

The annual Detroit Concours d'Elegance is being canceled this year so Hagerty can reassess the event. It’s been a privilege to unite car lovers in the heart of the Motor City at the Detroit Concours,” the organizers explained on the event website. Detroit is a special automotive city, full of very special car lovers.

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Volkswagen’s Scout brand to invest $11M in Detroit

Teslarati

plans to invest $11 million in Detroit. Scout aims to build a new Research and Development (R&D) Center in suburban Detroit, which is expected to create 200 jobs in the area. Jobs at Scout’s Detroit center are expected to pay an average salary of $3,714 per week plus benefits. Volkswagen’s Scout Motors Inc. Family models.

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2020 Detroit Auto Show cancels amid COVID-19 pandemic; expected conversion of TCF Center to field hospital

Green Car Congress

The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) will cancel its June 2020 show in Detroit in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic sweeping across the world and the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s expected plans to repurpose TCF Center into a temporary field hospital. NAIAS will hold its next annual show in June 2021.

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Michigan, Cavnue to create corridor for connected and autonomous vehicles between Ann Arbor and Detroit

Green Car Congress

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced an initiative to develop a first-of-its-kind corridor for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) designed to improve transportation for communities in Southeast Michigan. This includes leading test tracks, universities, automotive companies, and key economic anchors.

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Ford, Bedrock and Bosch exploring highly automated vehicle technology in Detroit to help make parking easier

Green Car Congress

Ford Motor Company, Bedrock and Bosch are launching a demonstration project with connected Ford Escape test vehicles that can drive and park themselves inside Bedrock’s Assembly Garage in Detroit using Bosch smart infrastructure. —Ken Washington, chief technology officer at Ford Motor Company.

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EcoMotors launches design competition with LA and Detroit automotive design institutions

Green Car Congress

During the Winter/Spring 2012 semester, students at the two colleges will create vehicle designs enabled by the packaging flexibility of the clean, efficient, and lightweight opoc. We looked at each other and said, “opoc can literally reshape the future of automotive design”—and the concept was born.

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Pininfarina will help design Hercules Alpha electric pickup

Green Car Reports

The Italian design firm Pininfarina will help design the Hercules Alpha electric pickup truck as well as other products, Detroit-based startup Hercules Electric Vehicles announced Tuesday in a press release.