Toyota Predicts Fuel-Cell Cars at EV Prices by 2030
Toyota Motor Corp.'s top R&D executive tells Automotive News Europe that fuel cells will drop in price by the end of the next decade enough to compete with battery-electric powertrains.
Why Mary Barra Is a Good Choice at GM
One of the obvious-but-overlooked aspects of the auto industry is that all of those cars and trucks, all of those engines and bodies, all of those interiors and chassis are actually made in honest-to-goodness factories, places full of welding robots and stamping presses, machining centers and cutting tools devices, fixtures and material handling devices.
Lamborghini Veneno: Another World
Quite clearly there is a world that is almost totally separate from the one that most of us live in.
PSA May Idle Two Production Lines in France
PSA Peugeot Citroen tells Reuters it will begin an internal study later this month to decide before the end of 2014 whether to close vehicle assembly lines at two factories in France.
Sumitomo to Produce Sodium-Ion EV Batteries
Next spring Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. will begin making sample batches of sodium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and other markets at its factory in Osaka, Japan, Nikkei Asian Review reports.
Report: GM Poised to End Production In Australia
General Motors Co. has decided to phase out its Holden assembly operations in Australia in 2016, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Study: Clean Diesels Cleaner than Expected
So-called clean-diesel technology is meeting U.S. limits for nitrogen oxide emissions by a substantial margin, according to the nonprofit Coordinating Research Council Inc.
Volvo to Head Self-Driving Car Test in Sweden
Posted: December 3, 2013 at 3:01 am Volvo Car Corp. and Swedish researchers and transport agencies plan to begin a 100-car test of autonomous vehicles on public roads by 2017.
Volvo to Head Self-Driving-Car Test in Sweden
Volvo Car Corp. and Swedish researchers and transport agencies plan to begin a 100-car test of autonomous vehicles on public roads by 2017.
Serious Diesel Fuel Lines
ContiTech Fluid Technology is evidently bullish on the prospects of heavy-duty diesels even in the light of Euro 6 and EPA 13, as it has installed a special production area in its plant in Karben, Germany—which represents, according to the company, “millions of Euro invested in new machinery”—that’s capable of producing 20,000 fuel lines per week for truck engines up to 16 liters.