Ford Motor Co.executive chairman, Bill Ford, said “These cars will have the ability to process data and make decisions much faster than we will as humans,” which has promised to have robot taxis on the road by 2021. “No individual company is going to program these vehicles with a set of ethics that isn’t bought into by society […]
South African units of automakers are confident they are close to striking a wage deal with labor unions, a development that would help prevent strike action that has hampered the industry in the past. “We are in what I would consider the final stages and the positive is that I think both parties feel that […]
Let’s read the news. The new effort has features similar to car-centric websites such as TrueCar and Autotrader. The idea is to draw more people when they are thinking about buying and fixing their cars — and potentially generating advertising revenue or partnerships with dealerships and manufacturers. Sales at U.S. auto parts stores, led […]
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both came to Michigan this week to woo the auto industry vote by promising to rework the trade deals that put U.S. jobs at risk. “Past trade deals have been sold to the American people with rosy scenarios that didn’t pan out,” Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, said Thursday in […]
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and police have a preliminary draft of the rules, She Weizhen, head of the ministry’s autos department, said in a forum in Beijing. She didn’t give a detailed time frame on when the regulations will be finalized. China’s auto industry regulator said it’s working with police to formulate rules […]
General Motors Co., Toyota Motor Corp., Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and Honda Motor Co. said Friday that June U.S. sales trailed analysts’ estimates, while Nissan Motor Co. and Ford Motor Co. beat projections. Industrywide sales rose 2.5 percent to 1.51 million vehicles, researcher Autodata Corp. reported. The industry’s annual sales pace, adjusted for seasonal trends, was […]
Now, automakers are worried about the costs — not to mention their profitable pickup trucks — and are pushing for a revision. Environmentalists are resisting. President Barack Obama’s most concrete environmental achievement may have come in 2011 when the auto industry agreed to stricter targets for fuel efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions. 1. What are […]
Toyota plans to restart production lines in August, offering Corolla, Hilux and Fortuner models, spokesman Luiz Carlos Andrade Jr. said via e-mail. Fiat Chrysler reached an agreement with the government last week, and GM is planning to begin assembling some models locally next month, according to people with knowledge of the talks who weren’t authorizedjimwatchesalto speak […]
Three years later, Ghosn was sent to revive Renault partner Nissan Motor, which had been unprofitable in seven of the previous eight years and was the most indebted carmaker in the world. By fiscal 2003 it had become the globe’s most profitable major automaker. His revival of Nissan remains one of the industry’s extraordinary success […]
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV has snubbed the German Transport Ministry’s efforts to question the automaker and in doing so won the backing of Italian authorities. The dispute came to a head Thursday when Fiat refused to meet with German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt to discuss emissions and his Italian counterpart told Dobrindt to effectively leave […]
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