Industry
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Mercedes is developing Level 4 and Level 5 self-driving systems and aims to have the first available by 2024.
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Official: Fiat Chrysler and France's PSA Group agree to 50/50 mergerThe merged company will be the fourth biggest automaker in the world.
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Ex-Apple exec named head of VW Group's self-driving car businessThe new division Volkswagen Autonomy aims to have Level 4 self-driving taxis and vans in urban areas by the middle of the next decade.
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GM and UAW announce end to strike, four-year labor deal that will include electric pickupGM's settlement of the UAW strike includes an electric pickup truck to be built at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant, the sale of the Lordstown, Ohio plant, and labor concessions.
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Porsche to test the waters with online car salesEverything from finding a car to determining a trade-in value to arranging finance can be handled online.
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Yamaha abandons its car-building aspirationsYamaha says it's no longer going to build cars based on Gordon Murray's iStream production process.
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Toyota will showcase its solid-state technology at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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German officials vote down Autobahn speed limit proposalA looming proposal to impose speed limits on Germany's unrestricted Autobahn sections was overwhelmingly voted down by the country's parliament on Thursday, dealing a blow to what was ostensibly a proposal geared toward reducing traffic and emissions while boosting safety. The bill, which would...
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Porsche: The future is more than just selling carsHaving cleared the hurdle of delivering a dedicated electric vehicle to the luxury segment in the form of the 2020 Taycan, Porsche is looking ahead to a future where automakers have to do more than sell cars to remain relevant. The automaker's finance and technology chief said recently that Porsche...
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Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle back in productionThe problem that caused production to cease was limited to a single bike.
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GM electric pickup program could lead to Hummer revivalThe electric Hummer will reportedly arrive as early as 2021.
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F1-style electrified turbos coming to mainstream carsGarrett's technology is able to eliminate turbo lag as well as recover energy normally wasted in the exhaust.
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Indian company Tata Motors says it doesn't want to sell Jaguar Land Rover, but it is looking for partnership opportunities to reduce costs.
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VW boss: "We should be making more enthusiast cars"Volkswagen of America boss Scott Keogh said VW is an enthusiast brand and it should make more enthusiast cars.
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Audi and Airbus flying taxi plans put on holdThe news comes just days after Porsche announced it is working with Boeing on a flying taxi.
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Harley-Davidson stops production of LiveWire electric motorcycleThe bikes are still safe to ride but owners should only charge them at Harley-Davidson dealers.
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VW reportedly making moves for Lamborghini sale or spinoffVW has already taken the first steps toward turning Lamborghini into a separate legal entity within the group.
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Renault ousts CEO Thierry Bollore amid global executive rebootRenault fired its CEO Thierry Bollore and replaced him in the interim with Clotilde Delbos as the company aims to further distance itself from the Carlos Ghosn era.
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James Dyson, founder and CEO of Dyson, pulled the plug on ambitious plans to build a series of electric vehicles. The company better known for bagless vacuum cleaners could not make a compelling business case for the EV.
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Embattled Nissan names Makoto Uchida CEONissan, rocked by financial scandals linked to former Chairman Carlos Ghosn and former CEO Hiroto Saikawa, on Tuesday named Makoto Uchida as its new CEO. Uchida has been with Nissan since 2003 and is described by the automaker's board of directors as the “right leader to drive the business...
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Too early to say whether UAW strikes will impact 2020 Corvette production, says GMThe C8 Corvette in coupe form is currently slated to begin production in late 2019 and the convertible is set to follow near the end of the first quarter of 2020.
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VW Group open to sharing PPE EV platform of Audi, PorscheFord has already agreed to share VW Group's MEB platform for mainstream EVs.
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World's first Hyperloop looks set to open in IndiaWork on the first commercial hyperloop could start as early as 2020.
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First market for Volocopter flying taxi might be SingaporeVolocopter's flying taxi service could be in operation soon, but with a pilot on board. Fully autonomous flights won't be ready for another 5-10 years, according to a company co-founder.
Viknesh Vijayenthiran