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Alphabet's Waymo, CH Robinson To Test Automated Trucks In Texas
The development of autonomous long-haul trucks will provide welcome relief to fleets that struggled with hauling capacity restraints and chronic driver shortages even before the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the situation.
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Foreign Automakers See Their Chance In Japan With Electric Vehicles
While overall car sales in Japan dipped 3.2 per cent last year, sales of foreign models rose 1.7 per cent. Imports of battery EVs jumped almost three times to a record 8,610 vehicles, according to the Japan Automobile Importers Association.
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Ford, Volvo Join Redwood In EV Battery Recycling Push In California
The automakers will join battery recycling startup Redwood Materials in developing processes, starting in California, to collect end-of-life batteries from electric and hybrid vehicles and recover the materials for use in new batteries.
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Volkswagen CEO Sees Widespread Autonomous Driving Within 25 Years
Diess also said Volkswagen was pursuing further partnerships to increase its self-sufficiency in software and adding such features as brand-specific voice assistants to its cars.
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Czech Car Production Falls 11% In January As Chip Shortage Weighs
Czech passenger car production fell by 11.4 per cent to 92,657 vehicles in January, posting its lowest year-on-year result for that month since 2010.
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EV Startups Hunt For An Edge As Big Automakers Roll Out Vans And Trucks
Spurred on by looming bans on combustion engines in China and Europe, major automakers are striving to bring their commercial electric vehicles (EV) to market fast and ensure they don't get caught out again by another Tesla.
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Volkswagen In Talks With Huawei On Autonomous Driving Unit: Report
Volkswagen Chief Executive Herbert Diess said on Wednesday he expects the car industry to see widespread autonomous driving within 25 years and that the company was pursuing new partnerships to increase its self-sufficiency in software.
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Odd Steering Wheel And Controls Trip Up Tesla, Rivals: Consumer Reports
Tesla new "yoke" steering wheel installed in Model S sedans and Model X SUVs is so difficult to use that it dropped the most valuable automaker's position in the Consumer Reports annual car brand rankings by seven spots
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Volkswagen Expects Chip Shortage To Ease Later In 2022
Volkswagen said in early February that night shifts at Wolfsburg would be cut on some production lines because of the lack of chips. Diess said capacity adjustments would also be needed in the medium term.
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Nissan Plans EVs For Mississippi, Scouts For A US Battery Plant
Nissan said it plans to assemble electric vehicles for its Nissan and Infiniti brands in Mississippi starting in 2025 and aims to have electric vehicles make up 40 per cent of its US sales by 2030.
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China NEV Sales Drop 18.6% In January After Subsidy Cut
China has ambitious goals in promoting NEVs as part of efforts to curb air pollution and believes the industry has matured enough to be driven by demand rather than subsidies.
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Back In The Black, Renault Looks To Tap Into Electric Boom
In a presentation to investors, Renault said a "pure electric entity" could be focused on France and be open to partnerships, while a separate one for the combustion engine and hybrid cars could be focused outside France and do the same.
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Volta Trucks Raises $260 Million To Fund Electric Vehicle Launch
Prototypes of the Volta Zero, a 16-tonne fully-electric truck, will be delivered to customers in mid-2022, with series production due to start in late 2022.
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India, UAE Eye $100 Billion In Annual Trade After Signing Trade Pact
The broad trade and investment pact will cut all tariffs on each other's goods and aims to increase annual trade between the two nations to $100 billion within five years.
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Billionaire Soros Buys Stake In EV Startup Rivian
The 19,835,761 shares, worth about $2 billion at the time, makes Soros Fund Management among the most prominent investors in a company that has yet to produce a consumer vehicle.
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EU Car Sales To Rise 7.9% In 2022 As Chip Supply Stabilises: Report
The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) represents the 16 major Europe-based automakers and said this would follow a 2.4 per cent decline in 2021 due to a shortage of semiconductors.
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Semiconductor Chip Supply To Normalise In 2022, Says Mexico's Auto Industry
A return to more normal supplies of semiconductors would allow Mexican carmakers to increase use of installed capacity.
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Ford Reconsiders India After Halting Production, This Time For EVs
Ford said it was exploring the possibility of using a plant in India as an export base for EV manufacturing that could potentially be sold in the country too.
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Ford, Suzuki To Get Incentives Under India's $3.5 Billion Clean Fuel Scheme
The ministry of heavy industries said it has approved applications from 20 companies which also include Kia Motors, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra and Softbank-Group Ola Electric.
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Renault-Nissan To Do More Together In $26 Billion Electric Bet
Renault and Nissan will build a combined EV line-up of 35 vehicles by 2030, with four-fifths of their models sharing common platforms by 2026.
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