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2022 KIA TELLURIDE NAMED A BEST FAMILY CAR BY KELLEY BLUE BOOK'S KBB.COM

2022 KIA TELLURIDE NAMED A BEST FAMILY CAR BY KELLEY BLUE BOOK'S KBB.COM

Wildly Popular Kia Earns Honors as a Top Three-Row SUV Telluride wins award for the third consecutive year Bold and capable SUV selected for practicality and desirability IRVINE, Calif., March 28, 2022 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- The Kia Telluride, the brand's most decorated SUV ever, is one of the Best Family Car ... Continue reading

2022 KIA Telluride Wins Another "Best Family Car" Award

2022 KIA Telluride Wins Another "Best Family Car" Award

Wildly Popular Kia Earns Honors as a Top Three-Row SUV Telluride wins award for the third consecutive year Bold and capable SUV selected for practicality and desirability IRVINE, Calif., March 28, 2022 — The Kia Telluride, the brand’s most decorated SUV ever, is one of the Best Family Cars of 2022, according to Kel ... Continue reading

AEye Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Results

AEye Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Results

DUBLIN, Calif.--AEye, Inc. , the global leader in adaptive, high-performance lidar solutions, today announced its results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2021. Blair LaCorte, Chief Executive Officer of AEye, said, “The dedication and high level of execution by our team allowed us to deliver on ... Continue reading

Forest River and Lightning eMotors Expand Partnership to Offer Factory-Certified All-Electric Repower Program for Shuttle Buses and Passenger Vans

Forest River and Lightning eMotors Expand Partnership to Offer Factory-Certified All-Electric Repower Program for Shuttle Buses and Passenger Vans

Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail More than 50,000 existing gasoline-powered class 4 shuttle buses are eligible to be repowered with Lightning eMotors electric powertrains. (Photo: Forest River Bus) More than 50,000 existing gasoline-powered class 4 shuttle buses are eligible to be repowered with Lightning eMotors elec ... Continue reading

Kia wins 2022 Red Dot Award for 'EV6 Unplugged Ground'

Kia wins 2022 Red Dot Award for 'EV6 Unplugged Ground'

'Best of the Best' title for Kia's brand cultural space in the 'Interior Architecture and Interior Design' category Seoul-based complex a place for people to experience the EV6 firsthand in fun and imaginative ways Kia EV6 also claims two Red Dot 'Best of the Best' and 'Innovative Products' awards SEOUL, South Korea, M ... Continue reading

Lightning eMotors Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021

Lightning eMotors Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021

LOVELAND, Colo.--Lightning eMotors, Inc. (“Lightning eMotors”, “Lightning”, or the “Company”), a leading provider of zero-emission powertrains and medium-duty and specialty commercial electric vehicles for fleets, today announced consolidated results for the fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, ... Continue reading

Luxury Vehicle Market - 39% of Growth to Originate from Europe|Driven by Integration of Advanced Safety Technologies in Luxury Cars to Gain Higher Safety Ratings| Technavio

Luxury Vehicle Market - 39% of Growth to Originate from Europe|Driven by Integration of Advanced Safety Technologies in Luxury Cars to Gain Higher Safety Ratings| Technavio

NEW YORK, March 28, 2022 -- The "Luxury Vehicle Market by Type (Passenger cars and commercial vehicles) and Geography (Europe, APAC, North America, MEA, and South America) - Forecast and Analysis 2022-2026" report has been added to Technavio's offering. With ISO 9001:2015 certification, Technavio is proudly partnering ... Continue reading

US DoD Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Markets, Report 2021-2022 & 2025: Future Growth Potential in Providing Advanced Technologies that Increase Autonomy, Interoperability, and Multi-mission Functionality

US DoD Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Markets, Report 2021-2022 & 2025: Future Growth Potential in Providing Advanced Technologies that Increase Autonomy, Interoperability, and Multi-mission Functionality

DUBLIN, March 28, 2022 -- The "US DoD Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Growth Opportunities" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This research service focuses on the US military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) market. ... Continue reading

Fisker Establishes Environmental Policy in Advance of All-Electric Fisker Ocean's November 2022 Start of Production

Fisker Establishes Environmental Policy in Advance of All-Electric Fisker Ocean's November 2022 Start of Production

Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail Designed by Henrik Fisker, the all-electric Fisker Ocean is a beautiful new icon of sustainable mobility. While keeping the design language and functionality of an SUV, the Fisker Ocean features a dramatically sculpted exterior with an aggressive stance, clean lines, sleek surfaces, ul ... Continue reading

KIA CARNIVAL MPV NAMED AUTOGUIDE'S 2022 'FAMILY VEHICLE OF THE YEAR'

KIA CARNIVAL MPV NAMED AUTOGUIDE'S 2022 'FAMILY VEHICLE OF THE YEAR'

Kia Carnival multipurpose vehicle rises to the top Judges praised the "massive" interior and "genuinely cool design" that set the Kia Carnival MPV apart from its segment competitors IRVINE, Calif., March 29, 2022 -- The Kia Carnival MPV was recently named "Family Vehicle of the Year" by AutoGuide. The vehicle was recog ... Continue reading

Lotus Eletre: the world's first electric Hyper-SUV

Lotus Eletre: the world's first electric Hyper-SUV

HETHEL, England, March 29, 2022 -- Introducing the all-new and all-electric Lotus Eletre, a striking and progressive Hyper-SUV and the first of a new breed of pure electric SUVs. With the world premiere of this car, the ongoing transformation of Lotus – from a UK sports car company to a truly global performance car b ... Continue reading

Prince Albert II of Monaco and John L. Hennessy, MS '75, PhD '77 To Be Honored at Stars of Stony Brook Gala April 13 at Cipriani 42nd Street, NYC

Prince Albert II of Monaco and John L. Hennessy, MS '75, PhD '77 To Be Honored at Stars of Stony Brook Gala April 13 at Cipriani 42nd Street, NYC

His Serene Highness Selected for His Service in Ocean Conservation and President Emeritus of Stanford University for His Work Furthering Computer Science and Electrical Engineering STONY BROOK, N.Y. , March 29, 2022 -- The Stony Brook Foundation will honor His Serene Highness Prince Albert II, the Sovereign Prince of ... Continue reading

VINFAST TO BUILD EV FACTORY IN NORTH CAROLINA

VINFAST TO BUILD EV FACTORY IN NORTH CAROLINA

Plant will have capacity to build 150,000 vehicles a year, create thousands of jobs RALEIGH, N.C., March 29, 2022 -- VinFast and the government of North Carolina announced the signing of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the establishment of VinFast's first North American manufacturing plant. The company inte ... Continue reading

It's Baaaccck Hyundai (MiniVan) - STARIA MPV Wins Best of the Best at Red Dot Award

It's Baaaccck Hyundai (MiniVan) - STARIA MPV Wins Best of the Best at Red Dot Award

Hyundai Motor Company announced today its STARIA multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) has won the ‘Best of the Best’ accolade at the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2022. The Best of the Best is awarded for groundbreaking design and is the highest title in the competition. ... Continue reading

Recent changes in the price of gasoline and in the amount of driving

Recent changes in the price of gasoline and in the amount of driving

by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. One possible consequence of the recent jump in the price of gasoline in the United States might be a reduction in driving. ... Continue reading

Geely Auto Read The Book and Believed - Supports Sustainable E-Fuels Methanol Vehicle Demonstration Trial in Denmark

Geely Auto Read The Book and Believed - Supports Sustainable E-Fuels Methanol Vehicle Demonstration Trial in Denmark

2022 Mar 28th, Aalborg, Denmark. In support of the Danish initiative to promote the production and development of green e-methanol, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Holding) announced that it has joined hands with Circle K Denmark, Aalborg University, and Fonden Green Hub Denmark to collaborate on a 15-month test an ... Continue reading

FLASHBACK! - Methanol And Ethanol Powered 1997 Ford Taurus Costs Less To Buy And To Run Than Taurus Gasoline Models

FLASHBACK! - Methanol And Ethanol Powered 1997 Ford Taurus Costs Less To Buy And To Run Than Taurus Gasoline Models

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, 1996; The Ford Motor Company is offering an "Unlimited" number of Taurus FFV (flexible fuel vehicle) sedans for the 1997 model year at a discounted sticker price of $345 less than the conventional gasoline-powered Taurus. Ford is offering the Taurus FFVs, capable of running on methanol (or ethanol) ... Continue reading

Get to Know Stefan Sielaff, Geely's Design Chief

Get to Know Stefan Sielaff, Geely's Design Chief

In September 2021, Geely Auto Group appointed Stefan Sielaff as its new design chief, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He brings over 30 years of car design experience from brands like Audi, Mercedes-Benz and Bentley. ... Continue reading

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