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Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Mazda's The Safe Bet, Tops IIHS Safety Awards Earned In 2024

Mazda's The Safe Bet, Tops IIHS Safety Awards Earned In 2024

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2024 -- The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) today announced the final vehicle models earning their prestigious 2024 TOP SAFETY PICK and TOP SAFETY PICK+ awards. ... Continue reading

Cars.Com Report - American Cars, EV's, Prices, More

Cars.Com Report - American Cars, EV's, Prices, More

Cars.com released its 2025 Automotive Trends Report , finding that car prices will remain stubbornly high in the new year and potential tariffs could add pressure. Cars.com analyst David Greene reports that while inflation is cooling, sticker shock and affordability in the auto market remain key challenges for 2025. ... Continue reading

AEye to Offer Live Demonstrations of its Apollo Lidar Sensor at CES 2025

AEye to Offer Live Demonstrations of its Apollo Lidar Sensor at CES 2025

Image Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail AEye's ultra-long range Apollo 4Sight™ Flex (Photo: Business Wire) AEye's ultra-long range Apollo 4Sight™ Flex (Photo: Business Wire) Image Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail Image Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail PLEASANTON, Calif.--AEye, Inc. , a global leader in adaptive, ... Continue reading

NASA Sets Coverage for Roscosmos Spacewalk 63 Outside Space Station

NASA Sets Coverage for Roscosmos Spacewalk 63 Outside Space Station

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2024 -- NASA will provide live coverage as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. ... Continue reading

South Coast AQMD Grants Cal State LA $150,000 for Advanced Battery Competition

South Coast AQMD Grants Cal State LA $150,000 for Advanced Battery Competition

South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) Governing Board approved a $150,000 sponsorship to California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) in partnership with Cerritos College to support their efforts in the Battery Workforce Challenge ... Continue reading

$1.5 million gift from Candu Energy transforms McMaster University design studio for the next generation of engineers in Ontario

$1.5 million gift from Candu Energy transforms McMaster University design studio for the next generation of engineers in Ontario

Future engineering students at McMaster University will have access to a state-of-the-art learning space, thanks to a $1.5-million gift from Candu Energy: the original equipment manufacturer of CANDU nuclear technology and a subsidiary of AtkinsRéalis, a global engineering services and nuclear organization.This signif ... Continue reading

KIa Buys Space On TicTok For 2025 Kia K4 Configurator

KIa Buys Space On TicTok For 2025 Kia K4 Configurator

IRVINE, Calif., December 17, 2024 – Kia America announced the first-ever “Kia TikTok Creator Car Configurator” designed exclusively for TikTok. Featuring the all-new 2025 K4 compact sedan, the “Kia TikTok Car Creator Configurator” is an entirely new way to configure a vehicle, featuring engaging video transit ... Continue reading

The Auto Channel Reports 2025 Detroit Auto Show Update

The Auto Channel Reports 2025 Detroit Auto Show Update

The Detroit Auto Show is thrilled to announce a powerful roster of 22 brands representing a wide array of vehicle segments, in addition to four exhilarating indoor track activations. Additional ultra-luxury and exotic brands will be announced soon. ... Continue reading

2025 Toyota bZ4X BEV Closeup

2025 Toyota bZ4X BEV Closeup

For drivers thinking about going all electric, the Toyota bZ4X just made the choice even easier. ... Continue reading

2025 Toyota Tacoma Closeup

2025 Toyota Tacoma Closeup

2025 Toyota Tacoma Closeup ... Continue reading

aiMotive and Safran collaborate to make ADAS & AD development safer

aiMotive and Safran collaborate to make ADAS & AD development safer

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 17, 2024 -- aiMotive, a leading provider of cutting-edge simulation and AI technologies, has joined forces with Safran Electronics & Defense to advance the testing and validation of automated driving (AD) systems. ... Continue reading

ARROWHEAD LUXURY CARS CELEBRATES THE SEASON OF GIVING

ARROWHEAD LUXURY CARS CELEBRATES THE SEASON OF GIVING

GLENDALE, Ariz., Dec. 17, 2024 -- Arrowhead Luxury Cars is celebrating the Season of Giving by joining together with the Homeless Engagement Lift Partnership (H.E.L.P.) to provide support and comfort to homeless families in the community. ... Continue reading

Australia Automotive Aftermarket Report 2024-2030 - The Mature Aftermarket is Experiencing Transformational Growth Thanks to the Increase in Operating Vehicles and Electric Vehicles - ResearchAndMarkets.com

Australia Automotive Aftermarket Report 2024-2030 - The Mature Aftermarket is Experiencing Transformational Growth Thanks to the Increase in Operating Vehicles and Electric Vehicles - ResearchAndMarkets.com

DUBLIN--The "Growth Opportunity Analysis in the Automotive Aftermarket, Australia, 2024-2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This analysis of the automotive aftermarket in Australia focuses on light vehicles, including passenger vehicles and light commercial vehicles. ... Continue reading

Cox Automotive's Newest VinSolutions Artificial Intelligence Solution Can Turn Data Into Deals

Cox Automotive's Newest VinSolutions Artificial Intelligence Solution Can Turn Data Into Deals

ATLANTA, Dec. 17, 2024 -- Cox Automotive, the world's largest automotive services and technology provider, today introduces powerful, new Artificial Intelligence capabilities to its leading CRM solution VinSolutions. Using Predictive Insights with Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities, this proprietary CRM technology inco ... Continue reading

Electric Vehicles & In-Vehicle Lithium Ion Battery Market Trends Report 2025 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

Electric Vehicles & In-Vehicle Lithium Ion Battery Market Trends Report 2025 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

DUBLIN--The "2025 EV & In-Vehicle Lithium Ion Battery Market Trend" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Although the acceleration of growth is slower than once, the Electric Vehicle market is growing, and battery material technologies, such as silicon-based anode materials, electrolytes for soli ... Continue reading

Global Brands Partner with GMA Trucking to Drive Faster Adoption of Zero-Emission Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Global Brands Partner with GMA Trucking to Drive Faster Adoption of Zero-Emission Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Carriers invited to respond to first-ever joint procurement that seeks to deploy up to 250 zero-emission trucks WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2024 -- Today, the Center for Green Market Activation (GMA) in partnership with Smart Freight Centre announced the release of a request for proposal (RFP) for zero-emission trucking servi ... Continue reading

MADD and Uber Join Forces to Raise Essential Funds During Impaired Driving Prevention Month to Fight Impaired Driving

MADD and Uber Join Forces to Raise Essential Funds During Impaired Driving Prevention Month to Fight Impaired Driving

Donations Will Support MADD's Lifesaving Youth Prevention Programs, Advocacy Efforts and Victims Services IRVING, Texas, Dec. 17, 2024 -- Mothers Against Drunk Driving® (MADD) and Uber Technologies, Inc. are teaming up for a powerful holiday campaign during Impaired Driving Prevention Month. ... Continue reading

Oshkosh Corporation to Showcase Breakthrough Innovations at CES for Airports, Neighborhoods and Job Sites

Oshkosh Corporation to Showcase Breakthrough Innovations at CES for Airports, Neighborhoods and Job Sites

Image Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail Oshkosh Corporation will make its debut at CES 2025, the world’s premier technology showcase, January 7-10 in Las Vegas. Visitors to booth #5616 in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) will experience how Oshkosh is transforming some of the world’s toughest ... Continue reading

Polestar Appoints Jonas Engström Chief Operating Officer

Polestar Appoints Jonas Engström Chief Operating Officer

Image Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail Polestar lineup (Photo: Business Wire) Polestar lineup (Photo: Business Wire) Image Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail Jonas Engström (Photo: Business Wire) Image Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail Image Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail GOTHENBURG, Sweden--Polestar has appointed ... Continue reading

Team Velocity Wins Silver for Merit Award's Automotive Dealership Tech of the Year

Team Velocity Wins Silver for Merit Award's Automotive Dealership Tech of the Year

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2024 -- Team Velocity, a leader in automotive technology solutions, has been honored with the Silver Medal at the Merit Awards for Automotive Dealership Tech of the Year. ... Continue reading

New Marketing Director at LIQUI MOLY

New Marketing Director at LIQUI MOLY

January 1, 2025, a “living legend�?? is leaving the Ulm-based lubricant specialist LIQUI MOLY: Marketing Director Peter Baumann is taking his well-deserved retirement after 39 years and numerous milestones. His successor is Marco Esser, who was previously Deputy Marketing Director. ... Continue reading

2025 Trends: Car Prices Remain Stubbornly High in New Year and Potential Tariffs Could Add Pressure, But Shoppers May Find Silver Lining in New Affordable Inventory, According to Cars.com

2025 Trends: Car Prices Remain Stubbornly High in New Year and Potential Tariffs Could Add Pressure, But Shoppers May Find Silver Lining in New Affordable Inventory, According to Cars.com

New year brings tightening used-car supply, a shifting definition of "American-made," and new strategies for electric cars CHICAGO, Dec. 17, 2024 -- Cars.com Inc. (d/b/a "Cars Commerce Inc."), an audience-driven technology company powering automotive, today released its 2025 Automotive Trends. ... Continue reading

SkyDrive and Osaka Metro Unveil Future eVTOL Network in Osaka

SkyDrive and Osaka Metro Unveil Future eVTOL Network in Osaka

"Osaka Diamond Routes" at the "Osaka Roundtable" (*2). These proposed eVTOL routes connect four key destinations in Osaka: Shin-Osaka/Umeda, Morinomiya, Tennoji/Abeno, and the Osaka Bay Area. ... Continue reading

Collective Mining Discovers High-Grade Subzones in Apollo and Drills the Best Hole Ever, Intersecting 150.55 Metres at 6.16 g/t AuEq Within 534.40 Metres at 2.70 g/t AuEq

Collective Mining Discovers High-Grade Subzones in Apollo and Drills the Best Hole Ever, Intersecting 150.55 Metres at 6.16 g/t AuEq Within 534.40 Metres at 2.70 g/t AuEq

The hole was successfully drilled orthogonally across the Apollo system to test, for the first time, the potential of newly modelled broad high-grade subzones within the system. Two additional holes to test the newly modelled high-grade subzones have been completed. ... Continue reading

NASA Finalizes Strategy for Sustaining Human Presence in Low Earth Orbit

NASA Finalizes Strategy for Sustaining Human Presence in Low Earth Orbit

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2024 -- As part of the agency's efforts to enable broader use of space, NASA has released its final goals and objectives for low Earth orbit, defining the long-term approach toward advancing microgravity science, technology, and exploration for the benefit of all. ... Continue reading

Seventh Lockheed Martin-Built GPS III Satellite Launches, Supporting Next-Gen Constellation Modernization and Rapid Launch Capability

Seventh Lockheed Martin-Built GPS III Satellite Launches, Supporting Next-Gen Constellation Modernization and Rapid Launch Capability

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla., Dec. 16, 2024 -- This evening at 7:52 p.m. ET, the seventh Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-designed and -built Global Positioning System (GPS) III space vehicle, GPS III SV07, launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, into orbit 12,550 miles above earth. ... Continue reading

TETRA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. INTRODUCES TETRA OASIS TOTAL DESALINATION SOLUTION (TETRA OASIS TDS) AND RESULTS FROM PERMIAN BASIN BENEFICIAL RE-USE PILOT

TETRA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. INTRODUCES TETRA OASIS TOTAL DESALINATION SOLUTION (TETRA OASIS TDS) AND RESULTS FROM PERMIAN BASIN BENEFICIAL RE-USE PILOT

THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Dec. 16, 2024 -- TETRA Technologies, Inc. ("TETRA" or the "Company") today announced the commercial launch of TETRA Oasis TDS, an end-to-end water treatment and desalination technology for beneficial re-use and mineral extraction applications for oil and gas well produced water.  TETRA also recen ... Continue reading

Toyota to Share Progress on Woven City at CES 2025

Toyota to Share Progress on Woven City at CES 2025

TOKYO, Dec. 16, 2024 -- Toyota Motor Corporation announces that it will return to CES 2025 with plans to make a presentation on Woven City during Media Days on January 6, 2025 starting at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. ... Continue reading

ZEIGLER AUTO GROUP ANNOUNCES 2025 NASCAR CUP SERIES CAMPAIGN WITH SPIRE MOTORSPORTS AT PRESS CONFERENCE

ZEIGLER AUTO GROUP ANNOUNCES 2025 NASCAR CUP SERIES CAMPAIGN WITH SPIRE MOTORSPORTS AT PRESS CONFERENCE

Rookie of the Year Carson Hocevar to Carry Zeigler Livery for Multi-Race Program KALAMAZOO, Mich., Dec. 16, 2024 -- Zeigler Automotive Group, one of the largest privately-owned automotive dealer groups in the United States, will return to Spire Motorsports to partner with Michigan native and reigning NASCAR Cup Series ... Continue reading

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