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Nutson's Weekly Wrap-up - A Digest Of Key Automotive News and Opinion Week Ending May 2, 2020

Nutson's Weekly Wrap-up - A Digest Of Key Automotive News and Opinion Week Ending May 2, 2020

Why Is The Sky Blue?; Auto Makers Still Blue; Ethanol Makers Dark Blue; Ford and GM Delays New Models and Cancels Others; Carless NYC; Drivers Speeding Along, 180MPH in a 70mph Zone...Ballsy; Car Buyers Delaying; MB Concours d'Zoom; NASCAR Hopeful; INDY500 July 4?; RIP Pony Man Gale Halderman . ... Continue reading

NHTSA Explains Highly Automated or "Self-Driving" Vehicles

NHTSA Explains Highly Automated or "Self-Driving" Vehicles

What is the current state of the technology today? At present, automated or “self-driving” vehicle technologies are in research and development. Developers are testing components and systems through simulation and modeling, controlled track testing and limited on-road testing with vehicle operators and monitors. ... Continue reading

2020 Lexus RX and RXL Reviews by Larry Nutson

2020 Lexus RX and RXL Reviews by Larry Nutson

Change is sometimes slow to come about. And, we always hope things change for the better. ... Continue reading

Karma Automotive Debuts E-Flex Platform With Supercar-Capable Architecture

Karma Automotive Debuts E-Flex Platform With Supercar-Capable Architecture

Karma's new racing-inspired full-BEV E-Flex Platform features a four-motor all-wheel-drive system, 1,100 HP and a targeted 0-60 mph in less than 1.9 seconds. ... Continue reading

Nutson's Auto News Weekly Wrap-up - Automotive News And Opinion From Week Ending April 25, 2020

Nutson's Auto News Weekly Wrap-up - Automotive News And Opinion From Week Ending April 25, 2020

Wuhan Virus Drives Worldwide Car Sales Batso; RAM Recall; Hyundai Recall, Subaru Recall, Car Makers Schedule Production; Digital Auto Sales Bright Spot, Barrett-Jackson Digital Only Auction, Drive-in Resurgence?, In Car Shows Rolling Along, Pebble Beach Concurs Cancelled, C.A.R. Goes Digital, Buh-Bye GM's Maven, Ford B ... Continue reading

AUTO LAB TALK RADIO FROM NYC, Saturday April 25, 2020; WNYM Radio AM 970 7-9 AM

AUTO LAB TALK RADIO FROM NYC, Saturday April 25, 2020; WNYM Radio AM 970 7-9 AM

Auto Lab Talk Radio on New York City's WNYM Radio AM 970 Is Streamed Worldwide On TheAutoChannel.Com This a a Prerecorded Best Of Auto Lab - No Calls Please Auto Lab is a 28 year old interactive automotive-focused New York area radio call-in show hosted by Professor Harold Wolchok. Each week a cadre of experienced hand ... Continue reading

Toyota's Yaris Cross Compact SUV Makes World Debut

Toyota's Yaris Cross Compact SUV Makes World Debut

Toyota announces that its new compact SUV, the Yaris Cross, originally planned to be revealed at the 2020 Geneva Motor Show(1), has made its world debut. As a new SUV that inherits the qualities of the brand's flagship compact car, Yaris, Yaris Cross will be launched in Japan in Autumn this year, and in Europe mid- 202 ... Continue reading

Fuel-Cell How It Works Video - Hyundai NEXO Fuel Cell SUV

Fuel-Cell How It Works Video - Hyundai NEXO Fuel Cell SUV

NEXO Has an EPA-estimated Range of 380 miles, Yet Refuels in Only Five Minutes When Compared With Electric Vehicles of Similar Size and Weight NEXO Fuel Cell Stack Creates Electric Power on Driver Demand, Rather than Storing Propulsion Energy in Heavy, Cumbersome Battery Systems to Achieve its Range NEXO Produces Only ... Continue reading

Hyundai Kona EV Celebrated By UK Original Top Gear

Hyundai Kona EV Celebrated By UK Original Top Gear

Kona Electric has been acknowledged as the Best Small Family Car in the inaugural TopGear Electric Awards, after it completed a 1,600-kilometers road trip across 9 European countries. Hyundai Motor’s fully electric SUV was not only commended for its efficiency and long-distance capability but also for its smooth and ... Continue reading

YEA! Consumer Sentiment on Future Mobility Technologies Declines Even Before the New Normal Hits, J.D. Power and SurveyMonkey Find

YEA! Consumer Sentiment on Future Mobility Technologies Declines Even Before the New Normal Hits, J.D. Power and SurveyMonkey Find

This may be the only good thing to come out of our plague...there is nothing wrong and most things right about the Internaal Combustion Engine its only problem is the fuel it ubiquetously burns... change the fuel to Ethanol and stop the silicon valley technology bullshit....Oh yeah virtually every car owner in the U.S ... Continue reading

Indisputable Proof of Catastrophic Climate Change - All Life On Earth Will Be Dead

Indisputable Proof of Catastrophic Climate Change - All Life On Earth Will Be Dead

The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from the American Consul, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate con ... Continue reading

Volvo Truck and Daimler Truck Form Joint Venture for Large-scale Production of Fuel Cells

Volvo Truck and Daimler Truck Form Joint Venture for Large-scale Production of Fuel Cells

Sharing the Green Deal vision of sustainable transport and a carbon neutral Europe by 2050, two leading companies in the commercial vehicle industry, Daimler Truck AG and the Volvo Group, have signed a preliminary non-binding agreement to establish a new joint venture. The intention is to develop, produce and commercia ... Continue reading

BMW of North America Reports Q1 2020 Sales Results.

BMW of North America Reports Q1 2020 Sales Results.

U.S. sales in the first quarter of 2020 were adversely affected by the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, which has many states still under shelter-in-place orders. ... Continue reading

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