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Nutson's Weekly Automotive News Summary April 8-15, 2018; Pacific Trade Treaty; Cost Of Car Ownership; VW Changes; Volvo EV; Tesla; Mullin Automotive Museum: Monster Sponsors Nascar; Automobili Pinifarina; Global Ford Focus

Nutson's Weekly Automotive News Summary April 8-15, 2018; Pacific Trade Treaty; Cost Of Car Ownership; VW Changes; Volvo EV; Tesla; Mullin Automotive Museum: Monster Sponsors Nascar; Automobili Pinifarina; Global Ford Focus

AUTO CENTRAL, CHICAGO - April 15, 2018; Every Sunday Larry Nutson, Senior Editor and Chicago Car Guy along with fellow senior editors Steve Purdy and Thom Cannell from The Auto Channel Michigan Bureau, give you TACH's ... Continue reading

Automobili Pininfarina To Launch Electric Hypercar in 2020

Automobili Pininfarina To Launch Electric Hypercar in 2020

New company to leverage Pininfarina’ s legendary automotive design expertise Rome, April 13, 2018: Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., part of the $19 billion Mahindra Group, today announced the launch of Automobili Pininfarina, the world’s newest sustainable luxury car brand. Automobili Pininfarina, promoted by Mahindra & M ... Continue reading

AUTO LAB Talk Radio - LIVE from NYC Saturday Morning 7-9 AM April 14, 2018

AUTO LAB Talk Radio - LIVE from NYC Saturday Morning 7-9 AM April 14, 2018

Car Question or Concern? Call Toll Free 888-692-7234 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 hands-on automotive experts are in-studio with advice for the New York area's 12 million people, providing l ... Continue reading

American Petroleum Institute Goes Bonkers - Issues Fatuous Lies Against E15 Ethanol Blends

American Petroleum Institute Goes Bonkers - Issues Fatuous Lies Against E15 Ethanol Blends

Today, a fathead from the American Petroleum Institute made a series of preposterous claims against E-15 that prove neither he nor anyone currently employed by API know anything about motor fuels or internal combustion engines. The particular fathead I'm referring to is API Downstream Group Director Frank Macchiarola. ... Continue reading

Taking On EPA, CAL Air Resources Board, Obama, and Big Oil

Taking On EPA, CAL Air Resources Board, Obama, and Big Oil

Open Letter To Sierra Club By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher THE AUTO CHANNEL ... Continue reading

Why Does AAA and Big Oil Feel They Must Lie to America?

Why Does AAA and Big Oil Feel They Must Lie to America?

Doesn't Lying About One Thing Taint the Veracity Everything Else They Say? By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher THE AUTO CHANNEL AUTO CENTRAL - May 23, 2013: This morning, AAA issued a press release concerning travel on this forth coming Memorial Day Weekend. The release carries some of the usual informat ... Continue reading

Open Letter To Ken Cohen ExxonMobil +VIDEO

Open Letter To Ken Cohen ExxonMobil +VIDEO

By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher THE AUTO CHANNEL This past February, Jay Leno wrote an article for AutoWeek Magazine excoriating ethanol fuels. This article caused a bit of an uproar within the pro-alt fuel community (including us at The Auto Channel). This uproar was met by several anti-ethanol enti ... Continue reading

The Case Against Ethanol Opponents: They Are Simply Incorrect +VIDEO

The Case Against Ethanol Opponents: They Are Simply Incorrect +VIDEO

By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher THE AUTO CHANNEL I can't say for sure, since I haven't done a count and compared it to a calendar, but it seems to me that the American oil industry has been ramping up its attacks on ethanol and trying to gain ground by adding in more <i>high-powered</i> lapdogs to pr ... Continue reading

Ford Licenses Hybrid Vehicle Patents from Paice, Abell Foundation

Ford Licenses Hybrid Vehicle Patents from Paice, Abell Foundation

BALTIMORE--Paice, a pioneer in hybrid electric vehicle technology, has reached an agreement to license all of its hybrid vehicle technology to Ford Motor Company. Ford ranks second in U.S. hybrid car sales, having invested billions of dollars in its electrified vehicle offerings. ... Continue reading

Volvo Trucks Introduces First All-Electric Truck

Volvo Trucks Introduces First All-Electric Truck

Volvo Trucks now introduces its first all-electric truck for commercial use – the Volvo FL Electric for urban distribution and refuse operations, among other applications. Sales and series production of the new model will start in Europe next year. ... Continue reading

Global All Wheel Drive Electric Vehicle Market - Growth Analysis and Forecast | Technavio

Global All Wheel Drive Electric Vehicle Market - Growth Analysis and Forecast | Technavio

Technavio has published a new market research report on the global all wheel drive (AWD) electric vehicle market from 2018-2022. ... Continue reading

U.S. Gulf of Mexico crude oil production to continue at record highs through 2019

U.S. Gulf of Mexico crude oil production to continue at record highs through 2019

April 11, 2018 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook U.S. crude oil production in the Federal Gulf of Mexico (GOM) increased slightly in 2017, reaching 1.65 million b/d, the highest annual level on record. Although briefly hindered by platform outages and pipeline issues in December ... Continue reading

CNG May Not Be A Dead Fuel Yet! SEAT to CNG Tech for Volkswagen Group

CNG May Not Be A Dead Fuel Yet! SEAT to CNG Tech for Volkswagen Group

SEAT President Luca de Meo this morning inaugurated the 6th GASNAM Congress in Madrid, which was also attended by GASNAM President José Ramón Freire; Industry and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises general secretary Begoña Cristeto; and the Portuguese Secretary of State for Energy Jorge Seguro Sanches. During his ke ... Continue reading

The FIA confirms Porsche as a new Formula E manufacturer

The FIA confirms Porsche as a new Formula E manufacturer

Formula E will provide the chassis as well as the battery. All powertrain components, however, are the competitors’ own developments. This enables Porsche to find bespoke solutions for key technologies such as the electric motor, inverter, brake-by-wire system, transmission, differential, driveshafts, monocoque and t ... Continue reading

car2go publishes White Paper: Why carsharing plays a decisive role in the breakthrough of electric mobility

car2go publishes White Paper: Why carsharing plays a decisive role in the breakthrough of electric mobility

E-carsharing plays an important role for the breakthrough of electric mobility The operation of carsharing fleets provides valuable knowledge for the overall further development of electric mobility Stuttgart – Electric carsharing gives new impetus for the breakthrough of electric vehicles. car2go, the global market ... Continue reading

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