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B’laster Corporation Launches Nationwide Search for Automotive Technology ‘B’laster Instructor of the Year’

B’laster Corporation Launches Nationwide Search for Automotive Technology ‘B’laster Instructor of the Year’

CLEVELAND--The B’laster Corporation – makers of the #1-selling penetrant, PB B’laster – announced today its search for automotive technology B’laster Instructor of the Year. In partnership with Tomorrow’s Tech magazine, B’laster will recognize exceptional automotive technology instructors at high schools, ... Continue reading

GuardKnox's Patented Cybersecuity Technologies for Vehicles Earn Acclaim from Frost & Sullivan

GuardKnox's Patented Cybersecuity Technologies for Vehicles Earn Acclaim from Frost & Sullivan

GuardKnox's multi-layered security framework protects all messages that exist in the vehicle in real time, on a bit level LONDON, Aug. 13, 2018 -- Based on its recent analysis of the European vehicle cybersecurity market for the automotive industry, Frost & Sullivan recognises the Israel-based GuardKnox with the 2018 E ... Continue reading

Mazda, AIST And Saudi Aramco JV To Make Gas Burning ICE And Gasoline More Efficient and Cleaner

Mazda, AIST And Saudi Aramco JV To Make Gas Burning ICE And Gasoline More Efficient and Cleaner

Mazda Motor Corporation announced it will begin a joint research project with Saudi Aramco and Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) aimed at making internal combustion engines more efficient and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Saudi Aramco will develop a fuel with a refiner ... Continue reading

Zingbox Identifies New Cybersecurity Threat for Cars and Drivers at DefCon 26

Zingbox Identifies New Cybersecurity Threat for Cars and Drivers at DefCon 26

Zingbox a leading IoT device management and security provider, attained new research that shows the first-ever SMS-commanded Malware infection to a car's 'infotainment' system. This research provides insight and findings regarding the new risks for drivers' personal data and safety, as well as $28B U.S. rental car mark ... Continue reading

Academy of Art University's Automobile Museum Appoints Rob Fisher as Chief Executive Officer (Story Includes Collection)

Academy of Art University's Automobile Museum Appoints Rob Fisher as Chief Executive Officer (Story Includes Collection)

San Francisco, Aug. 08, 2018; Academy of Art University is thrilled to welcome Mr. Rob Fisher to the Academy family as CEO of the university’s Automobile Museum. ... Continue reading

Diesel Vs. Clean Diesel A Tutorial

Diesel Vs. Clean Diesel A Tutorial

Diesel has been the fuel of commerce around the world for more than a century. It powered the ships, trains and trucks that carried goods into new markets and helped businesses grow. ... Continue reading

Pump It Up! Cooper Tire’s Tread Wisely™ Program and DoSomething.org Launch National Tire Safety Campaign

Pump It Up! Cooper Tire’s Tread Wisely™ Program and DoSomething.org Launch National Tire Safety Campaign

Cooper Tire and DoSomething.org have launched a national tire safety campaign for young drivers called Pump It Up. The campaign encourages teens and young adults to learn how to check tire pressure, tread depth and overall tire condition to stay safer on the road. ... Continue reading

Forbes Says There Is A "Pickup Problem" - TACH Asks What Problem? (originally Published 6/9/2010)

Forbes Says There Is A "Pickup Problem" - TACH Asks What Problem? (originally Published 6/9/2010)

Washington DC June 9, 2010; The AIADA newsletter reported that Jerry Flint at Forbes writes that the trouble with all the plans to improve fuel economy is that Americans still like pickups. Not small pickups, but big full-size pickups with four doors and fancy interiors. A standard V-8 pickup will get 16, maybe 18, mil ... Continue reading

NEC's Transfer of Lithium Ion Battery Business Allows Nissan To Sell Their Battery Business To Chinese Company Envision

NEC's Transfer of Lithium Ion Battery Business Allows Nissan To Sell Their Battery Business To Chinese Company Envision

TOKYO, Aug, 03 2018 NEC Corporation announced today that NEC has determined to transfer (i) all shares of NEC Energy Devices, Ltd. owned by NEC to Envision Electrodes Corporation Ltd, a member of Envision Group, a renewable energy company, and (ii) all shares of Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC) owned by NEC ... Continue reading

Airbiquity Announces Membership In JASPAR, With Mission To standardize Japanese Automotive Technology

Airbiquity Announces Membership In JASPAR, With Mission To standardize Japanese Automotive Technology

Connected Vehicle Services Leader Will Join Technical Working Group to Advance the Standardization of In-Vehicle Software SEATTLE, Aug. 2, 2018 -- Airbiquity®, a global leader in connected vehicle services, today announced it has become a member of Japan Automotive Software Platform and Architecture (JASPAR), an organ ... Continue reading

Day One Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminar 2018

Day One Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminar 2018

Seemingly, every news story about the automotive industry mentions ADAS or autonomy. While much is forward thinking (hype), some is real, particularly the drive to decrease accident and their injuries and deaths. It will be a struggle; there is only a patchwork of applicable laws and every state and municipality wants ... Continue reading

Humanizing Automated Vehicles – Allowing for the “Jerk” Response

Humanizing Automated Vehicles – Allowing for the “Jerk” Response

Reflections on a main theme, Humanization Of Robot Drivers, among potential things to ask is a favorite of mine I haven’t heard anyone address yet: Who gets the ticket if an AV in true human fashion runs a red light? ... Continue reading

Electric Vehicles: Automakers Moving Ahead Without Customers

Electric Vehicles: Automakers Moving Ahead Without Customers

In coming years, automakers will unveil dozens of new electric vehicle (EV) models. Ford alone recently announced that it is investing $11 billion in EV development. ... Continue reading

An Enthusiastic Thanks! To All That Supported The Automotive Heritage Awards!

An Enthusiastic Thanks! To All That Supported The Automotive Heritage Awards!

😎 Automotive Heritage Awards UPDATE July 31st, Our 2018 Automotive Heritage Awards program reached its apex on Sunday, July 29th. A buzz filled the Brembo media hospitality tent on the Concours d’Elegance of America show field at 10AM, just as they opened the public gate to the Concours. AHA producer, Steve Purdy, ... Continue reading

AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE AWARDS PRESENTED

AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE AWARDS PRESENTED

List Of Winners HERE Our 2018 Automotive Heritage Awards have been presented during the Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s in the Brembo media hospitality tent at 10 AM, EST. ... Continue reading

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