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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

From Tech Crawl 2018 - Keep Your Batteries DRY

From Tech Crawl 2018 - Keep Your Batteries DRY

INFICON tracer gas testing. By Steve Purdy The Auto Channel Michigan Bureau Unlike a pub-crawl, the annual tech and business forum we know as Tech Crawl, hosted by AutoCom Associates in Detroit, fills an afternoon and does not involve a headache the next morning – at least for most of us. ... Continue reading

The Automotive News Digest Week Ending July 22, 2018 Edited By Larry Nutson

The Automotive News Digest Week Ending July 22, 2018 Edited By Larry Nutson

Week Of July 16-22 2018: FCA Replaces Ailing CEO Marchionne; Auto Tariffs, PSA Looks For North American Home' Dodge Angry Bee Unveiled, Tesla Troubles; AHOF Inductees,Whalberg A Dealer Now, Audi Boss In Jail, California Air Standards Ubiquitous?, Vietnamese Vehicles At Paris Car Show, Pikes Peak-e, Big Ford Recall ... Continue reading

Toyota InfoTechnology Center To Be Absorbed

Toyota InfoTechnology Center To Be Absorbed

As the development of automated driving technologies and the roll-out of businesses related to mobility services continues to gain momentum, this decision fits with TMC’s drive to speed up the development and application of ever-better services based on connected technologies to meet the needs of customers more close ... Continue reading

Major utilities continue to increase spending on U.S. electric distribution systems

Major utilities continue to increase spending on U.S. electric distribution systems

Spending on electricity distribution systems by major U.S. electric utilities—representing about 70% of total U.S. electric load—has risen 54% over the past two decades, from $31 billion to $51 billion annually. This increase has been largely driven by increases in capital investment. ... Continue reading

Transit and Téo: Montreal's Hometown Transport Companies Announce Partnership

Transit and Téo: Montreal's Hometown Transport Companies Announce Partnership

Montrealers can now sign up for and hail a Téo Taxi using Transit Starting today users of Transit, Montreal's most popular transit app, can use it to sign up for and hail rides from Téo, Montreal's fleet of electric taxis. The partnership gives one more option to the hundreds of thousands of Montrealers who depend on ... Continue reading

Autoliv Joins Research Collaboration OSCCAR for Future Automotive Safety

Autoliv Joins Research Collaboration OSCCAR for Future Automotive Safety

Autoliv the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, joins the new European H2020 research project OSCCAR to improve the protection and safety for occupants of the future vehicle. The future highly automated vehicle, with comfort and convenience enhancing features such as relaxed seating positions and rotated sea ... Continue reading

California City To Become Test Arena For Automated Riding

California City To Become Test Arena For Automated Riding

In 2019 a major city in the Silicon Valley will become the first pilot-testing city for Bosch and Daimler -- US technology company Nvidia supplies the platform for AI algorithms from Bosch and Daimler Bosch and Daimler are speeding up the development of fully-automated and driverless driving (SAE Level 4/5) in the city ... Continue reading

Marathon Petroleum Corp. senior vice president Thomas M. Kelley to retire

Marathon Petroleum Corp. senior vice president Thomas M. Kelley to retire

FINDLAY, Ohio, July 13, 2018 -- Marathon Petroleum Corporation today announced the retirement of Thomas M. Kelley, senior vice president, Marketing, effective Oct. 1, 2018. ... Continue reading

Auto Talk Radio AUTO LAB Live from New York Saturday July 14, 2018 7-9 AM

Auto Talk Radio AUTO LAB Live from New York Saturday July 14, 2018 7-9 AM

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 20 million people, providing listeners with honest, practical and street-smart ... Continue reading

Coverage Set for Departure of US Cargo Ship from International Space Station

Coverage Set for Departure of US Cargo Ship from International Space Station

July 11, 2018; Nearly two months after Orbital ATK, now part of Northrop Grumman, delivered several tons of supplies and scientific experiments to the International Space Station aboard its Cygnus cargo spacecraft, the spacecraft is set to depart the orbiting laboratory Sunday, July 15. Live coverage of unberthing and ... Continue reading

Assured Automotive Opens Repair Location in Aurora, Ontario

Assured Automotive Opens Repair Location in Aurora, Ontario

The Boyd Group Inc. (the "Boyd Group") today announced that on July 3, 2018 it acquired a location in Aurora, Ontario. Aurora is located just north of the Greater Toronto Area. ... Continue reading

ididit SEMA 2018 Surprise

ididit SEMA 2018 Surprise

TECUMSEH, MICHIGAN: Mitch Kelly and the team at Kelly and Son are hard at work on a project to remember—one that’s a prime example of the great work grassroots builders produce every day that deserves to be celebrated. This particular 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle is slated to be the first-ever vehicle to appear in ididi ... Continue reading

New AAPEX 2018 Forum to Spotlight Retrofitting ADAS on Existing Cars

New AAPEX 2018 Forum to Spotlight Retrofitting ADAS on Existing Cars

New Car safety features help keep you safer than ever before. But, it’s up to you to know how and when to use these features appropriately. Visit MyCarDoesWhat.org to learn more about using car technologies – from back-up cameras to adaptive cruise control and beyond. Knowing more will help keep you, your family an ... Continue reading

Purchasers/Lessees of New Vehicles and Purchasers of Certain Replacement Parts Now to Benefit from $1.04 Billion in Settlements

Purchasers/Lessees of New Vehicles and Purchasers of Certain Replacement Parts Now to Benefit from $1.04 Billion in Settlements

(Washington, D.C.) July 9, 2018; The following is being released by the Notice Provider, Kinsella Media, LLC, about the coordinated lawsuits in In re Automotive Parts Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 2311. ... Continue reading

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