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Some wheels are iconic, some are destined to be be icons. Nothing affects a car’s character quite like its wheels. It’s why enthusiasts love to change out the factory units and why the aftermarket for car wheels is so big. Sometimes, though, automakers will drop a factory design that becomes a car model or generation’s […]
Startup automaker Fisker is poised to become a public company in a deal that it says will enable the company to begin production on its first electric vehicle in late 2022. Fisker announced Monday that it had agreed to a $2.9 billion deal to merge with private equity firm Apollo Global Management’s Spartan Energy Acquisition Corp. Spartan […]
Audi’s two largest performance SUVs drop diesel and swap back to petrol power Audi has revised the SQ7 and SQ8 performance SUVs with a new 4.0-litre turbocharged V8 petrol engine. The new engine replaces the brand’s existing V8 diesel models and will be available to order from autumn this year, with prices starting from around £78,000 for the SQ7 and […]
Navistar Chief Executive Persio Lisboa, who said the truck maker chose TuSimple because its software was more developed than its competitors’ and because of its relations with customers, said the minority stake could “turn into something bigger as we go to the next phase of development.” Truck maker Navistar International Corp has bought a minority stake in TuSimple and […]
Auto firms resumed operations in April end, utilizing barely up to 20% of installed capacities. India’s automobile industry showed initial signs of limping back to normalcy, with some of the major automakers notching up modest sales in May as they reopened factories on a limited scale. Though the sales performance was a fraction of what […]
Under the technology evaluation agreement, Amara Raja Batteries Limited and Gridtential Energy will assemble and test Silicon Joule bipolar reference batteries using Amara Raja’s active material to determine improvements in cycle life, energy density, battery efficiency, charging rates and manufacturing ability. New Delhi: Industrial and automotive battery majors Amara Raja has entered into a formal […]
Production plunged 98.8% in April from a year earlier to just 3,722 units, while exports fell 90.2% to 27,889 units. MEXICO CITY – Mexico auto production and exports plummeted in April, data from the national statistics agency showed on Friday, as the coronavirus pandemic forced shut car manufacturing plants and sapped consumer demand for new […]
Electric Hummers and Cybertrucks, as well as the next generation of S.U.V.s, will signal the arrival of the E.V. era in America if they start to sell in big numbers. The electric future, as dreamed up in the 1990s, centered on groundbreaking cars like General Motors’ EV1: tiny, faceless transportation pods, their sci-fi bubble shapes […]