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NSX's electric motors will help handling
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 20, 2013
Technical details on the Acura NSX coming in 2015 are scarce, but large-project leader Ted Klaus offered a few nuggets last week as Honda officials announced that the sports car will be built in Ohio.... Read More » Comments [0] | Recommendations [0]
Cost is key to fate of talking cars
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 20, 2013
Cars that communicate with each other to avoid crashes or traffic jams will save lives, but the cost of the systems will determine consumers' acceptance, the U.S. transportation secretary said last week.... Read More »| Related topics: | Information Technology | Green Car | Future Product | Vehicle Design | Europe Manufacturing | Americas | Asia | Global News | China | Europe | Eastern Europe | Western Europe | Manufacturing | New Product | PACE Awards | Production Line |
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Snap-Happy
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 20, 2013
Donna Gebers, general manager of East Bay BMW and East Bay Mini in Pleasanton, Calif., makes no apologies for including at least 60 photos of each used vehicle. The 60 photos per used-car listing required of Hendrick-owned stores is at least three times the average number that appear in listings on many third-party shopping sites.... Read More »INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Veteran Texas dealer mines data to sell pickups
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 20, 2013
It takes something special to get Hayden Elder's attention now that he has run a Chrysler dealership in Texas for decades. But software installed at Elder Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram in the past month has turned his head.... Read More »Akerson's global goal: Rebuild GM into an IT powerhouse
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 20, 2013
General Motors is hiring thousands of workers and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild the in-house information technology capability it began dismantling nearly two decades ago.... Read More »Survey: Consumers are ready for new tech ideas in cars
10:29 am U.S. ET | May 15, 2013
A new survey about what vehicle consumers want and don't want suggests that the auto industry is lagging consumers when it comes to technology ideas.... Read More »Cost to be big factor in 'talking' cars acceptance, LaHood says
3:51 pm U.S. ET | May 14, 2013
Cars that "talk" to each other to avoid crashes or traffic jams, like those being tested here, will save lives but the cost of the systems will determine consumers' acceptance of such technology, the transportation secretary said today.... Read More »BEST PRACTICES
Dealer pairs test driver's phone to car
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 13, 2013
A Chrysler Group dealer in Michigan has turned a 30-second routine into a better way to demonstrate his technology-laden vehicles.Before the start of each test drive at Extreme Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram, the salesperson showing the vehicle asks the customer in the driver's seat for his or her smartphone and -- with permission -- connects the phone to the vehicle's infotainment system.... Read More »Michigan couple appeal sentence in GM trade-secret case
6:07 pm U.S. ET | May 13, 2013
A Michigan couple sentenced to prison for stealing General Motors hybrid-car technology trade secrets filed appeals Friday with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.... Read More »Akerson sees GM profits streaming from in-vehicle connections
12:33 pm U.S. ET | May 13, 2013
One of the first things Dan Akerson did as CEO of General Motos in 2010 was dive into the automaker’s telecommunications business to get more profit from that in-car connection.... Read More »Toyota puts high beams on headlight regulation
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 13, 2013
With a recent petition, Toyota has intensified the pressure on safety regulators to approve new headlights currently forbidden on U.S. roads. The headlights use cameras to detect other cars and automatically dim the portions of the high beam that would shine in other drivers' eyes.... Read More »GM says new data centers will improve vehicles, margins
1:35 pm U.S. ET | May 13, 2013
General Motors said it is investing $546 million in two new Michigan data centers in hopes it will free up millions of dollars to boost vehicle quality more quickly.... Read More »Car Cutaways
MPG needs spur more gear speeds
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 13, 2013
In March, luxury maker Land Rover proudly told an audience at the Geneva auto show that it would soon bring to market the industry's first nine-speed transmission. One month later, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors announced that they would jointly develop 10-speeds. Can 12-speeds really be that far behind? And why not a 24-speed?... Read More »Tesla CEO talking with Google about 'autopilot' systems
9:21 am U.S. ET | May 7, 2013
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric-car maker is considering adding driverless technology to its vehicles and discussing the prospects for such systems with Google Inc.... Read More »Microsoft wants to become key player in auto software
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 6, 2013
Having reshaped a big piece of the world's economy around its Windows software, Microsoft Corp. now wants to do the same thing in the car business. What the Seattle giant sees there says as much about the future of cars as it does about itself.... Read More »Toyota: Cost to develop fuel cell cars falls
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 6, 2013
The hydrogen refueling infrastructure may not be ready, but the cost of developing the fuel cell cars Toyota plans to launch in 2015 has plunged.... Read More »Ford's latest high-tech twist: Granddad's old-school knobs
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 6, 2013
Joe Hinrichs, Ford Motor Co.'s president of the Americas, won't say directly how the company plans to fix its troubled MyFord Touch control system, which has hurt Ford's ratings in quality surveys. But here's a hint: knobs.... Read More »2nd lives for EV batteries could cut prices
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 6, 2013
Lithium ion battery packs that power some electrified vehicles could end up feeding juice into the electrical grid -- a development that could cut EV ownership costs.... Read More »How cars will get more helpful
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 6, 2013
Technologies already exist that will allow cars of the future to perform new tricks to wow consumers. The first challenge, according to auto technology companies such as Microsoft Corp. is to refine their execution... Read More »GM's connected car: Brought to you by Allstate?
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 4, 2013
An emerging generation of tech-savvy consumers has changed the way GM and its rivals approach in-car entertainment and navigation systems. If engineered and executed well, these systems can draw new buyers and allow automakers to tap new sources of revenue and boost profit margins.... Read More »VW plans fuel-saving 10-speed transmission
12:01 am U.S. ET | May 1, 2013
Volkswagen is developing a 10-speed dual-clutch transmission to help reduce fuel consumption, CEO Martin Winterkorn said. The transmission is one of a number of drivetrain technologies that the automaker is focusing on for the mid- and long term, he said.... Read More »
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