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FCA Reports Second-quarter 2024 US Sales Results

FCA Reports Second-quarter 2024 US Sales Results

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., July 2, 2024 -- Continue Reading Jeep® Wagoneer, Grand Wagoneer total sales increased 107% and 24% year over year, respectively. Post this FCA reports Q2 2024 total U.S. sales; Wagoneer up 107% Stellantis posted 4% quarter-over-quarter growth with a Q2 2024 total U.S. sales decrease 21% year over ... Continue reading

Toyota Motor North America Reports U.S. June and First Half 2024 Sales Results

Toyota Motor North America Reports U.S. June and First Half 2024 Sales Results

Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) reported U.S. June sales of 193,120 vehicles, down 1.2 percent on a volume and daily selling rate (DSR) basis versus June 2023. June electrified vehicle sales totaled 84,781, up 64.5 percent on a volume basis and DSR basis, representing 43.9 percent of total monthly sales. ... Continue reading

NIKOLA WHOLESALES 72 HYDROGEN FUEL CELL TRUCKS FOR NORTH AMERICAN CUSTOMERS IN Q2 2024, EXCEEDS SALES GUIDANCE

NIKOLA WHOLESALES 72 HYDROGEN FUEL CELL TRUCKS FOR NORTH AMERICAN CUSTOMERS IN Q2 2024, EXCEEDS SALES GUIDANCE

PHOENIX, July 2, 2024 -- For Q2 2024, Nikola Corporation , a global leader in zero-emissions transportation and energy supply and infrastructure solutions, via the HYLA brand, wholesaled 72 Class 8 Nikola hydrogen fuel cell trucks, above the high end of truck sales guidance of 60 units. For the first half of 2024, Niko ... Continue reading

Nutson's Weekly Automotive News Wrap-up June 23-29, 2024

Nutson's Weekly Automotive News Wrap-up June 23-29, 2024

Larry's top story picks from this past week's important to you, relevant, semi-secret, or snappy automotive news, opinions and insider back stories presented as expertly crafted easy-to-understand automotive news nuggets. ... Continue reading

Goodwill® and General Motors Announce Green Jobs Training Collaboration

Goodwill® and General Motors Announce Green Jobs Training Collaboration

GM will provide grant funding for 10 local Goodwill organizations to invest in workforce training programs for in-demand, entry-level skilled trades jobs, including the new Goodwill Clean Tech Accelerator™. Goodwill and Accenture announced the Goodwill Clean Tech Accelerator™, a co-designed clean energy jobs progra ... Continue reading

Verne: Journey to The Future of Mobility

Verne: Journey to The Future of Mobility

A new innovative concept of urban autonomous mobility was introduced, and it's named after Jules Verne, the author who imagined humanity's potential through amazing journeys. ... Continue reading

Bollinger B4 Chassis Cab Achieves Certificate of Conformity from Environmental Protection Agency Bollinger Motors

Bollinger B4 Chassis Cab Achieves Certificate of Conformity from Environmental Protection Agency Bollinger Motors

Certification a Key Step to Sell Zero-Emission TrucksOAK PARK, Mich., June 24, 2024 -- Bollinger Motors, Inc., an electric commercial vehicle ( ... Continue reading

The Bob Lutz Prophesies - How Did He Do? +VIDEO

The Bob Lutz Prophesies - How Did He Do? +VIDEO

AUTO CENTRAL - August 24, 2015: About 8 years ago, Bob Lutz visited the Western Automotive Journalists in Northern California. At the time, Bob was General Motors' vice chairman. He had just come up from Los Angeles where he was the primary presenter at the GM and Chevrolet Press Conference at the Los Angeles Auto Show ... Continue reading

You CAN Stop Living Life As An Enslaved Gasoline Vassal, Break Their Chains Use Ethanol Fuel

You CAN Stop Living Life As An Enslaved Gasoline Vassal, Break Their Chains Use Ethanol Fuel

An ethanol blend powered the first internal combustion engine; it powered Nicholas Otto's first automobile; it powered Henry Ford's first vehicle, and that the GM scientists who invented leaded petrol considered ethanol the Fuel of the Future. ... Continue reading

US Department of Energy Funded American Battery Technology Company Hosts Secretary DOE Boss Jennifer Granholm

US Department of Energy Funded American Battery Technology Company Hosts Secretary DOE Boss Jennifer Granholm

RENO, Nev., June 21, 2024 -- American Battery Technology Company , an integrated critical battery materials company that is commercializing its technologies for both primary battery minerals manufacturing and secondary minerals lithium-ion battery recycling, hosted U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm ... Continue reading

Daimiler Truck Cellcentric starts pilot production of fuel cell systems

Daimiler Truck Cellcentric starts pilot production of fuel cell systems

Next step towards preparing Europe's largest fuel cell production in a new factory in Weilheim towards the end of the decade Esslingen/Germany - A key milestone for the climate-neutral transport of tomorrow: cellcentric inaugurates pilot production for fuel cell systems at the Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt site, taking an ... Continue reading

2024 Volvo XC90 Recharge Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) - Review by Larry Nutson

2024 Volvo XC90 Recharge Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) - Review by Larry Nutson

Volvo XC90 has an overall premium look and feel with nicely elegant interior and a stylish exterior. ... Continue reading

Toyota and Pepco Team Up to Research Vehicle-to-Grid Technology in Maryland

Toyota and Pepco Team Up to Research Vehicle-to-Grid Technology in Maryland

This collaborative effort aims to research sustainable energy solutions and provide local energy grid resilience PLANO, Texas and WASHINGTON, June 17, 2024 -- Toyota Motor North America (Toyota) and local energy utility Pepco are working together on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) research for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) us ... Continue reading

California Governor Dismisses Groundbreaking SEMA-Sponsored Zero-Emission Aftermarket Conversion Project - "No Budget For Conversions", Reinforces Truth That Climate Change Is Scam

California Governor Dismisses Groundbreaking SEMA-Sponsored Zero-Emission Aftermarket Conversion Project - "No Budget For Conversions", Reinforces Truth That Climate Change Is Scam

DIAMOND BAR, Calif., June 15, 2024 -- SEMA - the Specialty Equipment Market Association - is deeply disappointed that California's Senate Bill (SB) 301, legislation aimed at incentivizing the conversion of gas and diesel-powered cars into Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs), was vetoed by California Governor Gavin Newsom. Co ... Continue reading

A Week In The Life Of An Auto Writer - 2024 MAMA Spring Rally

A Week In The Life Of An Auto Writer - 2024 MAMA Spring Rally

A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF AN AUTO WRITER MAMA Spring Rally 2024 By Steve Purdy Shunpiker Productions Michigan Bureau TheAutoChannel.com It’s tough work, but someone has to do it. Someone has to travel to the Road America racing facility, near the lovely tourist village of Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, each spring to spend a f ... Continue reading

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