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Hyundai Motor Group and Seoul National University Open Joint Battery Research Center

Hyundai Motor Group and Seoul National University Open Joint Battery Research Center

This collaborative effort between the Group and SNU aims to advance battery technologies and foster industry-academia cooperation to establish global leadership in the battery field. The opening ceremony of the Joint Battery Research Center took place at Seoul National University’s main campus and was attended by est ... Continue reading

Tesla deletes web page listing Full Self-Driving software's limitations hours after The Dawn Project links to it in press release

Tesla deletes web page listing Full Self-Driving software's limitations hours after The Dawn Project links to it in press release

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 24, 2023 -- In a recent press release highlighting safety defects in Tesla's Full Self-Driving software, safety advocacy group The Dawn Project linked to a page on the Tesla Model 3 manual on Tesla.com which described the software and listed its many limitations and safety defects. Within fo ... Continue reading

OFFICIAL NHTSA RECALL SUMMARY JULY 24, 2023

OFFICIAL NHTSA RECALL SUMMARY JULY 24, 2023

The following may apply to one or more of your vehicles if your vehicle is listed below. Click on the NHTSA Recall ID Number below to read more about the safety issue and the reason for the recall.To find out if your specific passenger vehicle is included in the recall, use our VIN Look-up Tool. ... Continue reading

Owners Unimpressed with New-Vehicle Design and Performance, J.D. Power Finds

Owners Unimpressed with New-Vehicle Design and Performance, J.D. Power Finds

TROY, Mich.: 20 July 2023 — Vehicle manufacturers may be collectively disappointed learning that, for the first time in the 28-year history of the J.D. Power U.S. Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) Study,SM there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in owner satisfaction. According to the 2023 st ... Continue reading

Republican Congress Leads Bill to Protect Automobile Choice

Republican Congress Leads Bill to Protect Automobile Choice

July 6, 2023 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C. -- Today, Congressman Tim Walberg (MI-05) and Andrew Clyde (GA-09) led 18 colleagues in introducing the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act of 2023. This critical legislation would prohibit the Biden administration from implementing aggressive emission standards for l ... Continue reading

Stellantis Reveals STLA Medium Platform +VIDEO

Stellantis Reveals STLA Medium Platform +VIDEO

Stellantis N.V. unveiled STLA Medium, a global BEV-by-design platform with state-of-the-art features including best-in-class range of 700 kilometers (435 miles), energy efficiency, embedded power and charging power. The STLA Medium platform offers long range combined with designed-in flexibility to host a variety of ve ... Continue reading

Honda Motor Co-founder Takeo Fujisawa Inducted into Automotive Hall of Fame

Honda Motor Co-founder Takeo Fujisawa Inducted into Automotive Hall of Fame

Flanked on stage by three iconic products that helped to establish Honda as one of the most innovative companies in America – the Honda 50 motorcycle (Super Cub), the Honda Civic CVCC and the HondaJet – Honda co-founder Takeo Fujisawa was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame at the awards ceremony last night a ... Continue reading

Here Come The Hydrogen

Here Come The Hydrogen

The plant will be designed so that it can be converted to 100% hydrogen firing with minimal rebuilding in preparation for future decarbonization ... Continue reading

VINFAST EV FACTORY GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY JULY 28

VINFAST EV FACTORY GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY JULY 28

RALEIGH, N.C., July 18, 2023 -- VinFast announced it will hold the groundbreaking ceremony of its electric vehicle factory in North Carolina on July 28. This will be the first electric vehicle manufacturing facility in North Carolina, and will help contribute to the supply of electric vehicles in North America and acce ... Continue reading

OFFICIAL NHTSA RECALL SUMMARY JULY 17, 2023

OFFICIAL NHTSA RECALL SUMMARY JULY 17, 2023

The following may apply to one or more of your vehicles if your vehicle is listed below. Click on the NHTSA Recall ID Number below to read more about the safety issue and the reason for the recall.To find out if your specific passenger vehicle is included in the recall, use our VIN Look-up Tool. ... Continue reading

Nutson's Weekly Auto News Wrap-up July 9-16, 2023

Nutson's Weekly Auto News Wrap-up July 9-16, 2023

Here are Larry's picks among the past week's important, relevant, semi-secret, or snappy automotive news, opinions and insider back stories presented as expertly crafted easy-to-understand automotive universe news nuggets ... Continue reading

This Week in Transportation News: 11 Stories You Need to See

This Week in Transportation News: 11 Stories You Need to See

A roundup of the week's most newsworthy auto and transport industry press releases from PR Newswire, including a new crew vehicle for NASA missions and USPS' new shipping option. ... Continue reading

Renesas Announces New Automotive Development Board

Renesas Announces New Automotive Development Board

Renesas Electronics today announced a new development board for automotive gateway systems. The R-Car S4 Starter Kit is a low-cost, readily available development board for building software using the Renesas R-Car S4 system on chip ... Continue reading

Auto News Roundup Mid Week Edition

Auto News Roundup Mid Week Edition

a roundup of news from Cox Automotive and perspectives from its analysts and experts on topics dominating the automotive industry. We are back in your inbox on an “off” week to catch everyone up on what might have been missed over the holiday. ... Continue reading

OFFICIAL NHTSA VEHICLE RECALL LIST July 10, 2023

OFFICIAL NHTSA VEHICLE RECALL LIST July 10, 2023

The following may apply to one or more of your vehicles if your vehicle is listed below. Click on the NHTSA Recall ID Number below to read more about the safety issue and the reason for the recall. ... Continue reading

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