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Reid Bigland, FCA Canada CEO and head of FCA’s U.S. sales, was named Tuesday to steer global sales of luxury brands Maserati and Alfa Romeo. Bigland was chosen to build up the Alfa and Maserati brands worldwide because of his extraordinary record of growing sales in the U.S. and Canada over the last seven years. Bigland’s influence at FCA’s U.S. headquarters has grown along with his responsibilities. Pitting Maserati and Alfa against such luxury heavyweights as BMW and Mercedes will test Bigland’s sales prowess. After a 20-year absenc...
Federal California judge was asked by Volkswagen Group to dismiss some claims in a suit filed by the U.S. government over diesel vehicles that cheat pollution controls. After the automaker got sued in January, being accused of using illegal devices on 600.000 Volkswagen and Porsche vehicles, it is considered that these devices are hiding the real diesel emissions. It's been said that VW defendants knew about the problem in 3.0 liter subject vehicles but they are still covering it. Are all of those 85.000 cars really inconsistent and lacking facts as U.S. claims, we don'...
In order to take a controlling 34% stake in Mitsubishi Motors, YOKOHAMA, Japan-Nissan Motor Co. is ready to invest 237 billion yen which is about $2.2 billion.This purchase is meant to transform Nissan into the single-largest shareholder of Mitsubishi. By May 25 the agreement between the companies will be signed and four directors to Mitsubishi Motors' board will be named by Nissan. Rumors say that even the chairman of Mitsubishi Motors might be Nissan's director. The deal must be completed within a year or it will be invalid. Looks like Nissan decided to save Mitsubis...
The driverless revolution is racing forward, as inventors overcome technical challenges such as navigating at night and regulators craft new rules. Yet the rush to robot cars faces a big roadblock: People aren’t ready to give up the wheel. Still billions are being invested in driverless cars.Experts say that technologically, we will be ready for automated driving within this decade, but it will take well into the next decade to convince consumers. Google predicts people will be tooling around in robot models by 2020. Boston Consulting Group says the market for autonom...
People like pointing out how dirty the electricity grid mix is after charging electric vehicles. Many love talking about plug-in cars that as they say contribute to pollution. This map from Carnegie Mellon University helps on finding out the cleanest cars based on their location. Researchers have compiled information about the gas emissions of different EVs considering their charge, they compared gasoline-powered vehicles to electric ones. In the research were tested Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Volt, Prius Plug-In Hybrid versus Toyota Prius hybrid and Mazda 3. By driving a Nissan Leaf in ...
