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The Ford Motor company had created a new subsidiary Smart Mobility LLC devoted to advance transportation technologies and business models involving ride-sharing services, autonomous cars and vehicle connectivity. It will collaborate with other technology companies and startups to develop new products. Jim Hackett, former Steelcase vice chairman and CEO, will leave Ford's board of directors to become chairman of the new mobility-services subsidiary.It will be seeking technology partners in Silicon Valley and building on work already under way at Ford, according to a company news relea...
Subaru automaker decided to overhaul its engineering, design and technology strategies to keep the brand competitive on a global scale. The main two changes concern a new modular platform, Subaru says will improve safety and driving performance, and a new design language dubbed Dynamic X Solid to enliven the brand's image.Besides this, Subaru will roll out new automated-driving technologies beginning with a traffic-jam autopilot. This function will allow the vehicle to start and stop automatically in slow traffic and steer automatically around curves. Subaru's ...
Important job cuts are planned at Volkswagen in Germany. The automaker is to cut about 3,000 office jobs in Germany by the end of 2017. The company strives this way to offset the cost of its emissions test-rigging scandal.The Volkswagen brand has initiated an efficiency program that is affecting all areas, including personnel costs. Costs can be cut by reducing temporary work contracts, filling vacancies internally and making fewer hirings, the spokesman said, declining to be more specific. VW is cutting investment by 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in 2016 compared with last yea...
Tesla Motors Inc continues its battle with local dealers: on Wednesday the Virginia Automobile Dealers Association (VADA) filed a lawsuit against Tesla, to keep the electric car maker from opening a second dealership in the state. According to VADA Virginia state officials and Tesla would violate a 2013 agreement that Tesla could not consider owning and operating a second dealership in Virginia until at least August 2017. Tesla opened a dealership in Tysons Corner in the relatively affluent area of northern Virginia, in February 2015. According to VADA repres...
Fiat dealers in the U.S. will be allowed to combine operations with adjacent Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge-Ram stores. This is a part of Fiat Chrysler's new plan aiming to boost the sales of the brand.This strategy could save a retailer selling 15 new Fiats a month an average of $180,000 per year in duplicate third-party vendor expenses. Dealers who decide to stick with the existing stand-alone Fiat showroom will receive about two-thirds of the savings as well as other benefits to their monthly operations. FCA will also simplify its underperforming Fiat produ...
