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An agreement on the technology partnership for self-driving cars has been almost reached between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Google owner Alphabet. The talks between the two parts have been going on for several months, and they may finally agree the deal these days.The deal would start with Chrysler Pacifica minivans. Alphabet has ambitions as an auto supplier and is seeking to sell its self-driving car technology to automakers. General Motors Co. talked to Google about developing and testing self-driving cars, but they were unable to come to a deal because...
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 ...
March, April and May are the months with the highest selling-volume, this year it seems like dealerships have a good benefit from an early Easter.“It’s reassuring when retail sales grow faster than the overall industry pace as it indicates consumers remain very active and engaged in the new-vehicle market.” says Eric Lyman, TrueCar’s vice president of industry insights, in a statement. TrueCar is expecting increases of 4% for retail sales and 1% for fleet ones. LMC projects retail to rise above 3,9% and 4,7% for fleet sales. April has five weekends this year,...
Just as if the problems with the production haults at the Japanese plants were not enough, Toyota Motor Corp. notes a global sales decline in the first quarter of this year. Toyota's sales results fell behind Volkswagen AG's, and this disrupted the Japanese automaker's four-year reign atop vehicle industry sales charts. In the January-to-March period Toyota's worldwide deliveries dropped 2.3% to 2.46 million vehicles. In the same time Volkswagen deliveries rose 0.8% to 2.5 million. In the context of Japan's recent most devastating e...
Mitsubishi says that the company was cheating on Japanese fuel economy tests back in 1991. An independent panel of investigators was hire in order to get to the bottom of what happened, they'll have three months for preparing a report about the deception. Mitsubishi's cheat consists of the way it calculated driving resistance to determinate fuel economy. According to its statement the company had engineers that were using their own high-speed coasting test to establish the driving resistance. Even if in 2007 the company has decided to use the country's mandated evaluatio...