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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...
Ride sharing apps that could compete with Uber for example, are one of the current interests of Apple. With sales of iPhones slowing, the company decided to diversify its investments and it will provide about $1 billion for the development of the Chinese-based Didi ride sharing app. Didi materialized last year and it became China’s largest ride sharing app. Additional services provided by Didi include taxi and private car services and even test drives. Apple CEO Tim Cook said they are extremely impressed by the business Didi have built and their excelle...
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 ...
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...
