EV maker Rivian has hired a top executive from a major auto supplier as its next COO, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort to get its troubled manufacturing operations back on track. Rivian has struggled to ramp up production, citing supply chain constraints such as a shortage of semiconductors. To help tackle […]
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To hear Jason Cammisa tell it, the Lucid Air isn’t just a Tesla 2.0 – the whole brand is. In a way, it’s also a time machine and one that has allowed its CEO Peter Rawlinson to take part in something many of us have dreamed about. It’s provided the chance for him to go
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Google is launching a vehicle ads platform that will allow auto dealerships to place inventory ads within search results. The ad format will show a consumer searching for a particular model an ad for that vehicle with photos, price, mileage and location, Google said. The ads will display on top of a search results page
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The E28-generation BMW 5-Series may be over 40 years old but where’s a will there’s a way as demonstrated by the owner of this particular example. This beautifully-shot video appears to have been filmed in Poland and shows the driver of the modified 5-Series performing some wild powerslides in the car, all while driving on
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We drove the 2022 Acura MDX Type S, our spy photographer spotted the 2023 Lamborghini Aventador successor, and the 2023 Acura TLX broke cover. It’s the Week in Reverse, right here at Motor Authority. We had our first chance to experience the 2022 Acura MDX Type S. The new model marks the first time the
Former Reagor Dykes Auto Group owner Bart Reagor was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in federal prison for lying to a bank about the company’s prospects. In October, Reagor, 55, was found guilty of lying to the International Bank of Commerce after transferring more than $1.7 million of a $10 million loan meant for the
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Rivian Automotive Inc. is slashing production targets for its electric vehicles, backing off on price hikes for some customers and posting huge financial losses. But the young automaker still has ambitious plans. In the short term, there’s not a lot the California EV startup can do to speed output of the R1T pickup, R1S SUV
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WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators on Thursday issued final rules eliminating the need for automated vehicle manufacturers to equip fully autonomous vehicles with manual driving controls to meet crash standards. Automakers and tech companies have faced significant hurdles to deploying automated driving system vehicles without human controls because of safety standards written decades ago that assume
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Just weeks after starting to offer self-driving vehicle rides to the public in San Francisco, Cruise is preparing to quickly expand to other cities and other types of vehicles. “We get our early users to love the product and come back again and again,” Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said Thursday at the Morgan Stanley Technology,
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The current Acura NSX may not have revolutionized the supercar industry in the same way that its predecessor did but it remains a very good car, as Doug DeMuro recently discovered when testing out the new Type S variant. The veteran car reviewer first tested the Acura NSX back in May 2017 and at the
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