Buick has filed a trademark application for a new logo, according to documents first spotted by CarBuzz. An application filed March 16, 2022, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) shows a variation of the automaker’s traditional tri-shield logo, which dates back to 1959 and has been mildly updated since then. The ring […]
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President Joe Biden is poised to invoke as soon as this week Cold War powers to encourage domestic production of critical minerals for electric-vehicle and other types of batteries, according to people familiar with the matter. The White House is discussing adding battery materials to the list of items covered by the 1950 Defense Production
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Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car unit, said it would begin offering rides in San Francisco without a driver behind the wheel, seeking to catch up to rival Cruise on its home turf. The driverless rides will be available only for Waymo staff to start, the company said Wednesday in a statement. Waymo also announced plans
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After a few hours of street racing early Monday morning in Portland, it all ended with four different people being injured by gunfire police say. Victims aged 21, 18, 16, and 11 each suffered non-life-threatening injuries and the oldest has been arrested as the prime suspect. Police aren’t totally certain that all victims and suspects
The Porsche Macan already qualifies as one of the best compromises between family practicality and sports car fun. Now, a new variant of the small SUV looks to nudge the dial toward the fun side: the 2023 Macan T. This is the third model in the Porsche lineup to get a T designation (it stands
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UAW President Ray Curry said Tuesday the union’s membership fell roughly six percent to 372,254 last year, according to an annual financial report that will be made public this week. The LM-2 report, filed with the Department of Labor, compares union membership as of December 2021 to the same period a year earlier. Curry, speaking
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Vietnamese automaker VinFast will build an electric vehicle assembly plant and a battery manufacturing facility in Chatham County, N.C, with an initial $2 billion investment. VinFast, which opened its U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles last year, intends to move rapidly into the North America EV market with the VF 8 and VF 9 crossovers currently
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Elon Musk on Tuesday likened himself to the rapper Eminem in seeking to throw out his 2018 agreement with the top U.S. securities regulator requiring the Tesla chief executive to obtain preapproval for his tweets. In a filing in federal court in Manhattan, Musk also renewed his effort to quash a U.S. Securities and Exchange
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Car theft is an all too common crime as the FBI estimates that 721,885 motor vehicles were stolen in the United States in 2019. However, a case in California is raising eyebrows as authorities recovered approximately 35 luxury vehicles that had been “fraudulently purchased from unsuspecting local dealerships.” According to the California Highway Patrol, the
A former General Motors manager was indicted with conspiracy to commit bribery after allegedly accepting $3.4 million from an international parts supplier. Hyoung Nam So, 46, who goes by Brian So, was a global purchasing and supply chain manager at GM who oversaw parts used to build interiors of North American vehicles. In October 2015,
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