Honda will use the 11th-generation Accord as a test bed for its first integration of Google — a step that promises the future ability to make changes in existing vehicles. The system, called Google Built-In, will be offered on the top Touring trim only. It essentially tethers the vehicle to its owner via their Google […]
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A shooting Wednesday at an automotive supplier plant near Detroit left one man dead, according to police. An argument among employees began Wednesday morning inside the Forvia plant in Highland Park, Mich., before spilling out into the gated parking lot where shots were fired, said Deputy Chief Darrell Patterson of the Highland Park Police Department.
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Canadian electric vehicle maker Lion Electric Co. plans a $50 million stock offering to strengthen its balance sheet and expand factories. The Montreal company said the expansion will focus on factories in Joliet, Ill., and Mirabel, Quebec. Lion Electric manufactures electric buses and medium-size urban cargo trucks. Lion Electric said in a Securities and Exchange
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Shelby Trust, the owner of the Shelby trademark, has won a court case which the trust claims finally allows it and other builders to create Mustangs that resemble the Eleanor-named gray Mustangs in 2000’s hit movie “Gone in 60 Seconds,” as well as the yellow Eleanor Mustang that featured in the original 1974 version of
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Redwood Materials plans to invest $3.5 billion to build a battery materials plant in South Carolina. The factory at Camp Hall commerce park in Ridgeville, S.C., will conduct recycling, refining and remanufacturing operations to capture and produce battery materials. The company said Wednesday the plant would create about 1,500 jobs. The plant, near Charleston, will
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Longtime Georgia dealer Jim Ellis, founder of his namesake auto group, died Friday at his Duluth, Ga., home, just weeks after his son Jimmy Ellis, the company’s CEO, died, the Ellis family said. Jim Ellis was 90. No cause of death was shared. All Jim Ellis Automotive locations will close Wednesday for his funeral, according
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin is urging the U.S. Treasury Department to prevent companies from using loopholes to bypass stringent eligibility rules in the Inflation Reduction Act’s electric-vehicle tax credits. In a letter sent Monday to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Manchin asked that the tax credit for commercial EVs is implemented in “a manner that
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One person has been detained, and 16 injured, following the events of an illegal car exhibition that took place on the evening of Friday, December 9. Sadly, a five-year-old boy is among the injured, according to local news . The accident took place on John Rogers Drive at Gun Club Road in Birmingham, Alabama, reports
The 2024 Mazda CX-90 due for a reveal in January will offer a plug-in hybrid powertrain, Mazda said on Tuesday. The CX-90 is a three-row SUV based on Mazda’s newly developed rear-wheel-drive platform with longitudinal engine mounting, which debuted in March in the Mazda CX-60 compact crossover sold overseas. Both vehicles are part of Mazda’s
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Self-driving yard truck developer Outrider has developed a system to robotically connect electric and pressurized brake lines to trailers and container chassis. The Golden, Colo., company’s TrailerConnect system uses robotic arms from Yaskawa Electric Corp. and reduces the need for drivers to constantly get in and out of truck cabs to manually make the connections.
