Oct 10, 2019, 2:42pm MST Lucid Motors USA Inc., the Menlo Park, California-based electric car startup looking to compete with Tesla Inc., has submitted a site plan and started hiring for its planned $700 million auto manufacturing facility in Casa Grande. The Casa Grande Planning and Zoning Commission approved Lucid’s major site plan and conditional-use… Continue reading Lucid Motors gets site plan approval, begins hiring for Arizona plant – Phoenix Business Journal
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Why James Dyson couldn’t keep his electric car dream alive – Automotive News
The reason it was even conceivable for Dyson Ltd. to make an electric car may also have been why its project was doomed to fail: They’re simply too easy to make. The British company, best known for its expensive vacuum cleaners, has now abandoned its $2.5 billion plan to branch out and take on the… Continue reading Why James Dyson couldn’t keep his electric car dream alive – Automotive News
Mahle to make electric two and three-wheelers in India – www.electrive.com
Mahle has just announced its entry into the promising market for electric two and three-wheelers in India. To this end, the supplier has increased its stake in the former joint venture Mahle Letrika Roots India from 50 to 90 per cent. What is now called Mahle Electric Drives India, is based in Coimbatore in the… Continue reading Mahle to make electric two and three-wheelers in India – www.electrive.com
Take a peek inside Lyft’s lab where 400 engineers are working on self-driving cars – CNBC
Lyft, the second largest ride-hailing service in the U.S., once helped disrupt the taxi industry. Now, the company is working hard to avoid being disrupted itself as self-driving cars turn from sci-fi into reality. According to Taggart Matthiesen, vice president of product at Lyft’s Autonomous Group, the company has assigned around 400 of its engineers… Continue reading Take a peek inside Lyft’s lab where 400 engineers are working on self-driving cars – CNBC
Auto component major Mahle Group to step up investments in India – Economic Times
MUMBAI: The Indian government’s push on localisation of electric and low-emission vehicles in India has seen the €12.6 billion auto component major Mahle Group committing to invest more in joint ventures (JVs), new products and plant expansion. Mahle Group has raised its stake in former JV, Mahle Letrika Roots India, to 90% from 50%. This… Continue reading Auto component major Mahle Group to step up investments in India – Economic Times
The surprisingly boring road to self-driving cars – TechCrunch
At last, it is here! The truly self-driving car, no human behind the wheel! For the public! …A few hundred of them, in a closed beta, in a small corner of sun-drenched (never snow-drenched, almost never water-drenched) suburban Phoenix, five years later than some people were predicting six years ago. Few new technologies have ever… Continue reading The surprisingly boring road to self-driving cars – TechCrunch
LEVC CEO counts on products, new markets to lift UK-based Geely unit – Automotive News Europe
Since LEVC’s successful introduction of the plug-in hybrid TX Taxi in 2017, the UK-based unit of Zhejiang Geely Holding has struggled with costs. As a result, the money-losing producer of the iconic London black cab brought in longtime Audi executive Joerg Hofmann as its new CEO in February. Hofmann’s first job was to stabilize the… Continue reading LEVC CEO counts on products, new markets to lift UK-based Geely unit – Automotive News Europe
Waymo Finally Ramping Up Fully Driverless Operations in Phoenix Area – Phoenix New Times
Waymo has begun to make its fully driverless vehicles more visible on metro Phoenix streets, but continues to release little information to the public about its state-authorized experiment. The company’s chief executive officer, John Krafcik, confirmed at a dinner with journalists in Detroit on October 27 that Waymo would expand “rider-only” services for an exclusive group… Continue reading Waymo Finally Ramping Up Fully Driverless Operations in Phoenix Area – Phoenix New Times
Honda to stop producing gasoline-only vehicles in Europe by 2022 – Sky News
By Ganesh Rao, business reporter Honda has announced plans to stop producing gasoline-only cars by 2022. The carmaker said it will “electrify” all of its models sold in Europe within the next three years – which includes making many models hybrid. Hybrid vehicles carry a traditional internal combustion engine as well as a battery pack.… Continue reading Honda to stop producing gasoline-only vehicles in Europe by 2022 – Sky News
VW lineside logistics reduces Golf production time by an hour – Automotive Logistics
Volkswagen lineside workers have been instrumental in reducing the time it takes to assemble a Golf by one hour. In the preparation stage for production of the best-selling model’s eighth generation, around 700 work steps were analysed at more than 400 workshops to draw on existing efficiency reserves, the company said. The result saw “numerous process… Continue reading VW lineside logistics reduces Golf production time by an hour – Automotive Logistics