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Ricardo partners with Geely on development of transmission for range-extended plug-in hybrid vehicles – Green Car Congress

Geely Auto Group (Geely) has selected Ricardo to assist with the development—right through to production implementation—of a new advanced transmission for range-extended plug-in hybrid vehicles. Key requirements for the transmission are high efficiency and competitive cost for high volume A and B-segment products. The approach taken is highly collaborative and flexible, with co-located, joint teams… Continue reading Ricardo partners with Geely on development of transmission for range-extended plug-in hybrid vehicles – Green Car Congress

Chinese Building Car Factory in Dalmatia, Jobs for 500 People – Total Croatia News

Chinese-Croatian relations grow ever closer as the Chinese expand their business empire in Dalmatia, not merely stopping at Pelješac bridge. The Chinese are now setting their sights on a vehicle factory in southern Croatia. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 7th of April, 2019, an army of unemployed people, almost three thousand of them in… Continue reading Chinese Building Car Factory in Dalmatia, Jobs for 500 People – Total Croatia News

Ford Workers Call for Strike at St. Petersburg Factory Slated to Close – The Moscow Times

Workers at the Ford Sollers automobile plant outside St. Petersburg will begin a partial shutdown of production next week, a local Ford labor union leader said Friday, to protest hundreds of impending layoffs at the plant as it moves to shut down production. Ford Sollers, the American automotive giant’s joint venture in Russia, announced late… Continue reading Ford Workers Call for Strike at St. Petersburg Factory Slated to Close – The Moscow Times

Maruti Production Cut: Maruti Suzuki Cut Vehicle Production By Around 21% In March – BloombergQuint

The country’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. cut vehicle production by around 21 percent across its factories in March due to subdued demand. The auto major produced a total of 1,36,201 units in March, including Super Carry light commercial vehicle, down 20.9 percent from 1,72,195 units in the year-ago period, it said in… Continue reading Maruti Production Cut: Maruti Suzuki Cut Vehicle Production By Around 21% In March – BloombergQuint

Lower production at FCA may curtail Serbia’s industrial output growth – Erste – SeeNews

BELGRADE (Serbia), April 2 (SeeNews) – Austria’s Erste banking group said it expects a drop in the output of the car factory of FCA Srbija in Kragujevac will curb Serbia’s industrial production growth in 2019. The factory of FCA Srbija, a joint venture of Italy’s Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Group and Serbia’s government, produced 7,000 cars in… Continue reading Lower production at FCA may curtail Serbia’s industrial output growth – Erste – SeeNews

Aptiv to share its self-driving car data to help other researchers – CNET

Aptiv operates self-driving vehicles in partnership with Lyft in Las Vegas. Aptiv Automotive technology company Aptiv wants to help advanced research into computer vision and autonomous-driving technologies by sharing some of the information it has already gathered in the real world. Aptiv announced this week it will share what it’s calling the largest public dataset… Continue reading Aptiv to share its self-driving car data to help other researchers – CNET

Self-Driving Cars Are Here: Waymo Explains Why Hardly Anyone Can Ride One – Inverse

Autonomous cars are here, but they need to behave more like humans. Dmitri Dolgov, chief technology officer of Waymo, the autonomous car firm that started life as a Google internal project, said in an interview this week that while these cars are on the road already, big changes are coming that will enable them to… Continue reading Self-Driving Cars Are Here: Waymo Explains Why Hardly Anyone Can Ride One – Inverse

Lucid Motors might unveil Air-based Electric SUV later this year – Drivers Magazine

Lucid Motors unveiled Air almost two years ago and till now, it is only luxury sedan from the company confirmed for production. Nonetheless, according to The Verge, a second model is all set to be revealed inform of a new SUV. It will be newest member in the range and might be announced by this… Continue reading Lucid Motors might unveil Air-based Electric SUV later this year – Drivers Magazine

Nikola Closes Land Deal for Arizona Truck Plant – Trucks.com

Nikola Motor Co. closed a reported $23-million deal to purchase a 389-acre parcel in central southern Arizona for its hydrogen-electric truck manufacturing plant. The 1 million-square-foot plant will be built in a planned industrial park in Coolidge, about 50 miles south of Phoenix. Nikola expects to break ground in 2020 and begin building vehicles for… Continue reading Nikola Closes Land Deal for Arizona Truck Plant – Trucks.com