Ford Motor Company has halted construction of its $3.5 billion battery cell plant in Marshall, Michigan, effective September 25. The automaker cited concerns about its ability to competitively run the plant at a time when it is engaged in broader contract negotiations with the United Auto Workers (UAW) labor union. The decision comes after months…
India, like countries including the US, is trying to boost chip output to reduce reliance on expensive imports and dependence on Taiwan and China. New Delhi: Foxconn Technology Group is teaming up with STMicroelectronics NV for a bid to build a semiconductor factory in India, seeking state backing to broaden its footprint in the South…
Autoliv, the global leader in airbags and seatbelts, reports strong Q2 profit growth amid product launches and price increases. Supply chain improvements drive success as demand continues to recover. Sweden’s Autoliv , the world’s largest airbag and seatbelt maker, reported a bigger-than-expected rise in second-quarter adjusted profit on Friday as sales jumped on the back…
Vehicles violating these norms would be impounded, dairy minister Mano Thangaraj told reporters here on Sunday. Following frequent incidents of heavy trucks ferrying minerals damaging roads and causing accidents in Kanyakumari district, the government has imposed new regulations effective from August 1. Trucks carrying minerals should not exceed ten wheels and 28 tonnes capacity. Vehicles…
The 2024 Hyundai Kona is already reaching dealerships, while the Kona Electric version, Hyundai says, won’t arrive until late fall. You should wait, because the EV version of Hyundai’s small utility vehicle is hands-down the best of the bunch. We had two brief stints in a prototype Kona Electric in the rolling Maryland horse country…
Lexus’ smallest and most affordable model ever has been confirmed for Australia, with the Toyota Yaris Cross-based LBX to touch down in the first half of 2024. And we do mean affordable. The LBX will be positioned as the premium-brand’s entry-level model, sitting below the the Lexus UX, which starts at just over $46,000. That…
Honda maps out its charge-port shift for new EVs. Toyota has revealed a hydrogen fuel-cell pickup project, and it’s ready to take its biggest U.S. port “off the grid.” And will more than four out of five new EVs sold in North Dakota really still fuel up with gasoline? This and more, here at Green…
As per the estimate of the civic body, all these planned auto-rickshaw stands would come up at a cost of around INR 1.15 crore. The city is all set to have more than 100 auto-rickshaw stands as the engineering department of the Chandigarh municipal corporation has earmarked the locations and allotted all the work. Of…
So, today I’d like to talk about how much of a mouth-breathing, brainless, pointless waste of sperm and oxygen you’d have to be to engage in “rolling coal”, which is when someone who has modified his diesel-engined shitbox so that it pumps out even more planet-destroying black smoke pulls in front of an electric car…
Zapmap, the UK’s leading charge point mapping service, has published new statistics for charge point installations in 2023. The new figures not only show that the number of high-power charging hubs in the UK has more than doubled since September last year, but demonstrate encouraging growth in two key areas of the country’s charge point…
