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1 week ago | 
autonews.com | Jerry Hirsch
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1 month ago | 
autonews.com | Hannah Lutz |Jerry Hirsch
The White House press secretary said President Donald Trump told automakers to “start investing, start moving, shift production here to the United States of America, where they will pay no tariff.” Trump is shown with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2018.
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2 months ago | 
autonews.com | Jerry Hirsch
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's president, said U.S. tariffs against Mexico will be delayed for one month after a conversation with Donald Trump on Feb. 3.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
autonews.com | Jerry Hirsch |Pete Bigelow
Pollution from supply and distribution chains accounts for almost 87 percent of emissions produced by big companies, Volvo Group CEO Martin Lundstedt said during a keynote address at CES.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
autonews.com | Jerry Hirsch
Battery and charging technology improvements are key to the electric vehicle transition. Consumers want EVs that drive the same distances per charge and fill with the same speed and ease as gasoline-fueled cars. An Automotive News special report looked at looming improvements in these technologies and some of the challenges they face. The auto industry wants batteries that pack more energy, allowing EVs to drive longer distances, and are less prone to the thermal runaways that result in fires.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
autonews.com | Jerry Hirsch
Ford and Volkswagen shuttered Argo AI, their self-driving joint venture, in October 2022, after raising at least $3.6 billion in investments from the automakers and others. Hyundai's Motional delayed its commercialization plans this year. Zoox just passed its 10th birthday and has not yet launched a commercial service.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
autonews.com | Jerry Hirsch
Almost two years after the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act began slashing eligibility for a large electric vehicle tax credit, price cuts and model mix have significantly lowered the price of EVs.The legislation upended long-standing income tax credits for EVs. Where buyers previously qualified for a $7,500 federal tax credit regardless of model, now the incentive came with price and income caps, plus assembly, battery component and mineral sourcing requirements.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
autonews.com | Jerry Hirsch
Car and truck makers see hydrogen internal combustion engines as a tool to attack carbon emissions and leverage much of the industry's existing technology, expertise and supply chain. But California's opposition to emissions may present a roadblock to the technology in the U.S.Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and others are exploring using the nearly carbon-free motors for light vehicles.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
autonews.com | Jerry Hirsch
LOS ANGELES — It's not the Mirai, but rather what's inside the Mirai, that is important to Toyota Motor Corp.'s grand hydrogen plans. For a company that sells more than 11 million vehicles annually, the roughly 26,000 hydrogen fuel cell Mirais sold globally since its 2014 introduction is less than a rounding error. However, the zero-emission sedan doesn't need to succeed commercially to play an outsize role in Toyota's future.
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May 28, 2024 | 
autonews.com | Jerry Hirsch
Electric vehicles, megawatt charging, hydrogen fuel cells, autonomous trucking — all of these advanced technologies grabbed attention at the ACT Expo, the clean transportation conference held in Las Vegas last week. Although the focus was on how these technologies would roll out in commercial vehicles, Honda, Hyundai, Tesla and other companies known for passenger cars made news at the show.
