Vehicle Tech
Automotive outlook webinar, April 7, 2021
2021 Boom or Bust: The changing landscape of the automotive industry
Category: cars
Manufacturing
General Motors developing solid-state batteries
Test units to be available by 2023 and automaker seeks to eliminate liquid electrolytes, improve energy density, extend electric vehicle range.
Manufacturing
Mullen Technologies buys defunct GreenTech Automotive plant in Mississippi
Closed in 2017 by a company that went bankrupt a year later, 100 acre campus to employ more than 50 by the end of the year.
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Ford sets all-electric plans for Europe
Commercial vehicles, passenger cars to be all-electric or plug-in hybrid by 2030.
Manufacturing
GM earns $6.4 billion in 2020, down slightly from 2019 despite massive COVID-19 changes
Taking market share from Ford in pickups was key to boosting profitability and funding electric/autonomous vehicle plans.
Manufacturing
Ford to double EV/AV spending to $29 billion by 2025, loses $1.3 billion in 2020
Losses overseas erase gains in Ford Credit, Ford North America.
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GM to race GMC Hummer EV pickup
Extreme off-road race series to highlight capabilities of electric propulsion.
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Toyota partners with Stanford for safety research
Researchers to study how to bring race car driver reflexes to computer algorithms.
Manufacturing
GM announces electric product delivery system
Electrified pallet, EV delivery van to be released this year.
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Schaeffler to provide drive-by-wire systems for autonomous race program
Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) race for university teams set for October.
Manufacturing
Tesla hits 2020 sales target, more or less
499,550 deliveries falls slightly short of 500,000-vehicle target but automaker reaches production goals.
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GM to offer semi-autonomous trailer hauling
Super Cruise feature to be available on high-end GMC pickups with haul mode.