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Electric Cars 101: The answers to all your EV questions
Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly common, with many manufacturers currently offering models that plug in. There are dozens more models expected to hit the market over the next few years.
And there’s been increasing interest from car shoppers. In 2010, just 1,919 EVs were sold in the U.S. In 2018, sales hit 233,411.
A 2019 survey, conducted by Consumer Reports and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), shows that 63 percent of prospective car buyers in America are interested in electric vehicles.
Aging drivers need these car safety features
If your parents aren’t ready to hand over the keys, make sure they have these features.
The road can be a scary place for older drivers who have lost some reaction time, vision and confidence. It also poses a conundrum for their adult children, who may be in a battle of wills for the car keys.
If your parents are still on the road, it’s important to ensure their vehicle maximizes safety and comfort. Considerable set out to identify some specific safety features that can ease road stress and provide an added sense of security for older drivers.
Electrification poses cost and technology risk for automotive industry
Increasingly stringent emissions targets are forcing OEMs to rapidly accelerate the electrification of their fleets. And while the sales of electric vehicle sales are growing, the high development and production costs mean that these vehicles will continue to be loss leaders for carmakers into well into the next decade.
A new report and forecast on the state of the automotive industry from Ultima Media, which publishes automotiveIT International, suggests that regulations, rather than consumers, are driving current investments in electrification by global carmakers. For many OEMs, electric vehicles do not yet represent a compelling business case when considering high production and development costs.
Data Science Will Drive Auto Industry In Future
If you identify the key building block of the auto industry during its first 130 years, you would have to point to engineering. It was engineering that made automobiles, our personal transportation devices, possible in the first place. And it is engineering that kept the line of progress moving forward decade after decade. Engineering made cars safer, more fuel-efficient, more comfortable, more durable, and more useful.
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2020 Subaru models will greet you, help you keep your eyes on the road
Subaru learned something from the parade of dogs featured in the automaker’s commercials: Humans love to be recognized and greeted enthusiastically. The brand’s three latest vehicles do everything but sit and wag their tails to greet their owners.
Subaru’s new DriverFocus feature greets you by name and adjusts mirrors, seats and climate control to your preferences before you’ve had time to buckle your seat belt.
Automakers Technology to fight deaths of kids in hot cars will be standard by 2025
With child hot car deaths in the news in recent weeks, automakers say they will commit to making rear seat reminder systems standard equipment on almost all passenger vehicles sold in the United States by the 2025 model year.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of Global Automakers – trade groups representing General Motors, Ford, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Toyota and others – announced the effort in a joint statement this week.
Electric Cars 101: The answers to all your EV questions
Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly common, with many manufacturers currently offering models that plug in. There are dozens more models expected to hit the market over the next few years.
And there’s been increasing interest from car shoppers. In 2010, just 1,919 EVs were sold in the U.S. In 2018, sales hit 233,411.
A 2019 survey, conducted by Consumer Reports and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), shows that 63 percent of prospective car buyers in America are interested in electric vehicles.
Aging drivers need these car safety features
If your parents aren’t ready to hand over the keys, make sure they have these features.
The road can be a scary place for older drivers who have lost some reaction time, vision and confidence. It also poses a conundrum for their adult children, who may be in a battle of wills for the car keys.
If your parents are still on the road, it’s important to ensure their vehicle maximizes safety and comfort. Considerable set out to identify some specific safety features that can ease road stress and provide an added sense of security for older drivers.
Electrification poses cost and technology risk for automotive industry
Increasingly stringent emissions targets are forcing OEMs to rapidly accelerate the electrification of their fleets. And while the sales of electric vehicle sales are growing, the high development and production costs mean that these vehicles will continue to be loss leaders for carmakers into well into the next decade.
A new report and forecast on the state of the automotive industry from Ultima Media, which publishes automotiveIT International, suggests that regulations, rather than consumers, are driving current investments in electrification by global carmakers. For many OEMs, electric vehicles do not yet represent a compelling business case when considering high production and development costs.
Data Science Will Drive Auto Industry In Future
If you identify the key building block of the auto industry during its first 130 years, you would have to point to engineering. It was engineering that made automobiles, our personal transportation devices, possible in the first place. And it is engineering that kept the line of progress moving forward decade after decade. Engineering made cars safer, more fuel-efficient, more comfortable, more durable, and more useful.
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2020 Subaru models will greet you,
help you keep your eyes on the road
Subaru learned something from the parade of dogs featured in the automaker’s commercials: Humans love to be recognized and greeted enthusiastically. The brand’s three latest vehicles do everything but sit and wag their tails to greet their owners.
Subaru’s new DriverFocus feature greets you by name and adjusts mirrors, seats and climate control to your preferences before you’ve had time to buckle your seat belt.
Automakers Technology to fight deaths of kids in
hot cars will be standard by 2025
With child hot car deaths in the news in recent weeks, automakers say they will commit to making rear seat reminder systems standard equipment on almost all passenger vehicles sold in the United States by the 2025 model year.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of Global Automakers – trade groups representing General Motors, Ford, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Toyota and others – announced the effort in a joint statement this week.
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