South Korean automobile major Hyundai has updated its Blue Link app for Apple Watch, enabling car owners to execute a range of activities such as door locking and engine starting, through their smartphones or smartwatches. The Blue ...
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Local governments are taking action to respond to the central government's appeal to popularize new energy vehicles across the nation. Earlier this month, Beijing authorities announced that pure electric vehicles would not be affected by ...
Autonet Mobile has partnered with AT&T to offer its next generation of connected car software to the automotive segment. The new solution, which will run on AT&T 4G LTE network, will allow the user to access their cars using mobile ...
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Building charging posts at the homes and work places of electric car owners, direct selling and cooperating with third-party partners has helped Tesla localize in China. The company has made the most of its strengths in what is a totally ...
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Fresh outlook, policies and subsidies key to hit goals and harness opportunities The Chinese government is considering new preferential policies for the emerging new energy car industry. The Ministry of Science and Technology issued a ...
A growing number of electric vehicle owners in China are filing official complaints about the status of the thousands of newly-installed charging stations being set up across parts of China. Yan Chuang owns an electric vehicle. He is ...
Ford along with seven other automakers participated in a test which will inform the car owners to temporarily stop charging their vehicles to avoid overloading of the power grid. Participants included BMW, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, ...
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General Motors has requested US Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber to reject the $10bn lawsuit by car owners for the lost value of millions of cars recalled this year due to faulty ignition-switch. A 2008 Chevrolet HHR owner Jesse Salazar III ...
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For the second consecutive year, ZAK Products Inc. has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual “Inc. 500/5000,” a ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The Texas-based specialty automotive fluids ...
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The United States Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced it has unveiled a new, free, online search tool consumers can use to find out if a vehicle is directly impacted by a ...
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Nissan Motor has established a new company Nippon Charge Service in collaboration with Toyota Motor Corporation, Honda Motor, and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation to form a single charging network in Japan. The consortium stated that the new ...
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HELLA, a developer and manufacturer of lighting and electronic components for the automotive industry, has teamed up with Paul Vahle to develop inductive wireless charging systems for electric and hybrid-electric vehicles (EVs). Inductive ...
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According to the J.D. Power 2014 Original Equipment Tire Customer Satisfaction Study, tire quality continues to improve as the number of problems owners experience with their factory-installed tires drops. Study respondents ranked Michelin ...
PSA Peugeot Citroen today announced plans to use IBM Big Data and Analytics and IBM MobileFirst solutions to launch a new era of connected vehicles that deliver customized services. The rapid adoption of mobile devices is redefining ...
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Ford's new concept for solar-powered hybrid car can run for 21 electric-only miles on a day's worth of sunlight. That possibility comes courtesy of sun-tracking software that works in combination with a concentrator lens to focus the ...
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