ANN ARBOR - Americans love their pickup trucks, SUVs and minivans, as long as they believe they can afford them, a new University of Michigan study confirms. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle of the U-M Transportation Research Institute examined the relationship between relative sales of cars (passenger cars and stations wagons) and light trucks (pickup
ANN ARBOR - Camel Energy will invest $4.6 million to build a research and development headquarters in the Ann Arbor region. Camel Energy manufactures batteries for cars, electric vehicles, agriculture and other applications. Camel Energy chose the Ann Arbor region over competing sites in Texas and California. “Camel Energy is excited to open its North
MARSHALL - For the fourth consecutive year, the team from Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, placed first at the Society of Automotive Engineers Supermileage student competition, recording the highest ever fuel economy results for the event, achieving 4,113 miles per gallon. A total of 16 collegiate teams (11 from the U.S. and 5 from Canada)
ANN ARBOR — The San Diego battery industry consultant PlugVolt LLC will hold its 2017 Battery Seminar in July in Ann Arbor. The event will feature experts from automotive and grid power storage manufacturers, industry suppliers, and battery manufacturers. The first day of the event will focus on electrochemistry, with presentations on the latest advances in
DETROIT — Autonomous vehicles with no human backup will be put to the test on publicly traveled roads as early as next year in what may be the first attempt at unassisted autonomous piloting. Automotive electronics and parts maker Delphi and French transport company Transdev plan to use autonomous taxis and a shuttle van to
DETROIT - Southeast Michigan’s Connected and Automated Vehicles network is burgeoning, with 351 organizations identified, including automotive, software, legal, construction, government and manufacturing. The report also found nearly 1,400 relationships already developed between these organizations, a significant sign that a healthy, collaborative climate is being fostered in the region – a dynamic vital to long-term
ANN ARBOR - Mobility researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a new way to test autonomous vehicles that bypasses the billions of miles they would need to log for consumers to consider them road-ready. The process, which was developed using data from more than 25 million miles of real-world driving, can cut the
ROYAL OAK - Auto guru David Cole provides his monthly auto tech update on M2 TechCast focusing on the talent crunch, and with the retirement of the Baby Boomers, how does the auto industry retain this knowledge? He also talks about how GM and Ford leads the world in autonomous-vehicle development. Cole also said the
WASHINGTON DC – U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) are reintroducing the bipartisan Vehicle Innovation Act to encourage investments in research and development of clean vehicle and advanced safety technologies to increase fuel efficiency and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. In the 114th Congress, Senators Peters, Alexander and
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Co. has revealed plans to cut about 1,400 salaried jobs in North America and Asia as part of a cost-cutting plan, but the move is significantly smaller than had been suggested by some news reports earlier in the week. The move comes as Ford struggles to boost sales and earnings after
