Chevrolet will launch a freshened 2021 Equinox — with an RS trim option, restyled grille and redesigned front and rear fascias — this year. Chevy gave a preview of the updates at the Chicago Auto Show recently. It will hit showrooms in the fall. The latest changes are “really about the front and rear fascia […]
Ford has just announced a surprise executive shakeup today where Joe Hinrichs is retiring and Jim Farley will be come the motor company’s chief operating officer role. Before this news, both have been viewed as potential successors to CEO Jim Hackett. Farley will report directly to Jim Hackett, who took the the CEO role at […]
Volkswagen has unveiled the new 2021 Atlas at the Chicago Auto Show today. The refreshed seven-seater sports an updated design along with interior upgrades and new driver-assistance features while still maintaining an friendly infotainment and ergonomics that made the outgoing model so popular. “The Atlas has been a huge success story for Volkswagen of America, […]
The UK is only one of three countries in Europe where e-scooters are illegal to ride on public roads, along with the Republic of Ireland and Holland. Even with this being the case, per a report by the Evening Standard in the UK, sales are booming. Research by Bird, another e-scooter start-up which is operating […]
Toyota Motor Corp unveiled an emergency safety system on Monday that uses big data to ignore the accelerator if it determines the driver steps on the pedal unintentionally. Japan’s biggest car maker will roll out what it calls an “accelerator suppression function” in new cars from this summer, beginning in Japan. The system is a […]
Renault has appointed Luca de Meo, the former head of Volkswagen Group’s Seat brand, as CEO as the automaker looks to move on from the Carlos Ghosn era. De Meo has been a front-runner to replace ousted CEO Thierry Bollore for months but his appointment was delayed because he had a noncompete clause with VW […]
Bird has announced that it will acquire Circ, a leading electric scooter rental business in Europe and the Middle East. The acquisition is the latest sign of consolidation among e-scooter companies as the quest for a profitable business model intensifies. As part of the deal, Bird will take on 300 of Circ’s employees, many of […]
Infiniti will delay the start of production of its upcoming QX55 by five months, the automaker told its supply chain. The QX55 was to arrive in dealerships this summer as a coupe-like version of Infiniti’s QX50 compact crossover, with production beginning in June. But it will now start in November, suppliers were informed by Nissan […]
Last year, the Scooter Map app was released; it allows scooter chargers (the people who earn money from juicing up scooters at night) to see and pick scooters from multiple scooter rental companies all in one single app. A few days ago Lime sent new cease and desist letter to Scooter Map, which pulls Lime […]
Subaru plans to go greener with a target to get at least 40 percent of its global sales from full-electric or hybrid vehicles by 2030. Then, in the first half of the 2030s, the Japanese automaker plans to electrify every vehicle in its global lineup. In announcing the new campaign, Subaru also unveiled the first […]
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