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electric car Honda E in Europe next year and before that, the company has already started working on a second EV that is expected to launch in 2022, claims a media report.However, there is no further information available for the second electric car.Last month, Honda conducted its Electric Vision event in Amsterdam, where the automaker announced it will electrify its entire product line. These will include BEVs, plug-in hybrid models and hybrid cars as well.The company has vowed to quit diesel and it is also putting the hydrogen fuel on hold for an indefinite period, claims the media report further. It quotes Katsushi Inoue, Honda Europe’s president, who said, “Maybe hydrogen fuel cell cars will come, but that’s a technology for the next era. Our focus is on hybrid and electric vehicles now.”Tom Gardner, Senior Vice-president of Honda Motor Europe Honda, said, “We will bring further battery-electric products to the market.”Speaking about the … [Read more...] about Honda working on a second electric car, likely to launch in 2022: Report

So long, Taurus and Fusion. Ford’s first-quarter 2018 financial release includes some stunning news: Sedans are no longer in the brand’s plans for the U.S. market. But the Mustang and Focus Active crossover will live on. Ford reported 7 percent increased revenue, year over year for the quarter, with a $1.7 billion net income, a 9-percent increase. The company attributed its growth to what it calls “fitness initiatives.” Ford president and CEO Jim Hackett explained how fitness works for the company’s future plans. “We are committed to taking the appropriate actions to drive profitable growth and maximize the returns of our business over the long term,” Hackett said. “Where we can raise the returns of underperforming parts of our business by making them more fit, we will. If appropriate returns are not on the horizon, we will shift that capital to where we can play and win.” Models discontinued by 2020 … [Read more...] about Ford to stop making almost all cars

Last October, Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Istanbul by the Saudi government. HUber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi say about the killing? Well, simply, “people make mistakes.” Advertisement Wait, hold on. He didn’t really say it quite simply. He compared it to the “mistake” Uber made when it deliberately made the choice not to program its autonomous cars to recognize the mere possibility of a jaywalking pedestrian, which directly led to the death of Elaine Herzberg, who was killed by a self-driving Uber seven months before the killing of Khashoggi. We know the killings of Herzberg and Khashoggi are quite different, and you may be wondering what the hell one has to do with the other, but the context is that Khosrowshahi was answering a series of questions about Uber’s close relationship with the Saudi government, and all that entails, during an interview with Axios on HBO: Khosrowshashi’s face is filled with a mixture of … [Read more...] about Uber CEO: Mistakes Happen, Like When A Government Murders A Journalist Or Your Autonomous Car Kills Somebody

While 3D printing is often discussed as an important new technology for the auto industry, it hasn’t made much of an impact so far. Now, Volkswagen and Hewlett-Packard claim to have made a major breakthrough in metal 3D printing, showing that the technology can keep up with the demands of high-volume car production. But VW isn’t quite ready to take 3D printing mainstream yet. HP was able to demonstrate that its Metal Jet 3D printers can make a lot of parts in a reasonable amount of time, but the items spewed out by those 3D printers weren’t meant to go on production cars. To celebrate the launch of the Volkswagen ID.3 — VW’s first mass-market electric car — HP printed 10,000 metal scale models of the ID.3, which were handed out to guests at the start of the production ceremony in Zwickau, Germany. The production of ID.3 scale models represents the first of three phases of Volkswagen’s 3D printing plan, according to HP.  The automaker plans … [Read more...] about Volkswagen and HP want your next car to have 3D printed parts

Since it was created a decade ago, Uber has been so synonymous with controversy that it is often difficult to separate any of the good from the bad.  The company’s legally-hazy employment model, repeated efforts to evade and hoodwink local authorities and myriad safety scandals have given critics of the company no shortage of ammunition. The most sceptical view of the cab-hailing app, which was valued at $82bn (£67bn) when it floated earlier this year, is that almost all of that value has been built on regulatory arbitrage and spending mountains of venture capital cash, used to undercut taxi and minicab operators.  On this interpretation, if the company was forced to both abide by the laws and... … [Read more...] about From smart buses to car sharing, we are only at the start of tech’s transport revolution