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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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Ford Targets Fleets With Battery-Electric e-Transit Van

The electric Transit was designed to make the transition to battery-powered vans as painless as possible for Ford’s longstanding fleet customers. It’s also a much more pleasant vehicle to drive.

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Test Car ‘Drifts’ Autonomously in World First

“Essentially, we are trying to give regular drivers access to expert-level skills, when necessary,” says Toyota Research Institute’s Avinash Balachandran.

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Autoline Daily: Top Industry News for Feb. 23

German Greens Sue to Block Tesla’s Giga Berlin; UAW Workers Earn $1.5 Billion; Cummins Buys Meritor

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Five Predictions for the Autonomous Vehicle Industry

An AV must make business sense in real time and the payback must be clear. In logistics, for example, an AV company has to show it can quickly deploy a commercial solution, and what the solution will mean in terms of dollars within a reasonable period of time.

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Polestar Lines Up Collaborators for Sustainable Car

Each partner is targeting a specific part of the automotive supply chain for carbon-emissions neutrality over the Polestar 0’s expected lifecycle.

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Audi Confirms Diesel V6s Are HVO-Compatible

From TU Automotive
Audi has now approved many of its current six-cylinder diesel engines for use with the renewable fuel hydrotreated vegetable oil.

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Bosch Jockeys for Position as Software-Defined Vehicle Takes Hold

For Wards Intelligence Subscribers
Automakers can’t afford to invent everything from scratch if they want to get SDVs on the market by mid-decade. ETAS is focused on supplying the basic software building blocks that will allow OEMs to meet their objectives.
  

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