Some very bad news for Nissan. Profits are down 99 percent. Not a typo. A near-total wipeout which triggered the wiping out of 12,500 jobs, the immediate suspension of manufacturing in Indonesia and Spain and an announcement that Japan’s second-largest car company will reduce its model lineup by at least 10 percent by 2022. Nissan’s […]
Second Quarter Automaker Profit Reports ain’t Pretty and other Auto Tech News
• July 28, 2019 • 0 Comments • ATW, Auto Industry, Car Care, DRIVERLESS CARS, Electric Vehicle, Facial Recognition, NHTSA, Technology
Boy, when it rains, it pours for the auto industry. Lots of bad news came out this week. In Alphabetical Order, here is what we know so far: Aston Martin—even the likes of 007 James Bond might not be able to salvage this ailing British automaker. Ford—Second quarter profit dropped 86 percent worldwide as restructuring […]
A Long, Long Away to go for Driverless Car and other Auto Tech News
• July 21, 2019 • 0 Comments • ATW, Auto Industry, DRIVERLESS CARS, Electric Vehicle, LIDAR, NHTSA, Ridesharing, SAFETY, Technology, V2V
The New York Times posted an article this week entitled: Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars are ‘Way in the Future.” Indeed they are…something I’ve been saying ever since I started writing about the car of the future and auto tech. Ford’s CEO Jim Hackett said in April, “We overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles.” The […]
Wi-Fi vs. 5G, Battery in the Cloud, a Wheel that Does Everything and Hydrogen Flying Cars
• July 14, 2019 • 0 Comments • ATW, Auto Industry, DRIVERLESS CARS, Electric Vehicle, Fuel, Ridesharing, Technology
So much news in the Auto Tech Watch, we barely have time to write it all down. Here is the most recent score card on partnerships and hook ups in the Car of the Future Space from the past two weeks. BMW and Daimler are teaming up to develop driverless and electric cars. Volkswagen and […]
Where’s Our Cut from Data Mining of our Cars?
• July 7, 2019 • 0 Comments • ATW, Auto Industry, CELL PHONE, Eric Peters, EVENT DATA RECORDER, Fuel, GPS, GPS TRACKING, Insurance Companies, PRIVACY, Technology, VMT
You’ve probably seen people driving around in cars covered over or “wrapped” with advertisements for some service or product and wondered how much the owner got paid to allow his car to be transformed into a mobile billboard. But he is at least getting paid. The non-wrapped cars are working, too but their owners aren’t being […]
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