-
Recent Posts
- MIT, Stanford and Toyota Research Institute Use AI to Predict Useful Life of Batteries.They lasted from 150 to 2300 cycles.
- BMW i Ventures Announces Investment in Zūm
- Ford Shakes up European and International Markets as CFO Shanks Retires. Restructuring Continues as Stock Languishes
- Record Electric Car Sales in California. Taxpayers on the Hook
- Ford Introduces Black Appearance Package for Ranger
- About Face: GM to Add 400 Jobs for New Chevy Electric Vehicle after Critical Trump Tweets About Closing Lordstown
- Ghosn Fallout – Nissan Changes American Senior Management
- 1,700 workers strike at Hankook Tire in Hungary
- BMW And Tate Modern Unveil Major New Work by Anne Imhof
- How Many Doors does a Coupe Have?
- People Choose Low Loan Repayments and High Interest Rates
- Sebring Twelve Hours – Half the Daytona Race, 25% of the Rain
- Group Renault Starts Piloting Vehicle-to-Grid Charging
- Volkswagen forms European Battery Union with Northvolt
- Michigan to Make First AVs, but Loses Ford Transit to Mexico
News from PR Newswire
Recent Comments
- Ray Scarpelli on Midwest Automotive Media Association Family Vehicles of Year
- Chinese Hoax on California Cars and Global Warming: CRC, Kraft-Heinz and Mothers Pay $1.4 Million For Violating Air Quality Rules
- CAS on Ford Invests $1 Billion in Chicago Plants for Explorer, Police Interceptor, Lincoln Aviator
- Rod Alberts of NAIAS on Cabrera Rides in Corvette at NAIAS after Disastrous 2018
- Jerry Dias, Unifor on Unifor Inteva Canadian Plant Walks Out Against GM
Archives
Meta
Tag Archives: auto industry commentary
BMW i Ventures Announces Investment in Zūm
BMW i Ventures is the venture capital arm of BMW Group. It invests money and resources in startups in the fields of autonomous driving, digital car and automotive cloud, e-mobility, artificial Intelligence and data, industry 4.0, shared and on-demand mobility, customer digital life, and energy services. Continue reading
Ford Shakes up European and International Markets as CFO Shanks Retires. Restructuring Continues as Stock Languishes
The more significant news, perhaps, is happening at Ford’s European money pit and its struggling International Markets Group. Peter Fleet, president of IMG, has announced his intention to retire. Fleet, 51, held leading in Ford marketing, sales and service, and business operations globally for nearly 30 years. Prior to the establishment of the International Markets Group, Fleet served as president of Asia Pacific, leading all of Ford’s operations and partnerships across the region. Previously, he was president of Ford ASEAN and vice president, Sales, Ford of Europe. Continue reading
Record Electric Car Sales in California. Taxpayers on the Hook
Electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars are now 7.8% of all new car sales in California, and some areas such as Sacramento and San Luis Obispo counties, nearly doubled their EV rebates this past year. Known as the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP), its potential impact on funding is now a matter of discussion among officials. Continue reading
Ford Introduces Black Appearance Package for Ranger
The new Black Appearance Package gives Ranger customers another option – $1,995 (excludes taxes, of course) – and can be ordered at dealers now, with deliveries targeted to begin in early summer. Continue reading
About Face: GM to Add 400 Jobs for New Chevy Electric Vehicle after Critical Trump Tweets About Closing Lordstown
The announcements came less than a week after a rabid series of tweets by Trump about the closing of Lordstown, OH, which was one of the four plants GM said in November that would be idled in its latest cost cutting moves. GM declined to say if these were replacement jobs from abandoned workers’ or new jobs. The United Auto Workers union is in court against GM saying that they must be negotiated with the union. Continue reading
Ghosn Fallout – Nissan Changes American Senior Management
Japanese prosecutors have accused him of hiding his compensation and shifting personal investment losses to Nissan’s books. Ghosn denying the charges claims Nissan executives who opposed closer ties to Renault went to Japanese authorities with false charges. Adding to the intrigue, Ghosn remains on the Board of Directors at al three companies. Continue reading
1,700 workers strike at Hankook Tire in Hungary
IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the Federation of Chemical Workers of Hungary (VDSZ), which represents workers at Hankook’s Dunaújváros plant in central Hungary, says that 70% of 2,400 shift workers have joined the indefinite strike that began on 12 March. Continue reading
BMW And Tate Modern Unveil Major New Work by Anne Imhof
The commission is both an exhibition by day and a series of six live performances by night. “Sex”, the work deals with fluidity between binaries – female and male, top and bottom, night and day – and the blurred line where two opposing zones meet. Continue reading
Posted in people, performance
Tagged Anne Imhof Sex, auto industry commentary, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, automotive blog, Ken Zino, Tate Modern
Leave a comment
How Many Doors does a Coupe Have?
“The (fill in the blank) includes all the technical highlights of the current Cayenne, but has an even more dynamic design and new technical details that position it as more progressive, athletic, and emotional,” claims Oliver Blume, Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche AG and a man with a mechanical engineering degree from Braunschweig University who has worked in enough body shops to know better. (eins, zwei, drei, vier, funf) Continue reading
People Choose Low Loan Repayments and High Interest Rates
Borrowers appear to set targets for their monthly payment on rounded amounts like $200, $300, and $400, rather than choosing the most cost-efficient payments. When borrowers are offered cheaper loan terms, they are more likely to take out larger loans rather than pocket the savings. Continue reading
Sebring Twelve Hours – Half the Daytona Race, 25% of the Rain
The No. 911 Porsche GT Team 911 RSR of Nick Tandy, Patrick Pilet and Frederic Makowiecki won at Sebring for the second straight year by just 1.951 seconds over the hard-luck No. 66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT of Joey Hand, Dirk Mueller and Sebastien Bourdais in GTLM. Continue reading
Group Renault Starts Piloting Vehicle-to-Grid Charging
A fleet of fifteen Zoe vehicles with vehicle-to-grid charging will be introduced in Europe in 2019 to develop future offerings in reversible charging and lay the groundwork for future standards. Continue reading
Volkswagen forms European Battery Union with Northvolt
The EBU is looking for taxpayer subsidies for battery research. The new consortium is to be led by the Volkswagen Group and the Swedish battery producer Northvolt. Continue reading
Michigan to Make First AVs, but Loses Ford Transit to Mexico
In a transparent attempt at spin – in AI’s view laughable and tragic – Ford is re-adding a second shift at Flat Rock. The plant will become the production home to vehicles from the company’s next-generation battery electric flexible architecture. These vehicles will follow, ahem, the all-electric performance SUV coming in 2020 from Ford’s Cuautitlan, Mexico, plant. Continue reading
MIT, Stanford and Toyota Research Institute Use AI to Predict Useful Life of Batteries.They lasted from 150 to 2300 cycles.
After the researchers trained their machine learning model with a few hundred million data points, the algorithm predicted how many more cycles each battery would last, based on voltage declines and a few other factors among the early cycles. The predictions were within 9% of the actual cycle life. Separately, the algorithm categorized batteries as either long or short life expectancy based on just the first five charge/discharge cycles. Here, the predictions were correct 95% of the time. Continue reading →