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Parking lots: Design of Roads, Streets and Infrastructure

Parking lots: Design of Roads, Streets and Infrastructure

F1 Car Racing - Formula 1 Sports

F1 Car Racing - Formula 1 Sports

Honda Motors - Manufacturing and Innovations

Honda Motors - Manufacturing and Innovations

Electric Cars and Society - Impact on Electricity, Transportation, other Second Order Consequences

Electric Cars and Society - Potential Impact on Electricity, Transportation and other Second Orde...

Toyota - Car Manufacturing, Automobile - Industry

Toyota - Car Manufacturing, Automobile - Industry

Car Manufacturing, Automobile - Industry

A collection of articles about the Car Manufacturing, Automobile - Industry

Hydrogen Energy - Fuel Cells for Electric Cars, Planes

Hydrogen Energy - Fuel Cells for Electric Cars, Planes

Car Manufacturing, Automobile - Internal Combustion Engine

Car Manufacturing, Automobile - Internal Combustion Engine

Car Manufacturing, Automobile makers and electric cars

Car Manufacturing, Automobile makers and electric cars

Commercial Truck and Vehicle - Rental business

commercial vehicles companies like Penske, Ryder, U-Haul and more

Cruise - Self-driving autonomous vehicles: Technology and Companies

Cruise - Self-driving autonomous vehicles: Technology and Companies

Aurora Innovation - Self-driving autonomous vehicles: Technology and Companies

Aurora Innovation - Self-driving autonomous vehicles: Technology and Companies

Waymo and Self-driving autonomous vehicles

Waymo and Self-driving autonomous vehicles

Deliveries and Self-driving autonomous vehicles

trends, tech and issues related to AI and autonomous vehicles -- with a special look at the techn...

Competition vs Tesla - Automobile makers and electric car manufacturing

a collection of articles and videos about the development of Electric cars

Automobile sales and the used car industry

a collection of articles and videos about the Automobile sales and the used car industry

Tesla - marketing and branding

a collection of articles and resources about Tesla - marketing and branding

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Article

Here's How Your Car's Engine Works

This is how the combination of an engine, fuel, and air makes your car move, explained in plain English, in case you're not an engineer. (2019)


Article

Sony and Honda reveal plans to jointly make and sell electric vehicles – TechCrunch

Sony’s current favorite big tease is playing at being a carmaker, and today it announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with real... (2022)


Article

General Motors, Honda partner to make millions of affordable EVs – TechCrunch

Rick Schostek, EVP of American Honda said it best in a released statement: “Announcing a new battery electric vehicle isn’t exactly headline making... (2022)


Article

Cars and second order consequences — Benedict Evans

Electric and autonomy are rolling through the car industry, changing everything about it. But though they transform gasoline and car accidents, the... (2022)


Article

Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid are all worth more than Ford and GM

Make way for the EV Big Three. Lucid’s market cap zooms by Ford and GM’s the same week it picked up the ‘MotorTrend’ Car of the Year award. (2021)


Article

New, 800V, electric cars, will recharge in half the time | The Economist

Pump up the voltage! | Science & technology (2021)


Article

Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40% - BBC News

The world's biggest carmaker will cut output in September, while VW warns it may have to make further cuts. (2021)


Article

Are hydrogen fuel cells the future of green transport? Sorta

Hydrogen fuel cells (HFC) are a form of green energy transport manufacturers are using to reduce their carbon footprint. But how do they work? (2021)


Article

Recycling - The metals in the car go round and round

But they need to be designed to make recycling them easier | Science & technology Scrapyards of tomorrow - Old electric cars are a raw material ... (2021)


Article

Why Ford Unveiling The Electric F-150 Lightning Is A Big Deal : NPR

The auto industry is embracing the pivot toward electric vehicles. Will consumers hop on board? Ford is introducing an electric F-150 pickup, calle... (2021)


Article

Internal Combustion Engine – Bartosz Ciechanowski

The invention of the internal combustion engine in the 19th century has revolutionized transportation over land, water, and air. Despite their omni... (2021)


Article

Mexican unicorn Kavak raises a $485M Series D at a $4B valuation – TechCrunch

Kavak, the Mexican startup that’s disrupted the used car market in Mexico and Argentina, today announced its Series D of $485 million, which now va... (2021)


Article

The future of electric cars isn’t Tesla. It’s golf carts. - Rest of World

Millions of people in China are buying off-brand electric cars, which are cheap, tiny, barely regulated, and extremely useful. (2021)


Article

Aeye becomes latest lidar company to go public via SPAC – TechCrunch

Aeye, a lidar startup that developed its technology for use in autonomous vehicles as well as to support advanced driver assistance systems in pass... (2021)


Article

Rivian raises $2.65B as it pushes toward production of its electric pickup

Rivian has raised $2.65 billion as it prepares to begin production this summer of its all-electric pickup truck. The round, which was led by funds ... (2021)


Article

Microsoft invests in Cruise in new $2 billion round

Cruise has raised $2 billion in a new equity round that has pushed its valuation up to $30 billion and delivered Microsoft as an investor and partn... (2021)


Article

QuantumScape's New Solid-State Battery Is Twice as Energy-Dense as Lithium-Ion

QuantumScape’s major breakthrough was finding a flexible ceramic material that can simultaneously act as a solid electrolyte and an effective separ... (2020)


Article

The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret

The long read: The race is on to find a steady source of lithium, a key component in rechargeable electric car batteries. But while the EU focuses ... (2020)


Article

Uber’s fraught and deadly pursuit of self-driving cars is over

Uber will sell its self-driving car business to Aurora Innovation, a startup founded by the former head engineer of Google’s pioneering autonomous ... (2020)


Article

General Motors takes $2 billion stake in electric truck startup Nikola

Nikola and General Motors today announced a strategic partnership. Through the deal, GM gets 11% ownership in startup Nikola, and will, in turn, pr... (2020)


Article

Electric car maker Fisker eyes deal to go public - Reuters

Electric vehicle maker Fisker Inc is in talks to go public through a sale to a so-called blank-check acquisition company, modeled after a successfu... (2020)


Article

The Hertz Story Isn't What You Think

The Hertz bankruptcy is not a story of financialization by an entrenched, self-dealing management team. It's a story of financialization by an entr... (2020)


Article

Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months (wsj.com)

Waymo Adds $750 Million to War Chest as Driverless Cars Prove Tough to Deploy Waymo has raised another $750 million, pushing the total outside... (2020)


Article

The Relentless Startup Fast-Tracking Ford’s Self-Driving Cars

Meet Bryan Salesky and the team of resourceful engineers at Argo, the little company trying to crack a big problem: safe autonomous driving. (2020)


Article

New Battery Lets Electric Cars Go 200 Miles on a 10-Minute Charge

Temporarily increasing the temperature of lithium-ion batteries during charging made it possible to charge them quickly without negative side effects. (2019)


Article

GM commits $3 billion to build electric and autonomous vehicles in Michigan – TechCrunch (2020)

GM said Monday it will invest $2.2 billion into its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to produce all-electric trucks and SUVs as well as a self-driv... (2020)


Article

Used-car marketplace Vroom nabs $254M to take its growth up a gear – TechCrunch

There have been a lot of bumps in the road for startups building used-car marketplaces, but now one of the longer-standing of them has closed a maj... (2019)


Article

Ghost raises $63.7 million to develop an aftermarket kit that gives cars self-driving capabilities

Ghost claims its aftermarket kit -- which will be available in 2020 -- can safely give existing cars self-driving capabilities. (2019)


Article

Tesla gets green light to start producing EVs in China – TechCrunch

China’s industry ministry has add Tesla to a government list of approved automotive manufacturers, a designation that allows the electric automaker... (2019)


Article

'Ford v. Ferrari' and the Feud that Created America's Greatest Race Car - Popular Mechanics

How a feud at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans created the iconic GT40. "Ford sent an envoy to Modena, Italy, to hash out a deal with Enzo Ferrari. ... (2019)


Video

How Formula 1 Teams Make Money

CNBC’s Sara Eisen goes inside Formula 1, finding out how the racing league’s most prominent team principals manage their billion-dollar businesses,... (2023)


Video

Why Ford And VW Shut Down Their Multi-Billion Dollar Self-Driving Project

Ford invested $1 billion in self-driving startup Argo AI in 2017, and Volkswagen joined with a $2.6 billion investment 2 years later. It was an att... (2023)


Video

Why All Eyes Are On Zimbabwe’s Lithium Industry

Zimbabwe has been mining lithium for 60 years and the government estimates that its Chinese-owned Bikita mine, which is located 300 km south of the... (2023)


Video

The business of Formula 1: inside McLaren HQ | FT Scoreboard

F1 is undergoing a kind of revolution, with new rules, new tech, new teams, and new fans - boosted by the Netflix show Drive to Survive. Ahead of t... (2023)


Video

How Cars Can Keep You Poor - Two Cents • PBS

Cars have become an integral part of American society. While it can feel that buying a new car is granting you new freedom, buying a new car is mor... (2018)


Video

How the Tesla Model S is Made | Tesla Motors Part 1 (WIRED)

WIRED Published on Jul 16, 2013 If founder Elon Musk is right, Tesla Motors just might reinvent the American auto industry—with specialized rob... (2018)


Video

What a driverless world could look like | Wanis Kabbaj | TED

What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we... (2018)


Podcast

Semiconductor Shortage and the Global Supply Chain Squeeze - 16 Minutes News by a16z

Listen to this episode from 16 Minutes News by a16z on Spotify. In this week’s episode of 16 Minutes, our show where we talk about tech trends in t... (2021)


Podcast

Tesla and the Nature of Disruption by a16z on SoundCloud

Stream a16z Podcast: Tesla and the Nature of Disruption by a16z from desktop or your mobile device (2018)


Podcast

The Nut Behind the Wheel - 99% Invisible

In the past fifty years, the car crash death rate has dropped by nearly 80 percent in the United States. And one of the reasons for that drop has t... (2017)


Book

Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose

Futureproof book. Read 50 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. While we need to rewrite the rules of the twenty-first-century ec... (2021)


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