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San José (United States) (AFP) - Nvidia on Monday announced a major expansion of its collaboration with world-leading BYD and other Chinese electric car makers, including on the development of autonomous AI-boosted vehicles. The move deepens Nvidia's connections with the Chinese EV industry even as it is separately prohibited by the United States from exporting its most powerful AI hardware to China. BYD, which beat Elon Musk's Tesla in sales in the last quarter of 2023, is the latest Chinese auto firm to use Nvidia's DRIVE Thor, an all-in-one vehicle control system that is bolstered by powerf...
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San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Apple has abandoned its ambitions to produce an electric car, US media reported Tuesday, ending a struggling decade-long project. The iPhone maker had dedicated nearly 2,000 employees to its secretive car development program, Bloomberg reported, but faced an increasingly competitive electric vehicle (EV) sector. The target of "Project Titan," beginning around 2014, was to develop a fully autonomous car, according to media reports. The decision to shut down the car project was announced internally on Tuesday, Bloomberg and The New York Times reported, citin...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden won the coveted election endorsement of America's biggest car workers union Wednesday, in a major boost to his battle with Donald Trump for the crucial blue-collar vote. Democrat Biden has relentlessly courted the union vote and appeared on a United Auto Workers (UAW) picket line last year during a strike against the big three US car giants. "Our endorsements must be earned. Joe Biden has earned it," UAW chief Shawn Fain told a cheering crowd at a conference in Washington, before Biden took the stage in a black union baseball cap. Fain said Trump want...
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New York (AFP) - US auto giant Ford said Friday that it is reducing production of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup, as it anticipates weaker demand for electric vehicles this year. The automaker plans to cut production at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center to one shift from April 1, impacting about 1,400 workers, with some to transfer to other roles and others expected to take retirement packages. "Ford expects continued growth in global EV sales in 2024, though less than anticipated," the company said in a statement. It is lowering production as it aims "to achieve the optimal balance of pr...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - To the believers, the oft-promised autonomous car revolution is "clearly happening" -- they point to the myriad displays at the Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas that defy the industry's bad headlines. "Companies are deploying robotaxis in larger scale than before and in more cities," insisted Kersten Heineke, partner and codirector of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility. Even "in times where money is scarce...we're clearly progressing. It just takes a bit longer than we were expecting three or five years ago." And while "there's nothing flashy" at this year's CES, ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - E-commerce giant Amazon said Thursday it would start selling new automobiles on its platform in the United States next year. Amazon made the announcement at the Los Angeles Auto Show in conjunction with Hyundai, the South Korean auto giant that will be the first brand sold on the site. The company said customers will be able to choose models and their favorite features online. They can then pick up the car at their local dealership or have it delivered to their home. Financing options will also be available on Amazon. "Hyundai is a very innovative company that shares Amazo...
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Belvidere (United States) (AFP) - US President Joe Biden donned the signature red T-shirt of America's biggest car workers union and lashed out at Donald Trump Thursday as he tried to fire up their support for his 2024 reelection bid. "Donald Trump often says we're now a failing nation," the 80-year-old Democrat told workers in Illinois who recently won pay hikes and the reopening of a factory after weeks of strikes. "That's not what I see. I know what we can do if folks are given half a chance." Some of the United Auto Workers (UAW) members in the crowd shouted "Jail Trump" as Biden lashed ...
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Washington (AFP) - The world's most popular car brands are a data "privacy nightmare," collecting and selling personal information in an age when driving is going increasingly digital, a study showed on Wednesday. The California-based Mozilla Foundation reviewed 25 car brands and said none of them fully satisfied its standards on privacy and that no other product category had ever received as poor a review, including makers of sex toys or mental health apps. "Modern cars are a privacy nightmare" at a time when "car makers have been bragging about their cars being 'computers on wheels'", said M...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Josef Newgarden won the 107th Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, diving past Marcus Ericsson in the dramatic last sprint of a race that saw heavy crashes bring out three late red flags. The American Penske Racing driver, a two-time IndyCar series champion, won the showpiece event for the first time as he denied Ericsson a repeat. American Santino Ferrucci was third. "Everyone kept asking me why I haven't won this race," an emotional Newgarden said. "They look at you like a failure if you don't win it. I wanted to win it so bad." He had to survive a chaotic final 14 laps that saw t...
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New York (AFP) - Tesla will open its network of superchargers in the United States and Canada to Ford electric vehicles from 2024, the companies said Thursday, doubling the stations available to Ford customers. "In early 2024, all of Ford's existing customers and future customers will have access to 12,000 Tesla superchargers and high-speed superchargers across the US," Ford CEO Jim Farley said in a joint announcement with Tesla owner Elon Musk. Musk said he did not want Tesla charging stations "to be a walled garden," referring to strategies that block rivals from sharing products or technolo...
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