| Buy a Fiat 500e Electric Get a Free Rental Car |
Jun 21st, 2013 |
for just $199 a month after $999 due at signing. That's the same lease rate as a gasoline 500. Choose to buy the 500e, and it runs just $21,800 after major federal and California tax incentives. Still, those trips to grandmother's house might need something with longer range. The ...
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| Hyundai CEO Krafcik named Automotive Executive of the Year |
Jun 21st, 2013 |
When John Krafcik joined Hyundai Motor America in 2004 after a decade-and-a-half at Ford Motor Co., the Korean automaker had a 2.5 percent U.S. market share. In the nine years since, ...
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| Feds delay rules for backup cameras in cars |
Jun 21st, 2013 |
NHTSA has estimated that there are 202 backover deaths in the U.S. each year - including 100 children under the age of five. Another 14,000 Americans are injured in such incidents. Safety advocates have been handed another setback as the federal government yet again postpones its long-awaited backup camera mandate.In a letter to Congress, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood said it will ...
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| Chrysler refinances loans to reduce annual interest rate |
Jun 21st, 2013 |
Chrysler Group LLC announced Friday that it has refinanced its loans to get a better interest ...
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| Google ordered to delete data its Street View cars illegally collected within 35 days |
Jun 21st, 2013 |
Google was today threatened with court action unless it deletes passwords and emails its Street View cars illegally collected. The Information Commissioner's Office warned the internet giant it could be charged with contempt of court if it did not obey an enforcement notice within 35 days. Google was ordered to dispose of four discs of information from unsecured WiFi networks in 2010, but ...
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| Tesla And Nissan EV Battery Swap Replaces Anxiety With Peace Of Mind |
Jun 21st, 2013 |
Elon Musk gleefully demonstrated how a robot could swap a depleted battery in an electric Model S sedan for a fully charged one in about 90 seconds, less than half the time it takes to fill up a car with gasoline. (See Tesla's ...
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| Federal Backup Camera Mandate Pushed Back Again |
Jun 21st, 2013 |
For the fourth time since its 2008 passage as part of federal auto-safety legislation, a rule requiring all new cars to have backup cameras has been delayed -- this time until 2015, Bloomberg news reported. Federal regulators pushed back the mandate as they consider offering incentives in safety ratings to vehicles containing the technology, Bloomberg stated. In a letter Thursday, outgoing U.S. ...
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| Industry Group Opposes Massachusetts Proposal to Set Auto Labor Rates |
Jun 21st, 2013 |
The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies is opposing bills currently under consideration in Massachusetts that would require the state to set a minimum hourly labor rate that insurers must pay for auto repairs. In testimony submitted this week to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Financial Services, NAMIC stated that the bills under consideration, H. 969 and S. 497, are ...
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| US June auto sales on pace for best showing since Dec 07-study |
Jun 21st, 2013 |
DETROIT, June 21 | Fri Jun 21, 2013 11:54am EDT DETROIT, June 21 (Reuters) - June auto sales are on track for their best month since before the 2008-2009 sales plunge that helped lead to bankruptcies for two of the three top U.S. automakers, two leading forecasters said on Friday. J.D. Power and LMC Automotive said June sales will show a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 15.7 ...
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| Lazy or Brilliant? Volvo Self-Parking Concept |
Jun 21st, 2013 |
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Volvo experiments with an autonomous set-and-forget self-parking feature.
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