The News for June 10th, 2022

Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. This week: Cadillac and BMW debut stunning LMDh race cars, Ram offers up desert-themed TRX, and Ford teases a possible Transit Supervan 4 – plus your […]

Shape Corp and Hydro Aluminium Metal enter partnership to develop automotive products utilizing 75% recycled aluminum scrap

GRAND HAVEN, Mich., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Shape Corp., a global tier-one automotive supplier of multi-material impact energy management and lightweight body structures, has entered into an agreement with Hydro, a leading producer of aluminum and renewable energy, to be the first to explore and bring to the US market, […]

NHTSA Expands Tesla Autopilot Investigation

Federal safety regulators expanded the number of Tesla vehicles equipped with Autopilot being investigated for crashes into parked emergency vehicles to about 830,000 from the 2014-2022 model year. Tesla’s Autopilot played a role in the collision with a fire truck parked on I-405. The Autopilot semi-autonomous system — which relies […]

Moment of Science: Automobile

For about a century now, we’ve lived in the age of the vehicle. We’re back again out at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, tracing the roots of wherever the rubber satisfies the street. *From cruising on a Sunday drive to racing close to the observe, America’s really like of […]

Teijin Automotive Technologies to Produce Pickup Box for Next Generation Toyota Tundra

Teijin Automotive Technologies (formerly Continental Structural Plastics) is building the pickup box for the new Tundra at its Seguin, Texas, facility Three box sizes are one-piece compression molded. Seguin facility home to the largest compression molding press west of the Mississippi. AUBURN HILLS, Mich., June 07, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Teijin Automotive Technologies […]

Study Claims EV Charging Reliability Is a Problem

Researchers with the University of California, Berkeley, are pouring cold water of the premise that electric vehicle charging stations will require less maintenance than traditional fueling solutions. The study, which examined 657 individual connectors between 181 public fast-charging stations in the San Francisco Bay area found that about 23 percent were […]