Ford Details Next-Gen Escape Engines, Announces Off-Road CUV

For the ’20 model year, the Escape adds new engines and propulsion systems, including a hybrid variant and a plug-in hybrid with a 30-mile electric range.

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Aptiv Makes More Prized AV Data Public

NuScenes by Aptiv is the largest data set of its kind available to the public and includes 1.4 million images.

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‘Superknock’ Leads List of Engine Downsizing Downsides

Small-displacement, direct-injected turbocharged engines are all the rage when it comes to improving fuel efficiency without sacrificing performance. But the punchy diminutive powerplants also come with some tough engineering challenges.

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Big Ram Pickups Cut Through Snow – in Las Vegas!

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FCA says its heavy-duty trucks “out-power, out-tow and out-haul every other pickup available.”

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Why Mazda is Blindfolding Its Engineers and Designers

The Japanese automaker aims to develop good ergonomics and HMI for its vehicles, pointing to the new Mazda3 compact car as proof of its endeavors.

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AEye Bucks Trend With Its Intelligent Solid-State Lidar

Most autonomous vehicles in development rely on centralized computers to do all the data crunching necessary to determine the correct path forward. Start-up AEye is taking the opposite approach with smart lidar it says offers higher resolution and is more flexible and faster moving.

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BMW, Daimler, VW Found Guilty of Emissions Collusion

The European Commission alleges BMW, Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler, Volkswagen Group and VW subsidiaries Audi and Porsche illegally set their own standards and timeline for the introduction of emission technology.

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SEAT Spain Plant Stingy With Water

SEAT says it is using cutting-edge technology and more efficient processes to reuse and recycle water for manufacturing processes, especially in the paint shop and rain test booth.

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Face It, Folks, You’re a Data Company Now

To strengthen its data expertise, Ford acquired Autonomic last year, and it has been tasked with accelerating creation of the automaker’s open Transportation Mobility Cloud platform.

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Connected Cars Must Gain Crucial Human Ability

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Automakers need to make their vehicles resilient, healthy and responsive to attacks. In short: We need to give our vehicles an immune system.

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