0:08 Chip Shortage to Cost Automakers $210 Billion
0:56 NIO Launches New Hybrid Battery Pack
1:50 Polestar Precept Wins Three EyesOn Design Awards
4:00 Mercedes Joins Battery Partnership with Stellantis
4:48 Japanese Auto Industry Collaborates on Development
6:36 Wuling To Introduce New Compact EV
7:17 Honda Unveils Passport TrailSport
The auto industry knows the future is with electric vehicles. But it’s also facing a slew of new legal issues that EVs bring with them. Battery fires are pitting automakers against suppliers. Electric utilities face legal challenges from companies that operate charging stations. And consumers are demanding protection from any of these problems. Autoline This Week tackles the legal issues that have not got the attention they deserve.
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0:07 GM Hires Former NHTSA Administrator
0:46 GM Invests in Chinese AV Startup
1:14 Volvo Dropping Leather from EV Interiors
2:07 Skoda Creates New Sustainable Material
3:36 Mahle Develops Portable Emission Tester
4:20 Time Anxiety the New Range Anxiety
6:38 ELMS Gets Big Order for EV Vans
7:15 Ford Helps Identify Unsafe Roads
7:52 Ford Teams Up for Battery Recycling & Materials
The North American International Auto Show (a.k.a. the Detroit auto show) was cancelled this year. In its place is Motor Bella, an indoor/outdoor event with displays from automakers and suppliers around the world. Rod Alberts, Executive Director of Motor Bella, tells us all about the event, which bills itself as “the future of auto shows.”
Would racing be any fun without the drivers? While the Indy Autonomous Challenge will race driverless cars around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, that’s not the question it wants to answer. John Waraniak, one of the experts associated with the project, says it’s all about solving extreme edge cases in autonomy. It will tap university students from around the world to come up with those solutions and offer a million dollar prize as incentive.
The supplier Continental Structural Plastics has changed its name to Teijin Automotive Technologies. Steven Rooney, CEO, says it helps the company look like one global entity because previously each region had its own name. And now with the name change behind it, Teijin plans to continue its dominance in composite truck beds and is expanding into making entire battery enclosures.
0:08 Lyten’s Potential Battery Breakthrough
3:03 GM Shares EV Motor Details for Ultium Vehicles
4:44 Mercedes Prices EQS Similar To S-Class in U.S.
5:47 Acura Updates the RDX
6:51 Honda Introduces New BR-V
8:23 Mike Manley Leaves Stellantis To Become AutoNation CEO
8:59 May Mobility Expands to Ann Arbor
9:47 Ford Teases Raptor Version of The Bronco
Phoenix Contact makes connectors as well as charger inlets and cables for automakers and charging station operators around the world. Vince Carioti, Director of eMobility for North America, surprised us with just how many different types of connectors there are and says there’s a new one coming for China, which should address a previous design flaw.
Detect It is a company that uses audio and video data to develop artificial intelligence programs and neural nets for object detection and alignment as well as surface inspection and much more. It sounds complicated, but as President and CEO Kevin Kerwin explains, almost anyone can use it.
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