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Ford has been increasing the use of renewable and recyclable materials in its vehicles so that they become more eco-firendly. For example on the 2010 Ford Taurus the brand used soy and bio-based seat cushions and seatbacks. According to Ford their mo...

Ford’s Michigan Plant has the first part of a large solar power generation system installed and already furnishing renewable energy to help power the production of fuel-efficient small cars. This is the result of a partnership between Ford, DTE...

With transformations worth $550 million completed, Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant has become the world’s first factory to be able to produce not only fuel-efficient gas-powered cars, but also three production versions of electrified vehic...

Says concept cars are too close to production cars

Chris Bangle spent over a decade as the lead designer of BMW Group. He was the company's first ever head of design, and he and protege Adrian van Hooydonk reshaped BMW design into what it is today. He left the company suddenly in 2009 for reas...

Former Ferrari designer Leonardo Fioravanti who worked on the Ferrari Daytona and 288 GTO is now the head of design at Beijing Auto. His job is to create a brand that was founded to build motorcycles for the Chinese army during the Korean War...

Former Formula 1 driver and two-time CART Champion Alex Zanardi won a gold medal in the Paralympics today in the 10-mile Handcycle. He covered the course in 24 minutes 50.22 seconds. He was 27.28 seconds ahead of the competitor in second place. Th...

She was there to promote her book and give a lecture

Maria de Villota, the former racing driver who was seriously injured while testing for Marussia in July 2012, was found dead in her hotel room in Seville early in the morning on October 11. The cause of death is not yet known. De Villota was i...

Former Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking and former Chief Financial Officer Holger Härter are facing charges in Germany for alleged market manipulation. German magazine Der Spiegel reports that prosecutors in the German state of Baden-...

Former chief financial officer also charged

Former Porsche CEO  Wendelin Wiedeking and ex-CFO Holger Haerter have been charged by the Stuttgart prosecutor for stock price manipulation related to the attempted takeover of Volkswagen in 2008. The court has not yet scheduled a d...

Hybrids will be only electrified cars with market penetration

Former Volvo CEO Stefan Jacoby believes that it will be at least 15 years before pure electric vehicles will be sophisticated enough to be successful mainstream cars.  “I have made myself unpopular before by saying this, but I do no...