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Opinion: GM Shouldn’t Kill Apple CarPlay, Android Auto

The Truth About Cars

Tim Babbitt, GM's head of product for infotainment, said the following to MT: “CarPlay and Android Auto have stability issues that manifest themselves as bad connections, poor rendering, slow responses, and dropped connections. You can start to see GM's frustration. Yeah, I have similar feelings here. Yeah, but it’s about safety.

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Clean Tech - GigaOM - Salon.com

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But in recent months new players, including the Renault-Nissan Alliance, Daimler AG and battery maker Electrovaya , have come onto the scene as well — making China look more and more likely to give electric cars a strong push into the mass market. Nissan announced plans in November to start selling electric cars in the country by 2012.

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Volkswagen Group makes $300M strategic investment in on-demand mobility provider Gett

Green Car Congress

Other OEMs, such as GM with its $500M investment in Lyft, Ford with its $182-million stake in Pivotal, or Toyota with its new investment in Uber ( earlier post ), have begun expanding their presence in the mobility services sector sector. —Matthias Müller, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG.

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Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting transcript: June 13, 2024

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Our cars are engineered to be some of the safest in the world and we take real-world data from our fleet, and our ability to push over-the-air updates to optimize safety for all our vehicle models. The fact that current levels may be legal does not mean they are safe. That result is the epitome of a sustainable economy. In fact, U.S.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

Charged EVs

Under President Obama, the EPA set the first federal greenhouse gas standard for cars. Oge led the team that authored the 2010-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards, and described the process in her 2016 book, Driving the Future. The traditional pollutants [are] nitrogen oxides, volatile organics, and particulates.

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Former EPA exec Margo Oge explains the new federal emissions rules

Charged EVs

To help us sort out how the new policies are likely to unfold, we turned to Margo Oge, former Director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality and author of the book Driving the Future. By 2026, car manufacturers will have to [make approximately 17% of new vehicles] in their total fleets electric and zero-emission.

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