Five classic Mopar muscle cars from the collection of Tony D’Agostino, including a 1969 Charger Daytona, will be offered at the Mecum Kissimmee auction in January. Get all the latest to auto industry news in the Executive Briefing.
Today’s Headlines:
+ General Motors will partner with LG Chem of Korea to build a new $2.3 billion electric vehicle battery plant near the automaker’s closed Lordstown, Ohio factory. More at USA Today.
+ Canadian fashion mogul and Formula 1 team owner Lawrence Stroll, father of driver Lance Stroll, is reportedly engaged in talks to purchase a major interest in Aston Martin. More at UK Autocar.
+ The International Executive Board of the scandal-racked United Auto Workers union appointed acting president Rory Gamble to a formal term that runs through 2022. More at The Detroit News.
+ Second-generation driver Chase Elliott, son of NASCAR Hall of Famer Bill Elliott, has won the NMPA Most Popular Driver award for the second consecutive year. More at NBC Sports.
+ The Sandia National Lab’s Combustion Research Facility has developed a ducted fuel injector for diesels that could eliminate soot emissions without exhaust treatment. More at Autoline Daily.
+ A patent application by Ford Motor Company suggests that the upcoming electric F-150 pickup could have its battery pack sandwiched into a conventional truck frame. More at The Drive.
+ A hoard of more than 30 classic Jaguars, including vintage E-Types, and a huge collection of parts have been rescued from a greenhouse in Beaulieu, England. More at Autoblog.
+ According to data compiled by Bloomberg News, the global automakers will eliminate 80,000 jobs over the next few years in the shift to electric vehicle production. More at Bloomberg.com.
+ Five classic Mopar muscle cars from the collection of Tony D’Agostino, owner of Tony’s Parts, will be offered at the Mecum Kissimmee auction in January. More at Classic Cars.com Journal.
+ Concerns over the future of the Long Beach Grand Prix IndyCar race have been eased by the decision of the Los Angeles Angels baseball team to remain in Anaheim. More at Racer.
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I think this push to electric vehicles will be the death of many automakers. They may be well and fine in a city environment, but in rural USA they ain’t going to get it done. Travelling distances are just too great, and they don’t hang chargers on fence posts and pine trees.
A tow truck operator I know had to rescue a Tesla with a dead battery the other day. He jump charged it for 45 minutes off of his truck, that gave the Tesla about 100 miles driving range. That was about enough to get the Tesla to the next designated Tesla charging station, in a city 100 miles away. That’s not going to cut it, who wants to spend 45 minutes or an hour to only be able to go a 100 or 150 miles? Much better to spend 10 minutes pumping gas and be able to go 400 miles before you have to do it again!
And with all the problems with the electrical grid now as it is, how to they think it will be able to support more usage from electric cars? Just look at California after the recent fires, folks there were without power for a couple of weeks in some places, more in others. Let a Cat 5 hurricane hit and those cars couldn’t be charged for months!
Ssshhhh, lets not have commonsense get in the way of rhetoric.
With world wide electricity issues where will the power come from? Again Sshhh. It will be powered by wind, so very expensive electricity that everyone will subsidise. Just the same as solar panels on homes now.
As for less people to design and manufacture? Yeah right,, that is NOT a fact.
EVs require fewer people to design and to manufacture. That’s just a fact.