BMW targets $2.4 billion cut to parts outlays in EV pushAuto News

BMW aims to slash roughly $2.4 billion from its annual purchasing bill by squeezing costs for transmission components and other parts to help finance a shift to electric vehicles.

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Stolen VWs from Mich. subject of federal probe, reports sayAuto News

A federal investigation seeking upward of 60 recalled Volkswagen vehicles that were stolen from the parking lot of the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan is underway after fake titles allowed the vehicles to cross state lines, according to news reports.

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Ford self-driving test van 'talks' to pedestrians via light signalsAuto News

Ford and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute are testing a way to enable self-driving vehicles to communicate their movements visually to pedestrians, cyclists and to human drivers.

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Nissan promotes manufacturing exec Martin to Alliance role Auto News

Nissan moved up its top U.S. manufacturing executive to help speed up synergies at the Renault-Nissan Alliance.

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Tesla's vice president of business development, Diarmuid O'Connell, departsAuto News

SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) -- Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla's vice president of business development, has left the company, the latest in a string of management departures as the electric-car maker ramps up production of the Model 3 sedan.

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Tesla crash shows man and machine must cooperateAuto News

It seems that both human drivers and Tesla's "Autopilot" system -- specifically the complex relationship between the two -- contributed to the fatality of a Tesla driver last year.

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Ex-BMW design wunderkind Bangle resurfaces and riffs on 'banality'Auto News

Chris Bangle, the Ohio boy who was all of 36 when he took over as head of BMW design in 1992, is once again fully engrossed in cars after a self-imposed exile from the automotive styling studio.

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Trucking industry, Navistar back U.S. self-driving legislationAuto News

A U.S. trucking trade group and Navistar urged a U.S. Senate panel to include self-driving commercial trucks in proposed legislation intended to speed autonomous vehicles to market.

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Toyota, Honda collaborate with Shell to install Calif. hydrogen refueling stationsAuto News

Toyota and Honda are collaborating with Shell Oil to install seven hydrogen refueling stations in Northern California.

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Toyota, Honda collaborate with Shell in Calif. hydrogen refueling stationsAuto News

Toyota and Honda are collaborating with Shell Oil to install seven hydrogen refueling stations in Northern California.

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Alfa Romeo lends Giulia Quadrifoglios to F1 driversAuto News

Alfa Romeo shows that having Formula 1 drivers whip a car around a track is one way to put a vehicle through its paces.

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GM puts pieces in place to take on Uber as Cruise, Maven expandAuto News

Ride-hailing apps and car-sharing services have been called existential threats to automakers as we know them, but GM is looking to fight fire with fire. Or, in this case, robots with robots.

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Teamsters chief fears self-driving trucks may be unsafe, hit jobsAuto News

The head of the Teamsters union is mounting an aggressive effort to pursuade Congress to reject new rules to speed the deployment of self-driving trucks.

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Teamsters chief fears U.S. self-driving trucks may be unsafe, hit jobsAuto News

The head of the Teamsters union is mounting an aggressive effort to pursuade Congress to reject new rules to speed the deployment of self-driving trucks.

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