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How to Defog Your Car Windows in Arizona Winters

How to Defog Your Car Windows in Arizona Winters

Although Arizona winters are mild compared to other areas of the country, fogged windows are still a serious problem on those chilly winter mornings. The air inside your car is usually warm. When the cold night air makes contact with your car windows, condensation can collect on the windows, making it difficult to see when you first get in your car in the morning. It can especially be a problem if you need auto glass repair in Arizona. The good news is that there are options when it comes to defogging your windows. The following tips will help you see

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Tesla’s NACS connector will be standardized by SAE

Tesla’s NACS connector will be standardized by SAE

The move to Tesla’s NACS system won’t affect the federal government’s funding of a nationwide charging network.

For federally funded EV chargers, including the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program, “CCS and NACS connectors and adapters are eligible for funding. This means federal funding is available to build charging infrastructure that can service all EV drivers, regardless of their vehicle’s current or future connector type,” the Federal Highway Administration said in a statement.

SAE said developing the NACS standard will be put on a fast track and is one of several charging projects, including cybersecurity, the organization is working on to

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Ford to cut jobs in Canada and US, mostly in engineering

Ford to cut jobs in Canada and US, mostly in engineering

Ford Motor Co. on Tuesday it said it would begin layoffs this week, impacting mostly engineering jobs in the United States and Canada, as part of the Detroit automaker’s move to exit unprofitable locations and cut head counts.

Ford of Canada would not say how many jobs would be affected in Canada.

“We haven’t provided an overall number of reductions, much less by location. Obviously, given the scale of our business here, they’re overwhelmingly in the US,” a Ford Motor Co. spokesperson said in an email to Automotive News Canada when asked how many Canadian positions would be affected. “The

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Fiat Is About To Give It One More Try In The US

Fiat Is About To Give It One More Try In The US
Image of a Fiat 500e on a cobblestone road viewed from the front quarter.

Image of a Fiat 500e on a cobblestone road viewed from the front quarter.

good morning! It’s Monday, June 5, 2023 and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.

1st Gear: The Return Of The 500

Remember the fanfare to which Fiat introduced the last 500 to the States? But for one precious, fleeting moment, an automaker actively tried to market a small car to Americans with the intention of its design. You got the sense that maybe

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Expert Insights: The Future of Connected Vehicles and Customer Experiences

Expert Insights: The Future of Connected Vehicles and Customer Experiences

Q: What types of experiences are on the horizon that will be supported through connected or software-defined vehicles?

Macleod: As digitally fueled car sales increase, vehicles are also becoming more connected. By the end of the decade, it is estimated that connected cars — cars that can communicate and share data with a variety of systems both inside and outside the vehicle — will make up about 95% of all new vehicles sold around the world.

Layering web-based and location-based data, for example, a car will be able to alert a hungry driver that a favorite fast-food dining spot is

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Aston Martin’s Honda F1 deal will not affect ties to Mercedes

Aston Martin’s Honda F1 deal will not affect ties to Mercedes

Aston Martin’s Formula One engine partnership with Honda from 2026 will not affect ties to Mercedes on the road car side, according to the team’s CEO of performance technologies Martin Whitmarsh.

Mercedes-Benz has a roughly 9.7 percent stake in the British sports-car maker.

Mercedes is also currently the Formula One team’s engine provider.

The Silverstone-based Formula One team is separate from the road car company but owned by Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll, whose Yew Tree consortium is Aston Martin Lagonda’s biggest shareholder.

“Aston Martin Lagonda is a public company, one of its shareholders is Mercedes-Benz and a significant proportion of

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Apple autonomous auto engineer indictment suggests industry risk

Apple autonomous auto engineer indictment suggests industry risk

In 2018, the year of Weibo’s alleged theft, autonomous vehicle technology companies had high valuations as they raced to develop the technology first, Peters said.

Around the same time, Anthony Levandowski, who helped found Google’s self-driving company, Waymo, was convicted of stealing intellectual property from the company to start Otto, an autonomous trucking company, which was acquired by Uber Technologies.

In 2020, Levandowski pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months in prison for trade secret theft related to Google’s self-driving car program. In 2021, Levandowski was pardoned by President Donald Trump.

“There was a feeling within the autonomous vehicle

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VW explores plug-in hybrid for US as EV transition unfolds

VW explores plug-in hybrid for US as EV transition unfolds

The Q5 e — also known as the Q5 55 TFSI e — is a five-seat midsize crossover that now boasts a 17.9-kilowatt-hour battery, allowing it to travel up to 23 miles on a single charge. The Q5 e was assembled in Mexico and went on sale in the US for the 2021 model year with a slightly smaller battery and less electric range than it now has. It currently features a combined 362 hp and 369 pound-feet of torque between its 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine and electric motor. It starts at $58,595 including shipping.

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