DETROIT - From electric car startups to the old-school Detroit auto giants, the automotive industry is gearing up for a battle royal as companies race to deliver the first all-electric pickup truck to the mass market. The best-selling vehicle in the U.S. is a pickup truck (Ford's F-150). Meanwhile, electric vehicle sales have been steadily rising
DETROIT - Henrik Fisker is back, but he isn't on his second act. With his eponymous new company, he's on his fourth, and maybe his fifth, incarnation. And he has a plan for changing how everyone, but especially younger people, get around. The 57-year-old, Danish-born Fisker was famous in the auto industry before he was
WASHINGTON DC - Private citizens and public officials, sometimes joined by governors, increasingly are filing lawsuits to kill statewide marijuana legalization ballot initiatives, including some that voters approved in November. The legal challenges appear to be long shots to thwart legalization efforts in Mississippi, Montana and South Dakota. Even if the lawsuits are unsuccessful, it’s
WASHINGTON DC - An old battle over who governs the internet will likely reignite as Democrats take control of the Federal Communications Commission following the inauguration of Joe Biden. Reinstating Obama-era net neutrality rules thrown out under the Trump administration will likely be a top priority for the agency, experts say. Earlier this week, FCC
CANTON – TrialAssure has released its latest version of Anonymize for Documents, including the functionality to anonymize and redact PDF documents concurrently. Leveraging the cloud for processing, this software has been shown to save as much as 80 percent of the effort involved in the redaction and anonymization process for PDFs based on flexible and
DETROIT - Canada-United States Business Association is hosting a Great Lakes Automotive Outlook event Dec. 14 to focus on several key mobility topics, including new investment around the Great Lakes resulting from the Unifor contracts, a description of Canada’s EV initiative known as Project Arrow, an update on Michigan’s I-94 AV corridor, and a far-ranging interview
DETROIT - The Michigan UP EV Readiness Workshop sponsored by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, is a half-day virtual convening that will provide participants with the information needed to apply for available incentives and plan a successful EV charging installation project to support the development of a robust electric vehicle charging
LONDON (AP) — Imagine a world where you move around in your own personal sound bubble. You listen to your favorite tunes, play loud computer games, watch a movie or get navigation directions in your car — all without disturbing those around you. That’s the possibility presented by “sound beaming,” a new futuristic audio technology
DETROIT - The Maintenance Innovation Challenge is an important venue to present innovative technologies in front of a large cross-section of DOD decision-makers The MIC aims to elevate and expand the call for maintenance innovation to include not only new technology, hardware, and software but also unique partnerships, resourcing strategies, business practices, or processes that
DETROIT - Digital license plates have been allowed in California and Arizona since 2019; now they are allowed in Michigan, too, but not yet for sale. At a starting price of nearly $500 a plate with a $55 yearly connectivity fee, only 3,300 people have them in California and Arizona. The company that created them, Reviver, is in discussions
