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NASCAR, IndyCar Drivers Watching F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix for Different Reasons
NASCAR and IndyCar drivers hope their series will get a bounce from U.S. growth in Formula 1 interest. Denny Hamlin attending, on lookout for, among other things, technology he can adapt to NASCAR. IndyCar’s Colton Herta, however, sees F1 lure as double-edged sword for his series. Thanks to Netflix’s Drive To Survive documentary series, Americans’…
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LA Auto Show: the tech, EVs and cars that got our attention
The 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show is a wrap — for press, anyway. That means it’s time to recap the big launches, strange details, cars on display and peculiar absences we noticed this year. The highlights include the SUV that’ll make or break Lucid, Amazon’s auto fixation, a pickup that calls Tesla’s Cybertruck to mind…
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HPU Honors Outstanding Alumni During Homecoming Weekend 2023
Each year, HPU honors 10 outstanding alumni who graduated within the last 10 years. Pictured from left are Kenneth Marshall, Gabrielle Wanek, Molly O’Brien, Tyler Blackshaw, Tyler Heaggans, Michaela Burns, Thomas Langford and Shayla Fletcher. Honored but not pictured are Summer Tonsfeldt and Michaela Mucha. HIGH POINT, N.C., Nov. 17, 2023 – High Point University…
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Here’s how to get to all those LA events this weekend amid the freeway woes
It may not be Carmagedden, but this weekend seems poised to be a not-so-distant relative — Slowmagedden. That’s right: Get ready to go slow amid a weekend full of major events in the L.A. area. It would have been snarled enough on local streets and highways this weekend if it was just the L.A. Auto…
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Supply problems set to hit Volkswagen’s Skoda unit
BERLIN, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s Skoda unit expects some delays in the production of its Enyaq electric models during November and December due to supply bottlenecks, German business daily Handelsblatt reported on Friday. The paper cited a spokesperson for Skoda. Reporting by Madeline Chambers; editing by Matthias Williams Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust…
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‘Many of us cried. None of us talked’: How Milwaukee reacted to the Kennedy assassination
Note: This is an edited and updated version of a story that was first published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Green Sheet on Nov. 25, 2015. Like the rest of the nation, Milwaukee mourned President John F. Kennedy in ways profound and personal. From the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated while…
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Stellantis Won’t Be Attending The 2024 Geneva Motor Show
Stellantis, the global automotive automaker formed through a merger between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and PSA Group, has announced its decision to forgo participation in the highly anticipated 2024 Geneva Motor Show. The event, scheduled to take place from February 26th to March 3rd, 2024, has historically been a focal point for automotive innovation and…
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One-Third of US Newspapers As of 2005 Will Be Gone By 2024
Sara Fischer reports via Axios: The decline of local newspapers accelerated so rapidly in 2023 that analysts now believe the U.S. will have lost one-third of the newspapers it had as of 2005 by the end of next year — rather than in 2025, as originally predicted. There are roughly 6,000 newspapers left in America,…
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China’s Li Auto says to start mass production of its first EV in Feb
Companies Li Auto Inc Follow SHANGHAI, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Li Auto (2015.HK) said on Friday it will start mass production and delivery of its first pure electric car in February, as the up and coming Chinese automaker bets on fast charging technologies to solve range anxiety for EV users. The MEGA multi-purpose vehicle, with…
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