AD #3693 - Ford Gives Owners Fast Feedback Tech; Only EVs on Track for Net-Zero; UAW Contracts Will Likely Be Approved

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Yesterday we wondered if UAW president Sean Fain had raised members expectations too high, But it looks like some of the angst ares included over the UAW contract is finally coming to an end. Yesterday, workers at GM's Arlington, Texas

plant approved the contract by nearly sixty one percent, and that boosted the overall yes votes at GM to nearly fifty four percent. Sixty six percent of Ford

and Stilantis workers have also voted yes so far, while there are still a couple of dozen locals at the Detroit three who have yet to vote, it does look like the new contracts are going to get approved. And as if

to put an exclamation point on it, workers at mactruck ended their thirty nine day strike and approved their UAW contract And all this is now going to free up Sean Fain go after the trans plans and eaty startups and try and organize them. So we're curious what you all think about it. Which non union

automaker do you think the union will go after? First, they say that

charging anxiety is the new range anxiety for evs, so Mercedes and charge Point are installing new fast chargers that will at least get evs back on the road a little bit faster. Earlier this year, Mercedes announced its following and testless

footsteps and will open its own charging network, and it just opened its first hub in the US, located at its North American headquarters in Georgia. The

automaker partnered with charge Point to install four hundred kilowatt fast chargers. Mercedes will

open more locations and Texas, Florida, Alabama, and Georgia by the end of the year, and by the end of the decade, it plans to have twenty five hundred chargers at four hundred charging hubs across North America, and they're open to any brand. While Mercedes says the chargers deliver four hundred kilowatts,

charge Point actually says it will have versions capable of five hundred kilowatts.

Of all the global efforts to reach net zero carbon emissions by twenty fifty, only electric vehicles are on track to reach that goal. That's according to a

joint study from the Bezos Earth Fund and other nonprofit groups, which looked at several areas including electricity, industry, transport, and land. It found that

measures to curb government subsidies of fossil fuels and the need for increased green steel production are lagging. The study says reforestation and cutting beef output are heading in

the right way, but they're going too slow. The only area that was

on track to hit net zero carbon emissions is electric vehicle sales, which have been growing at sixty five percent since twenty eighteen. What are the best news

cars, trucks and utility vehicles that came out this year. That's what we'll

be talking about on Auto Line after hours today. We'll have three jurors from

the North American Car of the Year Awards on the show to go through the best and worst of the model year. So joined John and Gary, who

were also on the NACTOY jury. When the show goes live on the New

Autoline website and our YouTube channel at three pm Eastern Time. Hyundai doesn't think

that sporty driving in an electric car is all that engaging, so its first performance EVY, the Ionic five N, will pump an artificial mixture into the cabin of electric motor and icy engine that reacts to the driver's inputs while also simulating the feeling of shifting gears. Some people will look down on that as

being fake, but there are also a lot of real performance parts thrown at this car. It ticks the boxes for all the usual suspects like brakes,

suspension, steering, wheels, and tires, but Hyundai also put a lot of effort into ensuring that the Ionic five N one crap out after a few laps on the track as well. It comes with a larger eighty four kilowat

hour battery pack. That pack and the motors have their own independent radiators,

and the thermal management system has increased cooling area and volume, better motor oil cooling and a battery chiller combined, its motors make nearly four hundred and eighty kilowatts or just over six hundred horse power, and it will do zero to sixty in about three and a half seconds. Examples start hitting dealers showrooms in

March of next year. Speaking of the Hyundai group, Genesis and None ounce

that its first ever GV eighty coup will be available in North America. Revealed

that the New York Auto Show in April. The fastback suv joins the redesigned

version of the standard roof model. The exterior styling is pretty much the same

as the current model, but the interior sees a new twenty seven inch screen that blends the infotainment screen and instrument cluster together, which also resulted in some tweaks to the dash and center console. Power will come from either a three

hundred horse power turbo four cylinder or a three and a half liter twin turbov six that, in top form, pairs an additional forty eight volt electric supercharger for four hundred and nine horse power. Genesis says it will provide more details

on the new GV eighty models sometime next year. Do you drive a Ford

and if you do, have you ever wanted to complain directly to the company about a problem in your car or even maybe give a suggestion on how to make it better. Well, Ford wants to hear from you. It now

allows drivers to tap on an icon in the center screen that pulls up an app that allows you to record a forty five second message. The message is

sent immediately to Ford engineers so they can get customer feedback in real time.

The feedback technology also collects data logus from the car so engineers can get a better understanding of what was going on when the customer recorded their message. So

far, three hundred thousand Ford vehicles are equipped with this feature, and more will get software updates to add it. The company is also working on ways

to provide instant assistance when someone has a problem. Ford has a higher level

of recalls and warranty problems than other automakers, and this clearly is a way to try and fix that. Toyota in ev battery recycler Redwood Materials, are

expanding their partnership. Redwood will supply Toyota with recycled cathode active material and anode

copper that the automaker will use in EVY batteries produced at its new battery plant in North Carolina. The previous deal signed last year was just to recycle batteries

from Toyota's hybrids and eves. The partnership is part of Toyota's plan to create

a closed loop battery ecosystem to reach its goal of carbon neutrality by twenty thirty five. Hyper, a newly independent brand of Chinese automaker GAC, is taking

a page out of Tesla's book and is coming out with an all electric suv with rear galwing doors. The Hyper HT is a mid sized vehicle that's a

little bit bigger than a Tesla Model Y and his rear wheel drive only, with up to three hundred and forty horse power and seven hundred and seventy kilometers or nearly four hundred and eighty miles of range. The model is just hitting

the Chinese market now with a starting price a little under thirty thousand dollars, but the gallwing doors are only available on the top two trims, and the lower one of those starts at just under forty thousand dollars. Automakers have largely

avoided gall wing doors because they add heavy structure to the roof and can be hard to seal. While Hyper is clearly copying Tesla, Tesla certainly wasn't the

first with gall wings. The look was pioneered by the Mercedes three hundred SL

in the early nineteen fifties, and the next most well known application is probably the DeLorean. But also let us know some of your favorite gull wing models.

Dominos is always coming out with unique vehicles to deliver pizza. In the

past, it partnered with Ford and neuro to deliver food with autonomous vehicles, and it teamed up with Chevy to make custom built delivery vehicles based on the Spark and Bolt. And now it's coming out with a custom made electric bike

that has a built in pizza warmer on the back. It's temperature controlled and

stays at a constant sixty eight degrees celsia or one and fifty four degrees fahrenheit.

The bike also has what Domino calls a space age suspension to make sure your toppings don't go flying all over the place. But you won't be seeing

these in the US anytime soon. The e bike was created by Domino's International,

which has stores in Australia, Asia and Europe. That's a rap for

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