Safety and Technology

Ford is taking part in the test of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technology in Ann Arbor Michigan along with General Motors, the US Department of Transportation and University of Michigan. It is the same test that GM is testing in Ann Arb...

The US magazine Consumer Reports is considered one of these most trusted guides for purchasing anything because it attempts to be so unbiased. The magazine takes no advertising and buys everything it tests itself. In its last issue it wrote a cutt...

General Motor has begun a real world test of its Connected Vehicle Development program in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Connected Vehicle Development aims to test vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication that would allow c...

What does the new Ford Fusion Ecoboost and a rocket engine have in common? According to Ford, it uses a BorgWarner turbine wheel made from a superalloy that BorgWarner supplies a larger version of on the fuel pump to launch to Space Shuttle. A...

General Motors has installed an 8.15 megawatt solar panel array at Opel's Rüsselsheim factory. It is one of the largest fields on solar panels in Europe and covers the area of 32 soccer fields. It will create 7.3 million kilowatt hours of...

Opel has begun an on-road test of car-to-car and car-to-environment communication technology around Frankfurt am Main that will run through the end of the year. The test is called the simTD project, which stands for "Safe Intelligent Mobility...

Renault knows it needs to grow outside of Europe. It has just announced that it will increase its engine production in Brazil by 25% by 2013. It is expanding its engine's factory by 5,000 square meters to boost output from 400,000 to 500,...

Ford is developing a virtual factory where it can hone its production process for future vehicles before they ever are physically produced. Ford says that this will allow it to cut costs and improve quality. Ford thinks that it will have the techn...

GM is developing Wi-Fi Direct technology to make four-way stops safer. Wi-Fi Direct is an upcoming technology similar to Bluetooth but with a longer range. One application is exchanging data among vehicles. The data can go between vehicl...

How do you quantify how good an interior is? Of course anyone can look at a car's interior and give an opinion, but that is purely objective. How do you quantify that? Ford has found a way with a new robot that it calls RUTH, Robotized Un...