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GM is slashing more than 14K factory, white collar jobs; may close 5 factories

General Motors will lay off 14,700 factory and white-collar workers in North America and put five plants up for possible closure as it restructures to cut costs and focus more on autonomous and electric vehicles report chron.com.

Source chron.com

Expat Kiwi Dick Bennetts’ prestigious motorsport award

New Zealander Dick Bennetts and the UK-based race team he founded have been recognised with an award from European motorsport industry publication and expo, Professional Motorsport World.

Source/ReadMore https://nzmotorracing.co.nz/2018/11/13/expat-kiwi-dick-bennetts-prestigious-motorsport-award/
Source A NZMotorspport News release

Combustion or electric race car? UC Motorsport says why not both?

For the first time, University of Canterbury Motorsport (UCM) students have designed and built two state-of-the-art race cars to enter in the highly competitive international Formula Student event this summer – one electric race car and the other driven by a more conventional combustion engine.

Source A University of Canterbury release

Hyundai, Kia Motors to develop solar roof charging tech for cars

The solar panels could help to reduce emissions and boost range. Source: Hyundai Motor Group

Hyundai Motor and its affiliate Kia Motors have announced plans to introduce “solar roof” charging technology on selected Hyundai Motor Group vehicles to help meet global regulations targets and improve vehicle fuel efficiency.

Source/ReadMore Manufacturers' Monthly

S5000 exploring Tasman series concept

S5000 cars could be racing in a Tasman style series in Australia and New Zealand

Source A SpeedCafe release

Drive Electric ramps up EV advocacy

Pictured: Norwegian EV Association secretary general Christina Bu.

Electric vehicle advocacy group Drive Electric has been promoting the uptake of EVs in New Zealand on several fronts during recent months.

Source A Drive Electric Advocacy Group release

Kia’s number 1 SUV gets even better

Kia’s best-selling Sportage SUV is now even more desirable as a result of upgrades for 2019 with a refreshed look and more safety equipment as standard.

Source A Kia release

Great South Stories: Collectors

With the help of NZ On-air filmmaker Rupert Mackenzie under the working title 'Great South Stories' has taken cameras out to film an eclectic mix of stories about the lives of interesting characters.

Source/ReadMore A Newsroom release

Electric cars heat tested

Jacanna Customs & Freight reports that Autoterminal Japan (ATJ) has now completed some tests on electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrids using one of the approved heat-treatment chambers.

Source A AutoFile release

Tesla's head of engineering is officially leaving the company as Elon Musk celebrates Model 3 production milestone

Doug Field, Tesla’s head of engineering, won’t return to the company after a taking a leave of absence, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Source/ReadMore Business Insider

The first RAM500 heading for the Fieldays

The first RAM 1500 has come off the Australian production line where the legendary American truck is being remanufactured into right hand drive and it was driven straight into a container heading for the Fieldays at Hamilton and its New Zealand launch on 13 June 2018. At the wheel of the very first RAM 1500 was Roger Zagorski, the Managing Director of Australia’s official factory appointed RAM importer and distributor, the Ateco Group.

Source/ReadMore Voxy

Holden NZ holds the key to solving Australia’s sales crisis

First they took the New Zealand operation's boss … almost immediately afterward, they recalled his predecessor … now they have the local marketing

Source/ReadMore Stuff

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