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Green Car, Blue Highways

Source: http://wardsauto.com/2017-car-management-briefing-seminars/green-car-blue-highways

It’s about 240 miles (386 km) from our suburban Detroit offices to the site of the annual Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars here, and our vehicle of choice, the Chevrolet Bolt EV, has an EPA-official range of 238 miles (383 km).

We could have said “impossible” and walked away from this endeavor, but we like challenges – especially ones that involve long road trips and unique vehicles. So we booked the car, and like a new owner facing the prospect of taking the first extended drive in our all-electric car, we started doing our homework.

It’s important to understand the Bolt EV’s 238-mile range is based on an EPA cycle that includes a mix of city and highway driving, with the highway miles at 5- to 10-mph (8-16 km/h) below the typical freeway limit. We...

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Some Ford hybrids might be susceptible to Hayes modem AT command hacks

It’s 2017 and Hayes AT modem commands can hack luxury cars
Telematics torched in BMWs, Infinitis, Nissan Leaf and some Fords

A bunch of mid-age Ford, Infiniti, Nissan and BMW vehicles are carrying around a vulnerable chipset from Infineon that America's ICS-CERT reckons is easy to exploit.

The BMWs went on sale between 2009 and 2010, the affected Infiniti models were built between 2013 and 2015 and there's a chance Nissan Leafs manufactured between 2011 to 2015 have bugs. A handful of Ford hybrids may also be in trouble.

In IT terms a 2009 product is close to end-of-life; a car that age might still be covered by an extended warranty (and in Australia, by parts of the 10-year statutory warranty).

Infineon's contribution to the problem is a 2G baseband chipset, the S-Gold 2 (part number PMB 8876), used by upstream German vendor Continental to produce telematics control units (TCUs).

The first vulnerability is a stack-based buffer overflow that ICS-CERT...

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Auto parts suppliers in the future

Source: http://wardsauto.com/engines/top-100-auto-suppliers-could-suffer-electrification-shift?NL=WAW-04&Issue=WAW-04_20170731_WAW-04_95&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_3&utm_rid=CPENT000000095975&utm_campaign=13218&utm_medium=email&elq2=866055de6cf44d68878ed6633b34bf3f

. . . some automotive suppliers are being forced to make strategic moves as a result of this huge disruption that potentially will impact the industry.

For example, the SchaefflerGroup supplies 40 to 50 bearings for internal-combustion engines and transmissions. Battery EVs would need only a handful.

“The fact of the matter is that the disruption, whether it happens 10 or 20...

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