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Dashboard summary July 2017

Thanks again Jeff Cobb's team: July 2017 Dashboard

	model	07/15/17	06/15/17	05/15/17	04/15/17
1	Prius Liftback	6034	5476	6064	5802
2	RAV4	4695	3709	4070	3516
3	Niro Hybrid	2763	2188	2660	2939
4	Fusion Hybrid	2191	5697	5671	4509
5	Accord Hybrid	2007	1799	1976	1787
6	Bolt	1971	1642	1566	1292
7	Prius Prime	1645	1619	1908	1819
8	Highlander Hybrid	1528	1478	1514	1663
9	Volt	1518	1745	1817	1807
10	Model S	1500	2200	1700	1200
11	Model X	1400	2100	1800	900
12	Transit Diesel	1299	3789	4830	4025
13	Camry Hybrid	1290	1355	1711	1513
14	Leaf	1283	1506	1392	1063
15	Ioniq Hybrid	1209	1348	1752	1297
16	Colorado Diesel	1021	784	666	753
17	C-Max Hybrid	995	966	880	720
18	Prius C	868	867	1121	1161
19	C-Max Energi	844	936	950	720
20	Prius V	837	773	929	926
21	RX 400 / 450 h	806	655	747	615
22	Sonata	739	741	848	1115
23	Fusion Energi	703	707	1000	905
24	i3	601	567	506	516
25	ES Hybrid	598	481	467	356
26	X5	463	488	433	291
27	CT200h	442	615	825	794
28	MKZ	435	428	588	509
29	Avalon Hybrid	411	352	412	400...

bwilson4web Aug 2, 2017 Read More Replies: 9

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...

bwilson4web Aug 2, 2017 Read More Replies: 0

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...

pilotgrrl Aug 1, 2017 Read More Replies: 3