California dealership to pay $290,000 to settle environmental violations complaint
Del Grande Dealer Group, in California’s Bay Area, improperly disposed of automotive waste and failed to shred documents with customer information, authorities said.
Jaguar Land Rover production hit by flooding at aluminum suppliers
Supplies of aluminum have been impacted by floods in Switzerland. Porsche, Mercedes, BMW and Audi are also affected.
Pricing, interest rates temper sales rebound
Overall growth is expected to slow in the second half after sales rose 2.2 percent in the first six months of 2024. Analysts say high interest rates and borrowing costs as well as elevated prices are preventing more robust demand.
Lithia increases stake in Pinewood DMS company to more than 25%
Lithia Motors Inc. now owns more than a quarter of the U.K. dealership management system provider Pinewood Technologies following purchases of nearly 5 million shares in the months since its initial minority investment.
SpaceX set for 2nd Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo flight if weather cooperates
SpaceX is back to lending a hand to Northrop Grumman with a planned launch of its Cygnus cargo spacecraft on a resupply mission to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday.
A Falcon 9 rocket topped with Cygnus is set to launch on the NG-21 mission from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 11:29 a.m. with a backup option on Sunday.
The booster is flying for its 10th time and will aim for a recovery landing back on land at Canaveral’s Landing Zone 1, which means the Space Coast and Central Florida could be in line for a sonic boom.
Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts only a 50% chance for good launch conditions, which drops to 10% in the event of a delay to Sunday because of the forecast tropical storm that will be hitting Florida. If it doesn’t fly Saturday or Sunday, teams would stand down Monday and potentially try again on Tuesday or Wednesday.
SpaceX knocks out company’s 50th Space Coast launch of the year
This is the second time SpaceX has flown the Cygnus spacecraft since Northrop Grumman stopped launching them from Virginia in 2023 on their Antares rockets. A new version of Antares with partner Firefly Aerospace is in the works that will use American engines and rocket parts in lieu of the Russian and Ukrainian-supplied parts on the version no longer flying.