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Lamborghini’s long shot mission to take its super fast cars into the electric age

Amborghini doesn’t just make supercars, it invented them.It’s an insane sounding technological long shot, but this technology could dramatically change the world of high performance cars — if this team of university scientists and auto company engineers can figure it out.Lamborghini’s sister brand Volkswagen — both companies are owned by the Volkswagen Group (VLKAF) — recently set a lap record for an electric car on Germany’s challenging Nurburgring race track with its ID.R electric race car.

Clever mobility app to become FREE NOW, be part of international group launched by Daimler and BMW

Clever’s transformation into FREE NOW will allow Romanian passengers to use a single app to find either a taxi or an alternative transport solution in Romania and over 100 cities in 9 European countries: Germany, UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Austria and Sweden.Drivers will be able to increase their income through the multimodal service platform that connects them both with Romanian passengers and with foreign passengers coming to Romania for tourism or business purposes.

Peugeot Harnessed Family Ties to Woo Fiat After Renault Snub

Late in May, John Elkann was back in Paris. The city had become a frequent destination for the scion of the Italian Fiat clan as he worked to get a combination with Renault SA over the line. But days before announcing the deal, Elkann walked into the apartment in the affluent 16th district of an unusual dinner companion: Robert Peugeot, a descendant of the namesake carmaker and Renault arch rival.

Mazda braces for 30% FY profit drop on falling car sales in US, China: Nikkei

Mazda Motor Corp is facing a drop in annual profit of about 30 per cent as the Japanese automaker struggles with falling sales in the United States and China, its biggest markets, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday.The updated forecast would be almost half the automaker’s previous profit forecast of 110 billion yen.Demand for Mazda vehicles including the Mazda3 sedan and the CX-5 SUV crossover has slumped since the company posted record annual sales of about 1.6 million vehicles in the 2018 financial year.

Volkswagen introduces electric car in Sub-Saharan Africa for 1st time

KIGALI, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) — German automaker Volkswagen (VW) on Tuesday launched a pilot project of its electric car e-Golf in partnership with German technology giant Siemens in Kigali, capital city of Rwanda, which makes Rwanda the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa where VW introduces an electric car.
VW had in June 2018 launched a car assembling plant in Rwanda together with integrated mobility solutions including application-based car-sharing services. The Rwandan plant has an annual capacity of assembling up to 5,000 cars including Polo, Passat and Teramont, and can create up to 1,000 jobs per year.
The success of VW's pioneering mobility solutions business in Rwanda has shown that the central African country has the potential to leapfrog the internal combustion engines into electric cars, said Thomas Schaefer, Chairman and Managing Director of VW Group South Africa at an official launch of the project.
Rwanda becomes the first African country where Volkswagen is testing el..