VW ID.3 production started earlier this month. Volkswagen Group tweaked its short- and long-term plans today, announcing even more focus and investment in vehicle electrification. While the revised short-term plan, through 2024, has the company investing €60 billion in electric mobility, hybrids, and more, the long-term plans call for the company to launch 75 electric… Continue reading VW Groups Vows To Launch 75 EVs By 2029
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Watch The Ford Mustang Mach-E Livestream Here
See the full reveal live here starting at 8:50 PM EST (5:50 PM PST) on November 17. Ford will officially debut its Mustang Mach-E electric crossover on Sunday, November 17. However, ahead of the official reveal, an overload of details on the Mach-E were mistakenly released by Ford. Before jumping into the leaked info, let… Continue reading Watch The Ford Mustang Mach-E Livestream Here
Thermal Camera Reveals Efficiency Gap Between EV And ICE
Here we can literally see how inefficient internal combustion engine vehicles really are. Fully Charged‘s Dr. Helen Czerski had the opportunity to film electric and internal combustion engine vehicles at the FC Live event earlier this year using FLIR T1K thermal camera, which allows us to see how much energy is wasted. We already know… Continue reading Thermal Camera Reveals Efficiency Gap Between EV And ICE
Renault “must fall back on his feet”: the cry of the heart of the ex-right arm of Carlos Ghosn
Posted on Nov 17, 2019 at 7:00 pm You were close to Carlos Ghosn. How did you experience the scandal? I knew that on the ethical level, Carlos Ghosn was “borderline”, but on small things. I would never have imagined such serious things. A few days after his arrest, Nissan offered to see me the… Continue reading Renault “must fall back on his feet”: the cry of the heart of the ex-right arm of Carlos Ghosn
Ghosn case: twelve months of suffering for Renault and Nissan
Posted on Nov 17, 2019 at 6:00 pm It was a Monday, just a year ago. November 19, 2018, the automotive world is brutally plunged into total amazement. Carlos Ghosn, the icon of the sector, the man who has straightened Nissan and who alone manages three major manufacturers, is arrested by the Japanese police :… Continue reading Ghosn case: twelve months of suffering for Renault and Nissan
‘The Bristol City Council diesel ban is persecuting innocent drivers’
If you live in or need to travel to the bottom-left-hand corner of Britain, you deserve deep sympathy from me and, I suspect, other fair-minded folk who regard freedom of movement as a basic human right. It’s bad enough that the motorway ‘network’ in this quarter of our green and pleasant land is woeful when… Continue reading ‘The Bristol City Council diesel ban is persecuting innocent drivers’
Nissan recalls nearly 400,000 cars in US over potential fire hazard
Nissan Japanese car giant says brake fluid leaking on to a circuit board could ‘in rare instances’ lead to a fire Affected models in the Nissan recall of cars mainly in the US include the 2016-18 Maxima, 2017-19 QX60, 2015-18 Murano and 2017-19 Pathfinder. Photograph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Nissan will recall 394,025 cars in the US… Continue reading Nissan recalls nearly 400,000 cars in US over potential fire hazard
Investments: VW is even more money in electric mobility
Volkswagen wants to further increase the budget for hybridization, electromobility and digitization. In the next four years, just under 60 billion and thus a good 40 percent of all investments in this area will flow. November 16, 2019, 3:32 pm, Michael Linden The ID Crozz before the presentation (Image: Werner Pluta (Golem.de)) Volkswagen sees its… Continue reading Investments: VW is even more money in electric mobility
Airbus-backed tournament unveils first electric racing aircraft
(Reuters) – An Airbus-backed air racing tournament unveiled an electric-powered sports aircraft on Sunday, billed as the world’s first, as the European planemaker seeks to boost its green aerospace technology. Several companies, including U.S. ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N), are working on electric-powered flying cars, amid increasing concerns about the environmental impact of fossil-fuel… Continue reading Airbus-backed tournament unveils first electric racing aircraft
All mod cons: driving Porsche, Jensen and Alfaholics restomods
But it’s the handling that makes it. Before I drove the GTA-R, the man from Alfaholics said it was more rewarding than a Ferrari 430 Scuderia, which I humoured with a ‘well, he would say that’ sort of nod. Yet its balance is so good that I think he’s right. Going into a corner there’s… Continue reading All mod cons: driving Porsche, Jensen and Alfaholics restomods