The upcoming second-generation Tourneo Courier will take on a much more significant role for Ford following the death of the Ford Fiesta later this year (and the subsequent exit of the Ford Focus in 2025), effectively becoming its entry-level passenger car. Due to enter production later this year alongside the Ford Puma crossover in Craiova, Romania,… Continue reading New Ford Tourneo Courier becomes firm’s entry model in Europe
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Gentari receives first batch of Tata Ace EVs from 5,000-unit order
Clean energy solutions provider Gentari has received the first 100 Tata Ace EVs from its bulk order placed with Tata Motors last year. In 2022, Gentari, through its affiliated entity Amplus Power Supply, had signed an MoU with Tata Motors for purchase of 5,000 Tata Ace EVs over three years. The MoU includes delivery of 1,000… Continue reading Gentari receives first batch of Tata Ace EVs from 5,000-unit order
Gentari receives first batch of Tata Ace EVs from 5,000-unit order
Clean energy solutions provider Gentari has received the first 100 Tata Ace EVs from its bulk order placed with Tata Motors last year. In 2022, Gentari, through its affiliated entity Amplus Power Supply, had signed an MoU with Tata Motors for purchase of 5,000 Tata Ace EVs over three years. The MoU includes delivery of 1,000… Continue reading Gentari receives first batch of Tata Ace EVs from 5,000-unit order
Mazda joins Japanese consortium for biomass-based next-gen auto fuels
Mazda Motor Corporation has joined the Research Association of Biomass Innovation for Next Generation Automobile Fuels (Research Association’), taking the membership to seven participating companies, all of them Japanese. The Research Association was established on July 1, 2022 to study ways to optimise the process of producing fuel. The six members at the time were… Continue reading Mazda joins Japanese consortium for biomass-based next-gen auto fuels
Daimler Truck and Siemens to build integrated digital engineering platform
Siemens Digital Industries Software and Daimler Truck AG have announced a new collaboration to implement a state-of-the-art digital engineering platform. The new platform is to be built using the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of software and services, which will enable Daimler Truck to explore a future of commercial vehicle innovation and the efficient product development and… Continue reading Daimler Truck and Siemens to build integrated digital engineering platform
Vehicle exhaust filters do not remove ‘ultrafine’ pollution: new study
Filters fitted to vehicle exhaust systems to remove particulate matter pollution have limited impact on ultrafine particles, new research shows. Airborne particles from vehicle emissions are a major contributor to air pollution levels. Exhaust filters designed to mitigate this pollution have been a legal requirement in new cars since 2011, and in heavy duty vehicles… Continue reading Vehicle exhaust filters do not remove ‘ultrafine’ pollution: new study
Diesel should be 150p per litre as wholesale cost falls
Criticism has been thrown at the UK’s top supermarkets, who are selling diesel at an average of 17.5p per litre more than petrol, despite wholesale costs being the same. They’re currently buying up both fuel types at around 114.5ppl yet are selling petrol at an agerage of 146.3ppl and diesel at an average of 164.26ppl. According to the RAC’s Fuel… Continue reading Diesel should be 150p per litre as wholesale cost falls
From the archive: on this day in 1953
Having pulled down an iron curtain over Europe after the war, the USSR became ultra-secretive, regarding even trivial enquiries about its cars from Westerners as industrial espionage. Hence we knew only the little that the few who visited could find. Yet still we were interested, not least because the Soviets claimed to be making great… Continue reading From the archive: on this day in 1953
Autocar magazine 29 March: on sale now
This week in Autocar we reveal details of Alfa Romeo’s electric-only Giulia, get behind the wheel of the facelifted BMW X7 and pit the Ford Ranger Raptor against the Jeep Wrangler. News Alfa Romeo is preparing to become an electric-only brand with an electric SUV to be launched next year and the Giulia range set… Continue reading Autocar magazine 29 March: on sale now
BMW i5: first pictures of electric 5 Series before imminent debut
The new electric BMW i5 is due to be revealed in the coming months, having completed “the ultimate endurance test”. The highly anticipated EV version of the next-generation BMW 5 Series was confirmed for a 2023 launch in January, but only now has Munich released images of the Mercedes-Benz EQE rival undergoing a hardcore testing programme on ice, snow and rough… Continue reading BMW i5: first pictures of electric 5 Series before imminent debut