That’s the conclusion of a global energy report released this week. Car buyers’ demand for SUVs is preventing improvements in engine technology from reducing global vehicle CO2 emissions, according to a new report. The publication, released this week by the International Energy Agency (IEA), says the growing popularity of the high-riding vehicles is partly to… Continue reading Consumers’ Thirst For SUVs Is Undoing Electric Car Emissions Reductions
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China Roundup: Alibaba’s Hong Kong listing and Tencent’s new fuel
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The earnings season is here. This week, long-time archrivals in the Chinese internet battlefield — Alibaba and Tencent — made some big revelations about their… Continue reading China Roundup: Alibaba’s Hong Kong listing and Tencent’s new fuel
“VW does not want to argue with customers”
Mrs de Lind van Wijngaarden, at the beginning of the pattern-finding suit at the end of September, you said: “A comparison is hard to imagine today”. Has anything changed? De Lind van Wijngaarden: No. Because we still have no current, complete excerpt from the complaints register of the Federal Office of Justice before. We only… Continue reading “VW does not want to argue with customers”
Japan between liberalism and protectionist temptations
Is that right? In some respects the Rising Sun is already changing its approach to the outside world: there are those who speak of “fourth opening to the world” (after those of the late sixteenth, mid-nineteenth and post-war years), which finds its symbols in the transition from the mercantilist line of past decades to the… Continue reading Japan between liberalism and protectionist temptations
VW Groups Vows To Launch 75 EVs By 2029
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
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’
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