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Cleantechnica: Stellantis Wins #1 & #2 in Europe — Plugin Vehicle Sales Report 002008

With the doom and gloom continuing on the overall European car market, down 21% last month and the lowest April in over 30 years (excluding the Covid-hit April 2020), the European passenger plugin vehicle market has also started to be affected. It dropped 1% last month, with approximately 159,000 plugin vehicles registered in April. Plugin… Continue reading Cleantechnica: Stellantis Wins #1 & #2 in Europe — Plugin Vehicle Sales Report 002008

Clean Technica: Will Rising Lithium Prices Put An End to Trend Toward LFP Battery Cells for EVs?002007

Here’s what the EV scene looked like a few years ago, pre-COVID: the legacy automakers were slow-walking the transition to EVs, producing just enough “compliance cars” to satisfy government regulators, doing nothing to market them, and insisting that customers didn’t want them. Of course, even then everyone knew this wasn’t true — Tesla had already… Continue reading Clean Technica: Will Rising Lithium Prices Put An End to Trend Toward LFP Battery Cells for EVs?002007

Skoda could build Czech ‘gigafactory’ and other VW Group cars

Skoda main production facility in Mladá Boleslav is likely to build cars for other Volkswagen Group brands in the coming years as the company ramps up its electrification programme. Mladá Boleslav currently produces the Skoda Enyaq iV and the Skoda Octavia, and the Czech firm has just opened a new plant there to assemble battery… Continue reading Skoda could build Czech ‘gigafactory’ and other VW Group cars

@VW Group: Audi triumphs in 24-hour anniversary race005113

Audi has won the 50th edition of the 24-hour classic at the Nürburgring: After a spectacular race with numerous overtaking maneuvers, lead changes and a dramatic finale with rain showers, Robin Frijns, Kelvin van der Linde, Dries Vanthoor and Frédéric Vervisch celebrated victory with the Audi R8 LMS from Audi Sport Team Phoenix. It is… Continue reading @VW Group: Audi triumphs in 24-hour anniversary race005113

German FAZ: Former mayor takes his own party by surprise003444

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According to media reports, Volkswagen was faced with investigations into suspected human rights violations in Brazil several years ago. As NDR, SWR and “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reported on Sunday, the allegations relate to the period from 1974 to 1986, when the car manufacturer operated a farm on the edge of the Amazon basin under the name… Continue reading German Handelsblatt: Car company: Apparently investigations against VW in Brazil on human rights violations004372

German Handelsblatt: Interview with the VW boss: Herbert Diess: “We cannot only work with democracies”004370

Am Rande des Weltwirtschaftsforums in Davos trafen sich Handelsblatt-Chefredakteur Sebastian Matthes und VW-Chef Herbert Diess für eine Podcast-Aufnahme: Es war ein Gespräch über das Engagement des Autobauers in China, den Zustand der Weltwirtschaft – und das Geschäftsmodell Deutschlands.Herr Diess, das wichtigste Thema auf dem Weltwirtschaftsforum (WEF) war der kritische Zustand der Weltwirtschaft. Ökonomen haben vor einem Zerbrechen der Welt in… Continue reading German Handelsblatt: Interview with the VW boss: Herbert Diess: “We cannot only work with democracies”004370

@BMW: 24h Nürburgring: BMW M Motorsport teams unable to convert the strong pace of the BMW M4 GT3 into good results.002024

Nürburgring. The 50th edition of the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring (GER) represented the conclusion to the anniversary week for BMW M GmbH. However, the race debut for the BMW M4 GT3 did not go as well as hoped. The BMW M Motorsport teams showed strong pace, but both cars, from ROWE Racing and the… Continue reading @BMW: 24h Nürburgring: BMW M Motorsport teams unable to convert the strong pace of the BMW M4 GT3 into good results.002024

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