Lyft has been quietly offering a car-rental service in three California cities. When you book a vehicle in San Francisco, Oakland, or Los Angeles, the company will also offer customers $40 of ride credit to get to and from the pickup location. The company said it’s another way to help stave people off of individual… Continue reading Lyft has been quietly offering a car-rental service in 3 California cities (LYFT)
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Dyson scraps plans for electric car
Dyson, the technology company best known for its vacuum cleaners, has scrapped a project to build electric cars. The firm, headed by British inventor Sir James Dyson, said its engineers had developed a “fantastic electric car” but that it would not hit the roads because it was not “commercially viable”. In an email sent to… Continue reading Dyson scraps plans for electric car
Whisbi Raises €5M in Funding
Whisbi, a Barcelona, Spain-based conversational Sales platform, raised €5M in funding. The round was led by Cipio Partners along existing investors Active & BDMI. The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach. Led by CEO Alex Bisbe, Whisbi offers a Conversational Sales platform to capture, qualify and… Continue reading Whisbi Raises €5M in Funding
IMSA: Porsche pursues titles at the final works campaign with the proven 911 RSR
10/11/2019 Heading to the final round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Road Atlanta (USA), Porsche is poised to clinch the manufacturer, team and driver titles. The North American factory team of the Stuttgart sports car manufacturer tackles the final ten-hour race, dubbed Petit Le Mans, on 12 October holding a clear lead in… Continue reading IMSA: Porsche pursues titles at the final works campaign with the proven 911 RSR
Press Releases – Fuel cell vehicles: EU must act to build up much-needed hydrogen infrastructure
Brussels, 10 October 2019 – The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), Hydrogen Europe and the International Road Transport Union (IRU) are jointly calling on European policy makers to ramp up investments in EU-wide hydrogen refuelling infrastructure for fuel cell electric vehicles. Fuel cell vehicles can contribute positively to the overall decarbonisation agenda of the EU.… Continue reading Press Releases – Fuel cell vehicles: EU must act to build up much-needed hydrogen infrastructure
Press Releases – Thomas Sedran new Chair of ACEA’s Light Commercial Vehicle Committee
Brussels, 8 October 2019 – The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has appointed a new Chairman for its Light Commercial Vehicle General Managers’ Committee: Thomas Sedran, who is also Chairman of the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Board of Management. Light commercial vehicles (LCVs), better known as vans, represent a vital link in Europe’s logistics chain, enabling… Continue reading Press Releases – Thomas Sedran new Chair of ACEA’s Light Commercial Vehicle Committee
Bentley Motors’ Headquarters and Main Plant now CO2 neutral
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VW signals with light, Lexus teases EV, Volvo delegates engine development: Today’s Car News
Volvo is done developing internal-combustion engines. Well, almost; it’s delegating them to a new joint venture with parent Geely. Electrify Canada is pushing out some very high-power fast-charging hardware. Lexus will show the new iteration of an electric city car that’s likely production-bound. And VW is using light to send messages. This and more today at Green Car Reports.
Volkswagen is introducing a new light-based communication feature in its ID 3 electric car—and potentially all ID models—that helps the driver understand alerts and status updates without chimes and warnings.
Electrify Canada is pushing ahead with plans to install 32 high-power DC fast-charging stations by the end of 2020. On Thursday it mapped out more than 20 of those—all 350-kw-enabled—to be installed at Canadian Tire locations starting this year.
Lexus has teased the design of its production-bound all-electric city car, potentially to be shown in concept or prototype form at this month’s upcoming Tokyo Motor Show.
By 2025, half of all Volvos by sales volume are to be battery-electric. But for the other half, which will be hybrids in some form, Volvo still needs internal combustion engines—and this week it merged engine-development operations with its parent Geely.
And car-to-infrastructure technology, or C2X, is being tested in Germany as a way of directing road-maintenance crews to respond quicker to road conditions like ice and snow on roadways—one of many potential important steps toward autonomous-vehicle tech becoming viable.
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Britain’s James Dyson scraps electric car project
* Project was not commercially viable
* Company said the car was a technical success
* Tried but failed to find a buyer
* Will seek to redeploy 500 engineers working on project (Adds further details)
LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) – James Dyson, the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, has cancelled his ambitious plan to build an electric car because the project was not commercially viable.
Dyson said his engineers had built a “fantastic car” and that the project was not being closed due to any failures in research and development.
“However, though we have tried very hard throughout the development process, we simply can no longer see a way to make it commercially viable,” he told staff on Thursday.
The company had tried to find a buyer for the project but had not succeeded, he said.
Dyson announced two years ago that his engineers had been working a on a secret automotive project, building on its expertise in batteries and electric motors to develop a vehicle.
The company bet that its ba..
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