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News 15 Mar, 2019

We take a passenger ride in the new Tesla Model Y SUV around the SpaceX headquarters in LA

At least a quarter of local authorities in England and Wales have put a brake on the expansion of charging networks for electric vehicles, according to a media report.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it had charged Volkswagen AG, two of its subsidiaries, and its former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, for defrauding US investors, raising billions of dollars through the corporate bond and fixed income markets while making a series of deceptive claims about the environmental impact of the company's "clean diesel" fleet.

VW-Group owned Skoda is planning a big investment in electric charging stations in and around its plants in the Czech Republic. By 2025, it is planning to have installed some 7,000 electric vehicle charge points for use by its employees.

The Nissan Futures event in Hong Kong has brought forward three mobility trends for the Asia and Oceania region: cars as energy assets, the human role in autonomous driving systems and the importance of safety in mobility innovations.

Porsche said it set new records for operating profit, sales revenue, deliveries, and headcount in 2018.

Spain-based supplier company Ficosa is ramping up investment in emerging advanced technologies for the automotive sector.

It's not just Volkswagen Group or Jaguar Land Rover getting caught with embarrassing excess emissions - now comes news Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) will recall about 965,000 petrol vehicles in the US and Canada which do not meet emissions standards.

Toyota will now spend almost US$13bn by 2021 at its US operations and will add about 600 new jobs.

Groupe PSA's Opel brand is returning to the Russian market this year. The brand will initially make three models available at selected Russian dealers - the Grandland X (shipped from Eisenach) as well as the Zafira Life and the Vivaro (from Russian production facilities).

Geely's Volvo Cars is restructuring its executive management team to place technological developments and digitalisation at the core of the company's future strategy, focus on its core global business and adapt to new ways of interacting with customers.

Adhesives specialist Lord Corporation said it would expand operations at its Hueckelhoven, Germany facility at a cost of EUR14m.

Articles 14 Mar, 2019

Volkswagen’s electric future is already mapped out. But how could an electric VW look? We met a group of car design students to find out.

News 14 Mar, 2019

Tuning firm Lister has announced it will build a two-seat, open-top sports car which pays homage to the 1958 Lister ‘Knobbly’ racer

News 14 Mar, 2019

The Toyota Prius is involved in 111 crashes for every 10,000 Priuses on the road; Vauxhall is the most accident-prone brand

SABIC, the chemicals specialist based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has announced new technology for producing lightweight, cost-effective and recyclable vehicle panels using its UDMAX tape, a unidirectional, fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composite.

Investors led by SoftBank Group Corp and Toyota Motor are in talks to invest at least US$1bn into Uber Technologies' self-driving vehicle unit which would value the unit at $5bn to $10bn, two sources told the Reuters news agency.

New minivehicles introduced by the Nissan-Mitsubishi NMKV joint venture will be first in their kei-class segment to offer semi-autonomous driving technology, the automakers said on Thursday.

South Korea's leading automotive components manufacturer, Hyundai Mobis, said it would invest KRW5.5bn (US$4.9m) in Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepGlint, according to local reports.

News 13 Mar, 2019

Several Jaguar Land Rover models to be recalled after it emerged they emit more CO2 than recorded in original certification tests