During the Center for Automotive Research’s annual Management Briefing Seminars, Dr. Matthias Erb, Chief Engineering Officer North American Region, Volkswagen, presented BUDD-e, Volkswagen’s electric microbus concept during the ...
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Car washing equipment is a must-see exhibit category among others at this year’s Automechanika Frankfurt, staged September 13 through 17 (photo courtesy of UDN.com). The leading international names from the car-wash business will ...
SEAT and Conector have joined forces to launch a specialised startup accelerator in the automotive industry and mobility. SEAT Accelerator by Conector will promote five startups in its initial acceleration programme, with offices in the ...
Hyundai Motor has established Project IONIQ Lab in South Korea for future mobility innovation through research and development. Project IONIQ Lab is part of Hyundai’s Project IONIQ, which itself is a long-term research and ...
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Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has revealed his second part of his self-titled masterplan, which intends to take the automaker to the next level. Musk in his official Tesla blog started by reminding about this first Master Plan where he ...
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Hertz Global Holdings has announced that its Hertz Green Collection - known as Green Traveler Collection in the US - has been launched in Mexico with a fleet of 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid vehicles. Hertz Mexico is the first car rental ...
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Mazda Motor has introduced SKYACTIV-VEHICLE DYNAMICS, a series of new-generation vehicle motion control technologies in its model ranges. The first in the series, G-Vectoring Control, will be introduced across Mazda's entire model range, ...
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Jaguar Land Rover is planning to create a fleet of over 100 research vehicles in the next four years to test autonomous and connected technology, with the first cars due to arrive the streets later this year. The company plan to test the ...
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Germany-based Witt-Gasetechnik has introduced new simple and cost-effective leak detection system designed to detect leaks in packaging and components. The Leak-Master Easy is designed to detect minute leaks in products, components or ...
The Tesla 3 gets nearly double the range of the Nissan Leaf by using nearly double the amount of battery but engineers are using a multitude of work rounds to do better: aerodynamics, light-weighting, even including structural electronics ...
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Automotive and energy storage firm Tesla Motors has offered to acquire SolarCity for about $2.86bn. Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is the major shareholder in both the companies with 19% in Tesla and 22% in SolarCity. The company is ...
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Bentley Motors returns to Goodwood Festival of Speed 2016 with a trio of powerful and luxurious UK debuts. The award-winning Bentayga SUV and new Flying Spur V8 S sedan will demonstrate their performance credentials on the Goodwood hill ...
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Volvo has released the new generation Polestar Performance Optimisation for XC90 T8 Twin Engine The Polestar optimisation increases the performance to 421 hp and 680 Nm and 0-100 km/h in 5.5 seconds, all this with unchanged, class-leading ...
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The all-new 2017 GMC Acadia is being equipped with the Rear Seat Reminder, a new, industry-first feature designed to remind drivers to check the back seat as they exit their vehicle under certain circumstances. GM global safety strategy ...
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Land Rover has released an incredible video showing its Discovery Sport towing three actual train carriages – that’s about 60 times the car’s weight. The diesel-fuelled Discovery Sport towed the 108-tonne train – ...
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