Porsche says it will need to do more than build cars moving forward in an age of new mobility. During a recent interview with Autocar, Porsche finance and IT boss Lutz Meschke said that in the future, Porsche customers may buy fewer vehicles and the manufacturer will be forced to explore other business models to […]
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Last month, reports from Germany suggested that the Volkswagen Group plans to reduce overlap between brands, particularly between VW, Seat and Skoda. More specifically, VW Group CEO Herbert Diess aims to boost the VW core brand by reducing internal competition with Seat and Skoda. A way to accomplish that would be to push the Spanish […]
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Chinese technology giant Huawei is set to use its advanced 5G technology to develop radar systems for self-driving vehicles, Reuters reports. Speaking during a recent conference in Beijing, Huawei deputy chairman Xu Zhijun said the company is looking to play a larger role in the automotive industry and will build an “ecosystem” of car-equipped sensors. […]
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Jaguar Land Rover hasn’t been shy about their intentions to launch an assortment of electric vehicles, but most of the attention has been focused on Jaguar which has already introduced the I-Pace. Land Rover is also planning to launch electric vehicles and Autocar reports the first model will arrive in late 2021. The model is […]
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Toyota plans to reveal a new electric vehicle that features a solid state battery at the 2020 Olympics in a bid to showcase the manufacturer’s battery know-how. The Japanese car maker will put the new solid state battery-powered vehicle into production later next year, but rather a regular series-production model, it’ll power the e-Palette electric […]
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Local news has a tendency to be cringeworthy, but the antics of one reporter at a car show will probably make your blood boil. As you can see in this clip posted to Facebook, Angel Cardenas was reporting from the Sacramento International Auto Show on Sunday for Good Day Sacramento. While that’s not too unusual, […]
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Dodge has denied that a recent ‘Easter Egg’ found in press photos for the 2020 Challenger means that the next-generation model will launch in 2023. A few days ago, some speculated that the 2,023-mile (3,256 km) readout pictured on the odometer of the 2020 Challenger indicated that would be when the next model launched. Intrigued […]
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Seat has resumed production yesterday after the Spanish automaker chose to halt output last week due to civil unrest in Barcelona. A company spokesman told Autonews Europe that five production shifts had to be suspended, resulting in roughly 3,500 cars not getting built. The spokesman then added that the automaker will make up the lost […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump dropped another fun little nugget for the media to fact-check, and this time, it was about French automaker Renault. Last week, during a diatribe about trade practices between the U.S. and Europe, Trump claimed that Renault was still shipping cars across the Atlantic, as reported by Autonews Europe. Of course, in […]
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The German parliament has shot down a proposal by the country’s Green Party to introduce a 130 km/h (80 mph) speed limit on unrestricted sections of the Autobahn. Gizmodo reports that the proposal was taken to the Bundestag (that’s the German parliament) for a vote, where it was rejected by a vast majority. In fact, […]
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