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Tuesday 29 November 2016
Euro electric vehicles to receive charge boost
Four major automakers
have teamed up to create high-power charging points throughout Europe, paving
the way for greater electric vehicle (EV) use.
Torotrak to fit KERS into Caterpillar wheel loader
Torotrak has secured funding
to fit KERS technology into a wheel loader programme in collaboration with
Caterpillar Inc. of Peoria, Illinois.
VW to launche new upper class model
Next March at the Geneva Motor
Show, Volkswagen will launch its new premium saloon, the Arteon, a totally new
model which sits above Passat. Production begins in summer 2017.
Saturday 26 November 2016
JLR seeks to generate 10,000 UK jobs
JaguarLandRover (JLR) is hoping to take advantage
of a UK government pledge to put battery development and electric vehicles at
the heart of its industrial strategy.
Friday 25 November 2016
VW to quit selling diesels in the US
Whoever sanctioned Volkswagen’s ‘dieselgate’ will see the price the company is now
paying as an executive says VW will exit diesel car sales in the US.
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Škoda surpasses production record
Škoda, the butt of many jokes with its post-war rear-engine
oversteering models, has just surpassed the one million mark of vehicles
delivered in 2016.
Ricardo hits record engine output
Ricardo plc claims to have
manufactured over 2,000 engines in the six months to the end of October,
claiming this as a record for the company, and more than achieved in any
previous full year.
Monday 21 November 2016
How will US President-elect Trump react to GHG?
‘Global warming is a
Chinese hoax designed to weaken US manufacturing’, according to US
President-elect Donald Trump. Alan
Bunting asks: So can we expect the incoming Republican administration to scrap
all greenhouse gas (GHG) control legislation?
Saturday 19 November 2016
German-branded pick-ups facing ‘hostile’ US market?
A recent survey by
market research organisation Edmunds.com indicated
an unusually high degree of brand loyalty among North American buyers of
pick-up trucks, writes Alan Bunting.
Wednesday 16 November 2016
Half JLR cars will be electric by 2020
By 2020, JaguarLandRover (JLR) claims it will offer customers the
option of electrification on half of all its new cars.
Is VW’s Amarok pick-up set to bow in the USA?
In May this year, 2018suvs.net proclaimed that Volkswagen Commercial
Vehicles (VCV) would begin marketing the Amarok pick-up truck in the USA in
2017.
Ron Dennis ‘resigns’ as boss of McLaren
Following an exclusive story in one of the UK’s leading newspapers,
the Daily Mail, yesterday, McLaren
Technology Group (MTG) has confirmed the exit of Ron Dennis exit as its chief executive.
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Jaguar to produce I-PACE from 2018
Jaguar will put its I-PACE electric car into production in 2018.
Described as the start of a new era for Jaguar, the company is launching the
car at this month’s Los Angeles auto show.
Monday 14 November 2016
Nissan to sell UK-made QX30 in China
Nissan is to sell the
Infiniti QX30 to buyers in China, however, the car will be made at the
company’s Sunderland, UK plant, where workers already produce its sister Q30
model.
First BYD electric bus order outside London
Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and BYD say
they have won their first electric bus order outside London.
Tuesday 8 November 2016
Any ‘smoke and mirrors’ behind VW’s EA189 ‘fix’?
Does everyone
understand what really lies behind VWs powertrain engineers’ implementation of
their ‘fix’ for the EA189 engines? What is really implied in the ‘fix’?
Saturday 5 November 2016
Software ‘fix’ set to fix VW’s TDI mire
Guess what? Volkswagen AG is relying
on a software ‘fix’ and a ‘flow conditioner’ to provide the “technical solution”
for the 2.6 million vehicles with EA 189 1.6-litre TDI engines.
Wednesday 2 November 2016
New coating saves engine block weight
Grainger &
Worrall (GW) is working in conjunction with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and the
Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) to develop a new type of cylinder block that
uses plasma coatings to reduce the weight and size of engines.
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