Bosch sees electric, connected cars opening new markets
The rise of electric and Internet-connected cars is helping German auto supplier Bosch to win new customers as it branches into areas such as software and services, a board member told Reuters. Leasing companies, car parks and technology companies are among the markets opening up to the business, Rolf Bulander said in an interview on […]
Los Angeles gets greener with promise to lease more electric vehicles
By Brittany Mejia. Soon, Los Angeles will become even more sustainable with a commitment by Mayor Eric Garcetti and city departments to lease green energy vehicles. Garcetti, speaking at a news conference Friday outside Los Angeles Police Department headquarters, announced a commitment to lease 160 pure battery EV vehicles, which he said will give L.A. […]
Mercedes-Benz preparing Tesla rivals
By Stephen Ottley. German giant Mercedes-Benz is set to launch a multi-pronged attack on Tesla with a new all-electric vehicle with a range of between 400-500km. Mercedes research and development boss Thomas Weber told German publication Auto Motor und Sport that the company was well advanced in its plans for a new range of electric […]
BMW will continue as Formula E sponsor and add new technology
BMW will continue to sponsor Formula E competition this year. The German luxury car manufacturer, who supplied course cars throughout the inaugural Formula E season, will bring a fleet of its highly advanced fully-electric and hybrid vehicles to every race. Its iconic i8 sports car will be the official safety car for the second year […]
Scotland Launches New Electric-Car Incentive: Interest-Free Loans To Buy
By John Voelcker. Incentives to purchase zero-emission cars come in a wild variety of types, from California’s rebates–essentially a four-figure check in the mail–to single-occupant access to carpool lanes. The U.S. government has a Federal income-tax credit of $2,500 to $7,500 for purchase of a plug-in car that varies with the car’s battery pack size. […]
Saab successor hooks up with Dongfeng to build new energy vehicles
by Charles Morris. The future of Saab lies in China. National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), which inherited the Saab brand in 2012, and has been laboring like a mythical Nordic hero to bring it back to life as an EV, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the giant Chinese automaker Dongfeng Motor Corporation. Dongfeng […]
Cars that can drive themselves could be key to cutting commuter congestion
By Kurt Bayer. Cars that can drive themselves, London-like double-decker buses, and road tolls, could be keys to cutting commuter congestion in New Zealand’s major cities, Transport Minister Simon Bridges said today. More work than simply improving roads needs to be done to reduce peak-hour traffic, Mr Bridges said at the New Zealand Council for […]
Audi A3 e-tron hybrid is surprisingly normal
By Peter Louisson. Other than pure EVs, which aren’t exactly common, there’s essentially no car you can buy that doesn’t have some form of internal combustion engine. Typically eco-vehicles have a small economical engine, along with an electric motor and a pathetic battery pack that permits sod-all EV motoring, and then at little more than […]
Electric Car Drivers Tell Ford: We’ll Never Go Back To Gasoline
By Stephen Edelstein. Fully nine out of 10 electric-car drivers say they won’t go back to cars with internal-combustion engines, according to a new Ford survey. The results included responses from 10,000 drivers of both battery-electric cars and plug-in hybrids. It found that 92 percent of battery-electric drivers, and 94 percent of plug-in hybrid drivers, […]
Here’s how Elon Musk gets Tesla to 500,000 cars a year by 2020
By Tom Randall. Tesla’s $31 billion stock value is built on a dream-that a startup might somehow be able to produce a half-million all-electric cars per year by 2020. But a steady drip of production delays and lowered sales forecasts have caused some to question whether his 500,000-car goal is still possible, if it ever […]