Not nearly as important to the ecosystem of the American business, but absolutely vital to the UK and other Europeans is the short range delivery van. This commercial van is the lifeblood of small business deliveries all over the Kingdom, and Arrival is among the first to really apply BEV technology to the so-called white …
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Big Carlos gets congratulated by Little Carlos, while Alonso finishes 13th Three cheers for Carlos Sainz, who’s just achieved his third victory at the Dakar rally. Nope, it’s not junior Carlos, who spent 2019 drawing impressive results out of a McLaren Formula 1 car, but senior Carlos, he of World Rally fame. He, his co-driver Lucas …
It’s all part of the journey from car manufacturer to ‘mobility company’ Toyota Motor Corporation – maker of cars/pickup trucks and the like – has made a $394million investment (around £300m) into Joby Aviation – prospective maker of the flying hexacopter thing you see above. Interesting. Joby’s vehicle is actually described as an electric vertical take-off …
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Foxconn’s Hon Hai Precision Industry are teaming up to build electric vehicles, with a new joint venture planned. The business will initially focus on the Chinese market, it’s suggested, though neither FCA nor Hon Hai are ruling out potentially exporting EVs to other markets later on. For a long time, China …
From Golf GTI and M2 CS to Ford Bronco and Tesla Cybertruck, 2020’s most exciting cars 01、Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk8 So far we know the square root of bugger-all about the new Mk8 GTI, other than the fact it’s definitely happening. We can’t see VW straying too far from the tried-and tested formula, though, so …
It’s like the same thing, only different. Yet another nifty design has come out of Curtiss Motorcycles. Rather than a brand new design, this one is based on the Hades that we saw last year. The evolution of that design is creatively called the Hades 1. Although the fundamentals of the design are the same, …
The 6.75 edition celebrates the now legendary V8 engine Pray silence please, for the Bentley Mulsanne is about to be consigned to the history books. Okay, that may not fill your heart with sorrow – the big Bentley was always a divisive car to look at and a mere pipe dream for us financial mortals …
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Audi’s dinky electric concept has been enjoying the Las Vegas strip Revealed at last year’s Shanghai Motor Show, the AI:ME is one of four autonomous, electric concepts Audi’s shown since 2017. Each one is tailored to a specific kind of driving – the AI:CON is for long-distance cruising, the AI:RACE for, erm, racing, and the …
If you asked any automotive enthusiast their favorite part about a vehicle, their answer wouldn’t be something trivial like a “manual transmission.” It’d definitely be fed-in engine noise, which also happens to be a new feature on the 2020 Honda Civic Type R. Just kidding about that first part. But the latter is unfortunately true. …
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Brake regen is typically associated with electrified cars, converting kinetic energy recovered under braking back into juice for the battery pack. Mazda, however, has been using a system it calls i-ELOOP on a few of its gasoline-powered cars like the 6 to recoup that energy to store in a capacitor and serve in place of …
Mazda Adds A High-Tech Alternator To The MX-5 For A 5 Percent Efficiency Gain Read More »