Archives for June 2016

Monday morning car news roundup, June 20, 2016

June 20, 2016 By Bertel Schmitt

Friday morning car news roundup, June 17, 2016

June 17, 2016 By Bertel Schmitt

Bring In The BEVs: Volkswagen Tries To Change The Dieselgate Narrative

June 16, 2016 By Bertel Schmitt

Diesel is on its way out, battery electric vehicles are on their way in at Volkswagen, and elsewhere. That is the takeaway from a grand announcement of a new Volkswagen strategy, made at Volkswagen’s Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany, today.

“Regulations will make conventional fuel engines more and more expensive,” Volkswagen CEO Matthias Müller explained to reporters today, and “EV technology is bound to be getting cheaper and cheaper. When those two lines cross …” Müller did not have to finish the sentence. Everybody in the room understood the inevitable.

Thursday morning car news roundup, June 16, 2016

June 16, 2016 By Bertel Schmitt

Toyota’s Prius Chief Engineer Signals Shift Towards Battery Electric Vehicles

June 15, 2016 By Bertel Schmitt

World’s largest carmaker Toyota might change its battery-skeptic position in the near future, a leading engineer of the company said today in Tokyo. “Currently, a lot of electricity is still generated from fossil fuels. But this is shifting, and more and more carbon neutral electricity will be generated,” told me Kouji Toyoshima, Chief Engineer for Toyota’s hybrid Prius range, in an exclusive interview today. “That’s why we would like to use more electricity to power our cars.”

No, Germany Did Not Issue A Death Sentence For Fossil-Fuel Cars

June 15, 2016 By Bertel Schmitt

Electrek is one of the better green websites, and it only occasionally makes mistakes. Yesterday, it made a big mistake that could cost investors a lot of money.

“All new cars mandated to be electric in Germany by 2030,” the website headlined yesterday, announcing that “Germany is about to become the first major country to set an official deadline for a ban on gas-powered cars.” Should you have bought or sold shares on that news, quickly cancel the order. The newsflash is flat out wrong.

Wednesday morning car news roundup, June 15, 2016

June 15, 2016 By Bertel Schmitt

Kampai: Nissan’s Alcohol-Powered System Answers The Big Fuel Cell Question

June 14, 2016 By Bertel Schmitt

Nissan today showed a fuel cell system that could overcome the main drawback of current hydrogen fuel cell systems, namely how to get the hydrogen to the car. Nissan’s system uses readily available ethanol alcohol. An on-board “reformer” the +-converts the ethanol to hydrogen. In the fuel cell stack, the hydrogen is converted to electric power.
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Archives for June 2016

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