- Tesla Built the World’s Biggest Battery. Now This Billionaire Has Plans to Beat It – Fortune: South Australia has become a big battery battleground. Not long after Elon Musk’s Tesla built the world’s largest lithium-ion battery-the Hornsdale Power Reserve, which has a rating of 129 megawatt hours-a British industrialist has stepped in with …
- Fiat Chrysler denied bid to dismiss US diesel emission cheating claims – Automotive News: Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s U.S. unit was denied a quick escape from a lawsuit that accuses the automaker of rigging diesel engines with emissions control defeat devices similar to those installed in 11 million Volkswagen Group vehicles. A federal judge…
- Tesla Is Facing a Crucible – Bloomberg: The chief financial officer left abruptly last year in a curious turn of events, where he was replaced by his predecessor: Deepak Ahuja served as Tesla’s CFO from 2008 to 2015 and then took over the job again in March 2017, according to his LinkedIn …
- McLaren 570GT MSO Black Collection launched as limited-run variant – Autocar: The 562bhp supercar gets McLaren Special Operations treatment for a £22,950 premium
- Porsche to Expand Mission E Line as Battery-Car Push Speeds Up – Bloomberg: Porsche’s global deliveries reached a fresh annual record in 2017, rising almost 4 percent to 246,000 cars. Rapid volume growth in recent years has been largely driven by adding the compact Macan sport-utility vehicle to the lineup. Porsche said Friday…
- Life after Ford: Top advertising man Toby Barlow launching new venture – Freep: This week Toby Barlow launched Lafayette American, a small ad team hoping to solve “interesting riddles and puzzles” for clients.
- China may adopt some of Germany’s law on self-driving cars, legal expert says – Automotive News: The Chinese government is evaluating a German law that lays the groundwork for use of self-driving cars, and will likely adopt some of the German rules, a legal expert said. Eric Hilgendorf, who teaches law at the University of Wuerzburg and served on…
- More powerful Renault Zoe R110 to cost £250 more than R90 – Autocar: New R110 motor enables better rolling acceleration with no expected impact on driving range
- PSA targets DS turnaround after Macron endorsement – Automotive News: PSA has also revamped its joint venture with Chinese state-owned automaker Changan following a sales slump for all three of its French brands in the world’s biggest auto market, where DS sold just 6,000 cars last year. Macron, whose inaugural ride…
- Why the Tax Law Might Make Your Car Payments Go Up – New York Times: including the finance arms of carmakers like Toyota and Ford – can borrow billions of dollars by issuing such debt, which are part of a mix of funds they use for loans to customers and car dealerships. It now costs a relatively low-risk company 1.88…
- BMW, Mercedes win with diesels in Korea – Automotive News: It’s only been a couple of weeks since the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang concluded, but for two of Germany’s major premium brands the hunt for gold in South Korea continues. BMW’s and Mercedes-Benz’s sales are booming and, unlike Europe, diesels…
- UK city Birmingham wants further details from Uber before license decision – Reuters: Britain’s second city Birmingham is seeking clarity from Uber [UBER.UL] on its business … Uber, which is fighting to keep its cars on London’s streets after the regulator deemed it unfit to run a taxi service, saw its one-year license in Birmingham…
- Birmingham wants further details from Uber before licence decision – Reuters: Birmingham is seeking clarity from Uber on its business model as it decides whether to renew the taxi app’s licence after granting a … to keep its cars on London’s streets after the regulator deemed it unfit to run a taxi service, saw its one-year…
- Mitsubishi expands reach in compact SUV sector with Eclipse Cross – Automotive News: The car is the last global model to be designed and engineered at Mitsubishi before Nissan took over at the end of 2016. … is the first Mitsubishi in Europe to offer the company’s Smartphone Link Display Audio infotainment system that connects to…
- UK city Birmingham wants further details from Uber before licence decision – Reuters: Britain’s second city Birmingham is seeking clarity from Uber on its business model as it decides whether to renew the taxi app’s licence after granting a temporary extension.
- McLaren: We Won’t Follow Ferrari, Corvette Into the Electric Future – Bloomberg: Last week, in Geneva, McLaren Automotive’s director of global sales said he knew “very little” about the Formula E electric-car racing series that many … McLaren typically unveils limited and one-off versions of its cars, like the Senna GTR, rather…
- BUZZ-India’s Mahindra & Mahindra gains on Jefferies upgrade – Reuters: … ** Up to Thursday’s close, stock had fallen 2.2 pct this year vs. 8 pct drop in the Nifty auto index. Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. 0 : 0. narrow-browser-and-phone; medium-browser-and-portrait-tablet; landscape-tablet;…
- Metal Tycoon to Leapfrog Elon Musk With World’s Biggest Battery – Bloomberg: Sanjeev Gupta plans to snatch the world’s biggest battery crown from Tesla Inc. founder Elon Musk. Simec Zen Energy, controlled by the U.K. executive’s GFG Alliance, agreed to build a 120-megawatt lithium-ion battery at Port Augusta in South Australia,…
- Nissan Leaf SUV will be ‘breakthrough model’ that cracks the mainstream – Autocar: The IMx concept of 2017 offers a clear glimpse of Nissan’s electric SUV Design Europe boss Mamoru Aoki told Autocar that the SUV will stay true to the striking IMx concept
- Toyota Accelerates Use of Hydrogen at its Plants – Toyota: Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announces today that it has deployed 20 fuel cell forklifts, manufactured by Toyota Industries Corporation, at its Motomachi Plant located in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture. It has also built a hydrogen station for…
- Why Uber Drivers Fear for Their Lives in Istanbul – Bloomberg: Cab drivers harass and attack them everywhere in Istanbul,” said 56-year-old Bekir Cambaz, who owns 52 Uber vehicles and two yellow cabs. … These are cheaper: an investor with 30,000 liras of capital pays 15,000 liras a year to operate a fleet of at…
- Honda has built a superbike powered lawn mower – Autocar:
- Chrysler Loses Bid to Dismiss Diesel Emission Cheating Claims – Bloomberg: Fiat Chrysler Automobile NV’s U.S. unit was denied a quick escape from a lawsuit accusing the carmaker of rigging diesel engines with emissions control … The Michigan-based unit of Fiat Chrysler was the first U.S. carmaker to be sued after Wolfsburg,…
- Toyota, Uber in talks on self-driving tech: Nikkei – Reuters: Uber Technologies [UBER. … Without citing sources, the Japanese business daily said that the firms are negotiating a possible deal for Toyota to use Uber’s automated driving technology in one of the automaker’s minivan models, and that Uber CEO Dara…