Toyota Land Cruiser: back to basics
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Aiways: new CEO and change of strategy
New CEO for a new strategy oriented towards foreign markets Aiways has announced the appointment of Hugo Zhu as its new CEO. The latter’s primary mission will be to lead the development of the company and to focus the manufacturer’s activities more on foreign markets. The decision was announced after a “closed meeting of managers…
Amazement! Volvo stops station wagons and sedans
Earlier this summer, Volvo UK already phased out the S90. This time, it is the V60 and V90 station wagons that are no longer configurable. There are only the park models left for those who still want a Swedish station wagon. The Charleston plant in South Carolina (USA) which produces the S60 for Europe has…
Premiere: Pininfarina PURA Vision Concept
Premiere: Pininfarina PURA Vision Concept
€1.5 billion in public money for Prologium in Dunkirk
This subsidy had not yet been officially announced because the French State and ProLogium were waiting for the formal green light from the European Commission to validate the aid from France. The Taiwanese decided to set up his first European battery factory in France and we suspected that there was a substantial public investment to…
Surprise (no) electrics don’t like the cold
As we know, the autonomy of BEVs (battery electric vehicles) depends enormously on weather conditions. In addition to the wind or the rain which play a little on the kilometers covered on a single charge, there is above all the outside temperature. This is why Consumer Reports has launched a long-term test with 4 EVs…
Podcast 263: Automotive Week Essentials
In July, the French market continued its momentum, and rose 20% compared to the same period last year. However Stellantis suffered by losing 7% of its volumes, due to the sharp declines of Peugeot, Citroën and Fiat. On the other hand Renault Group progressed by 30% to more than 32,400 units, getting very close to…
WRC Finland 2023: Evans revives the championship
This rally in Finland had a dramatic Friday (in the Anglo-Saxon sense) with some outings. The first to fall was Tänak who had a technical problem with his Ford Puma. Obviously a stone hit the engine and broke elements such as the casing. Heat engine out, impossible to go further. For M-Sport, Friday continued badly…
Battery cells: Tata tries in vain to free itself from China …
Licensing agreement or equity partnership This is indeed what the Indian media Autocar Professional reports. Depending on the articles of association, it could be a license agreement or even an equity partnership. The precise terms of the collaboration should be decided in the coming months. Either way, the partnership would involve NMC cells for Tata…
The Dacia Spring overtakes the Tesla Model Y in July 2023
Registrations of private electric vehicles numbered 16,867 in July 2023. This is an increase of 32.4% compared to the good month of July 2022. On the utility side, we are at 2,077 with +158.3 %. But the utility market is more volatile and above all lower in absolute value. For private EVs, this represents “only”…