Industry News
Haven’t Tesla already phased out ICE powerplants? In actuality Tesla manufactures pure electric cars, we all know that of course. But Volvo was the first of the major premium car brands to unequivocally state that for...
By Giles Milner
May 16, 2018
It’s all about the money, pure and simple and let me tell you why. As early as 2011 BMW knew of customer complaints that some of its cars were suffering from an electrical issue that...
By Peter Fitch
May 11, 2018
In March Toyota announced the cessation of all new diesel car sales by the end of 2018 within Europe, diesel sales account for 10 percent of its year-on-year sales. Well, not all diesel-powered cars, large SUV’s...
By James Broughton
May 9, 2018
Geely is getting mixed messages from Daimler Benz, maker of the Mercedes brand, on the one hand, the Daimler CEO is publically welcoming the new shareholding from a rival Chinese auto brand. On the other...
By Giles Milner
March 9, 2018
Looks like VW were not the only one’s fiddling around with so-called defeat software to enable them to pass/cheat emissions testing and therefore get clearance from regulators to sell vehicles with lower than claimed levels of emissions....
By Peter Fitch
February 19, 2018
In a bizarre twist to VW’s emissions cheating scandal, where VW fixed the results of diesel testing to comply with strict emission laws, another plot twist has developed one that could resemble a comedy sketch...
By Chris Ward
January 29, 2018