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Slovakian production of Peugeot e-208 picks up steam

April 6, 2019 Chris Randall Syndicated Comments Off

Peugeot has apparently already started production of the e-208. According to media reports, the first vehicle of the new generation Peugeot 208 with an all-electric drive rolled off the assembly line on 27 March at the PSA plant in Trnava, Slovakia. According to the report, the e-208 was the first BEV ever to be produced […]

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ZF new automatic transmissions for BMW

April 4, 2019 Carrie Hampel Syndicated Comments Off

ZF Friedrichshafen has received an order from BMW to supply its advanced 8-speed automatic transmission with a volume in the tens of billions over a long period of time. The latest version of the ZF 8-speed transmission, which has been in production since 2009, is technically optimized for the integration of electric drives. This also […]

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Tesla releases production and delivery numbers

April 4, 2019 Carrie Hampel Syndicated Comments Off

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Tesla delivered around 63,000 vehicles in the first quarter of 2019, including around 50,900 Model 3 and 12,100 Model S and Model X. This corresponds to an increase of 110 per cent compared to the same quarter last year. Compared to the last quarter of 2018, however, this represents a decline of 31 per cent. […]

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Ford’s first EV for China will be a compact SUV

April 4, 2019 Chris Randall Syndicated Comments Off

Shortly after announcing their electrification strategy for Europe, Ford submitted plans for China. Within the next three years, 30 models of the Ford and Lincoln brands are expected to enter the world’s largest car market; only ten of them, however, are electric cars and plug-in hybrids. The Ford Territory BEV, a fully battery-electric compact SUV, […]

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Toyota just released 24,000 hybrid patents

April 3, 2019 Chris Randall Syndicated Comments Off

Toyota has released almost 24,000 patents from over 20 years of hybrid technology development for public domain use. The main focus of the patents lays with core technologies such as electric motors, control units and system controls, which are used in hybrid, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell vehicles. The reasoning behind the publishing was that […]

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Ford presents European electrification plans

April 3, 2019 Chris Randall Syndicated Comments Off

At an event in Amsterdam, Ford presented its European electrification strategy and announced a total of 16 new electrified vehicle models, most of them with hybrid drives. These cover the entire range from personal to commercial vehicles. The new generation of the Kuga compact SUV will be Ford’s first series to offer a choice between […]

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58.4% of all new vehicles in Norway are purely electric

April 2, 2019 Carrie Hampel Syndicated Comments Off

In March, purely electric BEVs achieved a market share of 58.4% among new registrations in Norway, which represents a new record. Specifically, 10,728 battery electric cars were registered, twice as many as in the same month last year. Approximately half of the Norwegian BEV registrations in March were due to the Tesla Model 3 (5,314). […]

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Byton marks 50,000 M-Byte reservations

April 2, 2019 Chris Randall Syndicated Comments Off

Although the vehicle is not yet on the market, but Byton has already received no less than 50,000 reservations for the M byte via the website. Meanwhile, the startup with prototypes of the model completed winter tests in Inner Mongolia. In addition, the new Byton CEO Daniel Kirchert announced the second vehicle platform to a […]

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Indian energy giant JSW abandons entry into EV business

April 1, 2019 Carrie Hampel Syndicated Comments Off

The Indian steel group JSW is surprisingly saying goodbye to its extensive plans to enter the electric vehicle business and now wants to invest in other growth markets instead. JSW justifies its decision with the fact that the uncertainties in connection with the electric vehicle business are “higher than expected”, which is why, after careful […]

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Volvo to reveal an all-electric XC40 later this year

April 1, 2019 Carrie Hampel Syndicated Comments Off

Volvo will introduce the first all-electric version of its XC40 brand compact SUV later this year, which will be the Volvo Car Group’s second BEV after the recently launched Polestar 2. Both electric models are to be launched in 2020. In addition to the all-electric drive, two PHEV options of the compact SUV will also […]

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