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BMW and Daimler allowed to merge on mobility services

December 19, 2018 Carrie Hampel Syndicated Comments Off

After the approval of EU competition authorities, the US antitrust authorities have now also approved the merger of the mobility services of Daimler and BMW. This means that nothing stands in the way of the merger. The planned merger should enable the automotive giants to form a joint venture that will allow both car-makers a sizable chunk […]

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Lightyear solar electric car headed for leasing market

December 18, 2018 Nora Manthey Syndicated Comments Off

The ‘electric car that charges itself’ thus was the slogan Lightyear entered the EV stage with in 2017. The spin-off from the TU Eindhoven’s solar team has been working on their solar EV ever since and has now found a partner in LeasePlan that will help bring the ‘Pioneer Edition’ to consumers by 2020. When […]

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Nio premiers latest electric SUV ES6 in Shanghai

December 17, 2018 Nora Manthey Syndicated Comments Off

The Chinese electric car manufacturer Nio presents its second model. The new ES6 is an electric SUV as well, but more compact and affordable than the ES8. The ES6 will be available as a five-seater or seven-seater and in different performance versions. Nio launched the ES6 in Shanghai this weekend and thus confirmed the specification […]

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Tesla lowers prices in China in line with tariffs

December 17, 2018 Nora Manthey Syndicated Comments Off

A recent drop in the import tariffs for cars from the U.S. (from 40% to 15%) prompted Tesla to reduce prices for some Model S and X electric cars in China. Tesla is thus “discounting” the Model S by 105,000 yuan (approx. 13,500 euros) and the Model X with up to 65,000 yuan (around 8,300 […]

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Audi confirms: e-tron electric car delayed until 2019

December 17, 2018 Nora Manthey Syndicated Comments Off

The year 2018 is almost over, yet the Audi e-tron is still a long time coming. An inquiry by electrive.net finds that there are problems getting type approval and that Audi has to postpone the start of deliveries. Customers are impatient. There had been signs of a delay of the start of series production of […]

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Renault to move Twizy production to South Korea

December 16, 2018 Nora Manthey Syndicated Comments Off

Renault Samsung is following demand as they plan to produce the electric minicar Twizy currently being built in Valladolid, Spain, in Busan, South Korea starting next year. The background is that 60 percent of the cars are sold in Asia. Renault Samsung plans to produce 5,000 Twizys per year in Busan from March 2019 for […]

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XPeng kicks-off sales of Tesla-infused EV for €30,000

December 16, 2018 Nora Manthey Syndicated Comments Off

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Xpeng, formerly known as Xiaopeng of China kicks-off sales of their debut EV G3 as planned. The electric SUV is said to take patented clues from Tesla but has a competitive base price of 227,800 yuan, that’s a little less than 30,000 euros – before subsidies. Xpeng had been working on their first electric vehicle […]

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Electric sports car Qiantu K50 to be made in USA

December 13, 2018 Nora Manthey Syndicated Comments Off

The Chinese carmaker Qiantu Motor has found a partner in the Californian electric vehicle manufacturer Mullen Technologies. They are to homologate, assemble and market the Qiantu K50 electric sports car, a sleek two seater with carbon elements, in North America. We do not expect you to have heard much from any of the two companies. […]

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Tesla production up and set on international expansion

December 13, 2018 Nora Manthey Syndicated Comments Off

Tesla has now produced more than 142,200 Model 3, around 48,000 of them in the current quarter alone, at least according to Bloomberg’s tracker. Meanwhile, the first Superchargers with CCS connectors have appeared. First to the sales of the Model 3, which are not actual numbers but an estimate based on official government sources such […]

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Audi agrees to assemble battery packs in Germany

December 13, 2018 Nora Manthey Syndicated Comments Off

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It has taken them some wrestling but now the Audi management and worker’s council agreed on installing a battery assembly in Ingolstadt. The site thus builds up “competence for future technologies” says the union, that had before managed to convince Audi to build two upcoming electric SUVs here. The timeline has 2021 and 2022 respectively […]

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