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Instead of completely withdrawing from the European market, Mitsubishi finds its Alliance-partner Renault, a savior for its European business. The Japanese manufacturer will propose two Renault-derived models in its European portfolio. After announcing in the middle of last year that […]
The French car brand Peugeot will finally not return to the US. It still had a good reputation across the Atlantic, but in the new Stellantis configuration, there are other brands to push more successfully than the brand of the […]
Second-hand car platform Aramis Auto, controlled by Stellantis, has introduced itself on the UK market by buying CarSupermarket.com. At the same time, it is thinking of going IPO. Aramis has taken a majority share in MotorDepot Ltd., the mother company […]
Porsche increases its stake in the Croatian electric technology and sports car company Rimac Automobili from 15,5 to 24%. At the same time, rumors heighten Porsche’s thinking of an initial public offering (IPO). In 2018, the German luxury carmaker took […]
The Volkswagen brand has presented its ‘Accelerate’ strategy that should speed up its electric plans. Spain will be one of the key factors in this plan to produce EVs and (jointly) produce batteries. Volkswagen’s target is to increase the share […]
As we just closed the first 20 years of the 21st century, the Belgian and Luxembourg Car and Two-wheeler federation Febiac has issued a pocket guide with relevant statistic material on and some (short) analysis of the Belgian car market. […]
Hyundai Motor Co. had recently decided to replace every Kona Electric battery after a series of fires. Today, it also adds Ioniq Electric models and some units of the Elec City e-bus. The company has now found a solution for […]
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV) is consistently trying to advance the development and the implementation of autonomous driving. “With the confirmation of the group’s supervisory board for our Autonomous Driving R&D program, we are setting the course for the future of […]
Of course, the (pandemic) year 2020 has been tough for PSA as FCA (both now fused into Stellantis), but both car manufacturing groups succeeded in not losing money. The new CEO of Stellantis, Carlos Tavares, considers these results to be […]
Volvo Cars is committed to becoming a leader in the fast-growing premium electric car market and becoming a fully electric car company by 2030. By then, the company intends only to sell fully electric cars and phase out any car […]
In the first two months of the year, 24,69% fewer cars were registered than in 2020. Of course, the absence of the Brussels Motor Show has a big influence here. The excellent results of some premium brands like BMW (number […]
The Car of the Year 2021 is the new Toyota Yaris. For the second time, Toyota’s bestseller, produced in the north of France (Valenciennes), is elected the most interesting new car in Europe for 2021. A 59-member jury, composed of […]
A brand new harmonized set of labels for electric vehicles and charging stations will start to be used throughout Europe as of 20 March this year. This will be in line with the EU Directive requirements on the deployment of […]
Markus Duesmann, the CEO of the German car manufacturer Audi, a VW Group member, has declared to Business Insider that Audi Brussels will build the current e-tron’s successor. Actually, Audi Brussels, situated in Forest in the south-west of the Belgian […]
Stellantis, the new company resulting from the FCA/PSA fusion, is taking its first decisions. The Douvrin factory (France) will build batteries in the future; the Vauxhall plant is still under investigation. Meanwhile, Peugeot is refreshing its brand identity and wants […]
The Swedish car manufacturer Volvo and Chinese partner Geely Auto, both owned by Geely Holding, are not going ahead with the announced fusion. They will intensify their collaboration instead, focusing on electrification and autonomous drive. In February last year, Volvo […]
The American car manufacturer Fisker has signed a memorandum of understanding with Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn on building a new ‘revolutionary’ electric vehicle to be on the market at the end of 2023. Both partners will develop an electric vehicle […]
Japanese car manufacturer Toyota has started a program to develop the first ‘fully connected city’ in Japan. It will be a big laboratory for all future technologies like autonomous driving, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI). The city will be called […]
On Tuesday, Mercedes officially unveiled its important new C-Class model, sedan as well as break. The plug-in hybrid version (PHEV) will come in a couple of months. Mercedes promises a high pure electric range of 100 km and unusually fast […]
2020 has been an ‘annus horribilis’ for Renault. It lost € 8 billion last year and the yearly turnover shrunk by 21,7% to € 43,5 billion. Nevertheless, CEO Luca de Meo sees the light at the end of the tunnel […]
Daimler AG’s CEO Ola Kallenius has declared that the latest Denza crossover’s success will determine the Chinese electric-car brand’s prospects following years of lackluster sales. Denza is a joint venture with Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD Co. Ltd. “The cash […]
on Thursday, Daimler AG reported its results for the fiscal year 2020. The company has been suffering from the pandemic, but the final figures are better than expected, and the company is confident that 2021 will be ‘significantly’ better. In […]
The English sports car manufacturer McLaren has just presented its new flagship Artura. It’s a completely new high-performance two-seater coupe that has to represent the sports car of the future. And, of course, one could say, it’s hybrid. The Artura […]
The new CEO of Jaguar Land Rover, Thierry Bolloré (ex-Renault), has just revealed a new global strategy for the Indian-owned British carmaker. JLR wants to ‘reimagine’ itself as an all-electric luxury brand from 2025 and strives to become a net-zero […]
Ford says today that by mid-2026, 100% of its passenger vehicle range in Europe will be zero-emissions capable, which means all-electric or plug-in hybrid. By 2030 the entire Ford portfolio should be fully electric. Similarly, Ford’s entire commercial vehicle range […]
In the global ‘battery war’ that is going on, Europe has been a minor player until now. Almost all batteries (and especially the battery cells) come from China and the rest of South-East Asia, with only one exception: Tesla. But […]
It was a public secret that there would come a coupe derivative of the Volkswagen ID.4 crossover. Now, CEO Ralf Brandstätter himself has confirmed that the ID.5, as said a coupe SUV, will already be launched in the second half […]
In 2012, Opel launched its small SUV, Mokka. In eight years, it sold more than a million of them. The new Mokka lost its X (no 4WD anymore) bit got an e instead, for purely electric. We had the opportunity […]
Europe has its Green Deal, and the US now wants to have its GREEN Act. The latter is not as comprehensive as the Deal is for Europe, but it indeed stresses the new and the old administration’s differences. The Biden […]
Car manufacturer federation Febiac, the federation of car rental companies Renta, and the car sector federation Traxio join forces to create Mobia, a mobility platform that will develop, communicate, defend common views, and provide services to members of the three […]
Toyota, Honda, and Nissan have positively revised their prospects for the current fiscal year and the years to come. And this despite the world-wide shortage of semiconductors that is threatening the whole car industry. Again, Toyota, the number one worldwide […]
Audi has launched the top of the line of its e-tron EV range. The e-tron GT and the even more sporty RS version are two versions of an Audi Gran Turismo sedan. Underneath, it has a lot in common with […]
Carmakers, environmentalists, and consumer groups call on the EU to set ambitious targets per country to deploy electric vehicle charging points. In a joint letter today, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), Transport & Environment (T&E), and the European Consumer […]
French car manufacturer Renault recently presented its plan for the coming years named ‘Renaulution‘. Renault showed pictures of a new version of its Renault 5 icon, completely electric, as a symbol of this ‘revolution’. Apparently, there is a chance that […]
The Swiss federal administration has decided to procure only purely electric vehicles from this year onward. This was stipulated in a directive issued by Federal Councillor Viola Amherd, who is responsible for procurement. The directive includes battery-electric vehicles and fuel […]
