Author: David Smith

MAN Truck & Bus says it will start mass-producing high-voltage electric batteries for its electric trucks and buses starting in 2025. The company is ready to invest 100 million eurosover the next five years in the Nuremberg, Germany factory which was once famous as a place combustion engine production. The new battery plant will be running with a target to produce more than 100,000 battery systems per year. Initially, MAN staff would manufacture the batteries manually at Nuremberg in small series production for about two and a half years. Large-scale production construction will begin in mid-2023 and last until the…

German car manufacturer, Volkswagen (VW), is targeting to overtake electric car giant Tesla as the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer. Moreover, Tesla is currently facing a shortage of batteries to increase production of electric cars. CEO Herbert Diess said seeing Tesla’s problems with battery supply and the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, it would be an opportunity for VW to increase production of electric cars. He targets VW to surpass Tesla’s production as the largest in the world by 2025. “Elon must simultaneously ramp up two highly complex factories in Austin and Grünheide [near Berlin] — and expand production in…

BMW i3 immediately injected dead. However, BMW has a unique way before permanently discontinuing the production of electric cars. In 2011, BMW launched an electric vehicle project called Project i and the i8 and i3 were born. For the i8, production has been discontinued since 2020. This year it is the turn of the i3 to stop production. However, BMW did not immediately stop production of the i3. This German manufacturer issued the last special edition for the i3. This special edition is called the HomeRun Edition. The number is also very limited, only 10 units in the world. Of…

Setting the target to become a vehicle manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz has prepared a special factory network to produce their electric vehicle portfolio. Mercedes aims to halve carbon emissions per passenger car over the life cycle by the end of this decade compared to 2020. “We are ready for the rapid scaling of electric vehicle volumes,” said Joerg Burzer, board member for production and supply chain Currently, there are four factories set up for the production of electric vehicles, namely in Sindelfingen, Bremen and Rastatt in Germany, as well as the Kecskemet factory in Hungary. The four factories will start producing electric…

Tesla has reportedly managed to increase production of the Model Y at Giga Texas by thousands of units per week – also because a Longe Range version is now being built there in addition to the Standard Range version. In its report, Electrek cites insider sources as saying at least 2,000 Model Ys per week. While other sources say up to 5,000 vehicles per week can be produced at Giga Texas. Until recently, the supply of the new 4680 cells with structural battery packs for the Model Y was considered an obstacle to the acceleration of Model Y production at…

Produced by Stellantis, the Peugeot 408 Hybrid was shown in full yesterday at the opening ceremony in Paris, France. The Peugeot 408 will be the new model in the line-up of the car brand bearing the lion logo. As is known from the previous teaser, the Peugeot 408 looks like a fastback on the back of the body. In terms of performance, the Peugeot 408 is available in a PureTech 130 three-cylinder turbo engine with a capacity of 1,199 cc similar to 2008. This engine is capable of producing 130 hp/5,500 rpm peak power and 230 Nm/1,750 rpm torque which…

ID. The Aero is the first electric sedan from Volkswagen that comes with an aerodynamic shape. This electric sedan has a range of up to 385 miles or 620 km based on the European WLTP. ID. The Aero will be built on VW’s flexible MEB platform, which is also used to power other electric models. Vokswagen claims an ultra-low drag coefficient of 0.23, which puts it on par with other luxury German electric cars in its class, such as the BMW i4 and Mercedes-Benz EQS. VW says the ID Aero will be its flagship in the EV family when it…

Italian commercial vehicle manufacturer Iveco has introduced new technological features of the ‘Iveco On Easy Way’ application platform developed to improve drivers’ lives aboard the Iveco S-Way range of heavy duty trucks. These features are claimed to further enhance the driver and facilitate interaction with the vehicle. This means that with this new feature, Iveco truck drivers can control cab and vehicle management functions on their mobile devices, as well as access many digital services on Iveco On. Fabrizio Conicella, Iveco Digital & Advanced Technologies said that the Iveco On Easy Way App is an excellent example of the manufacturer’s…

The first Hydrogen vehicle was produced by Peugeot late last year (13/12). Peugeot claims it is one of the first manufacturers to offer a hydrogen fuel cell powered version in the commercial vehicle segment. “Hydrogen electric technology enables intensive everyday use without the need for recharging, a defining advantage for professionals in one day having to travel several hundred kilometers on the highway as well as into emission-restricted urban areas,” explains Linda Jackson, CEO of Peugeot. . The technology, called Hydrogen e-Expert, will start production at the end of 2021. The launch is almost 15 months after the launch of…

Volkswagen (VW) has temporarily suspended production for its VW ID.Buzz EV electric car at its Hanover plant, Germany. This temporary cessation of production is due to problems with the quality of electric vehicle batteries. As is known, the VW ID.Buzz EV was first launched in March and quickly became public attention because it has a similar design to the legendary Volkswagen T1 model. According to a report by a German publication Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Volkswagen found some defective battery cells and modules from a new supplier. This resulted in the suspension of ID.Buzz. According to VW, the damage to this…

Daimler Truck has reached its milestone towards sustainable transportation with hydrogen-based propulsion. Since last year, the fuel cell prototype of the Mercedes-Benz GenH2 truck has been undergoing intensive testing both on the internal test track and on public roads. Daimler Truck is now putting another prototype into operation to test the use of liquid hydrogen (Liquid-Hydrogen/LH2) in Worth am Rhein, Germany. This test also received support from the German government, namely Daniela Schmitt as the Minister of Economy of the Rhineland-Palatinate. A newly installed prototype filling station at the development and test center in Wörth can serve as liquid hydrogen…

A series of economic stimulus has boosted the performance of stocks in the electric car sector traded in the United States (US). It even outperformed Tesla’s stock, which is the leader in the electric car market. Bloomberg, Monday (27/6) reported that the stock performance of Nio Inc., XPeng Inc. and Li Auto Inc. each has soared at least 64% over the past month and is one of the highest-earning stocks for Chinese stocks. These conditions reflect positive sentiment after they faced a slump for months on concerns over high market valuations and supply chain bottlenecks. Their gains easily beat Tesla’s…