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After Dieselgate crisis Volkswagen's sales are down and the sellers are frustrated. Volkswagen needs to strike out in a new direction and become a big proponent of electric cars.The VW brand's internal magazine Insight interviewed leader Herbert Diess, who said a "breakthrough" is coming with engineers "developing a special vehicle architecture that foresees the installation of flat batteries."This is a big move, up to now Volkswagen having touted the novel shapes it was making of battery packs to get the most range out of offerings like the e-Golf.Volkswagen seriou...
December promises to be the strongest month in auto sales. It is expected to set an annual record with 17.5 million sales in 2015, according to a monthly sales forecast developed jointly by J.D. Power and LMC Automotive.The car retail sales are projected to reach 1,400,100 units, while total light-vehicle sales are expected to reach 1,712,200, both a 6% increase on a selling-day adjusted basis, compared with December 2014. Both sales volumes are also the highest for any month since July2005, when retail sales hit 1.64 million units and total sales 1.80 million units.“We now have greater ...
Takata Corp. handled their air bag crisis is the very reason why they lost one of their biggest investors, Sawakami Asset Management. He was one of the automotive supplier, 12th largest shareholder, but the firm lost faith in Takata after the management refused to explain what was happening during the crisis. “We could not help feeling the management is not trustworthy,” fund manager Takahiro Kusakari said in an interview from his office in Tokyo. “We felt Takata had a ‘we are needed and our products are needed, so the business will come back and the situation won&...
Boss Ralf Speth plans to grow in business and to have a steady place in automotive industry, rather than enjoying the sales volumes as their German competitors do. “We won’t sell millions, or be high street,” he said about Jaguar Land Rover, which has multiplied its annual car sales to almost half a million since Tata took over the company in 2008. Speth pointed out that BMW sold more in the last period than JLR will in the whole year of 2015. So they still had to compete on a global basis.Speth takes as a target the CO2 vehicles. But before this JLR expands its products...
The Cambridge University proposes to use a new type of batteries - Lithium-oxygen. Cambridge University scientists are working on creating a new type of batteries - Lithium-oxygen. New batteries will significantly increase the cruising range of electric vehicles, and thus will be more profitable to their lithium-ion analogues, according to Financial Times.It is not a secret that the power-reserve is a key for electric vehicles. And, despite of this fact most motorists prefer to buy a car that runs on traditional fuels - gasoline and diesel. However, the invention of scientists from Cambri...
