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At the climate negotiations in Paris, Madame Ségolène Royal, the French Minister of Ecology, who keeps the sustainable Development and Energy, explained that she wanted to “create an electric car for the people”. She imagines that the car can be small, light, fast-charging, and with an appearance that “may not look like traditional electric cars”.She also pointed out that the €7000 price tag — which is roughly $10,438 — should be an upper limit, and suggested that the price should be lower than $7300. That's an extraordinary low price ...
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) ordered Audi, Porsche and Volkswagen to recall and repair “illegal” emissions software in more than 15,000 vehicles with 3.0-liter diesel from model years 2009 – 2015 that were sold in California.The automakers have 45 business days from November 25 to put together a recall plan and deliver it to CARB. The order affects about 15,000 California vehicles out of approximately 85,000 sold in the U.S. with diesel engines supplied by Audi.Audi appeared already to be moving toward a recall for the 3.0-liter models. The luxury brand said in a...
According to calculations based on actual monthly sales reported by the manufacturers, the first reports of November auto sales are in.Statistics show that Hyundai, Nissan and Toyota set the pace in November. Gains among major players fell within a narrow range of 0.3 percent at Ford Motor Co. to 3.8 percent at Nissan Motor Co. Hyundai’s 12 percent increase stood out in percentage terms. Hyundai generated sales of 60,007 vehicles, up 12 percent, for its best-ever November. Only American Honda and Volkswagen Group posted a decline in volume. Overall U.S. sales, wi...
Volkswagen Group management reduces the range of possible car model versions and their sets to make up the losses from the emission scandal. This way the German manufacturer hopes to save 1.9 billion euros.The top manager of Volkswagen, Bernd Osterloh, said that this decision, reduce labor costs and complexity, was taken for a long time. Osterloh said reducing the variety of car models and options could enable Volkswagen to "take out costs there on a large scale" without forcing the company to cut jobs, Bloomberg reported. VW has one major U.S. factory, located in Chattanooga, Tenn.V...
Ford is recalling 450,000 cars in the USA for fuel tanks that can crack.Ford has not received any reports of accidents or fires related to this condition."Affected vehicles include certain 2010-2011 Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan vehicles built at Hermosillo Assembly Plant from July 21, 2008 through March 4, 2011."The second recall affects 13 F-650 trucks. The column shifter's park position mechanism may fracture and let the truck roll away unexpectedly. Those 2016 models built in Ohio between July 29 and September 3, 2015 are all located in the US. Fixing the problem will require...
