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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...
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...
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 German manufacturer hopes to get from banks 20 billion euros. Volkswagen talks with several banks for a bridge loan in amount of 20 billion euros. The funds will be used to create so-called "financial cushion". As explained the insiders, Volkswagen has no problem with finances. However, with the help of a bridge loan the company wants to solve two problems. Firstly, to have new equipment thet can be used as a reserve. Secondly, to improve the image - to show that Volkswagen has the ability to pay, despite of the scandal with diesel engines.According to anonymous sources...
