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FRANKFURT, Germany — Carmakers squeezed between carbon emissions cuts and falling sales of fuel-efficient diesels have used the Frankfurt auto show to spotlight a future generation of electric cars that will largely come too late to help them out of their bind. But elsewhere at the show, suppliers like Valeo and Delphi are lifting the […]
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– Not even low-volume, high-dollar supercars can escape the grips of upcoming emissions restrictions. Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer has declared that “we will be 100 percent hybrid by the middle of the 2020s,” according to a report published by the U.K. newspaper Financial Times and confirmed by the company’s public relations staff. That statement doesn’t exactly mean […]
Not to be left behind after the French government announced a plan to ban the sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040, the UK government has announced that it’s planning a similar move. Initial reports outlined the ban to include everything with an internal combustion engine, but it’s been clarified that hybrids and […]
– The Toyota Prius has been the gold standard of hybrids since the iconic hatchback version debuted in 2004. The Prius has always focused on efficiency first, a formula that has made it king of the hybrids, by far the most popular electrified car in America. It also didn’t have much competition for that title—until […]
The Gothenburg-based company will continue to produce pure combustion-engine Volvos from models launched before that date, but said it would introduce cars across its model line-up that ranged from fully electric cars to plug-in hybrids. Volvo’s plans make it the first major traditional automaker to set a date for the complete phase-out of combustion-engine-only models […]
West Virginia is about to adopt a fee for plug-in vehicle drivers that may cost as much to administer as it will raise in additional road-maintenance funds. The state’s Senate Bill 1006, which was passed earlier this month, indicates that drivers of electric vehicles will pay a fee of $ 200 a year, while plug-in […]
Canadian auto supplier Magna International will produce BMW’s new 5-series plug-in hybrid at its Austrian factory, the company said on Monday, part of a strategy to produce electric cars on a contract basis for global automakers. The BMW 530e plug-in hybrid will be manufactured beginning this summer at Magna’s plant in Graz, Austria, where it […]
(Reuters) — India’s most influential government think-tank has recommended lowering taxes and interest rates for loans on electric vehicles, while capping sales of conventional cars, signalling a dramatic shift in policy in one of the world’s fastest growing auto markets. A draft of the 90-page blueprint, seen by Reuters, also suggests the government opens a […]
– Exploding costs and brutal new emissions laws will do what the Dieselgate emissions scandal couldn’t do–kill off Volkswagen’s small-diesel-engine range, or at least the ones smaller than those it sold in the United States, VW executives are saying. – Volkswagen’s head of development, Frank Welsch, said this week that the next generation of the 1.6-liter […]
