Status: 06.02.2023 11:30 a.m The Munich automobile group BMW is investing 800 million euros in its plant in San Potosí. Among other things, fully electric cars are to be manufactured there. The group is also pushing ahead with its electrical strategy in other plants. The car manufacturer BMW also wants to build fully electric cars in Mexico from 2027. The group announced on Friday an investment of 800 million euros for the integration of the "New Class" models and for...
Lucid drive for Formula E 469 hp electric motor is only there for energy generation and braking - it is intended to increase safety With the help of the electric motor, racing drivers in motorsport should be able to slow down their car © Lucid The US electric car manufacturer Lucid has developed an electric motor with an output of 469 hp for motorsport. It should brake racing vehicles if necessary and make them safer. At the same time, it...
The electric car market has suffered a heavy setback after the reduction in subsidy premiums. The Association of the Automotive Industry expects a corresponding decline in market share. This should fall by three percentage points to 28 percent in 2023 compared to the previous year, said VDA President Hildegard Müller world on Sunday. The decline is due to the expected slump in sales of plug-in hybrids, i.e. cars with combustion engines and electric motors. Since the turn of the year,...
An electric scooter made in France, but cheaper than its Asian competitors. This is now possible thanks to the concept of “planned sustainability” that a company in Aisne has decided to put into practice.The bet of mob ion, which produces two-wheelers, looks like a small economic revolution. Neighboring the imposing Familistère de Guise, where the utopia of an ideal working-class town took shape in the middle of the 19th century, Mob-ion wants to pioneer a new conception of industrial manufacturing...
Pay up to 60% less for your electrically assisted bicycle (VAE)? Yes, thanks to the "reconditioned"! This is what prompted Toussaint Wattinne and Stéphane Ficaja, two thirty-somethings, former Uber workers, to found Upway at the end of 2021. This French platform buys electric bikes, overhauls and repairs them, and resells them online from 30 to 60% cheaper than new. 20 minutes had met them a few weeks after their launch. While refurbished high-tech products are popular, but also as competition...
The progress is there, even at a slower pace: electric cars accounted for a record 12.1% of new car sales over the year in the EU, compared to 9.1% in 2021, or 1.9% in 2019, according to figures released Wednesday by the Association of European Manufacturers (ACEA). But the road to transition is still long: within 12 years, these same electric cars are supposed to be the only new cars authorized for sale on the continent.In an automobile market hampered...
“We are ready to stop everything if we ever feel that there is no improvement. » At the microphone of BFM-TV, Audrey Gatian, mobility assistant for the city of Marseille, put pressure on self-service scooter operators. And this, as in Paris, where Anne Hidalgo is considering the same possible end of contract but with a citizen vote on their future.Free-floating electric scooters are, among other things, accused of cluttering up public space and particularly the sidewalks, which are already not...
Auto International: ECD Automotive Design makes Defender electric Brit legend with Tesla power ECD Defender Project Morpheus © press-inform - the press office The Land Rover Defender is legendary in Europe and the US alike. For ten years, ECD, based near Orlando, has been giving classic Defender models luxurious equipment and new drives - more and more off-roaders are being converted to Tesla technology. It is not new that historic Land Rover models have been all too willingly converted for...
It was February 23, 1873. The first Nice Carnival paraded through the streets of the city. The event will therefore celebrate its 150th anniversary this year, from February 10 to 26. And for this anniversary edition, the first post-Covid, without an "evolving gauge" as was the case last year, the revelers have concocted a show around the "treasures of the world". The king and queen will parade in particular in Egyptian and Indian universes.The event will also be marked by...
Watch the video: Electric cars on fire - firefighters show how difficult it is to tame a Tesla fire.If the batteries of an electric car catch fire, they are difficult to extinguish. The fire department from Sacramento in the US state of California had to experience this again. Electromobility is currently considered the climate-friendly technology of the future in automotive engineering. However, if the batteries catch fire, they are difficult to extinguish. The fire department from Sacramento in the US...
