Over the last few weeks, Motoring Weekly has been publishing articles about the companies behind the scenes of autonomous vehicle development. Most are unknown to the general public, however this article covers a name that everyone knows about: BMW. Firstly though, it is important to define what “autonomous” means and the levels of autonomy that the industry has agreed on - … [Read more...]
German Study Finds Electric Cars are not Emission Free
I suppose we have been waiting for this type of study to be released. Thanks to several cities announcing that they will ban all carbon-fuelled vehicles within 15 years and the VW “Dieselgate” scandal where emissions were found to be higher in real world usage than the testing suggested - Motoring Weekly has written many articles on this - electric cars have become the next … [Read more...]
Volkswagen Electric Buggy
Volkswagen is working hard these days to get away from all the emissions problems that they have been embroiled in. Recently, three of the VW Group were charged with collusion over more emissions related issues - other than the main testing scandal. So to refocus the market, the company has showcased an electric microbus and they have also now shown an electric dune … [Read more...]
German Manufacturers Charged with Collusion
Well this is a damaging blow to the “vorsprung durch technik” aka progress through technology line spun by one German manufacturer. The EU has expanded on the VW Group emissions testing scandal by laying more charges against VW, Audi and Porsche along with BMW and Mercedes-Benz, in other words, pretty much all of Germany’s mainstream manufacturers! In the original issue, … [Read more...]
Audi Q4 e-tron Concept
Audi has shown its Q4 e-tron concept that they would like to be the entry level electric vehicle. It is basically a small SUV, in the mould of a Jaguar i-pace or a Tesla Model 3. It will be powered by two electric motors producing the equivalent of 225kW and like other electric cars recently announced, it will be an all-wheel-drive unit thanks to one motor at each end of the … [Read more...]
