A few weeks ago, Motoring Weekly wrote about JETCharge and their new charging network that they intend to roll out from Brisbane to Adelaide covering the major road on the east coast of Australia. This is a challenge that Better Place tried some years ago and failed, however the JETCharge concept not only has legs, it has backers and it is at a time when electric vehicle sales … [Read more...]
Jaguar Land Rover Wins Fight Against LandWind
One of the first articles we wrote after converting Motoring Weekly from a podcast into a written form was about the LandWind X7 and how it was a clone of the first series Range Rover Evoque. That was back in December 2014 and mistakenly called a Land Wing - it was still a pre-production model then. Now, over four years later, a Chinese Court has finally ruled that LandWind … [Read more...]
Waymo to Build Complete Autonomous Vehicles
Back in January it was reported that Waymo was partnering with Magna, the contract vehicle builder, to start assembling full autonomous vehicles in Michigan. Magna, based in Canada now owns Magna Steyr, an Austrian company that used to build their own cars however in the last few decades has been building cars for others including Jaguar. At the time, the Michigan Economic … [Read more...]
Jaguar C-X75 Engine
Remember the Jaguar that starred in Spectre, part of the James Bond series of films? The Jaguar C-X75 (named after the anniversary of the company) never made it to production even though it was a leading light in new (at the time) plugin hybrid propulsion systems - that concept ended up reaching the market via Ferrari with their LaFerrari and track based FXX-K models. The … [Read more...]
Industry Ups and Downs
The last few weeks have seen some great news and some bad news for the industry - on two and four wheels. Personal transportation is going through a difficult time yet there are some highlights. On two wheels, The Economist magazine reported that Harley-Davidson is going through a rough patch - not the first in their 116 year history. In the US they have seen sales figures … [Read more...]
