Mazda recently made an announcement about its future with regards to power units. It was an announcement that helped the industry know what their plans were and how they were going to achieve them. Mazda has been one of the last manufacturers to say what they were going to do because they were seen as the last bastion of the internal combustion engine with their SkyActiv-G … [Read more...]
Honda Joins SoftBank in GM Cruise Automation
It is an interesting time in the automotive industry with lots of money sloshing around trying to find a profitable home to make lots of future money. A few weeks ago Motoring Weekly ran an article about SoftBank, a Japanese investment company buying a stake in General Motors Cruise Automation business. They committed to put in $2.2B in investment. GM spent a mere $1B on … [Read more...]
Prince Motor Company
This is a brief 14 year manufacturing history of the Prince Motor Company and will cover some of the weapons this manufacturer produced: one an aircraft and the second one would become the Nissan Skyline. In 1924 the Ishikawajima Shipyards branched out into aircraft manufacturing. Many car manufacturers in Japan followed this path starting in ship building before … [Read more...]
Nissan/Infiniti Variable Compression Engine
The evolution of the internal combustion engine is still ongoing despite vast quantities of funding moving towards electric motors. The focus for most manufacturers is to get as much power out of each sip of fuel. Over the years, engines have had extra kit added on to the simple base unit of cylinders that sucked in a fuel/air mix and ignited it. In the early days it was … [Read more...]
Most Ride Share Companies Are Related
There are many, many ride sharing companies springing up across the globe. Several are now household names in many cities: Uber in many countries, Lyft in the US, Didi Chuxing in China and Ola in India. For South East Asia, many people know of - and use - Grab whilst in Brazil it is a company called 99. Many of the established companies own stakes in the others: Uber had for … [Read more...]