Faurecia has signed the letter led by the ‘We Mean Business’ coalition calling on the G20 to maintain the 1.5°C commitment of the Paris Agreement. COP26 is currently being held in Glasgow until 12 November, with all members of the We Mean Business coalition noting they are committed to achieving net zero emissions by mid-century, […]
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Retrac’s demonstrator bonnet Could you tell us a little about Retrac? Retrac is one of the UK’s leading advanced manufacturing specialists. Based in Swindon, we focus on composites and precision metallics for both tooling and component manufacture. It is not just automotive; we serve sectors such as aerospace, defence and marine. It all started with
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Subtlety, thy name is most definitely not Mansory. The German tuner has revealed its latest subject, an Aston Martin DBX outfitted with the company’s signature gaudiness. If you can look past the visual assault, however, the car is notable for being the first tuned DBX. Mansory modified the Aston’s AMG-built twin-turbo 4.0-liter V8 engine with
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Volkswagen on Wednesday teased a prototype version of its ID.Buzz—the all-electric revival of the classic Microbus—which the automaker plans to fully reveal in 2022. The camouflaged ID.Buzz prototype was shown briefly by Klaus Zellmer, VW board member for global sales, during the livestream of the VW ID.5 crossover reveal. Zellmer didn’t have much to say
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Tesla bets on a new 4680-type cylindrical cell format, but according to Lucid’s CEO/CTO Peter Rawlinson. it will not be “this huge breakthrough.” In an interesting IEEE Spectrum article, Peter Rawlinson noted that the larger format and new design has some advantages, including reduced internal resistance and higher volumetric energy density, but it’s better packaging rather
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Lucid celebrates the milestone of delivering first Lucid Air cars to customers on October 30, 2021 with an interesting official video recap of the event. At first, the company delivered a bunch of limited Lucid Air Dream Edition cars (only 520 will be produced and sold and all are reserved). “This weekend, we hosted a California
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The Chevrolet Bolt EV/Chevrolet Bolt EUV production at the Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan recently resumed (on November 1), but only temporarily, for about two weeks. According to Automotive News, the company will take another break for three weeks (between November 15 and December 3). The reason behind the on/off production of the
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Prices of the upcoming 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 in the U.S. remain unknown, but in Canada they just emerged. There are a total five versions of the car available, including two battery options (while in the U.S. there is only the bigger battery option). The MSRP prices according to The Car Guide are: Essential (58
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Sales of new cars, trucks and SUVs were drastically affected in 2020 due to the (still) ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The market started to show signs of recovery toward the end of last year before really coming on strong in the early months of 2021. Of course, then pandemic-related parts and worker shortages along with global
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Italian design house ItalDesign has reached a major milestone. It has finished building the first five examples of the GT-R50, a limited-edition supercar based on the GT-R and developed jointly with Nissan, and it has sent the initial batch of cars to customers around the world. Unveiled as a concept in June 2018, and introduced
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