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Essential Tips To Keep Your Electric Car In Top Shape

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A significant advantage of an Electric Vehicle (EV) is that it requires less maintenance than conventional vehicles.

Its components experience minor wear and tear, making it a more innovative alternative to transportation. Electric cars will reach 10% of worldwide passenger vehicle sales by 2025 mainly due to their convenience and less maintenance cost.

However, you can only enjoy these benefits if you keep your car in top shape. Here are a few tips you should consider. [Read more…] about Essential Tips To Keep Your Electric Car In Top Shape

Everything you need to know about owning an electric car

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Electric cars were a thing of the future in the not-too-distant past.

Today, several different car manufacturers offer electric cars, and it is common to see them on the road. Even if the only one you know is a Tesla, electric cars are quickly becoming commonplace.

If you go back several years, you will also notice how the prices of electric cars have dropped, making them more enticing and realistic for the average person, instead of just those who can afford higher prices. [Read more…] about Everything you need to know about owning an electric car

5 Ways Car Manufacturers Have Evolved Since the Pandemic

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The Covid-19 pandemic has certainly changed a lot of things, including how people view transportation.

Now, many folks realize the importance of having a car, a secure means of transport that you do not need to share with anybody.

A 2020 survey by Deloitte found that 74 percent of Americans support the idea of owning a car, with 56 percent of public transportation users stating that they intended to stop using public transport during the pandemic. [Read more…] about 5 Ways Car Manufacturers Have Evolved Since the Pandemic

Tesla: Is It Worth Your Money?

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To many, Tesla is a car company that manufactures electric cars or hybrid vehicles. While this is not wrong, the statement does not provide the full picture.

While they do manufacture cars, Tesla is actually an organization that is on a mission to “accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.” Apparently, it sees the production of hybrid vehicles as a significant step in that direction.

Even with such a noble cause, like many other big companies, Tesla is not without controversy. Many of the issues hurled at the company are actually about their CEO Elon Musk who just happens to brush some partners the wrong way with his views. [Read more…] about Tesla: Is It Worth Your Money?

Audi promotes EEBUS for intelligent connection of electric cars and buildings

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Audi is involved in the EEBUS initiative to promote networking across manufacturer and industry boundaries. The Audi e-tron is the first electric car whose charging system uses the new communication standard.

At the “Plugfest E-Mobility” event at the Audi plant in Brussels, developers tested cross-industry compatibility before the EEBUS standard for energy communication is introduced this month.

The electric car will play an important role as a power consumer in the digital energy world. As an energy storage device, the electric car has great potential to drive the energy transition forward and absorb peak loads resulting from regenerative generation.

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Volkswagen focuses more closely on multi-brand plants

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Volkswagen has approved new plant assignment plans, which reflect the challenges of the next five years and lay the necessary foundations.

The plants in Emden and Hanover will be converted to build electric vehicles: models from the ID. family will begin rolling off the assembly lines there from 2022.

In order to serve growth in Europe, the Group will  expand its production capacity post-2022 with an additional plant in Eastern Europe.

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Valeo showcases technology for ‘autonomous, electric and digital revolutions’

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Valeo, one of the world’s largest suppliers of automotive parts, is showcasing its technologies for what it describes as the “autonomous revolution”.

In fact, at this year’s Paris Motor Show, Valeo is demonstrating its latest technological innovations that it says are “at the epicenter of the revolutions that are disrupting mobility as we know it”.  [Read more…] about Valeo showcases technology for ‘autonomous, electric and digital revolutions’

BMW and Great Wall Motor establish joint venture to build Mini electric vehicles in China

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The BMW Group and the Chinese manufacturer Great Wall Motor have signed an agreement to produce Mini electric vehicles through a new 50:50 joint venture based in China. 

During a recent event for autonomous and connected driving attended by China’s Premier Li Keqiang and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, the BMW Group and Great Wall Motor committed to founding a new joint venture, “Spotlight Automotive Limited”, for the development and production of electric vehicles in China.

As well as Mini electric vehicles, the joint venture will also produce electric vehicles for Great Wall Motor.  [Read more…] about BMW and Great Wall Motor establish joint venture to build Mini electric vehicles in China

Renault-Nissan and Dongfeng agree joint venture to develop electric vehicles in China

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The Renault-Nissan Alliance and Dongfeng Motor Group have formed a new joint venture to co-develop and sell electric vehicles in China.

The new joint venture, eGT New Energy Automotive Company, or eGT for short, will focus on the core competencies of each partner and will “harness the full potential of the Renault-Nissan Alliance electric vehicle leadership”, according to the companies.

It will also combine the resources of DFG in the new energy industry, to meet the expectations of the Chinese market.  [Read more…] about Renault-Nissan and Dongfeng agree joint venture to develop electric vehicles in China

Flying cars: A ‘near-term’ vision of a world where people get around in electric and autonomous cars and drones

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Airbus and the German car manufacturer Audi have teamed up to develop what they describe as “real, near-term urban mobility solutions”, which features electric and autonomous cars and drones – sometimes operating together as flying cars (main picture and video below).

Beginning this summer, Airbus – through its on-demand helicopter platform Voom – will partner with Audi to deliver an end-to-end transportation service, starting in São Paulo and Mexico City.

This partnership will provide premium ground transportation serviced by Audi vehicles and helicopter transport via Airbus’ Voom service, allowing customers to have a seamless and ultra-convenient travel experience.  [Read more…] about Flying cars: A ‘near-term’ vision of a world where people get around in electric and autonomous cars and drones