Articles tagged "Other"

Geely first announced the Xingyue L Hi-P under the Xingyue L Hi-X name back in December, which is an unusual variant of its Xingyue L SUV. It's a hybrid solution that the company labels as BEV, PHEV and EREV. It may sound contradictory, but Geely...

A market research for September in Germany shows some promising results for the automotive industry in the country. The total amount of cars sold in September 2022 compared to the same month in 2021 grew 14,1% and 19.7% of those are fully...

The pandemic lockdowns, followed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine wrecked havoc on supply chains in several industries and the automobile industry was harshly affected. It forced car makers to cut down on production in a moment when the switch to...

The European car market as a whole is growing for the first time since June 2021, August is the first month to record an increase in the total number of sales of passenger cars. The electric vehicles recorded a 2% growth when compared to the same...

AAA took on the testing of AEB systems because it believed the tests carried out by the IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) - the equivalent of the European NCAP - were not adequate and not representative of real-life...

Pony.ai is a Chinese startup working on self-driving technologies, but having the backing of Toyota and Nio it's not just another potential vaporware. It works with the Chinese carmaker giant SAIC Motor to deliver the first mass-produced robotaxi...

The Chinese EV buyers can relax a little, the EV tax exemption the country was enjoying and which was meant to expire by the end of this year, has been extended for 2023. The government bodies - Ministry of Finance, State Taxation Administration and...

The Chinese automaker, Changan Automobile, is a state-owned company that recently announced its new sedan called Shenlan SL03. It resembles the Tesla's Model 3 beyond the coincidence territory, but it costs almost half as much. The Shenlan SL03...

QCraft has announced its fleet of robotaxis has started operating on the streets of Suzhou in Jiangsu province, China. The autonomous driving startup's system has been developed in-house by the company and is powered by two Nvidia DRIVE Orin chips...

The UK What Car? magazine is trying to answer the same question we all ask - what is the real-life range of an electric car these days? Never mind the manufacturer’s claims or the WLTP or EPA tests - we need real-life, honest results. For the...

First things first - Voyah Free is not a new car, it has been on the market since 2020 and it’s one of the first large electric SUVs out there. Voyah is a brand of DongFeng and in China, it is called Lantu which means a blueprint - a fitting name...

GAC Aion just announced its premium brand Hyper along with its first car - meet the beastly Hyper SSR. It's a fully-electric supercar that challenges Tesla's Roadster by doing 0-100 km/h in just 1.9 seconds. Hyper SSR That's for the...

SVOLT belongs to the group of China’s largest battery manufacturers, it sits comfortably among giants like BYD and CATL. The company was initially just a battery division within the Great Wall Motor, but in 2018 it was spun off as a separate...

Oh the joys of charging your EV at a public DC station, after finding one that actually works and is in a safe spot. Times of public chargers being tucked away at the back of supermarkets or storage units are slowly going away with many retailers...

You've probably heard by now that Xiaomi is looking to expand its business to making self-driving EVs and even showcased its Pilot Technology for self-driving about two months ago. The company's CEO, Lei Jun, thinks that the Chinese tech giant is...

As the electric car adoption speeds up and breaks new records, the raw material suppliers are ringing alarm bells all over the world. Politicians set up ambitious goals, manufacturers promise new cars and new technologies. The emissions-free future...

Dongfeng Motor introduced two new off-road EVs under the Mengshi brand. The two vehicles are named M-Terrain and M-Terrain S. The latter is a single-cabin pickup truck version. And even though the two are introduced as concepts, they are expected to...

Remember the Deus Vayanne hypercar? Well, the firm behind the EV-R platform, which the Vayanne is based on, is planning to offer its platform to small automakers. The company didn't name any brands in particular, but revealed some of the advantages...

Writing about politics is never fun, in fact that’s probably the least interesting thing to write about despite the politics actually affecting our lives a lot. What is even less fun - if that’s possible - is writing about politicians. Sometimes it...

General Motors' joint venture with Wuling Automobile, a Chinese automaker has produced a new cute, city car called Cabrio. As the name implies, it's a convertible and we've been hearing about this model for some time now. The bad news is that...