Tag: car technology
The battery strategies of the German car manufacturers
Electric car from Mercedes The German car manufacturers are pursuing quite different strategies for the procurement of the central batteries. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf, Munich A new technology should make the…
Porsche investment in Group14: New material for batteries
Sports sedan Taycan With new battery materials, Porsche could increase the range and charging speed of its car batteries. Stuttgart, Dusseldorf For new, high-performance batteries, Porsche is again allowed to…
Porsche investment in Group14: New material for batteries
Sports sedan Taycan With new battery materials, Porsche could increase the range and charging speed of its car batteries. Stuttgart, Dusseldorf For new, high-performance batteries, Porsche is again allowed to…
Bosch is investing 500 million euros in green hydrogen
Stuttgart, Dusseldorf The war in Ukraine is disrupting the supply chains, raw material prices are skyrocketing, and the transformation to electromobility is also becoming a financial feat: In this difficult…
The opponent is called Tesla, not Uber
Production at Mercedes-Benz in Sindelfingen The models of the manufacturers are getting bigger and more expensive. (Photo: Daimler AG) Munich In the end, empty phrases remain. BMW did “pioneering work”…
Herbert Diess counters the criticism of the Cariad software unit
Herbert Diess The Volkswagen boss calls on the internal critics in the group to cooperate more with the software unit Cariad. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Volkswagen will work with the US…
BMW and Mercedes sell carsharing to Stellantis
ShareNow BMW and Mercedes are giving up their shared carsharing service. (Photo: dpa) Munich BMW and Mercedes-Benz want to sell their car-sharing service called “Share Now” to their competitor Stellantis.…
German car manufacturers increase sales of e-vehicles by 92 percent
Volkswagen ID.4 in China The Chinese electric car manufacturers have so far grown more dynamically than the Germans. (Photo: Reuters) new York Global sales of fully electric vehicles more than…
For whom an electric car is worthwhile
fast charging station Charging electric cars is cheaper than refueling combustion engines. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Anyone who is currently trying to buy an electric car is usually put off. “This…
Draft climate plan: Tax benefits for fully electric company cars
Berlin The federal government wants to achieve its climate protection goals in the transport sector with an immediate climate protection program. The package includes new funding programs and tax incentives,…
High raw material prices threaten the boom in electric cars
Munich, Zurich For Yann Vincent, head of the Automotive Cells Company (ACC), the matter is quite simple. By the end of the decade, more than two thirds of new cars…
Volkswagen will buy semiconductors from Qualcomm in the future
Dusseldorf In the development of automated driving, Volkswagen is making a long-term commitment to the US chip company Qualcomm. The car manufacturer will use the “System-on-a-Chip” (SoC) specially developed for…
Weak core business – Conti boss Setzer is still waiting for a liberation
Nikolai Setzer The Continental boss continues to try to bring the core business back to profitability. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The liberation does not come. Continental CEO Nikolai Setzer will most…
Investors blame Mercedes for bad CO2 values
Mercedes boss Ola Källenius The automaker urgently needs to improve its green record. (Photo: Reuters) Munich Mercedes-Benz shareholders are torn. On the one hand, they are celebrating a record profit…
Elon Musk sells more Tesla shares for Twitter takeover
Musk sells more Tesla shares The Tesla boss has to provide collateral for the Twitter takeover. (Photo: dpa) austin Tesla boss Elon Musk has sold another large package of shares…
The VW Group and BP load together
The heads of BP and Volkswagen BP CEO Bernard Looney (left) and VW CEO Herbert Diess put the first “Flexpole” charging station into operation in Düsseldorf. (Photo: Volkswagen Group) Dusseldorf…
Digitization: Automation can save jobs
Autonomous transport vehicle from Fernride A single teleoperator can take care of several trucks at the same time. (Photo: Fernride) Entrepreneurs in Germany only have to put words like robots,…
VW and Fernride start teleoperation: remote-controlled trucks in the test
Munich Milos Nesic is sitting in his office, the large screen in front of him shows a parking lot. His office chair: a replica truck seat with a steering wheel,…
Municipalities do not want to operate charging stations
Charging station for e-cars There are still too few charging stations for electric vehicles in Germany. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) must expect resistance to his…
New cars will be ready faster in the future
Dusseldorf, Munich In the automotive industry, the development of a new model follows a strictly predetermined schedule. In the so-called “product development process” (PEP), the individual development steps are sometimes…