Tag: Electric car
Tesla: Elon Musk calls for job cuts
Elon Musk The Tesla boss calls for a hiring freeze and job cuts. (Photo: AP) san francisco Tesla boss Elon Musk wants to cut about every tenth job. In an…
Tesla: Elon Musk calls for job cuts
Elon Musk The Tesla boss calls for a hiring freeze and job cuts. (Photo: AP) san francisco Tesla boss Elon Musk wants to cut about every tenth job. In an…
BMW restarts production
Munich The BMW Group wants to radically reorganize its production structures. The blueprint for the restart will be the new plant in Hungary, which is scheduled to start production from…
Largest transmission plant in Saarland is to become electric
ZF is on the way to becoming an electrical supplier ZF CEO Wolf-Henning Scheider: Germany’s large transmission specialist must switch to electromobility. (Photo: Reuters) Bochum The southern German automotive supplier…
This is how the legendary brand should be revived
alpha animal With its gullwing doors, the DeLorean Alpha5 is reminiscent of its world-famous role model. Houston The revived car brand DeLorean has unveiled its first new model, the Alpha5.…
Autonomous driving: Three ways to autopilot
Self-Driving Cars The vehicles often behave differently than human drivers in everyday life. (Photo: Getty Images, Unsplash, Adobe Stock) Albuquerque, Los Angeles, New York The Mercedes jerks, then stops. In…
Only short sellers earn from electric car shares
Rivian pickup in front of the Nasdaq The carmaker was celebrated at the IPO – and is only supported. (Photo: Reuters) New York, Dusseldorf It’s difficult to make money in…
Only short sellers still earn money from e-car shares
Rivian pickup in front of the Nasdaq The carmaker was celebrated at the IPO – and is only supported. (Photo: Reuters) New York, Dusseldorf It’s difficult to make money in…
The Japanese remain loyal to the combustion engine
Asia Technonomics In the weekly column we take turns writing about innovation and economic trends in Asia. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy) Tokyo The supporters of electromobility like to rail against the…
Daimler Truck joins Manz for battery technology
Munich In Baden-Württemberg, a new alliance with a signal effect is formed. Daimler Truck, the world’s largest manufacturer of heavy trucks and buses, has secured around ten percent of the…
Congo & Zambia want supply chain in Africa
Zurich At the threshold of electromobility, an African country is moving into the focus of car manufacturers: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the world’s largest producer of…
Let the suppliers live
car industry The auto industry is becoming less profitable. Raw material costs rise and selling prices fall. (Photo: Kostas Koufogiorgos) The ritual is known. The big car manufacturers regularly ask…
Mercedes-Benz removes three cars from its portfolio
Mercedes boss Ola Källenius with the S-Class Anyone who wants to buy a Mercedes in the future will have to pay significantly more for it. (Photo: Bloomberg) Munich Throughout its…
Mercedes-Benz: Automaker paints three compact cars
Mercedes boss Ola Källenius with the S-Class Anyone who wants to buy a Mercedes in the future will have to pay significantly more for it. (Photo: Bloomberg) Munich Throughout its…
Tesla flies out of S&P sustainability index – Musk outraged
Elon Musk The Tesla boss accuses the index provider of having lost its integrity. (Photo: IMAGO/UPI Photo) new York Electric car maker Tesla has been removed from the S&P 500…
CEO expects breakthrough for green hydrogen
hydrogen The demand for green hydrogen is likely to increase immensely in the coming years – Plug Power wants to benefit from this along the entire value chain. (Photo: imago…
Electric G-Class with new battery technology
Mercedes Benz G Class The off-road vehicle, mostly found in the city and often made even more powerful and environmentally harmful by factory tuner AMG, is to be electrified thanks…
Carmaker wants to make lithium supply more sustainable
Electric car from BMW The Munich-based carmaker wants to be ahead of the competition when it comes to new technologies by investing in start-ups. (Photo: Reuters) Munich It is a…
Series production of the Swiss electric Isetta begins
Microlino at the Geneva Motor Show The electric clone of the 1950s cult car, the Isetta, is now being mass-produced for the first time. (Photo: dpa) Zurich The Swiss family…
Mexico: National pride in climate protection – government relies on fossil power
lithium plant Mexico is so far a minor player in the lithium market – in Argentina, the proven quantities of the raw material are around 19 million tons. (Photo: Reuters)…