Tag: Electric car
EU wants to decide a clear end for combustion engines
Engine installation at Daimler Car manufacturers will have to adapt. (Photo: REUTERS) Berlin, Brussels From 2035, only cars with electric motors will be allowed in Europe, with no exceptions or…
Minister of Transport Volker Wissing gone astray
Volker Wissing The minister stressed that he should rely on market-based incentives. (Photo: IMAGO/Chris Emil Janssen) Transport Minister Volker Wissing no longer wants to hear about his ministry’s proposals, no…
FDP rejects plans for higher e-car purchase premiums
Volker Wissing In the meantime, the Federal Minister of Transport has also distanced himself from his house’s plans. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) has distanced himself…
Connections to Apple and differences to Netflix
Tesla Model S Plaid The e-car maker is worth more on the stock exchange than the nine largest competitors combined. right? (Photo: Tesla) Dusseldorf, Frankfurt Tech values have been plummeting…
Scrap bonus and 10,800 euros e-car discount
Berlin Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing is planning to use massive subsidies to quickly persuade Germans to buy electric cars. This emerges from a government report in which several research…
Scrap bonus and 10,800 euros e-car discount
Berlin Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing is planning to use massive subsidies to quickly persuade Germans to buy electric cars. This emerges from a government report in which several research…
Challenges to come after record profit
BMW balance sheet check The car manufacturer survived the serious crisis in the course of the corona pandemic well, at least financially. Munich A decent start to the year in…
Electric truck manufacturer delivers first trucks
Nikola truck The first copies have been delivered. (Photo: Nikola Motor) Phoenix, NY Nikola has reached an important milestone: As the electric truck manufacturer from Phoenix, Arizona, founded in 2014,…
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…
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…