Tag: Electric car
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…
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…
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…
Pepper Motion wants to convert trucks and buses to electric drives
Munich The high fuel prices could further accelerate the conversion of trucks and buses to electric drives. However, electric trucks are currently hard to come by and expensive to buy…
Company cars are becoming more expensive for companies
Interior view of a car tower in the Autostadt Wolfsburg VW employees now have to wait longer for a new company car. (Photo: imago images/Sven Simon) Dusseldorf Company cars are…
Company cars are becoming more expensive for companies
Interior view of a car tower in the Autostadt Wolfsburg VW employees now have to wait longer for a new company car. (Photo: imago images/Sven Simon) Dusseldorf Company cars are…
Tesla presents record figures – the Shanghai lockdown is a burden
new York He can’t help himself: Tesla boss Elon Musk had actually announced last July that he wanted to stay away from the presentation of the quarterly figures and the…
Tesla stock soars after first-quarter records
new York He can’t help it: Tesla boss Elon Musk had actually announced in July that he wanted to stay away from the presentation of the quarterly figures and the…
Tesla stock soars after first-quarter records
san francisco Despite global supply chain problems and pandemic-related production disruptions in China, the US electric car manufacturer Tesla set new records for profit and revenue at the beginning of…
BMW attacks the Mercedes S-Class
New i7 from BMW The carmaker wants to sell more than 80,000 units per year from the model series in the future. (Photo: BMW) Munich The doors open automatically, the…
Tesla: Quarterly figures – The three most important questions from analysts
Elon Musk at the opening of the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide How quickly will the US group be able to ramp up production? (Photo: IMAGO/Political Moments) Dusseldorf The billion-dollar takeover…