New Delhi: Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Company, one of the world’s largest tyre manufacturers, and Visolis, a sustainable technology company, Monday announced a collaboration project between the two companies to produce isoprene through the upcycling of bio-based materials. This collaboration is supported by a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant awarded to Visolis earlier this…
Nissan’s pickup truck lineup in the U.S. will be limited to a single model, the mid-size Frontier, after production of the full-size Titan is slated to end in summer 2024. Obviously, offering only one truck is not ideal in the world’s largest market for pickups, so Nissan is looking to add more models in the…
The BMW i3 electric car will get a successor, but without the “polarizing design” of the original, the automaker’s development boss said in a recent interview with Automotive News. “A lot of people liked it, but in the eyes of others the i3 was not a real BMW. A bit of an outsider in the…
The eye-catching, retrolicious all-electric Lancia Delta conversions designed by French motorsport engineering firm GCK Performance burned to a crisp while sitting in the service area during the British round of the World Rallycross Championship (WRX), where Sebastien Loen and Guerlain Chicherit were set to pit them against their rivals in the top RX1e category. Wearing…
Japanese automaker Nissan today unveiled the fourth member of its series of concept vehicles, the Nissan Hyper Punk, set to make its physical debut at the Japan Mobility Show on October 25. Starting today, the digital-3D billboard Cross Shinjuku Vision in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo will show off the four EV concept cars, Nissan…
Rivian appears to be the strongest young EV startup in the United States right now, noticeably outpacing other new brands. According to the registration data from Experian (via Automotive News), Rivian‘s new EV registrations in July amounted to 2,783, which is above the monthly average of 2,596 in the first half of the year. The…
The explosive Hyundai Ioniq 5 N electric hypercar has been priced at $111,000 and received 2200 expressions of interest in Australia ahead of a pe-sale that opens at noon on September 15 for just 12 hours. But here’s the key number you really need to know: Hyundai Australia is confident of importing 1000 Ioniq 5…
In October, the Norwegian car market once again noted a significant 29 percent year-over-year decrease, dropping new registrations down to 8,925. Because of that, the year-to-date result of 104,424 is now deeper into the red at -9.4 percent year-over-year. Despite the fact that people are buying a lower number of new cars, the market is…
Panasonic revealed today that it had to reduce EV battery production at some of its plants in Japan to normalize inventories. According to Reuters and Panasonic’s third-quarter report, the production of automotive batteries in Japan was reduced by 60 percent compared to the second quarter of 2023. That’s a significant step back. It seems that…
Swedish electric performance brand Polestar confirmed the successful start of production of Polestar 4, with first deliveries to customers in China expected before the end of 2023. Official launch in all other Polestar markets is planned for early 2024, with customer deliveries in these markets expected within the same year. The first production car to roll…
