The Government is being “misguided” by science according to road safety experts concerned at the planned permission of assisted driving on motorways. Responding to the UK Government’s announcement yesterday around paving the way for Automated Driving, Thatcham Research and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) are urging caution. “There is … [Read more...]
Tradelines 28 April
Swansea University is celebrating a landmark 50,000 journeys being made by the Santander Cycles bike share scheme – proving how the scheme has gone from strength to strength in the city since its launch in July 2018. The convenient and affordable city-wide scheme run by leading bikeshare provider nextbike, in conjunction with Santander and Swansea … [Read more...]
Newslines 23 April
To complement Nissan’s range of striking crossovers, 2022 will see the introduction of the fourth generation all-new X-Trail, whose world debut took place at Auto Shanghai 2021 this week. Like its cousin the All-New Qashqai, it will be based upon the Alliance CMF-C platform, which is the highly advanced architecture which was designed to accommodate … [Read more...]
Analysts at IHS Markit see big swings for EVs
Many markets will become pure BEV/ZEV sales markets by 2040 at the latest with only few exceptions, according to IHS Markit estimates. The ICE sales era in Europe will be replaced by the BEV sales era between 2035 and 2040. In China, IHS Markit expects New Energy Vehicles (NEV) sales targets to be around 40% by 2030, greater than 50% by 2035 and up to 100% … [Read more...]
Morgan 4/4 & Triumph Stag go electric
Classic car electrification company Electrogenic has finalised two ‘World First’ conversions of classic vehicles to electric power. The Oxford-based leader in classic car EV technology takes beautiful classic cars and sympathetically converts them to electric power using its proprietary EV engineering and technology. It’s announced two … [Read more...]
Britain’s roads are falling apart & motorists pay the price
Despite the lockdown, RAC patrols went to the aid of a staggering 4,694 drivers as a result of hitting a pothole in Q1 2021 – the equivalent of 52 drivers every day. Incredibly, this represents a three-fold increase in the number of pothole-related breakdowns from the last quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2021, up 3,233 from 1,461 in Q4 2020 and is … [Read more...]
MG Cyberster concept on show this month
If you thought MG was a boring brand, take a look at their concept for a future sports model, the Cyberster. Just days after revealing design renderings, MG has released the first official photographs of its Cyberster concept car, which will be making its debut at the Shanghai Auto Show 21-28 April. The Cyberster - developed by the team at the MG Advanced … [Read more...]
Leading Welsh automotive engineer dies
Global leading Welsh automotive engineer Prof Richard Parry-Jones CBE has died following an accident at his home on Friday morning. The current chairman of the Welsh Automotive Forum was born in 1951 in Bangor and rose to become Group Vice-President-Global Product Development, Chief Technical Officer and Head of Global R&D Operations at Ford Motor … [Read more...]
Dacia Sandero slammed over safety risks
In the latest round of new vehicle assessments, Euro NCAP tests highlighted some major safety flaws with the Dacia Sandero after it only scored a two-star Euro NCAP Safety Rating. Euro NCAP's fully-transparent testing protocols were overhauled in 2020 and are the toughest and the most exacting ever, ensuring European vehicles remain the … [Read more...]
Van supply is harming attempts to meet CAZ limits
Poor availability of new vans is hampering some fleets in their efforts to become compliant with new Clean Air Zones, reports FleetCheck. With the Bath CAZ already in place and Birmingham and Bristol to follow, as well as the upgraded London Low Emissions Zone (LEZ) now in effect, the fleet software specialist says that some businesses are only now starting … [Read more...]
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