Nissan this week celebrated a record-breaking milestone as the 500,000th Qashqai rolled off the production line in Sunderland.
Achieving the feat at a rate of a new car every 62 seconds in a record-breaking 21 months, Nissan’s pioneering flagship Crossover has become the fastest ever UK-built vehicle to smash the half million production mark set by the Cortina at 34 months.
European Commission and Parliament officials are moving towards regulating connected cars, but are still a long way off from sealing new legislation on autonomous vehicles.
While the US is very open to having systems running, in Europe legislators are likely to insist a qualified driver is in the car and capable of taking over.
Since 2010 the number of people seriously injured on EU roads has been reduced by just 1.6%, compared to an 18% decrease in the number of road deaths.
Last year the numbers actually went up, by more than 3% compared to the previous year, with at least 203,500 people suffering life-changing injuries.
Bus maker Optare and Mitsubishi’s Outlander hybrid have won this year’s Low Carbon chamions’ awards.
They were named at the annual champions dinner held in association with Cenex and LCV15 in Milton Keynes to celebrate achievement and innovation in low carbon road transport.
Bus operators across England will from be able to bid for a share of £5 million funding to fit buses with green technology and offer better journeys.
The Clean Bus Technology Fund 2015 will allow local authorities to bid for up to £500,000 – enough to retrofit hundreds of buses that will reduce NOx (nitrogen oxides) emissions and improve air quality.
Nearly 12 percent of all crashes over the past year resulted in at least one vehicle being written-off, according to new research by Accident Exchange.
Analysis of 40,000 collisions handled by the accident management firm indicates that across the UK the number of write-offs topped 257,000 in just 12 months – at a cost of £1,968,610,160 and November sees more insurance write-offs than any other month, with the final quarter of the year notching up 30 percent of the annual total. Compared to the summer months with fewest total losses.
Jaguar Land Rover has welcomed nearly 600 new graduates and apprentices to the business this week, the company’s highest intake to date.
With some 2,500 employees having started their careers on Jaguar Land Rover’s graduate, advanced and higher apprentice programmes over the past five years, this year’s intake is the largest to date and more than 100 up on last year.
