Renault is progressing joint ventures with China’s Geely car business after apparently easing its association with Nissan, of Japan.
The new partnership is commencing production of models in Brazil but its unclear if any versions will be exported.
A survey of over 3,600 Decathlon shoppers found that EV drivers were more likely to do cardio-intensive sports than their petrol and diesel counterparts, such as swimming (57% vs 52%), running (51% vs 46%) and cycling (69% vs 61%).
The research for Be.EV also found they’re more likely to be adrenaline junkies, as EV drivers listed several spots such as skydiving, cold water swimming and CrossFit, that no ICE driver mentioned.
A consortium of five industry partners has successfully completed the UK’s latest autonomous driving (AD) research project – the most rigorous ever in the country.
evolvAD builds on previous Nissan-backed projects in the UK – HumanDrive and ServCity – bringing autonomous mobility closer to reality as part of the company’s global vision for a safer, cleaner and more inclusive world and ends an intensive eight-year period during which more than 16,000 autonomous miles were driven across the country’s motorways, urban centres, residential streets and countryside, with zero accidents.
