electric car

Retail Asia20/02/2018

Porsche and Audi, Volkswagen’s main luxury car divisions, plan to develop a joint platform for electric vehicles that will enable them significantly cut down on costs, German newspapers quoted their chief executives as saying. “By 2025, we’re facing a low single-digit billion euro sum to develop the architecture,” Audi CEO Rupert Stadler told both the […]

Retail Asia08/02/2018

One in three people in Southeast Asia admit they consider making the switch to electric cars, a study by Frost & Sullivan has revealed. The research, sponsored by Japanese carmaker Nissan, revealed 37 percent of prospective car buyers in the region may end up buying an electric one. Survey respondents from the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia […]

Retail Asia17/01/2018

Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor Co. plans to transform its upscale Infiniti brand of vehicles into a primarily electrified offering, Chief Executive Hiroto Saikawa said on Tuesday. All new Infiniti models launched from 2021 will be either electric or so-called “e-Power” hybrids, Saikawa told the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit. The announcement revives plans for […]

Retail Asia18/09/2017

India, one of the world’s most polluted nations, has one of the most ambitious plans to kick its fossil fuel addiction. India will roll out nearly 100,000 battery-powered buses and autorickshaws onto its sulphurous city streets in the coming weeks, setting it on the bumpy road to making new vehicle sales all-electric by 2030. Analysts […]

Retail Asia11/09/2017

The new vehicle ‘strengthens’ the firm’s ‘leadership’ in the electric car sector. Japanese giant Nissan Wednesday unveiled a new electric car with an extended range and semi-autonomous driving functions, as it seeks to battle off competitors in a sector it once pioneered. The second-generation Nissan Leaf has a potential range of 400 kilometers (250 miles) […]

Retail Asia03/07/2017

Russian miner Norilsk Nickel wants to expand in the market for materials used to make batteries for the fast-growing electric vehicle (EV) sector, its head of marketing and sales told Reuters. Nornickel, the world’s second-largest nickel producer and a major cobalt producer, and German chemicals company BASF said on Tuesday they were in talks to […]

Retail Asia15/11/2016

BMW wants to boost sales of electric cars by two-thirds next year to 100,000 vehicles as the luxury automaker is offering more battery-powered models, citing Chief Executive Officer Harald Krueger. Munich-based BMW expects to increase its deliveries of fully electric and hybrid vehicles to around 60,000 units this year, Krueger said. Sales of battery-powered BMW […]

Retail Asia05/09/2016

By 2020, Beijing says automakers must meet tough new green standards to cut epic pollution in China’s cities. As domestic firms bet heavily on electric cars to meet that goal, foreign peers are set to stay in a different, petrol-driven gear. In the latest sign of caution from global automakers in China, Germany’s Audi last […]

Retail Asia23/08/2016

Electric vehicle charging companies are calling for independent oversight of the $2 billion Volkswagen AG is required to invest in clean car infrastructure, saying VW should not have the power to shape the nascent electric car charging space. The German automaker agreed to invest the money, which includes $1.2 billion nationally and $800 million in […]

Retail Asia13/06/2016

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Germany’s Daimler will lift the curtain on its much-anticipated long-distance electric car at the Paris Motor Show in October, as the automaker gears up to compete with Tesla Motors Inc’s Model X sport-utility vehicle (SUV). The company will display a prototype of an electric-powered Mercedes car with a 500-kilometre (310 miles) range, Chief Development Officer […]

Retail Asia10/06/2016

BMW has transformed its “i” division into a development center for self-driving cars, a board member told Reuters, a major strategic shift for the unit previously focused on making a family of lightweight electric vehicles. While Tesla’s (TSLA.O) Model 3 will hit showrooms in 2017, and as rivals Porsche and Audi are working on all-electric […]

Retail Asia01/06/2016

Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk gave a public shout-out to the sharpest minds in manufacturing this week, calling on them to come help Tesla Motors Inc build a million all-electric cars a year by 2020. Musk says he is “hell-bent” on making the Silicon Valley automotive upstart a manufacturing powerhouse, but his vision relies on finding […]

Retail Asia31/05/2016

Apple is investigating how to charge electric cars, talking to charging station companies and hiring engineers with expertise in the area, according to people familiar with the matter and a review of LinkedIn profiles. For more than a year, Silicon Valley has been buzzing about Apple’s plan to build an electric car. Now the company […]

Tag: electric car

Porsche, Audi to develop joint electric car platform to save costs

One in Three in Southeast Asia Considers Making the Switch to Electric Cars

Nissan’s Infiniti vehicles to go electric

Rickshaws to jump start India’s all-electric drive

Nissan unveils new electric car in bid to drive off competition

Nornickel bets on battery materials as electric car sales rise

BMW eyes 100,000 electric car sales in 2017

In China’s electric car boom, global automakers select different gear

Electric car charging station companies issue warning over VW settlement

Daimler to unveil long-distance electric car in October

BMW revamps “i” electric car division to focus on self-driving tech

Tesla calls out to build a million all-electric cars a year by 2020

Apple explores charging stations for electric vehicles