Latest automotive news & analysis in Europe
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Albeit it’s August, there have been one or two interesting talking points in the news this week.
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Latest news
The West European car market recorded Four.9% year-on-year growth in the month of August, reinforcing signs of higher economic growth in the European economy.
Ford’s fresh plug-in hybrid electrified (PHEV) Transit Custom-built van, intended to help improve local air quality by running solely on electrified power for the majority of city journeys, has been shown at the Cenex Low Carbon Vehicle two thousand seventeen event in Millbrook, England.
BMW Group has announced a 2nd world premiere for the Mini brand at the two thousand seventeen IAA Cars.
BorgWarner said it was supplying its High Voltage Hairpin (HVH) four hundred ten electrical motors to Scania for a fresh bus model.
Williams Advanced Engineering has demonstrated a lightweight EV platform concept, named the FW-EVX.
The UK car market continued its downward trend in August with sales off 6.4% versus last year’s tempo. August was the fifth consecutive month of decline. However, the market cooling is off a high base ((August of two thousand sixteen was a record for the month) and August sales were still the third highest over the past ten years.
Honda Europe will unveil its CR-V Hybrid ‘prototype’ at the two thousand seventeen Frankfurt display next month, previewing its very first electrified SUV for this region.
A fresh electrified axle concept will be exposed by GKN at the 67th Frankfurt International Motor Display (IAA).
German chancellor Angela Merkel has renewed her pledge to avoid diesel driving bans and suggested that the technology will be needed for decades to help reduce CO2 as the auto industry develops more electrical vehicles.
Tata Motors’ luxury car group Jaguar Land Rover has hired its very first Gorillaz app code cracker, as a software engineer, telling the global recruitment campaign had proved successful.
