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HWA has signed Daniel Juncadella as its test and reserve driver for the 2018/19 Formula E season.
Juncadella, who is familiar with HWA after racing for Mercedes in the DTM between 2013-16 and again this season, will support HWA race drivers Gary Paffett and Stoffel Vandoorne.
Read moreYOUR CHOICE: DRIVE ELECTRIC OR GUZZLE GAS FROM SAUDI ARABIA
If there was ever a time to reconsider your gasmobile, it’s now. According to Paul Rauber (via Sierra Club), “The grisly apparent murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul by a hit squad linked to …read more
Audi e-tron seems like a very practical electric car.
Bjørn Nyland recently had his first opportunity to spend some time with the Audi e-tron. It was not yet a test drive, but a quick stationary overview and comparison to the Jaguar I-PACE and Tesla Model X (or even Tesla Model S).
First …read more
How does the electric Tesla stack up against one of the best high-performance sedans?
For every vehicle that even remotely wants to call its self a performance machine, it’s always going to be compared with the ultimate performance sedan: the BMW M3. After all, the M3 is one of the best …read more
Tesla Model 3 will perhaps arrive in the UK sooner than the Hyundai Kona Electric?
An InsideEVs reader sent us a note about the Hyundai Kona Electric delivery guidance in the UK, which significantly changed in the past few weeks (orders book opened on August 2).
Originally, the 39.2 kWh battery version …read more
Pre-season testing for Formula E’s fifth season took place at Valencia last week. Not only did we get a good look at the new Gen2 cars in public action for the first time, but suggestions pointed to a possible shake-up in the competitive order.
You can’t read anything into testing”, “Valencia …read more
Read moreGERMAN AUTOMAKERS ALARMED BY TRANSITION TO ELECTRIC CARS
While excitement grows for electric cars, questions remain. Patrick McGee writes (via Financial Times), “Can Germany survive the ‘iPhone moment’ for cars? The country’s profitable carmakers are being hit quicker than expected by the adoption of electric vehicles… some question whether Das Auto …read more
VinFast to bring electrification to Vietnam
VinFast is a new brand from Vietnam, which unveiled at the 2018 Paris Motor Show its first two conventional cars – the VinFast LUX A2.0 sedan, based on the BMW 5-Series and VinFast LUX SA2.0 SUV, based on the BMW X5. Vehicles were designed by …read more
Automakers turn towards life-cycle loop for batteries.
The times when plug-in electric carmakers were solely purchasing battery cells to produce battery packs is not the case for the future electrification at scale.
Take, for example, BMW, which already has competence in battery module and pack production, energy storage systems (including second-life batteries) …read more
Details continue to trickle out about this bike from the future.
As the run-up to EICMA continues, Arc continues to release a small trickle of details about the Vector, its futuristic electric motorcycle that will be unveiled during the show in Milan, Italy.
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