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Hyundai and Kia join Ionity high power charging network for EVs in Europe

autherAutocar Professional Bureau     calendar09 Sep 2019

Hyundai and Kia join two-year-old high-power-charging network which has BMW Group, Ford Motor Company, Daimler and the Volkswagen Group with Porsche as its members.

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Plastic Omnium invests in VC fund dedicated to hydrogen and fuel cells

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar07 Sep 2019

The investment comes shortly after the company has opened two new R&D centres in Brussels and Wuhan to conduct advance...

Volkswagen and Northvolt ink JV to set up li-ion battery gigafactory in Germany

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar07 Sep 2019

Start of production is planned for the end of 2023/beginning of 2024; iInitial annual output to be 16 GWh

Ricardo and CNH Industrial develop biomethane-powered tractor

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar07 Sep 2019

Work for CNH Industrial by Ricardo forms part of the APC UK-funded Low Carbon Tractor (LoCT) project, which aims to de...

Mercedes-Benz to supply 130 Citaro hybrid low-floor buses to Bucharest

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar07 Sep 2019

The Romanian capital city of Bucharest has been using the Mercedes-Benz Citaro since the past decade.

Porsche increases stake in Rimac Automobili to 15.5%

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar06 Sep 2019

German carmaker buys another 5.5% equity; new investment will contribute to rapid pace of development at Rimac, which ...

Kia Motors appoints Karim Habib as senior VP and head of design centre

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar06 Sep 2019

Habib, who will be based at Kia’s Design Center in Namyang, Korea from October, will oversee design of new vehicles an...

Mercedes-Benz records 14% sales growth in August, sells 177,819 cars 

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar06 Sep 2019

177,819 Mercedes-Benz cars were delivered worldwide, posting a new record for August (14%); Sales from January to Augu...

Skoda begins manufacturing high-voltage batteries for electric VW Group vehicles

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar06 Sep 2019

Manufacturing of high-voltage traction batteries for plug-in hybrids from Skoda, Audi, Seat and Volkswagen begins; ini...

Continental develops high-per­for­mance plat­form for ve­hi­cle cock­pit of to­mor­row

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar05 Sep 2019

Continental claims new milestone in E/E architecture; the platform provides the computing power for all applications a...