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Tesla Model Y first EV to be crowned world’s best-selling car

autherAutocar Professional Bureau     calendar28 Jan 2024

Preliminary data from JATO Dynamics suggests the Tesla Model Y, with 1.23 million units, has wrested the title from Toyota, whose RAV4 SUV and Corolla have sold 1.07 million and 1.01 million units respectively in 2023.

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White most popular car colour in 2023 but demand for black grows globally

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar28 Jan 2024

Findings of the latest global BASF Colour Report for Automotive OEM Coatings revealed; APAC region continues its leadi...

Evtec acquires key supplier of body castings and powertrain assemblies to JLR

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar25 Jan 2024

JVM Castings will join Evtec's global network, which has been acquiring strategic Tier 1 automotive suppliers transiti...

Eatron Tech and WMG develop solution to predict EV battery remaining useful life

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar25 Jan 2024

The solution, whose estimates of the remaining useful life of an EV battery are more than 90% accurate, can be embedde...

Yamaha premieres concept hydrogen golf cart at PGA Show 2024

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar25 Jan 2024

DRIVE H2 is equipped with two high-pressure hydrogen tanks of 25 litres each, positioned under the driver's seat and o...

Volkswagen celebrates Golf’s 50th anniversary with reinvented model

By Greg Kable, Autocar UK calendar24 Jan 2024

As it turns 50, the German carmaker’s all-time best-seller receives a wide-reaching suite of technology upgrades, usab...

Iveco Group selects BASF as first recycling partner for EV batteries

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar24 Jan 2024

BASF, which has opened Europe’s first co-located centre of battery material production and battery recycling in Schwar...

Valeo is world’s leading French company for patent applications again

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar24 Jan 2024

Of the 1,218 patents published, 44% were in France, 25% in Germany, 8% in Europe, 11% in China and 12% in the rest of ...

Hyundai and Kia's ‘Active Air Skirt’ technology to make EVs go faster and farther

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar23 Jan 2024

Installed between the front bumper and the front wheels, AAS is hidden during normal operation but operates at speeds ...

Former Skoda Auto India brand head Zac Hollis joins VinFast as its Asia head

By Ketan Thakkar calendar23 Jan 2024

Zac Hollis, who had played a key role in the successful implementation of the critical India 2.0 strategy for Skoda in...