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Samsung partners with Audi, BMW, Ford, and Genesis to turn your phone into a car key

The dream of using your phone to unlock your car door (instead of carrying around a bulging key fob) may be one step closer today: Samsung has announced partnerships with Audi, BMW, Ford, and Genesis to do just that, saying the feature may be available as soon as August 2021. And excitingly, those digital car… Read more

Electric car Nio ET7: luxury sedan with solid battery and 1000 km range

William Li, company founder and CEO of Nio, presented the ET7 Nios, the first electrically powered sedan at Nio Day in Chengdu. So far, Nio only has crossover models such as the Nio ES6 (test) in its range. The potential range of the luxury model could be a headache for solid-state battery competition. This higher… Read more

Energy costs for electric cars: how expensive will traction current be?

Made in the charging station expansion plans for 2020 the federal government is clear about its goal: The ratio of charging points to registered e-cars should be around 1: 10 stay. This corresponds roughly to the status from the beginning 2019. The vast majority of charging processes should continue to take place at home (the… Read more

Audi boss Duesmann expects speed limit, “but is not looking forward to it”

The new Audi boss Markus Duesmann expects a speed limit on German motorways for political reasons. “A speed limit has a CO 2 effect, that cannot be discussed away,” said Duesmann of the Wirtschaftswoche from 7. Jan. 2021. He would “not welcome” that, because “intelligent, sensible solutions” are better than bans: “For example, digitization and… Read more

More than half of Norwegian new cars in 2020 were purely battery-electric

In Norway 141. 412 Newly registered cars. 76. 789 of which are purely battery-powered, that is 050 percent. This means that for the first time in Norway, more than half of all new cars are battery-electric. Added to this are 28. 905 Plug-in hybrids, the share of new cars with rechargeable batteries in Norway is… Read more

Electric cars: the number of new registrations will grow by 200 percent in 2020

2020 were in Germany 194. 163 Battery-powered cars newly registered. According to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA), this is an increase of 206 percent compared to the previous year. The number of new registrations across all drive types is around 20 Percentage decreased. 13, 5 percent of all 2020 in Germany have an electric… Read more

Powerfuels: Final energy could become a quarter climate-neutral by 2050

2050 could use climate-neutral fuels, fuels and raw materials with 43. 200 Terawatt hours 28 Percentage of global energy demand cover. This is the result of the Finnish LUT University Lappeenranta and Lahti on behalf of the interest group Global Alliance Powerfuels (GAP) in a transformation scenario. She advocates that more money is invested in… Read more

Osterloh: Volkswagen focuses on the new IT department

The newly created board department for software at Volkswagen is intended to accelerate the integration of systems in cars and all platforms in the group equally. “In terms of content, industrial and vehicle IT must first be represented together,” said works council boss Bernd Osterloh on 29. Dec. 2020 of the German Press Agency. “IT… Read more

Applause from the founding fathers: Mitsubishi i-MiEV, Peugeot iOn & Citroën C-Zero

This article is the fourth part of a series, which is about exciting automotive pioneers that are about to be forgotten. Because mostly their courage was not crowned with success. Part 1: The lightning bolt that nobody wanted: Audi duo, first hybrid on the market Part 2: Nothing was Roger: General Motors’ first EV1 electric… Read more

Podcast: Grab-in-the-toilet vehicles

What do Mazda RX-8, Audi A2 and BMW C1 have in common? They were all extremely interesting and exciting vehicles with the serious economic disadvantage that nobody wanted them. We dug deep into memories and picked out what we saw as the worst flops on two and four wheels that were kind of cool, but… Read more

Missing Link: Autonomous driving – if I would have expected you today … (Part 2)

Last week it was about the attempts of the German car manufacturers to keep up with autonomous driving. Conclusion: More than a maximum of level 3 (highly automated driving) in traffic jams in fine weather is not possible. Strictly speaking, Tesla can – and this was also noted in the forum – only level 2,… Read more

VW extends short-time work due to missing electronic components

Due to a “massively restricted delivery situation” at the semiconductor manufacturer, Volkswagen is missing important electronic components for production in the production facilities in China, North America and Europe. In addition to VW, the subsidiaries Skoda and Seat, light commercial vehicles and Audi are also affected. At the main plant in Wolfsburg – in consultation… Read more

A quarter of the students want to buy an electric car

A quarter of students in Germany plan to buy an electrified car in the next three years. That is one of the results of a study by the International University IUBH. In her opinion, it also shows that potential buyers are willing to pay more, but the range and charging times of e-cars still deter… Read more

VW wants to create IT board

A troubled year is coming to an end at Volkswagen. Golf 8 (test) and ID.3 (test) got off to a difficult start, with the software Volkswagen showed how it shouldn’t be done. These problems are of course not unknown in the company’s management. They were the subject of a crisis meeting on Tuesday evening. At… Read more

Management dispute at VW: “Support” for Group boss Diess against works council

VW boss Herbert Diess prevailed in parts in the recent power struggle for the leadership of the car manufacturer – but the supervisory board avoided an early extension of his contract. The inspectors expressed their “full support” to the manager at a special meeting on Monday evening. However, the company’s official statement does not mention… Read more