Tesla leads the electric car market in terms of “image,” but auto players like Nissan’s Leaf and Honda have an edge when it comes to volumes due to more affordable electric cars, says Vivek Vaidya of Frost & Sullivan. SOURCE: CNBC
Clean up the environment: drive a hydrogen fuel cell car
Driving through a congested city in the latest electric car powered by hydrogen and a fuel cell, will leave the air cleaner than if you’d left the car at home, according to South Korean car giant Hyundai. Stuart McDill reports. SOURCE: Reuters
China’s Auto sales continue to shrink in October
China’s auto sales fell for the fourth straight month in October, an industry group reported yesterday. Total vehicle sales shrank 11.7 percent from a year earlier to 2.38 million last month in the world’s biggest auto market, according to data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. Read the full story at https://www.shine.cn/biz/auto/1811104931/ SOURCE: […]
India’s automotive sector hiring expected to increase up to 12 percent this financial year
By Charles F. Moreira, Editor India’s automotive sector expects to hire between 8% and 12% more new staff in the 2018-19 financial year over the previous year, according to results of a recent study by human resources solutions provider PeopleStrong, the Economic Times of 24 May 2018 reported. Most of these new staff will be […]
Electric cars are reaching a tipping point
China, one-third of the world’s car market, is working on a timetable to end sales of fossil-fuel-based vehicles, the country’s vice minister of industry and information technology, Xin Guobin, told an industry forum in Tianjin on Saturday. That would probably see the country join Norway, France and the U.K. in switching to a wholly electric […]
Get the latest Audi, at a vending machine near you
Imagine buying a car as easily as a can of Coca-Cola from a vending machine. Sound impossible? Perhaps not anymore. E-commerce giant Alibaba Group is planning to have a “vending machine” selling new cars to Chinese consumers by the end of this year. Buyers will be able to choose a car via an app on […]