BMW Electric Strategy Under The Microscope As i4 Sedan, iX SUV Hit Dealerships. “the BMW iX ...
Quentin Willson’s 250-Mile Electric Car Range Claim Looks A Stretch. Former motoring journalist and electric car campaigner Quentin Willson was interviewed by Nigel Farage on GBNews and claimed that a 250-mile round trip in an electric car nowadays would be no problem. In my experience that isn’t very likely, especially if high-speed motorway driving accounted […]
Booming Electric Car Sales In Europe May Soon Face A Reality Check. “A hole will form in the range of European carmakers, with no one producing small vehicles. This may turn out to be an incentive for the development of non-European carmakers in Europe, in particular Chinese carmakers” Sales of battery electric cars in Europe […]
BMW Electric Strategy Under The Microscope As i4 Sedan, iX SUV Hit Dealerships. “the BMW iX only achieved 66% of the specified WLTP range. With the Tesla Model Y Long Range it is 85%. This underlines the shortcomings of the latest BMW generation as a hybrid platform. Tesla, Porsche, Mercedes, but also Chinese like NIO […]
Citroen Unveils Electric Buggy Concept Based On the Ami City Car. “It looks to me as though it could be a perfect golf buggy” Citroen’s cut little Ami electric runabout doesn’t quite fill the yawning gap in the European market which calls for a cheap as chips electric city car, but its Buggy Concept will […]
Investors Happy As Toyota Accelerates Electric Plans. “We want to leave all people with a choice, and rather than where or what we will focus on, we will wait a little longer until we understand where the market is going. If we provide the correct solution for the average person we won’t have the correct […]
Genesis Plans European Expansion But Odds Are Stacked Against Success. “While Genesis has its own unique look, it is still just a traditional, albeit high quality, product under the surface from an unrecognized brand” Hyundai’s wannabe upmarket subsidiary Genesis is bravely going where almost no one has gone before, as it seeks European premium sector […]
Ford Mustang Mach-E Surprises Europe With Strong Sales. “It is for sure a good start for the brand in the EV world. However, it is not enough and Ford needs to accelerate its electrification” Ford’s first and successful venture into the European electric car market with its Mustang Mach-E SUV has surprised experts, who now […]
Volkswagen CEO Diess Stays, As Warring Factions Declare A Truce. “If you need money for investments, it would make much more sense to sell the Traton or redundant brands such as Lamborghini, Bugatti or Ducati” Yet another hardy perennial “top management in peril” shenanigans at Volkswagen ended with nothing really changed, and the CEO dusts […]
Electric Car Sales Growth In Europe Will Slow Before Spurting Again. “EV profitability does not yet match that of ICE and earnings and cash flows will remain burdened by further heavy technology investments over the next several years” Sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are exploding in Western Europe, but growth will slow over the […]
Indian Car Sales To Overtake Chip Shortage, Coronavirus Stricken Germany. “It remains to be seen whether Germany can overtake India again” More cars will be sold in India in 2021 and 2022 than in Germany, thanks to European shortages in semiconductors lasting into the first half of 2022 and the latest version of the coronavirus […]
Solid Car Sales Growth Expected After Anaemic 2021, But Profits May Sag. “We believe pent-up demand will drive an acceleration of new vehicle sales (in Europe) in 2022 but expect sales to remain about 10% below 2019 levels” These are weird times for the automotive industry. 2021 should have been a banner year for car […]
Electric Car Tests – range claims vs range outcomes. www.wintonsworld.com data (updated data now includes Ford Mach E, Renault Zoe, Nissan Leaf, Fiat 500 E) *Tesla doesn’t reveal battery capacity Expect town and country driving to match this range. This data, from my reviews on Wintonsworld shows relentlessly misleading claims of battery range capacity, while the […]
Ford Mustang Mach-E Standard review. **** out of 5 For – quality design, great performance, crazy name (Mustang) Against – nondescript name (Ford) £43,680 (after tax and before subsidy) Competition – VW ID.4, Volvo XC40 Recharge, Tesla Y, Kia-EV6, Mercedes EQA, MG ZS ‘“Active”, “Whisper” and “Untamed”. Despite the dramatic names, nothing seemed to change much in […]
