The UK installed a record number of public electric car chargers in 2024, although the rate of growth slowed as installers contended with delays to government funding. Numbers rose by more than a third to reach 73,421 by 20 December, according to Zapmap, whose data the government uses. The increase of 19,600 was nearly equivalent … Read more
The battle of “electric versus every other powertrain” is an ongoing topic of debate. Automakers once had great ambitions of how quickly they expected the market to pick up battery-electric power, but have since scaled back their visions to a hybrid-heavy approach after the market failed to develop as quickly as originally predicted. But China … Read more
[GRM+ members read this article first. Subscribe and gain access to more exclusive content for only $3/month.] Meet Our Expert: Sam StranoStrano Performance partsstranoparts.com The great thing about these cars is that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Chevy made a great starting point. Most of the improvements we make to our customers’ cars are intended to get the car behaving in a certain way, rather … Read more
All the R&D work will happen out of Delta Electronics’ Bengaluru facility where the manpower is a little over 300 people and will be “scaled up aggressively” in the next couple of years to perhaps closer to 1,000. Taiwan-headquartered Delta Electronics is farming out more global responsibilities to its Indian subsidiary, a clear acknowledgment of … Read more
It’s been nearly two decades since Dodge produced the Neon SRT-4. Despite a short three-year run, The SRT-4 made a mark in motorsport. Multiple class wins in One Lap of America. National road racing championships. Utter dominance in rally. Doug Shepherd owns this SRT-4. If that name sounds familiar, you might know his father, Doug Shepherd. (For simplicity purposes, … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Electric vehicles are expected to outsell cars with internal combustion engines in China for the first time next year, in a historic inflection point that puts the world’s biggest car market years ahead of western … Read more
2024 proved to be a bit of a quiet year in terms of major racing game releases. There was nothing in the crowd-pleasing franchises like Forza, Gran Turismo or Need for Speed. The sim-racing space, meanwhile, only really saw Le Mans Ultimate, a game that (for now) is a little limited in scope, and faces … Read more
All the advanced automotive technology features that are beginning to emerge, and more to come in 2025 and beyond, will be enabled only by the software defined vehicle (SDV). Mumbai: Indian consumers have a high affinity for technology. The smartphone market boom is a good testimony for it. That tech appetite is increasingly seen in … Read more
“Did you get the note about fuel?”, said the delivery driver of that morning’s press car. “99 RON only, got it” I replied. This is an exchange often limited to the realms of exotic sports cars arriving, think something like a Porsche 911 GT3 or a Maserati MC20. It once happened for an Abarth 124 … Read more
In this article, we try to explain the steps needed to launch a new car model in China from a consumer’s point of view. (Nio Firefly. Image credit: Nio) Factbox is a section of CnEVPost dedicated to explaining common confusions, inspired by reader feedback. In this latest article, we try to explain how many steps … Read more