Toyota has released a new short film that charts Toyota Racing’s challenge in this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. The movie, The Ultimate Endurance Race, is available to view on Toyota Europe’s official YouTube channel. The film-makers were given unprecedented access to the team throughout the week of pre-race preparations, qualifying and the race itself. It […]
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Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. announced that the company will be ready with multiple, commercially-viable Autonomous Drive vehicles by 2020. Nissan announced that the company’s engineers have been carrying out intensive research on the technology for years, alongside teams from the world’s top universities, including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. Work
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Over a period of three years, emissions from 400 distribution lorries operating in Gothenburg, Sweden, were cut by 30 per cent. Now Volvo Group wants to share its experience with other cities the world over. “With more energy-efficient vehicles, fuels with a lower environmental impact and smarter logistics, it is possible to achieve significant improvements.
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Peugeot was the 2012 European leader with low CO2 figures of 121.5g/km. In 2013 Peugeot has been reducing the weighted average emissions of CO2 of its European range still further and at the end the May this figure stood at 116.3g/km. New technologies have allowed Peugeot to achieve an ambitious CO2policy target of 95g per
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In a double world premiere, Volkswagen will be presenting two new and extremely efficient electric cars at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt (10th to 22nd September): the e-up! and e-Golf. This means that Europe’s most successful carmaker is transitioning two high-volume production models to the age of electric mobility. Both zero-emission* cars offer
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With much talk about economical vehicles, often the processes used to manufacture and build them are forgotten. Not so at Nissan who have set out a global environmental initiative, the Nissan Green Program 2016. In an incredibly wordy sentence, the program, ‘focuses on reducing environmental impacts of corporate activities and pursuing harmony between resource consumption
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The Yaris Hybrid-R which has been teased by Toyota over the past month has had a trickle of details released about it. Now, Toyota has revealed power output of 414bhp and a fast electric system using capacitors rather than batteries. In designing Yaris Hybrid-R, Toyota has created a supermini concept like no other. Based on
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Audi is facing a big challenge at round four of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in Brazil on September 1. Having claimed four victories to date – including the Le Mans 24 Hours – the Audi R18 e-tron quattro has remained unbeaten in the 2013 season. The squad of Head of Audi Motorsport Dr.
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In a world-first, BMW is employing artificial intelligence to promote its ground-breaking new electric cars through an automated information service for UK customers. ‘BMW i Genius’ uses specially developed software to interact with potential customers in a live question and answer format that works on a mobile platform. Users simply text in a question relating
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Staff at a small ski station in the French Jura have been testing the Renault Twizy this summer – with a view to offering it to visitors in the winter. Following a partnership with electric mobility company Keymoov, the ski station of Montagne des Rousses in the Jura mountains has been testing three Renault Twizys
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