Three Range Rover Diesel Hybrid prototypes have completed the ultimate engineering sign-off test by traversing 13 countries over 53 days from Solihull, UK, to Mumbai, India. It is the world’s first ever hybrid expedition along the Silk Trail and one of the boldest driving adventures ever pursued by Land Rover. Hostile conditions on the route […]
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The Silk Trail 2013 expedition prepared to enter the fourteenth and final country on the epic journey from Solihull to Mumbai when it passed through Nepal and reached the town of Mahendranagar on the border with India. Leaving behind high altitudes and the peaks of the Himalayas, the three Range Rover Hybrid prototypes were driven
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Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.’s Autonomous Drive technology has won the Grand Prix in the CEATEC Innovation Awards, the top prize. It was awarded by a panel of independent US journalists working in the fields of IT and consumer electronics. The award honors the best among the technologies, products and services exhibited at CEATEC JAPAN 2013.
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Three Range Rover Hybrid prototypes have progressed from the hot deserts of Uzbekistan to the high mountains of Kyrgyzstan as the Silk Trail 2013 expedition is poised to enter China. The vehicles have blazed a trail in the last week across dusty desert roads running parallel to the legendary Silk Trail trading route, held back
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This year’s Regent Street Motor Show (Saturday 2 November 2013) will be the biggest yet with the display area in London’s busy West End extended from Piccadilly Circus right up to Oxford Circus for the very first time, making the motor show the already well established free motor show even larger. The Regent Street Motor
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With the close of the 2013 IAA Frankfurt Motor Show yesterday, 22nd September, we take a look at the highlights from an electric/hybrid perspective. From the outset, the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show looked destined to be focused on electric cars, with the likes of Renault already having a range of four electric cars and with
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The Silk Trail 2013 expedition has reached the half-way point from its starting point at the home of Land Rover in Solihull, UK, to its destination in Mumbai, India. Twenty days after setting-out, the three Range Rover Hybrid prototypes vehicles have reached the deserts of central Asia on the ancient Silk Roads that inspired the
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Samsung SDI, the global leader of consumer lithium-ion batteries is on the way to become the driving force of vehicle electrification with innovative battery cells and complete pack systems. Samsung SDI started mass-production of VDA-standardised lithium ion battery cells with prismatic aluminum housings for electrified vehicles. A 2020 product roadmap for cell capacity increase will
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Playful but gutsy, sturdy yet impish – Kia’s dramatic new Niro urban-lifestyle concept, unveiled at the IAA in Frankfurt, hints at a possible future B-segment contender ready to take on the city environment with style and tenacity. Ready for any challenge that the assured modern motorist may throw at it, the Niro combines a mischievous
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The Renault network has celebrated the 10,000th registration of a Kangoo Van Z.E., the European segment-leading small electric van. The vehicle’s keys were handed over to Deutsche Bahn’s Gerhard Dech at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Béatrice Foucher, Manager of Renault’s Electric Vehicle programme, Uwe Hochgeshurtz, Corporate Sales Manager, and Achim Schaible, Director of Renault Germany,
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