11 million Volkswagen vehicles worldwide are involved in the scandal that has erupted over its rigging of US car emissions tests. The state of the art Software that triggers the pollution controls only when the car is being tested for emissions. The German car giant has admitted massaging the emissions tests in the U.S. The Environmental…
The global electric car sales figures is expected to hit the one million mark after September. This optimistic figure includes sales of both the Plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) as well as the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) which is basically a hybrid vehicle with an electric motor as well as an internal combustion engine…
Do you have an insatiable craze for super-expensive bikes? but does the size of your purse discourage you from having any dreams let alone serious thoughts of owning one and would you rather not want to bother yourself with big EMIs every month? Then most people would either put off this idea of owning one…
Bentley the Bentayga, a 600-horsepower vehicle that will hit 50 miles per hour in four seconds. According to the company, their top speed of 187mph (301kmph), is officially the fastest production SUV in the world costing £170,000. The Bentayga has a huge W-12 engine, there are also cabin controls for selecting your surface and a…
Lamborghini, the Italian maker of super sport cars announced that it plans to build an SUV version. Already, Aston Martin (Aston Martin Lagonda), Rolls- Royce and Bentley, Lotus, Maserati, Jaguar and Alfa Romeo are also planning to introduce SUV’s avoiding the name instead “ High bodies Rolls motorcar”, “performance crossover- Jaguar. ” Low fuel…
In 2014, Ford had allocated a research budget of $5.5bn £3.63bn. Research into Ford’s one of the project to develop driving seats that could monitor a driver’s cardiovascular system for irregularities, using a camera and sensors on the steering wheel and detect heart attacks and engage steering and breaking systems to bring the car to…
The Japanese carmaker Toyota is planning to invest Y150bn ( £1bn) to build new plants in Mexico to target better sales in US and China. The two plants are expected to increase Toyota’s annual production capacity by 300,000 vehicles. The group last year sold 10.23m cars and trucks Whizzing past their rival Germany’s VW 10.14m.…
A US jury of 11 women and 2 man, has awarded £100M ($150m) to the Walden family of a four-year old boy that died in a crash involving a Jeep Grand Cherokee in 2012, after a nine-day trail that Chrysler acted with reckless disregard for human life in selling the family of Remington, a 1999…
British Government is Investing £19m for the driverless car Transport Minister Claire Perry is set to announce next week about the trials and use of Self-driving cars on British roads, following a 6 month study into the practical, legal and safety issues of driverless cars. Driverless cars are safer and neither get drunk, nor have accidents (the only exception was…
Three mechanical engineering students from Government Engineering college at Barton Hill in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, designed and developed a prototype vehicle which runs upto 125miles per litre of petrol. This will be one of the 12o entrants competing for fuel efficiency contest ” Shell Eco Marathon” to be held at Phillippines between 26th February and 1st March.…