The Eternal City, also known as Rome, has plans to ban diesel-powered vehicles in six years’ time. Recently, Germany’s court ruled that its cities are allowed to ban heavy polluting diesel cars.
Every salesperson, whether in the automotive industry or otherwise, would, or rather should, have heard the name Joe Girard. The Guinness World Record verifies the 89-year-old former Chevrolet legend’s sales record of 1,425 cars sold in 1973. That’s almost four cars a day! He once sold…*drum roll*…18 cars in a day!
BMW AG and Great Wall Motors have signed a letter of intent to jointly build electric MINIs in China. If all goes to plan, Great Wall would be getting its first foreign manufacturing partner.
As we rush head-long into the brave new world of electric cars, there is a small detail that we all seem to have forgotten, and that is the availability of one of the key components of the Li-ion batteries. That component is cobalt, a fairly rare element that is usually associated as a by-product in the world’s copper and nickel mines. This of course will benefit any country with appreciable deposits of the blue stuff.
There are three ships full of Japanese cars of various makes and models floating aimlessly off the coast of New Zealand, after being turned away by authorities upon the discovery of stink bugs aboard them. Yup, it’s stink bug causing a stink in New Zealand’s car imports.
It looks like everyone is jumping onto the ride-hailing bandwagon and the latest newcomer to this market is Nissan.