What Does Toyota Know That The Rest Of Us Do Not
Toyota undoubtedly wears the crown when it comes to hybrid cars. Sales of the Japanese automaker’s hybrid vehicles passed the six millionth mark last year.
Toyota Working On EV Cableless Charging
Nissan and Qualcomm are way ahead of you guys.
Philippine Auto Industry Sells 212 281 Vehicles in 2013
Automology’s Philippines correspondent, HAROLD, reports on the country’s automotive performance.
Total vehicle sales in 2013 for the entire Philippines rose 16% compared to 2012. Based on published reports, combined sales of the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc (CAMPI), the Truck Manufacturers Association Inc (TMA) and the Association of Vehicle Importers and Distributors (AVID) reached 212,281 units in 2013, up from over 183,000 units in 2012. This remarkable auto industry growth was triggered largely by the high demand for passenger cars which recorded a strong 26% sales hike to 61 083 units in 2013 from 48,488 units in 2012.
What Does BMW Know That The Rest Of Us Do Not?
It’s not a trick question, but if you have been following headlines for months, even years now, they have been filled with talk of new ‘Gigafactories’ to power the next generation of Tesla’s electric vehicles, hydrogen powertrains for Toyotas and hybrids over at Porsche (and others), and fracking.
Tesla: We Got The Power!
The short story of Tesla Motors has been more about exciting cars and stellar share price performance than other more mundane manufacturing news, but next week the company will be revealing its plans for the much less exciting or innovative key to its long term future. Yes, it would appear that Tesla is almost all grown up now as it is to announce the plans for that essential component for all electric vehicles, a huge new lithium battery factory that has already been dubbed the “Gigafactory” by Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk.
Poo-powered Hydrogen Vehicles
Sounds (or rather, smells) promising.
This brings recycling to an entirely new level. Somewhere in a waste facility in California, bio-solids are being processed to create electricity and hydrogen. Although hydrogen is an abundant element on earth (and the universe! Space travel fuel, maybe?) but is still very costly to process. Critics of hydrogen vehicles will also argue that the production of hydrogen emits as much carbon dioxide as conventional petrol-powered cars.