Beginning in 2023, Mitsubishi will sell two “sister models” produced in Renault plants to be based on the same platforms but reworked to reflect Mitsubishi’s characteristics.
The midsize Kushaq, officially launching later this month, is the first of four models to be released by Volkswagen Group brands as part of VW’s marketing campaign for India.
No timeline is given for plans to place all orders online, raising the question of whether Volvo will adopt a wait-and-see approach to gauging consumer demand for an exclusively digital buying experience.
The result of this move could see all human-piloted vehicles, trucks, cars, motorcycles, bicycles and even pedestrians being barred from entering the city highway infrastructure.
Known in the U.S. as the Rogue Sport, the Nissan Qashqai goes on sale in Europe this summer with two powertrains, including the Nissan e-Power hybrid system.
The U.S. automaker says that by mid-2026, all of its passenger-vehicle range on the continent will be zero-emissions capable, either battery-electric or plug-in hybrid.
The French specialist in electrification, electronics and lighting commits to achieving European carbon neutrality by 2050 by slashing emissions across its entire value chain 45% by 2030 compared with 2019 levels.
The automaker claims its combined passenger car fleet of new vehicles in the European Union achieved average CO2 emissions of 92g/km while the legal CO2 target for the brand was 97g/km.
The strategy spelled out by CEO Luca de Meo also commits the group’s brands to a shift away from traditional manufacturing and toward becoming a service provider in the areas of energy, technology/data and mobility.
The factory already builds the XC40 Recharge BEV, as well as plug-in hybrid versions of the XC40, and will launch production of a second BEV model later this year.