Vehicles

The electric Transit was designed to make the transition to battery-powered vans as painless as possible for Ford’s longstanding fleet customers. It’s also a much more pleasant vehicle to drive.

Each partner is targeting a specific part of the automotive supply chain for carbon-emissions neutrality over the Polestar 0’s expected lifecycle.

“(A truck) is like a canvas,” says Nissan lead project designer Hiren Patel. “When you buy it, you make it your own.”

The partners say all new JLR vehicle platforms will deploy the full DRIVE technology beginning with 2025.

The powered-up battery-electric sedan takes aim at Porsche Taycan Turbo.

Based on the automaker’s Precept concept car, the Polestar 5 also will use an innovative manufacturing process that will allow both the body and platform to be built simultaneously, significantly reducing manufacturing time, the automaker says.

Global sales of electrified vehicles more than doubled to 6.6 million units in 2021, up from 3.2 million in 2020. EVs accounted for 10% of new-car sales in the third quarter, with Europe’s share reaching 17%.

The Ram BEV is on the drawing board. However, before showing the public any kind of prototype, the Stellantis unit plans to solicit feedback from existing and potential Ram customers.

Korean brands dominate the list, occupying three of the top five spots. The most dependable model overall? The high-performance, low-volume Porsche 911.

By developing a virtual world that accurately reflects the real world, engineers can run autonomous-vehicle software through hours of simulation prior to testing AV systems on the road.