Aston Martin CEO, Andy Palmer has stepped down from the company today after five and a half years at the company. Palmer joined as CEO in October 2014 and came from various management roles at Nissan. Palmer has seen the company though it’s ‘Second Century Plan’ which brought the second generation V8 Vantage, DB11, DBS and the new DBX SUV, the first SUV from Aston Martin. The company also opened […]
Tesla announced the Cybertruck pickup truck last year in November to a very mixed audience and reception. But that didn’t seem to stop 250,000 people pre-ordering the truck within the first few days. This week on Jay Leno’s Garage Elon Musk makes an appearance and Jay drives Elon around in the upcoming Cybertruck, albeit a prototype as the truck is not expected to be on sale until 2021. Elon did reveal in […]
A few days ago, at a Financial Times conference the boss of Volvo spoke about buyer demand what that means for Volvo at the moment and when lockdown ends. Håkan Samuelsson said that current demand is down at the moment in Europe, but it has increased slightly over in China. Samuelsson also said it would be “naive” to expect new car buyers to come back to car dealers and go and […]
First reported by Sky News over the weekend, it is understood that Jaguar Land Rover is looking for a loan from the government as a temporary bail out, to keep it a float. JLR is said to have submitted a request to the government for a loan of over £1 billion. Some reports have speculated the loan could be as high as £2 billion. However, a spokesperson from JLR has said this […]
Apple Stores around the world slowly closed down during the peak of the coronavirus and are now, slowly reopening again. In early May, Apple reopened its only store in Austria, a few days later Apple reopened some of its stores in Germany, and a few weeks ago the stores in Italy started to open again. Starting this week, Apple is going to be starting to reopen its stores in Japan. […]
The New York International Auto Show, which was supposed to be held late this year in August, between the 28th August and the 7th September has now been fully cancelled, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. We reported back in early March that the event had been ‘postponed’ from April 2020 till later in the year. The organisers have now said the event this year has been cancelled, due to […]
Volkswagen revealed a few weeks ago that, despite the software issues it has been facing with the new ID 3 all electric car, it was indeed on track to start selling it here in the UK by July 2020 but a few days after this news, Volkswagen also revealed that the whole range of ID cars will be sold online only, similar to how Tesla works. VW isn’t ditching its […]
If you’re ever stuck anywhere, on a train with no outlets or your phone suddenly needs charging it can feel like the biggest panic but one of the best things to get for travelling is a battery pack and Anker makes some of the best, along with its charging cables which are braided so they don’t tear and break. On amazon.co.uk today, an Anker battery pack with 20,000mAh has over […]
Another week has gone by and its time, once again to go over the best stories we covered here on A&T Tech. In the news week, Apple launched iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5, with support for contact tracing, Joe Rogan has signed a new multi-year deal for his podcast with Spotify, Logitech have launched a new Circle camera, which only works with HomeKit, the upcoming iPhone 12 might not include wired […]
According to report from well known Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo – the iPhone 12, which is due to be released this year may not have any wired EarPods headphones at all included in the box. It is understood that a lot of people don’t use the include headphones and the abundance of EarPods is generating a lot of unneeded waste. Kuo has said Apple would instead promote the AirPods and […]
