Today, Ford has expanded the line up of the current Fiesta, with a new mild-hybrid option. Ford starting offering its cars with an electrical boost starting with the new Kuga and Puma and now, the Fiesta can be specced with it too. As it does in the Puma, the hybrid system uses a 48v belt driven starter and generator to supply a small boost of power for the engine, 15lb […]
Jaguar Land Rover’s factory in Castle Bromwich is now going to remain closed until August this year – according to a report from Sky News. JLR’s other plants in Solihull already reopened in April so Castle Bromwich will be the last major JLR factory to reopen again. Castle Bromwich makes the Jaguar XE, the XF and the new F-Type. JLR has 2,000 employees who work for the company from this […]
Volvo has always been committed to vehicle safety, its crash tests and overall vehicle structure has been and is one of the company’s notable features and now to start another commitment to road safety, Volvo will now start limiting every new car to 112mph. This isn’t a new announcement, Volvo announced this last year and cars have started to be limited from this year onwards. This limit isn’t set in […]
Today, Nintendo has released a relatively minor update for the Switch and Switch Lite, bringing the version to 10.0.4. With this new version, Nintendo is addressing an issue with the Nintendo eShop which would make it very hard or sometimes impossible to add funds or register a new credit card to your account. “We have fixed the issue where it was not possible in some countries or regions to add funds […]
Today, Apple’s stock price on the market has hit an all time high at $331.12 per share, this is up marginally over the previous high back in January, when it hit $327.85 per share. Market cap is at $1.43 trillion. This news comes, even during riots across the US as well as the ongoing worldwide health crisis. Employment numbers in the US have also increased today.
Electric cars and vehicles are an important part in society to get the world to reduce its dependancy on damaging fossil fuels and ultimately reduce the amount of CO2 that gets produced. One of the main reasons people steer clear from electric cars is the the range and the availability of public chargers. Germany is looking at requiring every fuel station in the country have electric car chargers, which is […]
Following the tough decision Aston Martin had to make this week, in making getting rid of 500 jobs – Bentley is going to be cutting 1,000 jobs as, like most of the car makers based in the UK it is taking the strain of the impact from the coronavirus. Bentley will be contacting each of its employees, which is at 4,200 at the moment and offering them to voluntarily leave, […]
Today on amazon.co.uk, the latest 16-inch MacBook Pro is up on a deal with over £300 off on the top spec model. The MacBook Pro 16-inch with 1TB SSD, 2.3GHz Intel Core i9 and 16GB is usually £2,799 and is now down to £2,497. Check out the deal below.
Last month, we reported that Volkswagen had suspended any new deliveries of the new eighth generation Golf, due to software issue. The issue that was discovered, would mean the Golf would have problems with emergency calls. The software for cars to detect and accident and then contact the emergency services is now a mandatory feature in the EU and has been since 2018. But Volkswagen has said today this issue […]
Something which has been apparent during the lockdown is the importance of online sales and one of the areas of life where only one company has really got it nailed is the automotive industry and selling cars online. Tesla has been doing this for ages and ages, you can now configure a Tesla online, pay/set up finance and have the car delivered or arrange to collect it. Ford is looking […]
