Monthly Archives: July 2014

tesla’s Need For Graphite

TeslaMotors HQ PaloAlto - tesla's Need For Graphite

Back in March of this year Bloomberg ran a story about Tesla and their need for massive amounts of Graphite when they open the new Tesla Gigafactory for EV type batteries. It also talked about China and their pollution problems. You can read the story through the link.

best-selling UK car of all time: Ford Fiesta

2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0 Titanium X Ecoboost (125PS) 5 Door

Ford Fiesta has been one of the best selling vehicles in UK for years and since 2009 has been the top selling car. As of this month, the Fiesta is also the best-selling vehicle ever in the UK, exceeding 4,115,00 sales since 1976.

Jaguar SVO builds a bespoke F-Type coupe to support Team Sky

Following last month’s unveiling of a new Tour de France racing bike for Team Sky, Jaguar has extended its support to Team Sky by designing, engineering and building a bespoke F-TYPE Coupé high performance support vehicle for the team to use during Stage 20 of the race.

New Volvo XC90 offering new enhanced automated safety features and automatic parking capability

New Volvo XC90 offering new enhanced automated safety features and automatic parking capability

Volvo Cars’ new mid-size SUV XC90—which will be revealed in August—will offer two new “world-first” automated safety features: auto brake when turning in front of an oncoming vehicle; and a solution focusing on accidental road departure.

ZF needs TRW’s tech know-how, CFO says

ZF Friedrichshafen - ZF needs TRW's tech know-how, CFO says

German car parts supplier ZF Friedrichshafen believes buying U.S peer TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. would give it a better foothold in the market for self-driving and connected cars, its finance chief told a German paper.