Volkswagen Group for years was critical of electrically assisted vehicles such as hybrids, but those days are over. Ulrich Hackenberg, one of VW Group’s top-ranking engineers as well as Audi’s board member for technical development, says “the electric car is the future.”
Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, and Airborne Oil & Gas B.V., a leading, global supplier of spoolable thermoplastic composite pipe systems for deepwater offshore operations, signed a strategic supply agreement for the development and supply of composite materials for these pipe systems.
What Swiss tuning house Mansory does could be viewed as some car design purists an act of automotive sacrilege, but for a growing number of well-heeled car lovers and collectors, the services it provides are seen as the only way of ensuring that a supercar really is super.
German niche automaker Gumpert is back in business with an all-new model called the Explosion.
Toyota reconfirmed its commitment to its minicar alliance with PSA even though the French automaker has agreed a capital tie-up with China’s Dongfeng Motor Corp.
