There has been a lot written about robotaxis - most about the safety aspect of the vehicles and especially during the current testing period. A lot of commentators agree that humans are at the heart of most accidents, so if you can get the vehicle’s systems to do all the work there is a theory that the road toll will reduce. That of course depends on humans developing bug-free … [Read more...]
Winter Tyres
Motoring Weekly is based in Sydney and as such has no need for this type of tyre on its vehicles! What are winter tyres and how do they differ from summer tyres? For many people in the northern hemisphere, changing tyres is a biannual process - switching tyres to suit the prevailing weather conditions, indeed if anyone in the southern climates of Australia were to go skiing … [Read more...]
Solaris Elettra
Back towards the end of the time when Motoring Weekly was a podcast (at the end of 2010), we wrote a small article about a new vehicle called the Solaris Elettra - another vehicle that was supposed to be manufactured in Africa. What happened to this vehicle? The plan was simple - build an electric car in Ethiopia. The company that thought up the idea was Freestyle PLC, a … [Read more...]
More Ford VW Collaboration
At the recent auto show in Detroit, Ford and Volkswagen announced another collaborative tie-up. This comes at a time when Ford have announced some poor numbers and the proposed agreement could help both parties reduce costs. It is not the first time that the two companies have shared technology, platforms and other components - Motoring Weekly recently wrote about Ford using … [Read more...]
What Happened to NextEV?
A few years ago when investors were piling into electric vehicle manufacturing, one small company grabbed a big slice of investment from the US and China. NextEV was literally going to be the next big thing! However, they went quiet and don’t really appear on anyones radar anymore. Well, they are still going, although they didn’t manage to build the supercar that they wanted … [Read more...]
