Electric Mobility News

The Volkswagen Group is driving forward with the transformation to e-mobility and announced that it will be producing battery powered vehicles in 16 locations around the globe by the end of 2022.

The folks over at Lamborghini and MIT worked together to come up with a carbon fibre body shell that has the ability to self-heal if damaged.

Almost every electric car today is powered by a conventional Lithium-Ion battery pack. However, conventional Li-On batteries do have their limitation. These include charge times, weight, size and of course, the amount of charge that they can actually hold (depending on the size of the battery). The next step in the evolution of batteries will be the solid-state Lithium-Ion battery pack which in turn charges quicker, is much lighter and most importantly, is much safer than the current crop of battery packs. Manufacturers like Toyota have been wokring on solid-state battery packs for years now on prototype stage and now, the Renault-Nissan Alliance, of which automaker Mitsubishi is also a part of, has announced that it will move towards solid-state batteries by 2025. Toyota has also announced production versions of the solid state battery in their cars - both hybrid and fully electric by the year 2022.

While in India we see automakers and advertisers never take names of its competition in their campaigns, this practice is quite the norm internationally. We all remember the famous billboard wars between Mercedes-Benz, Audi and BMW a few years ago and now Hyundai seems to have taken a page out of the same playbook with a new billboard that popped up in Geneva during the 2018 Geneva Auto Show. The billboard that reads 'Your turn, Elon.' with the tagline 'the first electric compact SUV is here', which in turn takes a dig at the upcoming Tesla Model Y that will be unveiled sometime later this year with production slated to begin next year.

Talking about the digits for the Venere electric Limousine, it comes with 4 electric motors, 2 at the rear and 2 at the front, and has the ability to churn out 1000 bhp of max power and a mammoth 1,540 Nm of torque.

The Jaguar I-Pace is an SUV and is underpinned by an all-new aluminium platform along with two electric motors and Jaguar's own battery technology.

With the EVision Sedan Concept, Tata Motors completes a trio of new models which ranges from a hatchback to a sedan to a SUV.

While the production is planned for 2021, the Lagonda Vision Concept aims to be the world's first zero emission luxury brand.