While a traditional gearbox may offer nice and smooth gear changes as well as being reliable and easy to fix when things go wrong, they aren’t the most fuel efficient options on the market. They can be slow to shift gears too.
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It’s believed that the Volkswagen Group paid around $5.58 billion to obtain the remaining company shares of Porsche in 2012, after already purchasing a 49.9% stake in 2009. Porsche had, in fact, attempted to buy a controlling stake in Volkswagen in 2008 but failed in their attempts.
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It’s believed that the Volkswagen Group paid around $5.58 billion to obtain the remaining company shares of Porsche in 2012, after already purchasing a 49.9% stake in 2009. Porsche had, in fact, attempted to buy a controlling stake in Volkswagen in 2008 but failed in their attempts.
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The 1960s were where the times really began to change for the Volkswagen Group. First of all, there was a name change due to the floatation of the company on the German stock market. They would now be known as Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft going forward, often abbreviated to Volkswagenwerk AG. A few years later, the 1st […]
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This is because they will be over cautious in the outset. It’s estimated that the delays will start to subside when 50-70% of vehicles on the UK’s roads are driverless.
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There are around half a dozen parts in an electric motor. This means that electric car engines are a lot easier to do work on. Parts are easier to replace, and they don’t wear out as fast.
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This is because the weight of the battery can cause the car to be heavier in some cases and they also deliver torque instantly. Hard acceleration or unnecessarily pushing hard into a turn should also be avoided.
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It used to be the case that all automatic gearboxes were all, more or less, the same and operated in the same way, offering the same features. Nowadays, you have car manufacturers who break the mould with their versions of gearboxes, and rightly so. The problem is, it can be quite confusing for the average […]
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This won’t all come from car sales though. Self-driving taxi services will make a lot of revenue. The latter will be big business for the autonomous automotive industry.
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Tesla, who are experts in the electric car field, has already released a video of people riding around in a car in autopilot mode. They’re aiming to have a fully autonomous car on the road by 2018.
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