Converting poop to power already is a big thing in Germany - for animal feces. “Biogasanlagen” (Biogas plants) are everywhere here, and nowadays many large farms have their own ones on site, using animal feces and corn/wheat scraps. Biomass contributes 8-9% of the german energy mix, biogas energy production is 3/5ths…

Front end looks very Buick/Opel/Vauxhall to me...

Thats the interior from the new Ford Focus, right?

I do wiring and module placing at one of Germany’s big premium car brands and there’s a huge variety in modules spread across the car (and wire setups connecting them) depending on car models, body styles and features with high potential for faults along the supply chain. Simplifying production can bring great benefit…

And him being a big picture guy, he imposed tariffs on possibly the only kind of import good (metals) that would hurt his own economy more than it hurts foreign exporters or helps the small industry of local producers. Metals are needed by all manufacturing companies and for construction. Making the most important raw…

What I hate most about its front is the brackets holding the singleframe..

They also already expanded their Bremen, Germany plant where the C-Class, GLC and all coupes and Roadsters get built so that the EQC (GLC-type) electric car can get built there.

Looks much like a VWized Audi A3 sedan to me:

How‘s the steering wheel? I think it looks quite cheap and is one major turn-off for me especially if you look at what‘s standard in that price class with every other brand. I mean, this is how the steering wheel looks like on VWs cheapest car, the VW up! that‘s 1/4th the price:

The German postal service has developed an electric vehicle called StreetScooter from the ground up that gradually replaces the fleet as older vehicles are phased out:

Same for me, have the X in the original leather case (first time I use a case since the phone is so expensive, but I actually like it better with the case and it has a really nice feel together) with no screen protection since launch and the screen is immaculate. I usually carry nothing else in the same pocket, a pen…

Whats the point in having “automakers like Jaguar, Nissan, Audi and Porsche are all-in.” when they all race the very same car? FE will get much more exciting and be a key to electric mobility development efforts of automakers once they compete with their own designs and technologies.

I’m excited for the new generation V60/S60 coming some time this year. Rumour has it Volvo might present them at Geneva in some weeks, possibly with a 3-cylinder hybrid, 4-cylinder models and a 4-cylinder hybrid top model with 400hp.

Finally an Aston with a steering wheel that doesn’t look like straight out of an early 2000s economy car.

The VW T4 has similar, but even weirder mirrors: one horizontal, one vertical:

That looks nice, you guys should release it at a streaming/download service! I’d buy that.

I know that Daimler uses pyrofuses on hybrid systems to physically disconnect power lines with small explosion charges when the crash sensors detect damage. Can’t tell if Tesla doesn’t have them or if this is just another precaution just to be safe.

What the internet proclaims as some radical heretic idea actually is commonplace in some French ordinary cars like the family van Citroen C4 Picasso: https://goo.gl/images/BLMdbF

Sure the passenger cell stays completely intact due to the very rigid skateboard architecture with a stable battery core, but those crashes all seemed a little violent to me with short crumple zones and abrupt decelerations, something like with auto scooter bumper cars or forklifts.

I think it’s fine actually. I own an Up! and second or third gear always gets me to 70mph while on the on-ramp so I can instantly get into right or middle lane on the Autobahn and merge fast. I only have the 60hp version (my mum’s got the 75hp version, but you only feel the difference in high-gear-low-revs…