Volkswagen Picks Magna Steyr To Develop Scout EVs, Prototypes Expected In 2024
The new Scout division of Volkswagen reportedly paying Magna Steyr nearly a half billion dollars to develop its vehicles.
The new Scout division of Volkswagen reportedly paying Magna Steyr nearly a half billion dollars to develop its vehicles.
This past week, Fisker announced that its upcoming Ocean electric SUV would be built by none other than Magna — a move that offers Fisker access to Magna’s global supply chain and gives the latest iteration of the Danish-born designer’s eponymous car brand real, instant street cred.
Welcome to the next issue of China x Cleantech, our July 2019 edition.
While the outward consensus of the auto industry now seems to be that a wide rollout of self-driving vehicles and electric cars is inevitable, even if projected timelines vary somewhat, there are still some people out there who remain skeptical.
On numerous occasions, I have wanted to know and share some specs or other info regarding production electric cars and EV batteries but had a hard time finding what I was looking for — either because it was buried on the manufacturer’s site, not on there at all and hard to find in … [continued]
Operations have now officially begun at Samsung SDI’s most recently acquired battery pack factory, according to recent reports. The new Samsung SDI Battery Systems (SDIBS) plant in Graz, Austria, comes from the company’s acquisition of the battery pack business of Magna Steyr (something that I reported on at the time, back in … [continued]
Samsung SDI will be supplying the battery packs for BMW’s X5 plug in hybrid electric SUV, the BMW X5 eDrive — that’s what insiders at the company are saying anyways, according to a new report from Yonhap. Given that the market research firm IHS has made similar predictions, the prediction … [continued]