Equipmake has announced that it has signed a partnership with Brazilian commercial vehicle manufacturer, Agrale, to engineer a powertrain for a new electric bus, which will go on sale in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2020. Development of this new vehicle will take place at Equipmake’s base in Hethel, Norfolk, with Equipmake responsible for developing the [...]

Tesla plans to retire two of its seven colour options to speed up production times. Elon Musk said that he is cutting Obsidian Black Metallic and Metallic Silver from the list of options to ‘simplify manufacturing.’ Both colours would still be available, but a higher price. That will leave five colours still available – solid [...]

At federal court in East St. Louis, Missouri, State Farm and a class of plaintiffs agreed to settle protracted RICO litigation for $250m on the opening day of the trial, according to Madison – St Claire Record. Claims against co-defendants William Shepherd, counsel for State Farm, and Ed Murnane have been dismissed and will not bear [...]

Suzuki will begin testing the early models of electric vehicles (EVs) in India by October 2018, according to Reuters. Osamu Suzuki commented at the Global Mobility Summit at New Delhi, ‘We will start road-running tests using a fleet of 50 EV prototype vehicles in India from next month in order to develop safe and easy-to-use [...]

The latest IHS Markit data suggest that the Western European passenger car market has had a one-off surge of 26.3% y/y during August, thanks to OEMs registering non-WLTP-compliant vehicles. This performance, which has resulted in a record-breaking SAAR, is not expected to continue and is more likely to result in a softening in the next [...]