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Ribbon cut on Birmingham offices
- 11/01/2016
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Covéa Insurance has opened a 3,000 sqft regional office in Birmingham, after it incorporated Sterling Insurance last month. The new offices house13 underwriters serving Commercial Combined, Motor Trade Combined, Motor Fleet, Commercial and Residential Property Owners, High Net Worth Household and Family [...] -
What Car? Introduces tech award
- 11/01/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
What Car?, in association with Stuff, will honour the most technologically advanced new cars at the forthcoming annual What Car? Car of the Year Awards ceremony. The new Technology Award recognises the increasingly important role high-tech innovation has to play in the car industry, and how manufacturers are [...] -
Chevrolet’s Bolt out the blue
- 11/01/2016
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
A mainstream electric car with a 200-mile range could be released by the end of the year. The Chevrolet Bolt was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last week which could retail for around the £20,000 mark. Car and Driver described the car as a ‘revolutionary electric car’, while The Wall Street [...] -
V-Charge wins connected car award
- 11/01/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The 'V-Charge' research project has won the Auto Bild / Computer Bild 2015 Connected Car Award. 'V-Charge' stands for Valet Charge and is pointing the way to the intelligent future of automated parking and electric vehicle charging. In the USA especially valet parking is very popular. The 'V-Charge' project [...] -
Hybrid market on the up
- 11/01/2016
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Demand for zero and low emission vehicles is outperforming the wider market, new figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has revealed. While the auto market as a whole grew by 6.3 per cent last, the electric vehicle market was up 48% and demand for plug-in hybrids shot up by [...] -
Google heads to IBIS
- 11/01/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Richard Offermann, industry leader automotive at Google, and Tanja Hufschmidt, analytical lead at Google Automotive, will deliver the keynote presentation at the IBIS Global Summit 2016, on 23-25 May at the Hilton Diagonal Mar in Barcelona, Spain. Google is one of the largest and best-known companies in the world [...] -
JLR sales hit record high
- 08/01/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Jaguar Land Rover has achieved its best ever full year global sales performance in 2015, retailing 487,065 vehicles, up five per cent on 2014. Last year sees the company’s sixth successive year of growth in sales, with retails in 2015 more than double the 2009 figure. Commenting on the full year performance [...] -
Mercedes-Benz posts another record year
- 08/01/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Mercedes-Benz delivered more cars to customers in 2015 than ever before in one year. A total of 1,871,511 vehicles (+13.4%) were sold, posting its fifth record year in a row. Furthermore, the year 2015 ended for Mercedes-Benz with its strongest-selling December (178,017 units, +9.1%) and best quarter (495.159 [...] -
Autonomous vehicles cause concern
- 08/01/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The majority of UK motorists (three in five) currently worry about the safety of a fully autonomous vehicle, new research has revealed. Motorists are also concerned that technology failing would result in the vehicle breaking down (51%). Forty per cent simply mistrust the concept of a self-driving car with a fifth [...] -
M&M Group MD named top influencer
- 08/01/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Mick Whitehead, managing director of M&M Group / Fix Auto Stoke on Trent has been named as one of the 100 most influential people in the city. The accolade came as part of the inaugural Sentinel Day – a showcase occasion for local media outlet The Sentinel. An invited audience of more than 130 guests at the Best [...]