Volkswagen Group China has commenced construction of a battery system production factory in Hefei, Anhui province, and will invest over EUR 140 million until 2025 in the new plant and facilities
VW Anhui Components Company is the first battery system plant to be wholly owned by VW Group in China
Capacity will be 150,000 to 180,000 high-voltage battery systems for Volkswagen Anhui’s all-electric vehicles based on the Group’s Modular Electric Drive Toolkit MEB platform
With an area of over 45,000 square meters, the plant will be located next to the production facilities of Volkswagen Anhui, Volkswagen’s first majority-owned joint venture for all-electric vehicles
Four years ago, no one would have dreamed that the port of Königs Wusterhausen (Dahme-Spreewald) would soon be loading components for the US car manufacturer Tesla
At the time, the port was in crisis following the end of lignite shipping
Now Königs Wusterhausen is considering whether and how it can become a trans-shipment centre for Tesla parts from all over the world via Hamburg to Königs Wusterhausen
"WE SEE THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE FOSSIL-POWERED CAR"
"If the trend line for car sales in the last five years remains true, the last new petrol or diesel car in Norway will be sold in April 2022" says Norwegian Automobile Federation NAF motor.no/a/208384
In the first eight months of 2017, petrol and diesel cars accounted for more than 25% of new registrations, each with a total of 102,873 new car registrations
In the first 8 months of 2021, petrol and diesel cars accounted for 4.93% and 4.73% out of a total of 110,864 new cars
In July this year, petrol and diesel registrations fell below 1,000 cars together for the first time
The dotted line shows the trend for these registrations month by month since January 2017 and the y-axis shows the number of registered cars with internal combustion engines
Standard advice to an Irishman when he has dug himself into a hole :
"STOP DIGGING"
The "invoice" shown in the Rich Repair video purporting to relate to a 2021 battery replacement was forged from a 2019 Receipt for Supercharger Fees vice.com/en/article/3aq…
Here is the original document before Rich Rebuilds doctored it :
And here is the doctored version from Rich Rebuilds, purporting to be a "quote" for a Model S Battery Replacement
General Motors will begin replacing damaged and fire-prone battery cells on some of its recalled Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles in mid-October, the automaker announced Monday cnn.com/2021/09/20/car…
GM first announced a recall of the Chevy Bolt electric vehicles in November 2020 due to fire risk, but it didn't have an immediate fix
In May, it announced a software repair, but then there were two fires involving Bolts that had received that fix, prompting another recall in July of 70,000 vehicles
A month later, the automaker issued a recall on another 70,000 cars