BMW Teases New Small-Capacity Naked Bike Ahead of October 1 Reveal
BMW Motorrad has posted a blacked-out teaser for a new small-capacity street bike, and it looks very much like an A2-friendly F450R naked powered by the F450GS parallel-twin. BMW Motorrad has shown a new small-capacity street bike on social media, but only as a dark silhouette. The teaser appeared on Wednesday, September 23. The finished […]
Mitsubishi Unveils All-New Pajero as Its New Flagship SUV
Mitsubishi has revealed a fully redesigned Pajero with a ladder frame, a 2.4-litre diesel and low-range 4WD, launching first in Thailand before Japan, Australia and about 100 other countries. The Pajero is back, and Mitsubishi is aiming well above nostalgia. At a world premiere in Tokyo, the company revealed a fully redesigned Pajero and named […]
BMW Group Partners With Mistral AI to Train AI on Crash Simulation Data
BMW Group is working with French AI company Mistral AI to build a specialised model trained on more than a petabyte of its own crash simulation data, with the aim of making complex engineering work faster and more accurate. Most carmakers talk about artificial intelligence in terms of voice assistants and touchscreens. BMW’s latest AI […]
BYD’s cheapest EV to get rear wheel drive and independent suspension
Regulatory filings show the second-generation BYD Seagull switching from a 55kW front wheel drive layout to a 95kW rear motor, multi-link rear suspension, and a front boot! A serious upgrade at the bottom of China’s EV market. The BYD Seagull, the tiny EV that undercuts almost everything else on sale in China, is getting a […]
Electrified Vehicles Pass 60 Per Cent of New Zealand’s Passenger Market
August registrations of battery-electric cars and plug-in hybrids nearly tripled, taking electrified models past three-fifths of New Zealand’s new passenger vehicle sales so far this year. For the first time, most new passenger cars sold in New Zealand this year have some form of electrification. In August, registrations of battery-electric cars and plug-in hybrids nearly […]