by Michael Strong | Sep 12, 2019
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel took to the floor of the Frankfurt Motor Show today to acknowledge what many in attendance already knew: German automakers have a tough task ahead of them when it comes to climate change. Merkel, who was touring the show, stopped to...
by Michael Strong | Sep 11, 2019
Lamborghini had much of the super car elite all abuzz in anticipation of the introduction of it first-ever hybrid, the Sián, at IAA 2019, but it was VW that stole the headlines at its debut. The Italian carmaker rolled the green machine onto the stage in Frankfurt...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 11, 2019
With a 48-inch videoscreen running from door to door, the Byton M-Byte might seem like little more than a fantasy in chrome, but eight months after a concept version of the battery-electric vehicle made its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show, it is set to soon go...
by Michael Strong | Sep 10, 2019
Audi’s ready to go off road but won’t use and gas to do it. Not with its new AI:Trail quattro battery-electric beast that it showed off after a tease at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The new AI:Trail completes a quartet of vehicles the German automaker started rolling out...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 10, 2019
Volkswagen has a new look. The automaker’s familiar logo is getting a makeover designed to help it enter “a new era,” according to a senior executive who helped preview the makeover at the Frankfurt Motor Show on Tuesday. The outgoing logo, with its “V” and “W”...
by Michael Strong | Sep 10, 2019
At a time when many automakers are cutting down on their commitments to auto shows, Hyundai Motor came to this edition of the Frankfurt Motor Show determined to make as big an impact as possible. The Korean automaker not only revealed the 45, an electric vehicle...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 10, 2019
There were plenty of skeptics when Chinese start-up Byton pulled the wraps off its M-Byte concept vehicle at the Consumer Electronics Show last January. But eight months later, with what the company has dubbed a production version of the battery-electric vehicle makes...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 10, 2019
It’s been nearly four years since the last Land Rover Defender rolled off the assembly line at the automaker’s plant in Solihull, England, and a full 22 years since the last of the go-absolutely-anywhere SUVs made it into the U.S. But the long drought is coming...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 10, 2019
Daimler AG, the parent of the Smart and Mercedes-Benz brands, plans to spend nearly $25 billion on batteries and the plants to build them during the next decade, and that doesn’t even factor in the billions more it will invest in developing an array of all-electric...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 9, 2019
It’s by no means a secret. Unlike many of the new models set to debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week, Volkswagen has already shown a concept version of its first long-range battery-electric vehicle and even begun taking advanced orders for the new ID.3. Now,...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 9, 2019
At first glance, it might seem like another Mercedes-Benz midsize sport-utility vehicle, a version of the familiar GLE, but a closer look offers a number of clues that it’s something much more. The various sensors, including arrays on the roof, reveal the SUV to be...
