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  • Car Sales Across All Of Europe Plummet 52 Percent In March

    Car Sales Across All Of Europe Plummet 52 Percent In March

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    Europe’s leading markets all registered massive drops in earnings each month, since enforced lockdown steps were put in place so as to include the spread of this coronavirus. New car registrations dropped to only 853,077 vehicles in the European Union, Britain and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) states, in accordance with industry association ACEA.…

  • Germany’s Merkel Gives Car Dealerships The Go-Ahead To Reopen

    Germany’s Merkel Gives Car Dealerships The Go-Ahead To Reopen

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    Automobile dealerships in Germany will be allowed to resume activities effective quickly, as Chancellor Merkel’s government dismisses its COVID-19 lockdown steps in Europe’s largest economy. The transfer was eagerly anticipated by auto lobby groups, which fired off multiple warnings regarding passengers facing insolvency because of high inventory, according to Autonews Europe. The VDA producers lobby…

  • China Giving Consumers Cash Incentives To Buy Cars After Sales Collapse

    China Giving Consumers Cash Incentives To Buy Cars After Sales Collapse

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    As with, in the end markets around the world, the Chinese car industry has been crippled by the coronavirus pandemic as well as the government is looking for ways to inspire individuals to begin buying cars again. A report by CNN says that by this stage of the calendar year, more than 6 million new…

  • The Station: Starship expands, AutoX opens up shop and a big moment for e-bikes

    The Station: Starship expands, AutoX opens up shop and a big moment for e-bikes

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    Hello and welcome back to The Station, a weekly newsletter specializing in the future (and present) of transportation. I’m host, Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter in TechCrunch. Everything you is a version of this newsletter, which is emailed every weekend. If you would like to subscribe, go here and click The Station. The transportation market…

  • Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 7 April

    Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 7 April

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    Daily coronavirus briefing: today’s architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes an Iranian shrine being used to make masks, Foster + Partners‘ design for a face shield and a ventilator prototype by Tesla. Foster + Partners designs open-source laser-cut face shield Foster + Partners has created a shield that can be manufactured quickly and disassembled, sanitised and…

  • March Car Sales Drop By 41% In China Due To COVID-19

    March Car Sales Drop By 41% In China Due To COVID-19

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    Sales of new cars in China have been struck hard by the coronavirus outbreak, ” the China Passenger Car Association continues to be confirmed. Car sales dropped by 40.8 per cent from March 2019 to 1.08 million units but the association expects sales volume in April to be much higher than in March. While March…

  • Tesla shows how it’s building ventilators with car parts

    Tesla shows how it’s building ventilators with car parts

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    Tesla is just one of a set of automakers retooling centers to build ventilators for your COVID-19 catastrophe. In the next video, a look is provided by the provider at its ventilator design procedure. Much like Ford and General Motors, Tesla engineers are still building its vent. The reason is straightforward: automobile parts are readily…

  • VW Group Losing $2.2 Billion Per Week Due To Viral Pandemic

    VW Group Losing $2.2 Billion Per Week Due To Viral Pandemic

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    In an interview with German TV station ZDF, VW Group CEO Herbert Diess declared that his firm might need to cut jobs due to this coronavirus pandemic, as the carmaker is burning through about 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) per week. VW is now not selling any cars out of China, where demand has picked…

  • China’s Auto Industry Doing All It Can To Coax Back Shoppers

    China’s Auto Industry Doing All It Can To Coax Back Shoppers

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    Together with China gradually coming out of its lockdown stemming in the coronavirus outbreak, car manufacturers and dealerships throughout the country are looking to do anything they can to encourage shoppers back to showrooms, Reuters reports. In February, sales of automobiles in China plunged by 79 percent and dropped by 45 percent in the first…

  • Dyson designs ventilator in 10 days to supply NHS

    Dyson designs ventilator in 10 days to supply NHS

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    British technology firm Dyson has made a ventilator and can be primed to make 15,000 units in the coming weeks to help meet the demand brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Named CoVent, the ventilator was developed by the company in just 10 days, following Dyson was one of the producers contacted by Prime Minister…