Stockdorf, GERMANY — Webasto looks at cars the way a hammer looks at a nail. “At Webasto our feeling is that a car without a roof that opens is not complete,” said Jan Henning Mehlfeldt, a member of the supplier’s board of management. The German supplier, which already has an estimated 48 percent share of
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany — Holger Klein, CEO of ZF Friedrichshafen, said young automotive brands such as Tesla, Nio, Xpeng and Lucid are pushing the old German supplier in a different way than traditional automakers. “They have a different expectation on speed,” he said. “Speed is king.” The emerging brands want ZF’s newest technologies as quickly as
Volvo Cars‘ entry electric crossover will be the Swedish automaker’s first vehicle to offer a safety solution aimed at preventing deadly accidents with cyclists. The EX30, which will make its world debut June 7, warns occupants with visual and audio cues if they are about to open the door in front of a passing cyclist
The Chinese have a new love: camping. And in many cases they want to make their outdoor experiences as comfortable and premium as possible, elevating to the level of “glamping,” or glamorous camping. Several automakers at the Shanghai auto show dedicated large swaths of space to equipment aimed at satisfying this growing passion — which
SHANGHAI — Polestar’s latest model, the Polestar 4, will have no rear window and no rearview mirror. Instead, the driver will rely on a high-definition screen showing a real-time feed from a roof-mounted, rear-facing camera. Polestar says the digital feed, which can be deactivated to allow drivers to see rear occupants, will improve safety, especially
The updated Polestar 2 gains power and range and gets a new drive configuration and revised front styling that adopts the design language that debuted on its SUV sibling, the Polestar 3. Polestar has started taking orders for revised versions of its five-door fastback in Europe and the U.S. Orders in China will begin in
Volvo Cars aims to boost global sales more than 70 percent to 1.2 million by 2025, with half of those models being full electric and half of its transactions to be done online. CEO Jim Rowan said the Swedish automaker’s next model, a small electric crossover that he refers to as the EX30, will be
The biggest all-new product debut for Volvo Cars in half a decade will have standard safety equipment that goes “beyond that of any Volvo before it,” the company’s top executive said Wednesday. The EX90 full-electric premium large crossover will replace the XC90 as Volvo’s flagship. It will feature an “invisible shield of safety” that can
Two automotive chiefs who rose to the C-suite from the shop floor say the top level at companies shouldn’t only be for those with a university education. “I really hope that it doesn’t become rarefied air and the only people who can get to the C-suite are those who have been fortunate enough to afford
Volvo will use its most advanced platform when it starts production at a new assembly plant in Kosice, Slovakia, in 2026. Volvo announced the $1.25 billion project — its first new plant in Europe in almost 60 years — early this month with an indication that the Swedish automaker envisions going beyond its current global
