Mercedes To Give A Tough Time To Tesla

Mercedes to come up with four electric cars igniting competition for Tesla Motors

Recently there was a diesel emission scandal that involved Volkswagen so now the automakers in Germany are quite serious about the future if electric cars (EVs). So now the Silicon Valley automotive giant, Tesla Motor Inc. needs to be concerned about its future.

As per the motoring.com.au, the subsidiary of Ag “Mercedes” is planning secretly to give a tough time to the electric car giant by coming up with electric vehicles. The company is geared up to come up with four electric cars. As per the source, these cars will hit the market in 2018- a year before its launch is actually scheduled as mentioned by the UK Car Magazine.

The German automotive company has been keeping a secret regarding a electrification venture that worth’s $3 billion. The company is likely to amuse the fans by coming up with a top notch an electric SUV or an electric limousine. Things are now getting quite complex in the automotive market. TSLA which was initially considered to be the 'auto industry disruptor', will now have to deal with some serious competition in the times to come.

As per The Motoring, the first vehicle that will go head to head with Tesla is a sedan which will directly ignite competition for Tesla Model S. this car is likely to be present in the C- Class and E-Class product category of Mercedes. The car that is going to compete with Tesla is a mid sized SUV that is going to be a competitor for Model X. as claimed the SUV by Mercedes will be placed “between GLC and GLE.”

As per the UK Car Magazine, Mercedes is also devoted to coming up with a large sized SUV along with a S-Class model to give a tough time to the remaining automotive industry particularly in the electric car domain. All the upcoming four models will boast of Electric Vehicle Architecture (EVA), and will also be featuring a four or rear wheel car.  It is assumed that the reason behind coming up with a four wheel EV is to comply with Tesla’s forte of “dual-motor performance versions”.  A four electric cars will feature a flat battery pack along with another secret technology that is being used by Tesla as of yet.

Tesla Motors needs to come up with its A- game to sustain in the industry. This is not it but German based automotive company “Volkswagen” is also coming up with it EV which further ignites the competition.

Tesla Model X All Set To Hit The Roads

The auto making giant is working right on schedule and is all set to release its new Model X on Tuesday, September 29.

Tesla Motors is all set to make the much awaited big release of its Model X car, which is to take place on Tuesday, September 29. The auto making giant first announced the car’s idea three years back in 2012 and as per the repeatedly changing schedule and launch date, the firm has finally come around to make the big release. The delays made during the car release have taken place in the past due to many problems that were faced by the giant. The price tag with which the new model will be available is going to be around $40,000, which is also being taken as a step by the giant to enter the auto market for the masses. Tesla cars have previously been entirely set for the elite class of the society, as the price tag the electric vehicles carry is a little too difficult for the middle class man to afford. The company is comfortably known to be setting its standard way too high, first making itself entirely for the high end customers and now is working towards hitting the masses as well. This is going to be carried out by the giant through an electric car, which will be made in to an affordable car for the customers. Analysts believe that this is just an attempt by the company to make sure more and more EVs reach the road in near future, so that the firm can reach its target of scoring the highest number of electric hybrid cars on the roads by 2020. Given the different issues Tesla has so far faced regarding the launch of the new Model X, now the expected delivery of the smart cars will be done next year by the month of February. The auto company has decided to deliver out the first cars of the models to limited customers who have signed deals with their signature reservations. These deliveries will be made right before the third financial quarter of the year ends. Another thing to be noted down is that all the customers with the signature deal were given the liberty to choose from different colors and also decide on the kind of interior that they would want to get for their new electric car. Furthermore, it will be seen that apart from the Model S project that the firm is carrying out, the price of the Model X cars will be higher than even Model S sedans, which is entirely due to the high end design and structure that the company is going to offer to its customers.

Could Tesla Be Providing Free Charging For Model X?

The auto making giant has decided to offer free charging facility even for the upcoming Model X SUVs.

According to the recent Tesla news, it has been going around the market how the auto making giant is all set to launch its first SUV ever and that too by the end of the current month. There are a number of questions that circulate around the industry before a product or car is launched in the market and one of them regarding the new car that is on its way to get released is: will the auto giant provide free charging facility to the new car owners as well? Over the period of time the electric car makers have shown the critics that they are capable of attracting the right customers towards their cars with the excessively user friendly offerings made to the users at every point. As per common knowledge of the market, Tesla cars have been coming in with a facility of free charging at different locations all around the country which has made the cars made by the auto giant all the more attractive. The speed with which the firm has taken control of auto industry has indeed been very astounding, with hundreds of charging stations established on highways and subways to bring ease to the owners of company’s electric vehicles. The Supercharger stations that are currently on the records have come around to be 2,871 all around the country which is being taken as a success that needs to be taken into consideration by other electric car makers as well, as this has made Tesla stronger than ever. In a recent report that was provided by the company itself, it was informed that the free charging facility is helping the luxury car makers to grow at a very quick speed and also bring more and more people to invest in buying electric cars of the auto giant. Tesla, on the other hand, has been in talks within the management to make things work for the customers by providing them free charging even for the upcoming SUVs, so that there are no reservations towards the firm. Furthermore, analysts all around the market have agreed that hands down, the biggest reason that the smart car maker sells its car in such a big number is due to the free charging facility which has taken the industry by storm. On the other side, the firm has also managed to create a feeling of anticipation for the car already and analysts believe that following the news that free charging will be available again, it could be easily predicted that the company enjoys high sales of the car in the coming time.

Tesla To Receive Competition in 2018 When Audi Starts Production of Audi Q6

The auto giant will be receiving massive competition from Audi when it starts production of its SUV in 2018.

Tesla Motor’s worst nightmare might be coming true soon, as Volkswagen’s subsidiary Audi has announced that it will be starting production of one of its most awaited electric cars, the Audi Q6. This will be a complete sport vehicle which will be the first one that the smart car makers release.

The auto makers recently announced that they will be starting the manufacturing and production of this SUV in a period of three years, starting from 2018. Another thing that the rival company released on Wednesday in a press release was a picture of the upcoming SUV that served as a teaser for the fans. Along with that, some of the features of the car were also announced by the auto giant. Analyst are talking about how this new car is going to make things difficult for Tesla, turning out to be a huge competitor for the company Model X car, which is also going to be a sports vehicle.

Audi has recently reported that the SUV they are working towards will have a mileage of going on for 310 miles as the driver’s range and it will not have one motor, but three different electric motors placed in the car’s engine. Out of them, two will be situated in the axle on the rear side while the remaining one will be kept in the front. These motors, however, are not something the firm is using for the first time as it has already used these in its previous hybrid vehicles like Electric R8, which is also a sports car run on an electric engine. As per the rumors that have come around about the car, it was seen that this upcoming SUV will have a horsepower coming around at 500 with a massive 518 pounds of torque. These reports have been confirmed by a number of press releases.

Q6 is just the expected name of the car Audi is planning to launch as it has yet now decided what it will naming this SUV. As per an article published by Auto News, it was seen that the car will have four seats along with a new technology called the e-tron Quattro that the firm will be launching in Frankfurt in the upcoming month at an auto show.

According to Tesla’s rival, the fact that Audi will be using ion-lithium batteries from Samsung and LG Chem, both being Korean companies, will really turn out to be a difficult thing for the electric car maker to digest. Tesla, on the other hand, is looking towards boosting up the production of its much awaited SUV, the Model X.

General Motors To Compete With Tesla In Battery Production

Following Tesla's steps, General Motors has decided to give a try at the battery producing business too.

The most recent Tesla news is all about the fact that the automaking giant is already being threatened by rivals in the battery making industry that it has just entered and this is keeping the hybrid car producers on their toes. It has just been two months since the electric car makers announced their entry into the battery making business which it has planned to initiate from a battery producing plant in Nevada. The firm has also reported that it will be making two kinds of batteries, known as Powerwall and Powerpack, which will be immovable energy storage for home based purposes as well as for its electric smart cars.

However, rival General Motors has decided to step up to the firm to by announcing that it is also planning to invest into the battery storage industry, following Elon Musk’s company’s footsteps. This could be taken as a threat by the automaking giant, but analysts believe that GM is planning on a very different space to follow in terms of production of batteries. As per the press releases, it has emerged that the GM will not be investing much in the business unlike Tesla, which has reportedly put in a massive $5 billion into a battery-making plant. Instead, GM will be using old thrown away battery packs and bringing them to use by recycling them. These batteries will be the ones that are disposed of from the electric cars made by the Michigan-based firm only.

In a press release that took place on Tuesday, June 16, it was seen that the firm has plans of using a battery pack consisting of five used batteries which will then be used as an extension for powering cars and homes, using both solar energy as well as energy produced by the wind.

According to an article published by Fortune, it will be seen that the recycling procedure that is being followed is going to be compatible with primary usage as well. But consistent recycling needs to be done in the case, as they will be charged from the solar energy received daily.

On the other hand, it is being seen that the batteries General Motors is planning to launch will be saving quite a lot of energy for rainy days, which has come around to a massive 80 percent. However, a supply problem has been identified by the automakers as the recycling will only be done from the already used batteries of electric vehicles and the usage of those cars has not been as much as the usual cars.

Bidness Autos - Tesla To Focus On Electric Trucks Now

The firm's co-founder, Ian Wright, has been reportedly working on Wrightspeed, a project used to electrify trucks that are used for various purposes, which will in return reduce pollution.

Tesla Motors has been doing a lot of things at the same time. The firm is all set to release its SUVs soon which have become one of the most awaited cars in the current time. According to a recently published interview of Ian Wright, who is the co-founder of the electric car making company, it has been seen he was one of the members of the group which ended up launching the hybrid car making giant in the industry around twelve years back.

From that time onwards, the auto giant has been constantly experiencing a rise in the electric car industry since it has always shown to be making cars that are excellent in quality and the perfect luxury vehicles to satisfy the needs of people who loved high tech cars. The firm has always produced high priced cars which have targeted the elite class since the beginning but this time around, Ian Wright was seen to declare the firm will also be focusing on cars that are not as high priced as the previous cars so that the idea of driving electric cars can be practiced by people of all classes.

On the other hand, Wright has also discussed that Tesla has many more exciting plans for the upcoming time, and one of them is to turn trucks into electric vehicles as well. Wright discussed in the interview that the firm is now looking forward to electrify all the trucks that have been observed to be noisy and abundant in use by the people for different purposes in the country.

A new venture of the firm is soon going to be announced which has been named ‘Wrightspeed’ after the idea proposed by Wright, which will work towards providing heavy-duty electric powertrains to the huge cars and trucks that actually not electric vehicles. This means that this venture will not be producing trucks but it will actually be providing the truck drivers with these much-needed powertrains which will not only be easier to use, but they will also be creating less noise pollution and will relatively be cleaner than the engine system used in cars driven by energies like diesel and gas.

The main purpose of the Wrightspeed that will be fulfilled through the venture is that the powertrains provided will be working towards lessening the pollution that is released by the gas based engines used by the trucks. This system is already been installed in the delivery trucks of FedEx Corp along with around 17 trucks that are used to collect garbage by Ratto Group.