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BMW is introducing a trial fleet of the BMW iX5 hydrogen car throughout the world, including South Africa. The company views hydrogen cars as an addition to battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), not as a rivalry between the two technologies. The iX5 Hydrogen pilot fleet is not meant for commercial use, but the German automaker has begun testing hydrogen-powered cars in South Africa. The hydrogen car trial was revealed during the regional meeting of the Hydrogen Council in Sandton, Johannesburg. BMW has revealed that it will begin testing in collaboration with Anglo-American Platinum and Sasol. The Sasol BMW Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle,...

BMW and Continental announced a new strategic partnership to develop a in-wheel motor, including an integrated brake. The strategic partner is electric drive Munich-based start-up DeepDrive, renowned for creating the first radial flux twin rotor motor with power electronics that can be used in production vehicles. DeepDrive is an expert in creating energy-efficient electric motors and has produced large-scale automobiles for many years. Matthias Matic, president of Continental’s Safety and Motion business area, said they have gained a great partner as electric motors created by DeepDrive help to improve the range of EVs. Additionally, they are lighter, more inexpensive, and...

BMW Motorrad has lifted a temporary stop-sale for its entire gasoline motorcycle line in North America, which had resulted in the company only selling electric motorbikes.

BMW Motorrad has issued a “stop sale” notice for all of its internal combustion engine motorcycles in the US. The notice covers both new and used models, and specifically lists the BMW CE 04, an electric motorbike, as the only model still for sale from the company’s dealers.

Now isn't THAT strange! I guess these huge companies just don't have enough "pride" to virtue signal in places that dig Sharia law and throw homosexuals off of rooftops. 🤷‍♂️

Four shoplifters at a Bronx gas station fled empty-handed in a BMW after beating up two employees who confronted them, leaving one of the workers hospitalized, police said Monday. The wild melee broke out about 11:15 a.m. Thursday at a BP service station shop on Jerome Ave. near Risse St., cops said. The would-be thieves showed up and started taking items but were confronted by a 33-year-old worker, police said. One of the crooks threw a bottle at him and he was also shoved. When his 49-year-old co-worker stepped in, he was shoved and threatened with a knife while the...

BMW is warning the owners of about 90,000 older vehicles in the U.S. not to drive them due to an increasing threat that the air bags might explode in a crash. The warning covers vehicles from the 2000 through 2006 that previously had been recalled to replace faulty and dangerous air bag inflators made by Takata. The company used ammonium nitrate to inflate the air bags in a crash. But the chemical can deteriorate over time when exposed to heat and can blow apart a metal canister, hurling shrapnel that can injure or kill drivers and passengers. Models involved in...

TOYOTA IS ON TOP Last year's second-place finisher has replaced its sister luxury brand Lexus at the top of Consumer Report's reliability ranking list. The two tied with a rounded-up predicted reliability score of 72, but Toyota was a few decimals better, and they were followed by BMW (65), Mazda (65) and Honda (62). The study surveyed more than 300,000 owners of 2000 to early 2023 model year cars about 17 potential problem areas. " Consumers tell us reliability is one of the most important factors when buying a car," Jake Fisher, senior director of auto testing at Consumer...

GREER, S.C. (WSPA) – BMW announced Wednesday morning it will invest $1.7 billion to build a new facility in the Upstate and electric vehicles in the United States. $1 billion of the new investment will prepare the Spartanburg plant for the production of battery vehicles in the United States. The additional $700 million will be invested in building a new high-voltage battery assembly in Woodruff. Along with the investment, BMW signed an agreement with Envision AESC for the supply of battery cells for the Spartanburg plant.

China is losing its influence; it’s in decline. At the same time, however, China, ruled by a despotic regime, is responsible for 28.7 percent of global manufacturing output (more than 10 percentage points ahead of its No. 1 rival, the United States). This utter dependence on China for manufacturing must be stopped. As I write this, three countries are working to siphon customers away from China. Will their efforts prove to be successful?I speak from experience when I say the following: communist China is not a fun place to live in. Moreover, with its frequent power cuts and the Chinese...

Moments after discovering an affair, Christie Lee Kennedy allegedly got into her BMW and ran over her husband and his lover at their Brisbane meeting place.The mother-of-two then got out of her car, grabbed the mistress by the hair and punched her in the head while screaming at her, Queensland District Court was told.Kennedy, 37, had been married to David Larkin for nine years and been with him for more than a decade when her 'world came crashing down' in March 2021.

With temperatures in parts of the UK expected to hit 33C this week, the last thing any drivers are thinking about is heated seats.But a fierce debate has been sparked online, following the news that BMW is offering a subscription service to turn on heated seats in its cars. The service will see drivers charged £15/month to turn on heated front seats, and an additional £10/month to switch on the heated steering wheel. BMW hopes the service will be helpful for owners who change their minds after purchase. However, skeptics have called BMW 'greedy', and claim that if the technology...

BMW is now selling subscriptions for heated seats in a number of countries — the latest example of the company’s adoption of microtransactions for high-end car features. A monthly subscription to heat your BMW’s front seats costs roughly $18, with options to subscribe for a year ($180), three years ($300), or pay for “unlimited” access for $415. It’s not clear exactly when BMW started offering this feature as a subscription, or in which countries, but a number of outlets this week reported spotted its launch in South Korea. BMW has slowly been putting features behind subscriptions since 2020, and heated...

A open top BMW 6 series with a NSV 12,7x108 heavy machine gun mounted - is not something you see everyday. Video here.

Remember when BMW wanted to charge drivers to use Apple CarPlay? How about the subscription required for the Mercedes EQS's rear-wheel steering functionality in Europe? It turns out that luxury marques aren't the only ones looking to cash in on that sweet, sweet software as a service cash: Toyota has been testing the waters by making the remote start functionality on your proximity key fob part of a larger connected services subscription.Yes, it appears the pay-to-play ethos that's spreading around the industry has reached the world's largest automaker. A Toyota spokesperson confirmed to The Drive that if a 2018 or...

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) on Sunday said Democrats must "quit lying" about the cost of the Build Back Better Act and called for the House to revote on the massive social spending package. Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Graham claimed that the electric vehicle tax credits included in the bill would exacerbate inflation and hurt companies like BMW and Volvo. Both companies have recently announced commitments to rolling out new electric vehicles, with Volvo aiming to be all electric by 2030.

If you're a Tesla and EV fan, you might be aware that an EV Tsunami is about to arrive from China towards western OEM shores.In this video I'll show, with some help from Sandy Munro and The Limiting Factor:* WHEN this Tsunami of Chinese EVs should start* and HOW it would affect the sales of Western OEMs such as BMW, GM and Ford - as well as their stock pricesBOTTOM LINE - The Chinese EV invasion should arrive MUCH FASTER than most people (even you!) might think, and its effects on Western OEM's competitiveness and stock prices will be DEVASTATING.Ford,...

A man plunged nine stories from a high-rise in Jersey City, NJ, landed on a BMW — and miraculously survived, according to stunning photos and a witness. The man crashed through the roof of the Beemer parked below 26 Journal Square at 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, then stood up with a broken arm and asked, “What happened?,” onlooker Christina Smith, 21, told The Post. According to witnesses, the man plunged through the roof of the BMW and then quickly got up.“I heard a big boom and I didn’t think it was a person at first,” said Smith. “The back window of...

You’ve probably seen this trend before, some tool-bag driving around in a slammed E36 M3 with a European plate, that probably isn’t even from Germany, that says “D33z Nüt5” or something equally idiotic. It’s a big scene in America, to buy a European car, make it worse by putting it on cheap lowered suspension bought on eBay, slapping “Illest” stickers on it and throwing a European license plate on it so that people know its European. As if people didn’t already know that BMW, Volkswagen and Audi were from Europe. Doug Demuro, the guy on Jalopnik with the crazy cars,...

A report from Korea Times says Apple is close to finalizing deals with LG and Magna International to build the long-rumored Apple Car...The new rumors say Apple is close to signing a deal in which it would partner with Canadian manufacturer Magna International to build an EV powered by LG-supplied batteries and running on Apple software.So far none of the companies involved have commented on the reported negotiations, so there's no guarantee that this deal will be finalized or that it will result in a physical car...If the reports circulating now are correct (none of the three companies responded immediately...