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Ora Good Cat Owners Upset Cars Have Intel Processor From 2016 Rather Than New Qualcomm Chip

Chinese automaker Ora has come under fire from owners in China for installing an outdated computer chip on Good Cat models.

The Ora Good Cat has been brought to life by the Great Wall-owned car manufacturer which recently launched in Europe. However, Ora has been shipping Good Cat models to owners in China with an Intel processor that was released in 2016, rather than the octa-core Qualcomm processor that the EV was advertised as having.

The Straight Times reports that owners have complained about the processor on WeChat and are considering legal action, accusing the car manufacturer of consumer fraud. Owners say Ora had offered subsidized charging, free software updates, and app memberships to appease them but that wasn’t enough for some who want new chips installed or, otherwise, full refunds and compensation.

Owners state that the old Intel processor means that the car’s infotainment system doesn’t operate as it should, with fewer third-party applications available and, according to one owner, no ability to update the Gaode navigation app, China’s equivalent of Google Maps. In addition, the same owner says the in-car voice assistant frequently malfunctions.

Ora conceded on November 22 that early Good Cat models had indeed reached customers with old Intel processors rather than the Qualcomm chips that had been advertised.

“We would like to express our deep apologies to Ora Good Cat owners for the trouble brought about by the Ora Smart-cafe OS (operating system) advertising content,” the company added in a statement.

Executive director at Queen & Low Law Firm in Beijing, Lin Lihong, has been speaking with owners and says a court case is being readied.

“In my opinion, this is a typical case of consumer fraud,” she said. “It was explicitly written in the car configuration files that a Qualcomm octa-core processor would be equipped in the vehicle. However, after deliveries were made, owners discovered that the vehicles were not consistent with what was advertised. The advertisement of the type of chip – which is a key configuration in a smart car – directly influenced the consumers’ purchasing decisions.”

On its part, Ora stated that replacing the Intel chips could be “difficult” and admitted that it couldn’t guarantee future Good Cat models would have the Qualcomm chip due to production constraints.

VW Takes Aim at the Holy Trinity: Long Range, Fast Charging and Autonomous Driving

Volkswagen is looking set a new benchmark within its $86 billion electrification plan: Project Trinity.

It’s not quite the Holy Grail but Volkswagen wants to achieve something of a holy trinity when it comes to its $86 billion battery-car program.

The automaker plans to have at least 50 EVs set to be on sale by mid-decade. But it’s facing a flood of competition from automakers old and new, including the segment’s current leader, Tesla. If anything, it has to ramp up its game if its first wave of products, including the VW ID.4, Audi e-tron and Porsche Taycan are any indication.

That’s where “Project Trinity” comes in. The program is meant to “set new standards,” according to VW officials, especially when it comes to two big obstacles to more widespread BEV adoption: range and charging time. To that add a goal of bringing significantly advanced levels of autonomy to the cars that will be developed under Trinity.

Some sort of big breakthrough seems essential if VW expects to meet an ambitious target of having BEVs account for 50% of its sales in the U.S. and China by 2030, and 70% in the European market.

Targeting range, charging times and more

In a statement, VW said the target is a sedan delivering “high range, extremely short charging times, and revolutionary production.” It offered few details beyond a target date of around 2026.

Volkswagen is looking make a big shift forward in its electric vehicle program with Project Trinity.

How VW will get there is far from certain. Among the questions raised by Project Trinity, observers are left wondering whether the German giant plans to update or replace the modular MEB architecture that was intended to underpin the vast majority of the BEVs it was planning to bring to market.

Range is clearly one of the challenges VW faces. The new ID.4, for example, can barely muster 250 miles per charge, and the e-tron and Taycan can’t do any better. Ford is pushing 300 miles with the long-range version of the new Mustang Mach-E. The Tesla Model S now can top 400 miles with an optional pack and is expected to reach 500 miles with the upcoming Plaid edition. Lucid expects to reach 517 miles or more when the EPA gives final sign-off on the Air sedan going into production later this year.

How much range really is necessary?

While 500-plus miles may be more than most buyers will need, there is widespread agreement that a 400-mile target will effectively eviscerate range anxiety, especially as the public charging network expands during the coming decade.

Volkswagen developed a robot that can pull a mobile charging station and “juice up” an EV. The company’s looking at ways to speed up charging.

Charging times are also critical. The Porsche Taycan is currently one of the champs on the market thanks to an 800-volt electrical architecture. The electric sports sedan can get from 5% to 80% state-of-charge in about 22 minutes with one of the newer public fast chargers. The e-tron and ID.4 need roughly double that. The reality is that even the Taycan – or any current Tesla – doesn’t come close to meeting consumer expectations which are more along the lines of what it takes to fill up an empty gas tank.

Could VW get things down below 10 minutes? That’s certainly a good target – and it wouldn’t be alone. General Motors President Mark Reuss told TheDetroitBureau.com last year that this is the number GM aims for with its new Ultium batteries – though not initially.

Addressing the basics

The bottom line, industry analysts believe, is that BEVs are going to have to deliver the sort of convenience motorists now expect of vehicles using internal combustion engines – even while adding other appealing features.

Those include the quiet ride possible only with electric motors, as well as the incredible torque an electric drivetrain can muster up. The Porsche Taycan, for example, can hit 60 in as little as 2.6 seconds and Tesla claims its upcoming Roadster will get there in less than 2 seconds.

An under-the-skin look at VW’s modular MEB battery-car platform reveals the skateboard-like layout. Could it be replaced as part of Project Trinity?

But there’s another breakthrough the California automaker has been moving ever closer to: hands-free operation. And VW wants to beat Tesla at its own game, promising that Project Trinity will make it possible to have “autonomous driving widely available.” More importantly, this is expected to go well beyond the technology Tesla and General Motors currently offer, reaching something along the lines of what VW described as “Level 2+” capabilities.

3D printing could be in the plan

Exactly what that means is unclear but would suggest the ability to operate hands-free under virtually all circumstances, albeit with a person still behind the wheel and ready to take control in an emergency. The automaker went so far as to suggest Project Trinity could take us right up to the boundary between hands-free operation and the need for no driver at all, what is known in industry-speak as Level 4 autonomy.

The ambitious venture also laid out another intriguing, albeit vague, target. We’ll have to guess what “revolutionary production” might mean. Adding still more robots to its existing assembly lines would hardly seem to qualify unless humans can be removed entirely from key portions of the assembly plant. Another possibility would be the introduction of such technologies as 3D printing to replace conventional stamped and forged components.

VW has been hinting at plans for a major breakthrough in EV design and technology for some time. There are plenty of ways that it might get a leg up on the competition, especially if it can come up with a completely new generation of batteries, such as the solid-state cells expected to slash costs, boost range and speed up charging.

Not surprisingly, the sedan VW is working on will be built at the automaker’s flagship plant near its headquarters in Wolfsburg, with the German newspaper. Die Welt reporting earlier this year that it will carry a starting price of around $42.000.

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2020 Changan Vision-V Concept Is Living Proof That Chinese Cars Can Look Good

After introducing the UNI T earlier this year, Changan has now presented the Vision-V Concept.

Making its premiere at the 2020 Beijing Auto Show, the study is understood to preview a future production model that would slot above the UNI T.

At around 193 inches (4,900 mm) long and with a 110 in (2,800 mm) wheelbase, the Vision-V Concept is almost as big as the Audi Q7, Mercedes-Benz GLE and BMW X5.

At the front, it sports an enclosed grille with integrated LEDs, slender headlamps joined together by a light strip and LED DRLs on each side of the bumper. The roofline is slightly arched behind the B pillars and ends with a spoiler, there is a very high waistline, a clean-looking back end and a light strip that stretches across the width of the car, from fender to fender.

Changan’s new show car has suicide rear doors and a futuristic looking interior, although the former will likely be dropped once the production version comes out and the latter should be significantly toned down. Expect traditional door handles too, while the cameras will probably be replaced by side mirrors.

There is no word on the powertrain yet, but the production model will supposedly launch with gasoline internal combustion engine(s), like the UNI T, which packs two turbocharged units with 1.5 and 2.0 liters in displacement.

The local media expects the new SUV to launch next year, joining the UNI lineup that should eventually count 4 or 5 vehicles.

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Lexus Ready to Rock with New IS Sedan

Lexus give a little tease of what its brand-new IS design will appear like. It debuts June 9. Occasionally we need to go back as well as inspect our notes, as held true when we learned Lexus was preparing to disclose the next-generation IS sedan June 9. Yep, it ends up, it’s been a full 7 years considering that the last variation rolled into showrooms

so, if anything, it’s nearly late by the normally fast lane by which the Japanese luxury brand name runs. What’s all the more uncommon is that Lexus has been fairly good at keeping a full cover on the project, with the normal Internet resources generating no spy shots or photo leaks. As well as, at least for the moment, Toyota’s upscale division is claiming little greater than promising that the 2021 IS will be bringing “the thrill of driving to the small deluxe sports car sector.”

That said, we’ve still been able to locate some useful understandings– and also a couple of sensibly believable rumors– concerning the 2021 Lexus IS.

(Lexus generating Black Line Edition of GS 350 F-Sport.)

To begin with, it appears likely Lexus has determined not to base the brand-new sedan on the TNGA-L system, a deluxe variant of the Toyota Next Generation Architecture that was expected to anchor much of the brand’s product.

Rather, it is believed to continue to be on the old New-N system as the outgoing model, albeit with a variety of upgrades to improve efficiency and handling. Numerous records we’ve seen show those tweaks were made at the Shimoyama facility near Toyota City, Japan that will certainly be managing future efficiency tasks.

The 2019 Lexus IS 350 F-Sport uses deluxe in an effective efficiency bundle. What we see with the intro image below is the backside. It exposes a brand new, arching taillight teasing that flips to vertical at either edge. There also appear to be some small alterations to the rear diffuser. While we have absolutely nothing visual to pass, indicators are that Lexus will reduce the questionable pin grille design that has bewildered the faces of its latest-generation items, reaching an apogee with the LC line.

In very early versions, the Lexus IS was, to be blunt, intentionally tiring. We’re certain the new version will include a considerably much more hostile makeover. For one thing, it will certainly currently need to cover a more comprehensive area, what with the demise of the Lexus GS line. As well as, in a market where sedans are continuing to shed ground, the brand-new model needs to actually accentuate the “Wow!” factor or danger being overlooked in favor of the expanded Lexus crossover line-up.

The car did brighten the Lexus image when the IS F made its launching for the 2008 model year, brightening performance with a 417 horse power 5.0-liter V8 and also the world’s first eight-speed automatic transmission.

(Lexus makes adjustments to LC 500 for 2021.)

The terse tease recommends we’ll continue to see some real muscle mass readily available, though current rumors seem to suggest there’ll be no new IS F in the line-up. Whether that’s a long-term choice, or just a program set back a year or 2 is unclear. We wish to discover even more following week.

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caption-attachment-148326″course=” wp-caption-text “> No word yet on what type of updates– if any type of– will be coming for the IS F Sport. Even so, some type of efficiency package very well seems to be in the murder, whether in the type of the acquainted, naturally aspirated 5.0-liter V-8 or a variation of the twin-turbo 416 hp V-6 found in the LS 500.

There had been some reports floating that the IS may even get a variation of the six-banger from Toyota’s new Supra– an inline plan obtained from BMW. That appears to be extremely unlikely at this point.

For less stylish customers, the base choice will certainly be a 2.0-liter turbo-four making a sensible 241 hp. Other options may consist of a 260 hp 3.5-liter V-6, and a high-performance variation of that engine punching points approximately a more sporty 311 hp.

We’re expecting all powertrain packages to count on the Lexus eight-speed automatic. All-wheel-drive, we’re suggested, will be offered only with V-6s, other variations remaining to push power to the back wheels.

(Lexus lifts the covers on updates RX line in quote to maintain CUV dominance.)

The sedan was originally as a result of be introduced in April at the New York International Auto Show– which was first delayed to August as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and then canceled entirely. The choice to reveal it currently suggests that the 2021 Lexus IS will be making it to U.S. rather close to the initial loss target.

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Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance Expected to Announce Strategic Plan Next Week

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http://vinnysmotorcycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/renault-nissan-mitsubishi-alliance-expected-to-announce-strategic-plan-next-week-6.jpg 1600w”sizes =”(max-width: 350px )100vw, 350px “> Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida has actually been pushing for changes at the automaker. The strategy that will certainly move the Alliance onward will certainly be disclosed next week. Nearly precisely 18 months after previous employer Carlos Ghosn was apprehended on allegations of economic transgression, the 3 members of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance are anticipated to reveal next week a new critical plan aimed at holding the long-running partnership together. The Alliance was virtually abused as a result of the Ghosn affair as well as the long-simmering interior conflicts that it gave the surface. Officials with each of the 3 firms have actually made efforts in recent months to stress their wish to proceed what has actually come to be one of the globe’s very successful automotive teams.

Statements made in January indicated the carmakers would grow their teamwork and also parse out between them locations in which each business might take the lead. That might see Nissan properly take control of the team’s electrification initiatives, and Renault serve as the Alliance lead for procedures in Europe.

(Former Green Beret, child, apprehended for helping Ghosn retreat.)

Such steps are expected to resolve not only temporary economic issues yet additionally resolve continuous disputes that have made it hard to attain long-promised synergies that might conserve billions of bucks yearly.

Renault Chairman Jean Dominique Senard was voted to Chairman of the Alliance by Mitsubishi investors in 2014. The partnership was initially created 20 years ago when Renault mounted a substantial bailout strategy to conserve an increasingly insolvent Nissan. The French car manufacturer assigned Ghosn to take care of the deal as well as the Brazilian-born executive soon was elevated to Nissan CEO. More just recently, Nissan itself assisted bail out having a hard time Mitsubishi. For his component, Ghosn offered in a range of elderly positions before his November 2018 apprehension, consisting of CEO of the currently three-company Alliance.

Ghosn has repeatedly insisted that he was the victim of a “coup,” declaring a transfer to fully regain control of Nissan from Renault. Under the regards to the original bailout contract, the French business was the leading player in the collaboration, though all 3 had economic cross-holdings.

What specifically will be introduced on May 27 has actually not been revealed, the companions only encouraging they would hold “a joint interview pertaining to the progress in Alliance activities.” Yet, based upon comments made in January, relocates to grow teamwork are expected to be a huge part of what will certainly be described.

According to numerous current as well as former senior-level staff members of the Alliance and its partners, the three companies have never worked together at the level they tried to represent openly. To name a few things, that indicated that there commonly was substantial duplication of vehicle system and powertrain efforts considerably contributing to development prices.

(Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance reconfigures board of supervisors.)

That may be just one of the key areas dealt with by the new critical plan. Among the most widely expected actions would see Nissan take the lead in future electrical lorry development efforts. The company was the globe’s first to offer market an all-electric automobile for automation, the Leaf.

An additional cost-cutting move may see the partners appoint certain regions in which they would certainly play lead, such as placing Renault in charge in Europe.

Mitsubishi CEO Osamu Masuko has introduced lots of changes at the car manufacturer. What is uncertain is whether there might additionally be plans to change the degree of monetary cross-holdings or to resolve Nissan’s long-running frustration regarding the power Renault holds over its companions.

The 3 automakers clearly can use the help better leveraging of the alliance might supply. Nissan, in particular, With the coronavirus pandemic adding to its troubles, the second-largest Japanese automaker is expected to go greater than $400 million right into the red for the that finished in March. It originally had anticipated a $795.3 million revenue.

Nissan is expected to introduce plans to reduce $2.8 billion in repaired costs. Renault also desires to cut $2.2 billion in prices over the next three years and a report by a French once a week, the Canard Enchaine, declares it will certainly shut 4 of its factories in France.

(Nissan plans for reorganizing ask for $2.8 billion in price cuts.)

The upcoming news conference comes amidst brand-new advancements in the Ghosn affair. Earlier this month, seven people were apprehended in Turkey for allegedly helping in the executive’s adventurous escape from Japan last December. Today, 2 others, including a former Green Beret, were apprehended on similar claims in the U.S.

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2021 Jaguar XF L Makes Spy Debut With Extra Space For Rear Occupants

Alongside the normal car as well as estate variations of the facelifted XF, Jaguar is also dealing with the lengthy wheelbase design, which was lately snooped testing for the very first time.

Likely keeping the XF L name, it sporting activities much longer back doors as well as uses even more area in between the two axles, leading to extra legroom for rear travelers. That’s a function much appreciated amongst Chinese consumers for which the XF L is made.

On the aesthetic front, anticipate the exact same alterations as the normal sedan, meaning brand-new bumpers at both ends, changed lights signature as well as possibly some tweaks to the grille as well as boot lid. The more modern styling must be improved by an upgraded color combination as well as new wheels.

Review Also: You Could Get A Jaguar XF Sportbrake For Up To $30,000 Off The MSRP In The U.S.

In all probability, the 2021 Jaguar XF, along with the XF Sportbrake (estate) as well as XF L, will certainly boast more upgrades within, with the vital emphasis getting on brand-new technology. Consequently, it ought to invite a brand-new additional screen for the HVAC system, upgraded infomercial and instrument collection, and probably a new guiding wheel. Fresh upholstery as well as trim alternatives are most likely to round out the modifications.

We can expect a couple of engine alterations too, with records declaring that the 3.0-liter mild-hybrid fuel system rated at 395 HP (400 PS) will be presented to the lineup.

In other places, we will certainly need to wait a few months to discover everything regarding it as well as see the adjustments in a main atmosphere. Jag’s competitor for the BMW 5-Series, Mercedes-Benz E-Class, Audi A6 as well as Volvo S90 is comprehended to premiere in the 2nd half of the year.

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