Author:charleen-clarke
Kamal Mitoo, CEO of Time Link Cargo, must surely be one of the greatest Scania fans on this planet, and, as CHARLEEN CLARKE discovers, he has just reinforced his belief in the brand with an order for 100 trucks! Mitoo is famous for many things. First and foremost, thereโs the fact that he started his company as recently as 2005 โ and itโs a massively successful undertaking today. Second, heโs famous for being passionate about the Scania brand (youโll never […]
Nissan is testing Invisible-to-Visible (I2V) technology, which helps drivers โsee the invisibleโ โ such as whatโs farther down the road, behind a building or around the corner. I first discovered this technology at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January this year, and itโs hugely cool and impressive stuff. Currently being tested at Grandrive, Nissanโs proving ground in Yokosuka, Japan, I2V is a technology that merges the real and virtual worlds. It combines information from sensors outside and […]
Last year, I drove Volvoโs new electric trucks and now the first units have been delivered to customers! The vehicles in question are a refuse truck, which was delivered to waste and recycling company Renova, and a distribution truck, which went to the logistics company DB Schenker and partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden. The Volvo FL Electric trucks are part of a pre-series developed in collaboration with selected customers. Series production of the Volvo FL Electric and its powerful […]
More than half of van drivers in the United Kingdom (UK) have admitted to making calls behind the wheel without using a hands-free device. This is the finding of a research study by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. According to the study, van drivers in the UK spend an average of 35 minutes on the phone each day in their vehicles, making an average of seven calls a day. One in ten spend two hours on the phone while driving during the […]
Scania and Nobina, the largest public-transport operator in the Nordic countries, will start trials of autonomous buses on regular routes in the Stockholm area in 2020. โThe technology is now sufficiently mature to initiate trials in actual bus operations on public roads, making the project one of the first of its kind in Europe with buses this size,โ explains Karin Rรฅdstrรถm, head of buses and coaches at Scania. โThe project will provide a wealth of information in the further development […]
Busworld South East Asia took place in Jakarta last month and it was interesting to discover that one of its exhibitors runs the longest bus rapid transit (BRT) system in the world. The company in question, TransJakarta, boasts a BRT system measuring 251 km in length. It serves 663 000 passengers a day, who travel across 155 routes (as recently as 2015, a mere 41 routes were on offer). About 189,8-million passengers used the service of TransJakarta last year. Back […]
In the automotive world there are specific vehicles that have no equal. The Suzuki Jimny is one of them. The Jimny? That diminutive, unintimidating three-door 4×4 with just a 1,5-litre four-cylinder engine? Surely there are other 4x4s that could teach this little mite how itโs done? There are, sure โ but at R299ย 900 for this GLX manual model, you have to almost double the price point to find them. You will find 4×4 or all-wheel drive vehicles only slightly north […]
Hyundai calls its new Kona crossover โbeautifulโ and โperkyโ โฆ Iโm not sure Iโd go that far, but one thing is for certain โ this is Hyundai breaking out of its conservative mould and into a bold new world of design! Indeed, in the ultra-competitive C-segment SUV/crossover arena, the Kona will have to stand out to make a real impressionโฆ Looking rugged, bold, eye-catching โ alienistic โ stand out it does! Muscular haunches and strong character lines are interplayed with […]
Three and a half out of ten, thatโs what I rated Datsunโs original GO back in 2015. It was so lacking that my suggestion was to rather buy something second handโฆ In the ensuing years, though, the market has changed significantly, with many new competitors entering the entry-level segment โ and prices going up (as with everything in recent years). Nissan South Africa knew, therefore, that it had to ensure the updated GO addressed all its previous issues and offered […]
Daimler let its incredible Urbanetic, which we first saw at the 2018 IAA in Hannover, lose on the world-famousย Las Vegas Strip during the Consumer Electronics Show. Needless to say, it attracted a massive amount of attention. That was primarily because the vehicle looks so funky. However, the technology inside this vehicle study is even more incredible. Naturally, it is autonomous (dah, thatโs obvious nowadays). It also runs on a battery-electric drive (another dah to that, because itโs also hardly breaking […]
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