Europewide electric vehicle charger operator Ionity was set up by Ford, BMW, Daimler and VW in 2017. It recently added Hyundai-Kia as a new partner. Ionity boss Michael Hajesch spoke to Automotive News Europe about what comes next for the fast-growing company

Skoda's SUV concept will be the first model underpinned by a low-cost platform developed in India by the automaker.

McLaren will build 399 units of the Elva, which will cost 1.42 million pounds ($1.82 million) in the UK automaker's home market.

The new-generation Octavia will have mild hybrid and plug-in hybrid versions for the first time to enhance the compact car’s appeal to its core business customers.

Jaguar Land Rover's inventory will be thin this quarter after the automaker's Brexit-related production shutdown, Adrian Mardell, chief financial officer, told analysts.

Uniti, which started as a project at Sweden’s Lund University and is partly financed by crowd-funding, will launch the Uniti One battery-powered minicar in the UK and Sweden in the middle of next year, with Germany following later.

Former Audi executive Joerg Hofmann, who now heads LEVC, explained how he plans to make Geely's UK-based taxi maker profitable within two years.

Skoda's next-generation Octavia will come with plug-in hybrid and mild-hybrid versions, the brand has announced ahead of the compact model's unveiling on November 11.

Racing technology that uses synthetic fluid containing hydrocarbons to cool batteries could be used in road cars to protect against the damage inflicted by fast charging.

Skoda will not lose its values of space, functionality, value for money and forward-looking design, its CEO Bernhard Maier said, amid reports that the brand will be positioned downmarket.

The new version of the compact car will be unveiled next month. The current Octavia is Skoda's best-seller as well as the most popular model in Austria, Switzerland, Finland, the Czech Republic and Poland.
 

Despite the slumping overall market in China, Jaguar Land Rover has posted sales growth in the country over the past three months.

The new Toyota Yaris hybrid pairs a three-cylinder engine with a lithium ion battery for the first time to reduce CO2 emissions by more than 20 percent compared with the outgoing hybrid, the automaker says.

European sales of station wagons will shrink to 1.5 million by 2025 from almost 2 million in 2016, analyst firm LMC Automotive predicts, as automakers abandon the segment in favor of vehicles with more global appeal such as SUVs and crossovers.

Europe's largest dealer groups are expanding to the point where the leaders are annually selling new cars at volumes that surpass or nearly equal brands such as Volvo, Land Rover and Jaguar.