Mexican Media Brands
Former Opel Chief Joins EV Startup
Karl-Thomas Neumann, who resigned as CEO of General Motors Co.’s Opel unit last June, has joined Evelozcity, a 4-month-old electric-car startup based in Los Angeles.
#hybrid
Share
Karl-Thomas Neumann, who resigned as CEO of General Motors Co.’s Opel unit last June, has joined Evelozcity, a 4-month-old electric-car startup based in Los Angeles.
Neumann had been expected to become CEO of Volkswagen AG’s Audi unit. A long-time proponent of EVs, he says he decided to join Evelozcity after concluding that conventional carmakers won’t be the companies that drive major changes in urban transportation.
He has joined the startup’s board and will be in charge of mobility. Earlier this month Neumann also invested in and joined the board of door2door GmbH, a ride-hailing startup launched in Berlin in 2012.
The startup was launched in December by three former BMW AG executives, two of whom played key roles in the German carmaker’s “i” EV unit. All three had spent time with Chinese startup Faraday Future Inc. before launching Evelocity in January. The company said last month it aims to introduce its first EV in 2021.
RELATED CONTENT
-
On Ford Maverick, Toyota Tundra Hybrid, and GM's Factory Footprint
GM is transforming its approach to the auto market—and its factories. Ford builds a small truck for the urban market. Toyota builds a full-size pickup and uses a hybrid instead of a diesel. And Faurecia thinks that hydrogen is where the industry is going.
-
2019 Honda Insight
One of the things that rarely gets the amount of attention that it should in a typical “car review” is the fact that for a considerable amount of time drivers are not “getting on the throttle” because for a considerable number of drivers, they’re “dwelling on the binders,” a.k.a., sitting with their foot depressed on the brakes, perhaps lifting every now and then in order to nudge forward in traffic.
-
The U.S. Military Finds New Roads: Fuel Cell Powered Pickups
While it seems that fuel efficiency as related to the U.S. federal government is all about light duty vehicles, that’s far from being the case.