Dashboard (05/04/20)
AMID this time of uncertainty, the Autohub Group tells customers it is sure of one thing: That it has kept its promise to bring in the Shelby brand into the Philippine market.
AutoDeal now allows consumers to buy cars online through its platform
In today’s modern world, consumers rely heavily on on-demand services available online to further improve and ease their lives. With short waiting time, these...
Does auto industry unemployment loom in a post-ECQ economy?
By Kap Maceda Aguila
AS THE enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) has been extended to May 15, many of us doubtless continue to get progressively antsy, anxious, and basically worried for what’s ahead. Make no mistake about it: The nefarious coronavirus is out there, and it’s waiting to pounce on the careless and those mistaking its invisibility for absence. Even if thousands of people have recovered around the world, the immutable truth is that COVID-19 kills, and neither the dreaded SARS nor H1N1 holds a candle to its transmission rate. That damned virus loves to strike us down.
Porsche leads effort to airlift PPE from Shanghai to hospitals in Germany
STUTTGART-HEADQUARTERED sports car maker Porsche has been partnering with logistics firms DB Schenker and Lufthansa Cargo to ensure that medical equipment reaches hospitals, emergency service units, and other institutions in Germany.
Car industry takes it on the chin, still standing
By Kap Maceda Aguila
AT THIS POINT, the title is more of a fervent wish than fact -- but we’re keeping it anyway. Besides, I know that many of you share the prayer. People have already chorused that 2020 should be a write-off. It’s too untenable a year; too memorable for the wrong reasons. Heck, we barely even made it out of the first quarter alive -- crawling on all fours into April after a gauntlet of crises rendered us slack-jawed in disbelief. And just when we thought we had endured and passed the worst of it, the invisible monster that is COVID-19 caught us with a haymaker.
PHL auto industry expected to be down at least 20%
VELOCITY: China auto sales reportedly fell by 80% on account of the pandemic. Early reports in the US anticipate total auto sales to be slashed by at least a million units. What’s the number that you’re looking at for the Philippines based on projections? How big a hit are we expecting for the year?
V Questions
THIS WEEK, we conclude our multi-issue run to celebrate Velocity’s first year which we wanted to mark by providing a comprehensive snapshot of where we are in greener mobility.
Dashboard (04/06/20)
Ford partners with GE Healthcare to produce 50,000 ventilators 100 days
Ford Motor Company, in collaboration with GE Healthcare, announced today it will begin producing...
5 ways car owners can be friendlier to the environment
Text and photo by Wee Gamboa
I know what you’re thinking: Cars are polluters of Mother Nature, so environmental awareness and mobility don’t make a...
Isuzu Philippines lends vehicles to transport healthcare workers, frontliners
Isuzu Philippines Corporation (IPC), responding to the immediate needs of the country’s healthcare and frontline workers fighting to stem the outbreak of the Coronavirus...
Recycling car batteries
A CAR BATTERY is an essential part of a working automobile. It converts chemical energy into electrical energy, and that in turn provides the zap to power the electronics and starter of your vehicle. And depending on your type of car battery and the actual usage, a car battery may remain useful anywhere from nine months to a few years.
Nissan shows how EVs can help fight air pollution
IN ASIA and Oceania, approximately four billion people -- 92% of Asia and the Pacific’s population -- are exposed to air pollution levels that pose a significant health risk. This was further highlighted with the February 2020 launch of the world’s largest real-time air quality data bank under the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), indicating that much of the region endures “unhealthy” air-quality levels. Air pollution is now globally the fifth leading cause of death among all health risks, with nine percent of deaths attributed to it.




