September 28, 2017
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California’s electric bus builder drove a new record 1 772,21 km on a single charge, maintaining a city bus’s average speed of 24 km/h. More electrifying news from Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi on page 3.
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Family cars race on the Sun Earth the winner in the 3 021km race between the sunpowered Sunswift Violet and Stella Vie ALWYN VILJOEN THE practical Cruiser Class in the 2017 Solar Challenge races will this year show engineers who still design cars to burn fossil fuel what can be done with the Sun’s energy instead. Engineering teams from Eind hoven University of Technology and the University of New South Wales will race their sunpowered family cars for 3 021 km from Dar win to Adelaide between October 8 and October 13. They called their cars Stella Vie and Sunswift Violet and despite the sweet names, they know the biennial race will again be gruel ling on cars and drivers alike, with average speeds of 75 km/h. Fortyseven teams from 21 na tions, including North West Uni versity in South Africa, will com pete in the race. Fortyfive entered
Sunpowered family cars: The Sunswift team will pit their Violet fourseat electric sedan (left) against the fiveseater Stella Vie from the Netherlands in the 3 000 km Bridgestone World Solar Challenge next month. PHOTOS: SUNSWIFT, EINDHOVEN tiny oneseaters that demand a cal application of Sunpowered team’s fourseat electric sedan run at 98% efficiency, delivering 50 kg or lighter driver, the end re cars. The benefits are eyeopening collects power via 284 microcrys 7 kW at 110 km/h and 90 Nm from sult of which means little for real — the comparative fuel efficiency talline solar cells, giving a peak zero. car use. from Stella equals 664 km per li output of 1,1 kW to feed liion bat The 380kg Violet slips This is why the Cruiser Class tre of petrol in a small internal teries. This power drives two 1,5 through the air with a drag coeffi was created — to show the practi combustion engine. The Sunswift kW motors that are reported to cient of less than 0,2 and has been
speed tested at 130 km/h on the Sydney Motorsport speedway. It ranges 800 km on solar pow er alone at under 60 km/h, and 400 km on batteries alone. Stella Vie weighs in at 375 kg despite having one more seat. Critics of solar cars point out a home’s roof provides more space for solar panels and this power can be sold to the grid, making cars that carry their solar panels with them inefficient by comparison. But the students teams argue their cars could be used in regions where sunlight and space are abundant, but charging facilities are rare, such as South Africa and Australia’s Outback. Before they sell the Stella or Vi olet models here, the price will have to drop, as microcrystalline solar cells are quite expensive. • alwyn.viljoen@witness.co.za
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Mixing donuts with powerslides KZN’s top drifters had a good time in Cape Town and a narrow loss in Vryheid at the weekend. Durban’s Supadrifter Joey Govender travelled to Cape Town, where he earned a com mendable 10th place out of 28 drivers in the Gymkhana Grid, which was held alongside the 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship final. Govender is one of fewer than a dozen drifters in South Africa whose precision driving skills have earned him a golden ticket to compete against the likes of Ken Block, Peter Solberg and Luke Woodham at Carnival City in Johannesburg on Novem ber 18 to 19. Block explained in a state ment that Gymkhana Grid is a racing format that mixes donuts with clipping points, and power slides with apexes. The competi tion is set up to allow smaller en gined cars to take on those with more horsepower, as drivers
Durban’s Joey Govender in action at the Gymkhana Grid in Cape Town. PHOTO: ADRIAN KEITH MINNIE compete against the clock, slid ing and drifting either allwheel or rearwheeldrive cars as fast as they can on a custom designed course. In Vryheid, Kurt Volmink led 10 of KZN’s top drifters in a threeround drifting battle against a team of GP drivers. “We narrowly lost the first two rounds and won the third,” Volmink told Wheels.
The Gauteng team will host a rematch, which is likely to be at the end of October. — Wheels Reporter. • Contact Kurt Volmink at 082 563 9916 for more informa tion on Team KZN. • Fans who want to support Joey Govender at the Gymkha na Grid in Carnival City can buy tickets online at R415 or R980.
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It’s a buyers’ market Glasshalffull buyers will see a bargain in Opel’s sleek Mokka X crossover ALWYN VILJOEN THE Opel Mokka X embodies all the latest trends in cross overs and all this modernity now comes at a steep discount at your nearest Opel dealer in South Africa. This after Peugeot and Citro ën (PSA) bought the Opel/ Vauxhall brands from General Motors for over R29,2 billion. The new PSA bosses gave Opel and Vauxhall’s bosses un til November to draw up a stra tegic plan which builds on ex pected synergies of around €1,7 billion per year for the new group. The local region, long used to be flexible in Africa, has already announced that Willi ams Hunt will sell Opel vehicles through an exclusive network of 35 dealers from January. Williams Hunt promised the same quality of aftersales ser vice as current GM dealers de liver. All current Opel warran ties and service plans are also to remain in place. Pessimistic buyers typically steer away from any such uncer tainty, which is making demo models of the Mokka X look mighty attractive on the GM showrooms. More optimistic buyers real ise this is a buyers’ market, which is when the recommend
ed retail price becomes the vaguest of guidelines and good deals can be negotiated. Made for the City The Mokka X is — for all those somewhat butch lines — aimed squarely at the city driver with Hill Start Assist and Hill De scent Control, EcoMode and tyres with 45% profiles, which is a bit low for potholes. “Made for the city” does not, however, mean sloppy han dling. This is an Opel after all, made for Europe’s twisty, nar row roads, and the suspension over SA’s city roads is on the point of stiffness. Opel also really shines with its connectivity. The latest R 4.0 Intellilink in the Mokka X fea tures a seveninch touch screen, Bluetooth and USB. Apple Car Play and Google Android Aut seamlessly integrate the most used smartphone functions and apps. Other standard luxu ries include a rearview camera, front seat with full back support and extendable thigh support, threestage heated front seats and heated leather steering wheel, the latter which is partic ularly comforting on cold nights. Under the hood The turbocharged 1,4 makes a
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Changes in ownership at Opel have created uncertainty, which in turn created a buyers’ market for all Opel cars locally, on whose current GM dealer floors the Mokka X embodies all that is trendy in the crossover segment today. PHOTO: QUICKPIC handy 103 kW and 200 Nm be tween 1 850 and 4 900 r/min, with a sixratio automatic to shift the power to those 225/45 R19 wheels. Opel wisely includ ed a space saver spare wheel in the back for our roads. My consumption over mixed roads was a bit better than Opel’s listed 6,5 l/100 km, but a lot of this was spent crawling behind slow trucks on the Um bumbulu Road. At night, when rural roads like this become the playground
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crossover The Ford EcoSport, however, has the highest monthly sales figures in this segment, and no wonder, for the Ford EcoSport Tintanium automatic model sells for R313k. Other competition for the Mocca includes the respected Honda BRV 1,5 Elegance at R297k; curvy Renault Captur 88kw at R310k; proven Suzuki Vitara at R342k; and glam Nis san Juke CVT AWD at some R400k.
CAR OF THE YEAR FINALISTS FOR 2018 THE SA Guild of Motoring Journalists has announced the finalist vehicle ranges for the 2018 WesBank South African Car of the Year (COTY) competition. The finalists were selected by a vote cast by a 26member jury, from an original list of 35 eligible vehicle ranges. The final list makes a handy reference guide of the classleaders in their price ranges. They are, in alphabetical order:
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Nissan gave the cuddly fourth generation Micra a value boost ahead of the sleek fith generation’s arrival next year (inset). The current model is still one of last year’s cheapest super minis in the Kinsey parts basket and now has a sixyear/150 000 km warranty and threeyear/90 000 km service plan, topping Hyuindai’s warranty by a year. The value boost adds a redesigned nose and interior improvements, including a refreshed instrument panel, Bluetoothenabled audio and much more. While not the cheapest little hatch at its list price of R159 900, it competes on low running costs, good fuel efficiency and the competitivelypriced parts basket. A wide range of accessories have also been added to personalise the Micra with parts that won’t dent the warranty. PHOTO: NISSAN
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In Brief TENCENT PLANS ROBOT CAR HONG KONG (Reuters) — China’s Tencent Holdings and Guangzhou Automobile Group Company have agreed to collaborate on Internet connected cars, a strategic pact that sent shares in Guangzhou Auto surging. Tencent are the fourth largest Internet company in the world aft er Amazon, Google and Facebook. The development of selfdriving cars and fastchanging technology have set in motion a flurry of alli ances between Internet giants and automakers. Earlier this year, Ten cent bought five percent of U.S. electric car maker Tesla Inc for $1,78 billion (R23,6 billion). Tencent and Guangzhou Auto will work together to develop In ternetconnected cars and artificial intelligenceaided driving, as well as explore investment in areas such as autorelated ecommerce, socalled new energy cars and au to insurance, the automaker said in a filing late yesterday. Guangzhou Auto said it aimed to tap Tencent’s expertise in mo bile payments, social networking, big data and artificial intelligence. Tencent will also provide cloud services and other technical sup port. Disclosure: The Witness is part of Naspers, which owns 34% in Ten cent. — ReutersWR.
BOSCHNIKOLA COLLAB UTAHbased company Nikola Mo tor Company and German auto components supplier Bosch are teaming up to bring the Nikola One and Nikola Two longhaul hy drogenelectric truck models to market by 2021. Nikola Motor Company plans to bring its hydrogen truck to market in the next four years. Unofficially, the company is in a race with Tesla Motors, where CEO Elon Musk is set to launch the all electric Tesla truck next month. Musk is against hydrogen as an energy source, mainly because it requires a lot of electricity to make and store hydrogen with which to make electricity again. But his young competitors over at Nikola Motors said their hydro genelectric truck lineup will deliv er more than 1 000 horsepower — nearly double the horsepower of any semitruck on the road.
VOLKSWAGEN TAKES DRIVER SEARCH TO NEXT LEVEL VW’s quest to uncover and devel op South Africa’s most talented young racers saw 14 candidates go to bootcamp. Eight made it to second phase. The overall winner could join 2016 Driver Search win ner Jonathan Mogotsi (pictured) in the official Volkswagen Motorsport squad for the 2018 Engen Volks wagen Cup. The eight finalists moving onto the next phase are: Raais Asmal, Terrence Khalo, Su dev Singh, Prince Ndiweni, Austin Zungu, Moses Mahlangu, Talha Moosajee and Keshave Erriah.
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The 1947 allelectric Nissan Tama was ahead of its time, a position the new Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi alliance plans to occupy with 12 electric vehicles. PHOTO: NISSAN
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Ghosn doubles down RenaultNissanMitsubishi alliance aims to double synergies to €10 bln THE new RenaultNissan Alliance will launch 12 separate allelectric ve hicles globally by 2022 as part of the “Alliance 2022” sixyear strategic plan that also fully integrates recent ly acquired Mitsubishi Motors in their alliance. Over the same period, the alliance will introduce 40 models with differ ent levels of autonomy, including at least one that won’t require any hu man intervention at all. Alliance 2022 plans a major ex pansion in shared electric vehicle technologies, alongside the develop ment and deployment of advanced autonomous drive systems, vehicle connectivity and new mobility servi ces. RenaultNissanMitsubishi aims to increase the range of its electric cars to more than 600 kilometres, with smaller batteries and quicker charging time. It wants 15 minutes of charging time to allow 230 km of range, up from 90 km of range now. The Alliance 2022 plan was an nounced by Carlos Ghosn, chairper son and chief executive officer of the alliance, in Paris last week. “Today marks a new milestone for our member companies. By the end of our strategic plan Alliance 2022, we aim to double our annual syner gies to €10 billion. To achieve this target, on one side Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors will acceler
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ate collaboration on common plat forms, powertrains and nextgenera tion electric, autonomous and con nected technologies. “From the other side, synergies will be enhanced by our growing scale. Our total annual sales are fore cast to exceed 14 million units, gener ating revenues expected at $240 bil lion by the end of the plan.” Under Alliance 2022, the member companies will increase their use of common platforms, with nine mil lion units based on four common platforms. The plan will also extend the use of common powertrains to 75% of total sales. The launch of a new logo and on line presence was also revealed for the alliance, symbolising the grow ing convergence and cooperation between the member companies. Mitsubishi joined what had been the RenaultNissan Alliance at the beginning of last year, when Nissan took effective control of Mitsubishi. Ghosn said: “The plan will boost the growth and profitability of our member companies. We intend to deliver on growing synergies, with three autonomous companies co operating with the efficiency of one. With Alliance 2022, we will prove that we will grow and perform with three companies or more.” — Wheels Reporter.
AFTER being banned for match fixing, Herschelle Gibbs’ return saw him get 105 stunning runs and Mzansi im mediately forgot his past. I have just driven Ford’s infa mous but extensively facelift ed Kuga and I feel Ford has done enough to the new model to make Mzansi’s SUV favour ite rise above its own fiery past. First of all, it bears no re semblance in design to its pre decessor (a very good thing to my mind at least) as the new model gets a bold new design with the hexagonal grille, HID headlamps with LED daytime lights, front fog lamps and a grey skid plate. Wheels range from 17 to 18inch wheels de pending on spec, with 19inch rims optional. The rear gets LED taillights and a dual exhaust. Privacy glass comes standard and a panoramic sunroof is option al. The interior layout doesn’t differ much from its predeces sor with the fiveseater SUV
The new Ford Kuga is more revolution than evolution. PHOTO: QUICKPIC spacious enough for families. Stowage space around the cabin has been enhanced, and the electronic parking brake has freed up space in the lower centre console. Convenience features for young families include tray ta bles for rear passengers, fold ing rear seats, keyless start, parking sensors and a 456litre luggage compartment (1 653 litre with rear seats folded). Fit and finish is more premi
um while Sync3 allow fewer buttons on the centre console. Fewer buttons don’t mean fewer techno gadgets, as the Kuga has navigation, Sony ra dio, and a touchscreen info tainment system. The entry level Ambiente gets cloth seats while the Trend and Titanium get electrically adjusted sports leather seats standard. The Ford Kuga features Curve Control and Torque Vectoring Control to enhance
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driving dynamics and on AWD drive models, it offers excellent traction in all weath er conditions. On the launch route, we got to push the TDCi on moun tain passes and it proved more than capable of being the class leader dynamically. Prices start at R368 800 for the 1.5 EcoBoost Ambiente and move up to R506 900 for the 2.0 TDCi Titanium 6AT AWD. All models come standard with Ford Protect, including a fouryear/120 000 km com prehensive warranty, three year/unlimited distance road side assistance and fiveyear/ unlimited kilometre corrosion warranty. TDCi models have a fiveyear/90 000 km service plan with 15 000 km service intervals, while petrol units have 20 000 km service inter vals, and a four year/80 000 km service plan. • Catch Sibonelo Myeni each Thursday from 7.45 am on Ukhozi FM for more Wheels views.
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Volvo trucks safer KZN truck plant now installs the latest active safety systems WITHOUT trucks, the economy will crash, while safer trucks will enable us to move the economy along. This was the message from Torbjörn Christensson, president of Volvo Group South ern Africa. He said safety is part of Volvo’s DNA and why Volvo can aim for a world with zero accidents. The company recently invest ed almost R6 million in its assem bly plant near Amanzimtoti in or der to install the latest active safe ty systems from Europe in trucks operating locally. The system works with a radar
and cameras that watch for small moving objects like pedestrians or cyclists in blind spots and can stop the truck much quicker than a human driver can react, even around corners. Christensson said the systems had been tested by several SA cli ents for past three years, and will now go into serial production. One of these clients is Pieter maritzburgbased Colt Trans port, where 65 Volvo trucks equipped with active safety sys tems have delivered savings and can handle even SA’s unpredicta ble taxi drivers. Volvo sales director Malcolm Gush said the safety system,
which is sold as a package, costs about R43 000, which is less than the typical repair cost of even a minor collision on a truck. He predicted such systems will soon be the norm, not just an op tion, for fleet operators. Some 60 operators have been testing the system in SA, and one fitted Vol vo’s Alcolock V3 breath analiser to ensure a zero alcohol limit. Aftermarket service manager Theunis Eloff said Volvo’s pro active workshops do not require the fleet manager to make book ing, but use telematic service schedules that are customised per chassis to bring trucks in for service. The workshops have
World’s biggest electric truck is energy positive ALWYN VILJOEN SWISS quarry miner Ciments Vigier in Switzerland paid over a million Swiss francs (over R13,6 million) to build the largest electric vehicle yet. The miner presented Lithium Storage and Kuhn Switzerland with a used Komatsu truck in 2015 and the companies has since created an ener gy positive truck. This is because the 110ton truck carries its load down a quarry’s steep “steps”, where regenerative braking recharges the massive, 4,5ton bat tery pack with more electricity than it uses to go back up those 13% in clines. Chinese manufacturer Shenzen Westart produced the 4,5ton bat tery pack, comprising 1 440 nickel manganese cobalt cells, and Swiss company Esoro the battery manage ment system. Swiss company Empa has exten sively tested the battery pack by over charging it on test rig and also ham mering a steel nail into a few cells — all accidents that can happen at the cement quarry. Vigier said it paid the substantial price for the prototype, since it will not need any diesel fuel over its planned 10year life cycle and the company will not have to pay any CO2 compensation. The quarry miner plans to convert eight more giant trucks to run purely electrically. A 590 kW synchronous
been testing predictive failure for six months and now boast accu racies of one hour. “The aim is to ensure uptime,” said Eloff. Volvo truck owners will from next year also be able to link Vol vo’s Dynafleet app, which ena bles fleet owners to check the to tal health of a truck. The app will be released free to all Volvo own ers in South Africa, Australia and Korea in the third quarter of next year. This will enable their drivers to enter the Dynafleet compeitt ion and rank their skills world wide — similar to Daimler’s FleetBoard competition. • alwyn.viljoen@witness.co.za
Malcolm Gush, sales director at Volvo Group South Africa, points to the radar unit that, together with cameras, monitors the area around a Volvo truck as part of active safety systems that can stop the truck much quicker than a human driver in an emergency. PHOTO: ALWYN VILJOEN
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electric motor, equivalent to 800 horsepower, sends up to 9 500 Nm to the axles. The motor gets its power at cur rents of up to 3 000 amperes from a 600 kWh LithiumIon battery pack, making the dump truck the world’s largest electric vehicle with largest battery yet installed. Ciments Vigier said in a statement the eDumper will save the company up to 100 000 litres in diesel during operation and the atmosphere up to 262 metric tons in CO2. When the 45ton truck takes its 65ton payload down the steps its motor acts as a giant alternator to generate 40 kW per hour per on each down run, which is 10 kWh more than the empty tipper uses going back up the hill, 20 times a day. Instead of tons of toxic diesel gas, this truck thus makes electricity that goes back into Ciments Vigier’s grid. The Swiss Federal Office of Energy is making a financial contribution to the nonamortisable additional costs for the development and test ing of this prototype and has made it a condition that the knowhow ac quired in the course of this project benefits the Swiss research and in dustrial community. Kuhn Schweiz said this opens up new fields for largescale construc tion machines, such as tunnel borers or trucks in residential areas that are sensitive to exhaust gas and noise. • alwyn.viljoen@witness.co.za
Tomorrow’’s innovation at yesterda ay’s price. Purchase a new Audi A3 or A4 Sedan du uring August or September and d you could receive an interest rate of up to prime less 6% or a minimum of R50 000 assistance. This old Komatsu tipper will be the largest electric vehicle in the world when its Swiss creators finish tests in December. The truck has a 4,5ton 700kWh battery pack and will work in a cement quarry and carry loads downhill to generate more power than it uses going back uphill. PHOTO: ANDREAS SUTTER, LITHIUM STORAGE
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