The new Tesla Model S P100D boasts better acceleration than Ferrari and Porsche! American electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors has outdone itself again. The Model S was equipped with a new battery with a capacity of 100 kilowatt hours, which enables not only acceleration from zero to 100 km/h in a mere 2.5 seconds, but also a range between 506 and 611 kilometers. In practice, this means that it transports us from Ljubljana to Vienna or Milan without filling up in between. So far, no electric car has been able to charge that much.
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For the centenary of Ferrucci's birth, after the spring presentation of the Lamborghini Centenario supercar, Lamborghini has now presented a version without a roof. All 20 roadsters, whose initial price was set at two million euros, have already been sold, so all that remains is for us to admire the octane beauty.
Ride-sharing provider Uber will soon start transporting its customers with self-driving cars. In fact, it has included customized Volvo XC90 models in its fleet, which will receive the first customers before September. It is the first commercial attempt to use fully autonomous vehicles and this type of technology. And while Uber will already transport customers around the world without a driver, we are still waiting for its arrival in Slovenia. How much longer? Uber assures that it has us "on the fly".
Volvo's truck development department is not kidding! Well, sometimes a little bit. Do you remember the famous Jean-Claude Van Damme action hero string between two of their trucks? Or when they let a kid play with their truck like it was a remote control toy? Now they want to break two speed records with the powerful Volvo Iron Knight truck. We will find out whether they will succeed on August 24, 2016!
In Pebble Beach, California, at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2016 meeting of prestigious and elegant classics, Mercedes revealed the attractive Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 study, a six-meter coupe behind which the design team gathered around Robert Lešnik stands, and which completely overshadows the Mercedes S coupe.
The famous figurine on the bonnet of the Rolls-Royce, a beauty called the Spirit of Ecstasy or The Spirit of Ecstasy is the icing on the cake of the exclusivity of these prestigious British cars and is considered the most sought-after and most expensive sign in the automotive industry. A statuette, much like the once protruding Mercedes star, just begging to be stolen. But the one with itchy fingers is in for an unpleasant surprise. The car is equipped with a special anti-theft system, so it is impossible to steal it! Well, except with the whole car.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Ljubljana 2016, a celebration of fashion, beauty and design, returns to the capital in its autumn edition! MBFWLJ 2016 will visit Cankarjev dom again on October 22, 2016, this time, as the organizer predicts, in a burning image. Designers will present both the collections of the current season and the collections for spring/summer 2017.
If the legendary VW T1 bulli van was a refrigerator, it would look like this! Gorenje and Volkswagen presented a retro refrigerator inspired by the legendary van from the 1950s. It is a special series of Slovenian Gorenje Retro refrigerators, which has everything needed to become a world bestseller, just like the timeless van. The public will see it live for the first time in Germany at IFA Berlin 2016, and you can already see what it will look like.
On August 11, 2016, the Defected festival, organized by the renowned British label Defected, is coming to the Garden Tisno venue, considered a favorite of foreign festival organizers, for the first time, which will bring big names of electronic music, such as Basement, to Tisno, this small but lively Croatian town. Jaxx (DJ Set), Dennis Ferrer, Julio Bashmore, Kenny Dope and Roger Sanchez.
A sunny forecast, a full tank of gasoline, enthusiasm for the star-studded "line up" on the last day of the Fresh Island festival, a relaxed holiday atmosphere of three friends, what could possibly go wrong? My festival experience was fun and interesting and anything but predictable. A reliable companion by the name of Renault Captur stood by my side the whole way.
The Tesla Gigafactory is will be the largest factory in the world (when fully built) where businessman, visionary and the first man of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, will produce lithium-ion batteries. The factory is located in Nevada, USA, in the middle of nowhere, and today saw its grand opening, to which Musk invited influential individuals and some buyers of the Tesla Model S. The massive facility is still unfinished (14 percent of the planned, or the first of eight parts, is currently built ), and the plant is expected to breathe with full lungs in 2020, when in terms of usable area it will be the largest building in the world!
In a very special way, Bentley paid tribute to the colors of 2016 (rose quartz and serenity), which were chosen by the Pantone color institute. The prestigious car company and color authority presented special different models of the Bentley Continental GT V8, which they dressed in this year's winning color.