4 Car Trends To Pay Attention To In 2019

This post originally appeared on Car Lover and Internet Marketing Expert. Each year automobile technology becomes more advanced. Many of the features that are now standard in vehicles seemed like science fiction ten years ago. Car technology shows no signs of slowing down in 2017. Below are six of the most important trends to look out for. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication gives vehicles the ability to share data with each other. For example, a vehicle can gather data on weather conditions or accidents can report its findings to another vehicle. Next year Cadillac CTS sport sedans will come equipped with this feature. V2V also gives vehicles the ability to “platoon.” Platooning is when multiple vehicles ride in close proximity to one another without any accidents. Audi is another manufacturer that uses similar software. V2X is the ability for a vehicle to communicate with nearly anything. Some Audi vehicles can communicate with traffic lights.

The lights tell vehicles when it is safe to turn or when it is time to stop. At the moment traffic lights in Las Vegas have the ability to communicate with vehicles. Since the Volkswagen scandal diesel sales have dropped worldwide. However, some car manufacturers plan to test whether consumers are still interested in diesel vehicles. Next year the Chevrolet and Mazda will offer diesel versions of the Cruze and CX-9, respectively. The vehicles will be some of the most fuel-efficient vehicles on the market that aren’t hybrids. Whether consumers are still interested in diesel vehicles, though, remains a mystery. Self-driving vehicles have been in the news for the past couple of years, but in 2017 the technology will become even more widespread. Google has teamed up with Fiat Chrysler, and the car manufacturer plans to produce Pacifica minivans for Google’s self-driving car project. While Google doesn’t have any plans to sell their minivans to the public, the company plans to use the fleet of vehicles to further test self-driving. The Chevrolet Bolt will be one of the most affordable electric cars that consumers have seen. One charge will give the vehicle the ability to travel over 230 miles. The Kia Soul, Volkswagen e-Golf, and Tesla 3 are also increasing the range that they can drive. As a result of these developments, it’s likely that electric vehicles will become more mainstream.

100 miles on a single charge. But the reality isn’t quite so compelling. VW forecasts an operating range of 70 to 90 miles, which is pretty typical for most current electric cars. Recharging with the standard onboard system and household current will consume almost an entire day, according to VW. 550, optional 240-volt wall-mount charger, which reduces charge time to less than four hours. 1000, depending on the residence. Beyond that, the Golf includes a Combined Charging System capable of zapping up at SAE standard public DC fast-charging stations. Volkswagen says the Golf can acquire an 80-percent charge from one of these in roughly half an hour. 36,265, which can be mitigated by various government subsidies. The e-Golf is competent and quiet, sustaining VW’s dynamic virtues in a zero-emissions package. Interestingly, Volkswagen sees the car’s standout virtue as interior volume, which is unaffected by the battery pack that resides amidships beneath the floor. But be that as it may, it adds up to a pleasant but expensive Golf with the same limitation that affects other electrics—driving range. Think of it as starting every trip with about a quarter-tank of fuel, plus the possible uncertainty about where you might replenish your supply. That makes the Volkswagen e-Golf, like other electrics, strictly an urban warrior. Measured on that scale, it stacks up as well as any.

The best attribute about VW’s new fully electric Golf is that apart from a few minor design cues it looks like any other member of Volkswagen’s Golf family. Not everyone who buys an electric car wants it to scream “I’m an EV” to the world, as does the entire Tesla range, the Hyundai Ioniq, and the BMW i3/i8. No, the e-Golf is more the discreet environmental warrior and that’s fine by us because it goes about its business with whisper quiet efficiency and sometimes, in the case of miscreant pedestrians, almost too quietly. The only noise you hear at speed is the occasional hum from the tyres on the tarmac. It’s distinguished from its conventional Golf siblings by a badge and the blue swage line running between the headlights, akin to the go-fast red treatment on the GTI. The ‘C’ shaped LED daytime running lights and the flat-faced 16-inch Astana alloy wheels shod with low rolling resistance rubber are the unique features of the e-Golf.