Apple reveals new iPad + iOS 11 tips and tricks videos

iOS 11 will be here before we know it and available for free to millions of exisiting iPhones and iPads. Apple is already sharing videos showing off some of the new features and functionalities users can expect when this new OS update rolls out.

The six new videos cover the following how to use the new Dock, manage files, be more efficient with multi-tasking, markup with Apple Pencil across different apps, scan, sign, and send documents, and how to use the new multi-touch gestures.

See the VW I.D. Buzz Microbus drive around at Pebble Beach

We've already heard the rumour that the VW I.D. Buzz Microbus EV concept will be put into production for a 2022 rollout and while the concept vehicle brought a huge nostalgia factor to visitors to past car shows, this is the first time we're seeing the VW I.D. Buzz Microbus in its natural habitat, the Californian shores. A video shared to Facebook by David Bernardo shows the EV driving along with classic VW's. Seeing a concept car actually running gives us hope that it is on its way to production.

The Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 EV concept is a love letter to open-air motoring

The Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6, revealed recently at Pebble Beach, is an audacious and lavish two-seater open top cabriolet. It is 19 feet long, features a 750 horsepower electric engine with a proposed 200 mile range and it can presumably charge to 60 mile range in mere minutes with the right supercharger.

Mercedes is merging the practicality and inevitability of EV powerplant but on a nostalgic platform that's all about the joy of driving in an open-air soft top cabriolet. While it is unlikely that the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 will go into production, many will applaud the application of EV technology on platform that's all about performance the exhiliration of pure motoring.

Source: AutoBlog

VW's I.D. Buzz EV Microbus tapped for possible 2022 release

Volkswagen's I.D. Buzz concept for an eletric microbus could be put in mass production by 2022. According to a report from Automotive News Europe which notes, "Volkswagen brand CEO Herbert Diess is expected to announce on Saturday details regarding the production of the battery-powered I.D. Buzz microbus slated to debut in 2022."

I got to see the I.D. Buzz at the Detroit Auto Show early this year and was impressed at the mix of retro flavour and innovative EV and driverless features the concept proposed. A futuristic successor to the nostalgic Microbuses, Vanagons and Eurovans of decades past, the I.D. Buzz is one of three EVs VW plans to build and a unique concept in a world of EV sedans and SUVs.

Diess will likely be joined by Eckhard Scholz, the head of Volkswagen's light commercial vehicle business, which manufactures the Transporter in Hanover, Germany, where all six generations of the van have been produced since 1956.

Coming off the Dieselgate scandal, a tangible entry into the EV market could set VW up for future success as EVs become more mainstream.

Source: Automotive News Europe