Dear customers, with the increasing incidents of Coronavirus/Covid-19, all the JATO staff continue to work from home until further notice. During this time it will be `business as usual‘ and JATO will continue to provide our costumers with a high level of sevice and support. Should you need any help or support during this period, please contanct your local account […]
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Free travel for free citizens – this slogan has been used for decades to successfully argue against a speed limit on Germany’s autobahns. To this day, Germany is the only country in Europe with no general speed limit but only a recommended guideline speed. On 70 percent of Germany’s autobahns, drivers are allowed to drive at any speed. With so […]
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Imagine that the Google Play Store gets in touch with you on your cell phone. The message: Please go to the nearest mobile store, an update for the Chrome app is available now and can be installed there. Sounds absurd, doesn’t it? But that’s exactly what numerous car manufacturers are still asking their customers to do. Today’s vehicles are basically […]
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The Covid-19 pandemic still has car manufacturers suffering. Above all, the so-called chip crisis, the sluggish production of semiconductors, is giving the industry a hard time. Electromobility, which only really took off two years ago, is also feeling the effects. At the end of 2020, JATO Dynamics analysed the market for vehicles with battery electric drive (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid […]
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With prices of two euros and more for a liter of fuel, more and more people in Germany are wondering: should my next new car perhaps be an electric car? The range of e-vehicles in all price segments is growing continuously, and new models are added almost weekly. But despite all the enthusiasm for the electric driving experience, Germany’s drivers […]
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The race to electrification continues to power ahead. While Tesla is perhaps the hottest topic of the moment, interestingly there appears to be very little news about the actions that Chinese brands are taking in the space. Despite the fact that Chinese ICE vehicles may not currently be game changers within the industry, the country certainly plays a key role […]
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New government, new plans and goals. The New Year’s resolution for the automotive market: No fewer than 15 million electric cars should be driving on German roads by 2030. But such a goal was already ambitious in 2010, when the government at the time wanted one million e-cars on the roads by 2020. The outcome is well known. With its […]
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Until the beginning of the 1990s, the world of cars was quite a manageable affair, seeing that back then, there were something like 100 different vehicle variants. But then things took off. Less than 25 years later, more than 3,000 vehicle types were on offer in Germany – spread across various models, styles and engine types. But many of them […]
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When it comes to buying a new car, most German car buyers would probably say it’s too expensive and opt for a used car. No surprise, since for years about two thirds of all cars traded in Germany have been used cars. The reason is simple: prices for new cars have been rising distinctly for decades. The first VW Golf’s […]
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Most traditional car manufacturers really missed out on the entry into electromobility. Until they were caught by surprise by absolute newcomers – first and foremost by the start-up Tesla. What else could they do but hastily follow suit? Popular models were quickly equipped with an electric drive and electromobility line up was complete. Tesla also started that way. But many […]
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When people say luxury sedan in Germany, they probably don’t first think of Bentley or Rolls Royce. Another model comes to mind immediately: the S-Class from Mercedes. Since the early 1970s at the latest, this car has been regarded as the epitome of luxury, reliability, safety and lasting value on four wheels. It used to be called a state car. […]
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