Headline: The Split of Espila and Unity
This past week, a lot has happened in the ro-automotive group formerly known as Espila Unity Group. Unity's sub-brand Prakt (formerly Jupiter) made a car called the Vertyg that looked similar to the Lyx Okant.
That got struck down when Espila CEO Han threatened to kick Unity out of EUA if they didn't cancel the car despite it being a-OK with Lyx's CEO, then when the CEO of Unity did exactly that and closed Jupiter AND Unity's autonomous driving start-up Arus, they chose to rebrand Unity.
Only for Espila to remove Unity from the big picture entirely by rebranding to Espila Venus Automotive Group, with both Espila and Venus being owned by HanCS75. Even though without Unity, EUA wouldn't have existed. With that, Unity left EVA entirely and the company's CEO Bryan publicly said this, quoting:
To be honest, everything has been going down hill since the Prakt Verktyg was teased. Slowly but surely Unity is dying and I'm starting to give zero F's about it
He wished EVA well. This marks the end of EUA, and CarBlox wishes both Bryan and Han well with their endeavors.
On another note, Kuno shortly left after Unity and is considering joining either Windsor or Uemuki Group.
How the 2021-2022 School Year is Effecting Automakers
It's the start of a new school year for many in the RAI, no matter when it starts. For American CEOs, it has started recently in late August. For Germans it will be later in late August. For me, Catalyst_0, school kicks in September 1st, so ironically, the stereotype of school starting in the fall seems to apply to Canadians more than the Americans who created the trope. Then again, their schools end earlier in June so it's a double edged sword.
Many companies are announcing decreased activity as the school year kicks in and we all go back to seeing our IRL friends more than the ones we made in RAI. Unless you don't have IRL friends, which A) RIP, B) hope you make some, and C) can't relate.
Only one can tell how the industry will be effected with the school year for many.
Rapide Cincizeci: Record Maker
Ever since the acceleration station Elektrisk Pluto Plasma was revealed to start at a whopping 30 dollar USD IN REAL LIFE, it's been interesting to see other companies create some super fast cars to compete with the sports sedan with a hypercar 0-60. Most aren't, since a 30 dollar virtual car is the stupidest thing you could buy in the industry and it seems full-size SUVs and sub-compact crossovers and hatchbacks are in style. But that hasn't stopped record-making-and-breaking hyper cars like the Rapide Cincizeci, and Zimper Zevic V12 attempting to break the 310 MPH speed record set by the Electility Fremtid.
Today, the Rapide broke that record, hitting a max speed of 335 MPH, blowing both Electility's record and Chroma's attempt at 310 MPH and 245 MPH respectively. While Chroma's attempt was met with backlash on the announcement, Rapide did not. Both got sh*t on by 4rotr regardless according to the CEOs of Rapide and Chroma.
But while Cincizeci has won the title of "Fastest Production Car", we don't know what any of the three companies have in store next. Except for me, since I work at Windsor Automotive Group, parent brand of Rapide, but I am not sharing. Wait for the CEO to te- OH WAIT...
Outro
Most of the other stories I have will be covered on our Twitter as we are going to be using our new Twitter account to cover shorter form stories so if you have a Twitter account, I recommend following so you can see them first hand as I won't flood content promotion in AW with CarBlox.
May make Tweet Takes series at end of articles at the end of each week with links to all stories we covered on there.
Good luck to people with the school year no matter when it starts, let's hope it's a normal year this time, and those who don't go to school anymore or were homeschooled, good luck with college or university or your job or whatever you are doing during the day.
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