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DECEMBER 27, 2023
Every year since the release of the new Suzuki Jimny in 2019, Japanese tuning company DAMD has released body kits and other styling parts for the tiny SUV that make it look older and more retro or like other off-roaders such as the Mercedes-Benz G-wagen and Toyota Land Cruiser. For the 2024 Tokyo Auto Salon , DAMD is… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 28, 2023
One key to making EV adoption to work is fast charging. People that are used to filling up their gas tanks in mere minutes won’t be so easily swayed by the idea of having to sit at a charging station for nearly an hour. While there are certainly EVs on the market that can get people back on the road in less than 20… Read more.
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Jalopnik
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Last week, a cop in St. Louis, Missouri, crashed into an LGBTQ+ bar after, allegedly, he tried to swerve to avoid something and ended up in someone’s business. While the bar’s owner was arrested for the unforgivable crime of being angry that someone drove directly into his bar, St. Louis cops didn’t even bother to run… Read more.
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DECEMBER 18, 2023
Hyundai’s stunning N Vision 74 concept is heading for a limited release production run in 2026, according to a report from Korea’s ET News. The hydrogen-and-battery-electric hybrid sports car was unveiled in July of 2022, and has been running laps around the minds of enthusiasts everywhere ever since. The N Vision 74 … Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 21, 2023
As you can imagine, after Putin invaded Ukraine (on my birthday, no less!) and major automakers abandoned Russia as all the international sanctions rolled in, it’s been harder for Russians to get access to new cars. Don’t you worry, though, Russia isn’t going to let a little total alienation from the rest of the… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Tesla cars have been prone to certain parts failures time and again, but the electric vehicle company has attempted to pin the blame for those failures on its drivers, citing vehicle “ abuse.” Now, a new Reuters investigation shows that Tesla has been aware of these systemic issues in its vehicles but instead attempted… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 11, 2023
“If you have an argument with another car, you will win,” Elon Musk said during Tesla’s November 30 Cybertruck delivery event. This is much of the problem that traffic crash analysts are having with the preliminary crash videos released by Tesla. Cars with crumple zones will deform around their passengers , dissipating… Read more.
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Jalopnik
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Tesla dramatically dropping the retail prices of its electric vehicles has perhaps been a boon for some of its customers, but the fleet buyers have found the move a bit unnerving. Following the news that Hertz would slow its purchases from Tesla, German competitor Sixt is going a step further , discontinuing purchases… Read more.
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DECEMBER 19, 2023
A new stat has emerged to set Tesla bros alight on social media platforms around the world: Tesla drivers are involved in crashes more than the drivers of any other car brand, a LendingTree analysis reveals. Read more.
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DECEMBER 12, 2023
GM is still dealing with the fallout of its decision to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in favor of developing its own in-house system. In the last eight months, the company has had to deal with skeptical dealers while still maintaining its in-house system will be “ compelling.” Since neither of those options have… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 20, 2023
I’ve been a big fan of the custom license plate trend , where states, countries, or provinces offer a neat little design that’s supposed to convey the spirit of the region. Whether it’s the turquoise shade of New Mexico’s plates or the polar bear shape of plates for Canada’s Northern Territories , it’s a unique way to… Read more.
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DECEMBER 15, 2023
A Hawaii driver who was falsely arrested for drunk driving in November says a police officer told him to deny further examination at a Pearl City police station. The officer gave Ammon Fepuleai that advice under the pretense of saving him time while being booked for the arrest, which proved to be false and ended with… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 6, 2023
A former Tesla employee in Norway has come forward as skeptical of the company’s ethically questionable practices with regards to its driver assistance software packages. In an interview with the BBC Lukasz Krupski said he was concerned about the readiness of the both company’s software and hardware for the task of… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 12, 2023
There’s definitely a feeling of schadenfreude when we see social media posts of Tesla Cybertrucks trying to do truck things and just completely s g the bed. In what likely was an attempted PR stunt on Monday, some genius took a pre-production Cybertruck “Release Candidate” into Southern California’s Stanislaus… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 27, 2023
A Tesla Model Y engulfed in flames closed an interstate highway and required the assistance of myriad Alabama emergency services on Christmas night. To extinguish the fire, Pine Level Firefighters reported using 36,000 gallons of water over the course of an hour, further highlighting the ways local services may… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Good morning! It’s Thursday, December 21, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 18, 2023
It’s been a long year. The Titan submersible getting crushed ? That was only six months ago even though it feels like it had to have been at least two years ago considering all that has happened since then. Elon Musk, especially, has been in the news constantly and rarely for anything positive. Yes, he finally managed… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Tesla is offering a $1,000 discount to Cybertruck reservation holders who place an order or lease for another model. The new discount does raise a few questions in the wake of the Cybertruck Delivery Event. Why would someone purchasing a Cybertruck want to buy another vehicle immediately? How long are reservation… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 27, 2023
California’s fast food workers are set to get a nice bump in pay in 2024. Starting in April, California’s FAST Act kicks in and raises the state’s minimum wage for fast food workers to $22 an hour. It’s got the industry up in arms, because, you know, paying people a living wage is world-ending stuff to them. Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Mercedes-Benz is the first automaker to gain approval to sell a Level 3 automated driving system in the United States; the first customer-owned S-Class and EQS sedans in California and Nevada equipped with the Drive Pilot system hit dealer lots this month. Drive Pilot allows you to take your hands of the wheel and… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 7, 2023
In the U.S., most people typically drive less than 20,000 miles in a year. Germany’s Hansjörg von Gemmingen-Hornberg, however, drives well over 100,000 miles a year – and in a Tesla Model S. As InsideEVs reports , his 2014 Model S has officially crossed the million-mile mark, and currently sitting with just under 1.2… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Tesla’s Cybertruck has introduced plenty of manufacturing challenges, from its massive panes of glass to its stainless steel body panels , but there’s another thing holding big-time production back: the “4680" battery set to power the pickups, Reuters reports based on conversations with nine different Tesla workers. Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 7, 2023
As a kid, I was never good at receiving gifts. Even if it was something that I liked or wanted, if I hadn’t explicitly asked for it, I’d get upset. As an adult, that’s not really a problem anymore – I can just buy myself whatever I want, so when I get a gift from friends or family, I’m simply grateful and can enjoy… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 11, 2023
According to Tesla, the driver-assist feature that it calls Autopilot is “intended for use on controlled-access highways” that have “a center divider, clear lane markings, and no cross traffic.” The owner’s manual also points out that it may not work well in areas with hills or sharp turns. Still, despite having the… Read more.
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DECEMBER 28, 2023
It turns out that being a three-time Formula 1 world champion doesn’t get you a leg up at the rental car counter, as Max Verstappen recently learned when on vacation in Portugal. As reported by The Sun , Verstappen’s family and friends arrived in Algarve on three different private jets , having booked 20 rental cars… Read more.
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DECEMBER 25, 2023
The International Space Station is due for decommission in the 2030s. NASA is currently evaluating how to go about retiring the station : options include letting it burn up in the atmosphere or pushing it into a graveyard orbit. There’s another option that doesn’t involve disposing of the ISS at all, which would extend… Read more.
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DECEMBER 21, 2023
Hyperloop One is the company born to bring Elon Musk ’s much hyped contention that it would be possible to engineer underground or above-ground virtually airless tubes to facilitate ultra-high speed mass transit to life. That dream now appears dead as the company has laid off most of its employees and is trying to sell… Read more.
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DECEMBER 15, 2023
Honda is going to start offering a leasing program for its certified pre-owned vehicles because new car prices are just way too high at this point. The program is beingv aimed at buyers who want to keep their monthly payments low and don’t have the upfront cash for a big down payment, according to a statement from Honda Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 27, 2023
I live in what I’d call a “sleepy” Texas town; we boast a few thousand residents, we celebrate the arrival of every new fast food chain as a sign of civilization, and nothing big ever really happens. So why do we need six car washes ? Why did we need to build four new facilities this year? Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 28, 2023
Last week we reported on Daihatsu halting sales and shipments of all of its cars amid a probe into the Toyota subsidiary rigging safety tests of 64 different models, and now the situation has gotten even worse. On Wednesday, CNN reported that Daihatsu has now stopped production at all four of its Japanese factories,… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 28, 2023
When the Porsche Taycan debuted in 2019, purists were infuriated by Porsche’s decision to name the top trim level “Turbo” despite the car being fully electric and not actually having a turbocharger. For the most part people have gotten over it — or at least, they should have by now — but there’s a new contender for… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 28, 2023
Elon Musk is big mad at a report that kind of sort of implied that one of his favorite robots attacked one of his employees at Tesla’s Austin, Texas factory two years ago. The report never actually said it was one of his shiny ( fuckable ?) Optimus friends, but it didn’t exactly highlight that it was a terrifying… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 14, 2023
While a transition towards electric vehicles has steadily taken hold to combat climate change, EVs aren’t filling up city streets and highways in proportional numbers to sales. Scientific American found that gas vehicles were driven 62.4 percent more than EVs between 2016 and 2022, based on odometer readings. The… Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Good morning! It’s Thursday, December 14, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 28, 2023
Cars are huge now. This is known. These massive vehicles kill more people than smaller cars — this is also known. Yet, when confronted with these facts, automakers seem to prefer complex, expensive, high-tech solutions to reduce crashes, when there’s a much simpler option available: Make cars smaller. Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 18, 2023
A Concorde turbojet engine that spent years listed on eBay finally sold over the weekend to one lucky buyer, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be making supersonic booms of their own anytime soon. Read more.
Jalopnik
DECEMBER 6, 2023
A version of the Tesla Cybertruck has finally been revealed, with the top-of-the-line version offering a claimed 320 miles of range and the ability to launch from zero to 60 mph in only 2.6 seconds. And while not all of the specs are as impressive as what was originally promised, Tesla still delivered in one important… Read more.
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