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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.
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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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DECEMBER 8, 2023
Elon Musk is using ex-girlfriend Grimes’ tweets to prove to custody courts that she primarily lived in Texas despite her claims that she lived in California. This distinction is important, because Texas has a cap on maximum child support payments where California has no maximum cap. Read more.
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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 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.
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NOVEMBER 30, 2023
On Thursday afternoon, Tesla finally delivered a ten-pack of Cybertrucks to company employees and investors. It’s hard to call this a ‘production’ launch, as they’ll still be effectively in the hands of in-house beta testers, but it’s a lot closer to production than the truck was a year ago. During the unveil event,… Read more.
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NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The Tesla Semi launch event was held on November 16th, 2017, exactly six years ago last week. At the end of that launch event, Elon Musk had a signature “one more thing” that was the unveiling of the incredible second-generation Tesla Roadster. Back then the car was promised to be delivered in 2020, which obviously… 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.
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NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Listen to the powers that be in Formula 1 , and you’ll likely believe that the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix will be a smashing success. It’s an unprecedented event, the series says, one that will transform the Las Vegas Strip into a high-speed race track for just four days in November. It’s going to be a riotous… Read more.
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NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Desert climates are fascinating. While you might be roasting under a beating sun during the daytime, cool temperatures sweep in at night to bring you the opposite form of misery. According to Ross Brawn, who left Formula One Management ahead of the 2022 season but who had been around for initial talks regarding the Las… Read more.
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NOVEMBER 10, 2023
“Buying a car today is an investment into the future. I think the most profound thing is that if you buy a Tesla today, I believe you are buying an appreciating asset, not a depreciating asset.” Elon Musk said that in 2019 , and like many of his bold vision statements, has continually been proven wrong every minute of… Read more.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Over 120 million wood power poles stand in the United States, literally propping up our aerial wire power grid. Every single day some of these poles age out and need to be replaced, some are damaged by fires, car crashes, or natural forces — wind, woodpeckers, beavers, and rot, chiefly. As we continue to spend more on… Read more.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2023
It’s not exactly a secret that Elon Musk’s luck at Tesla didn’t translate well once he took over Twitter. Ad revenue is down , users are leaving and it’s become mostly useless for finding trustworthy news sources. And apparently, those problems have hit Musk hard. Even harder than any of us might have previously… Read more.
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NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Ford’s EV dealer requirements have caused a bit of drama since they were announced in late 2022. With EV sales slowing , some dealers are getting antsy at the thought of sinking thousands or even millions of dollars into a lukewarm EV market. Still, 2,000 dealers bought into the program. Now, Electrek reports,… Read more.
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NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Allegedly, production of the Tesla Cybertruck will begin before the end of the year. At least that’s what Elon Musk says , and you know you can always trust a Musk timeline. As more videos come out showing pre-production prototypes, though, including quite a few broken ones , it’s starting to look like Elon Musk was… Read more.
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NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Netflix essentially took a $62 million television contract out to the shed and shot it in the head, according to an ongoing arbitration case against director Carl Erik Rinsch. After an ambitious and expensive bet on an unproven director in 2018 , the deal had gone sour, the director allegedly lost his senses, and he’d… Read more.
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NOVEMBER 13, 2023
As it turns out, car dealers seem to know even less than buyers do when it comes to electric vehicles , and they don’t really seem too keen on learning about them. The Washington Post spoke with a number of customers who said dealers tried to redirect them to gas cars or gave them unclear or downright incorrect answers … Read more.
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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.
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OCTOBER 26, 2023
Well, the comments section on this one should be fun: Cyclists are more interested in the common good than drivers are, a study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology found. The study used four factors to define the common good — political participation, social participation, neighborhood solidarity and… Read more.
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OCTOBER 31, 2023
This year I’m in Las Vegas for SEMA. It’s a wild place, especially if you decided to get started early like I did. Two hours in, I needed a break from everything so I decided to go and check out the much talked about and hyped Tesla Loop to see what it was about. It was dumb. Read more.
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NOVEMBER 14, 2023
It’s no secret that Mexican racer Pato O’Ward is one of the hottest commodities in motorsport right now. As an official member of the McLaren Driver Program, O’Ward will be taking a Formula 1 car out for practice ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix later in November, but during the racing season here in America, O’Ward… Read more.
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OCTOBER 25, 2023
Akio Toyoda, chairman of the world’s largest automaker, Toyota, took a stubborn stance on EVs. While other automakers have been pouring billions into developing EVs, Toyota was still betting on hybrids and PHEVs while selling just one EV in the bZ4X. After a relatively hot last couple of years, EV sales have cooled… Read more.
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NOVEMBER 1, 2023
If you believe Tesla, it’s really super duper close to being ready to begin production of the Cybertruck. Assuming the company actually manages to start building Cybertrucks before the end of the year, it sounds like the only version it will be making is a $100,000 version that has some people canceling their… Read more.
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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.
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OCTOBER 16, 2023
We’ve known for a while that Toyota is hard at work developing solid-state batteries. The company also said for a while that it expects to be able to offer electric vehicles with a range of more than 900 miles starting in 2027. So it’s not exactly news that Toyota just announced a partnership with Idemitsu Kosan “to… Read more.
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NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Toyota is still moving forward with its plan to produce solid-state batteries that it says will give future electric vehicles a range of more than 900 miles. And while production won’t exactly start tomorrow, the current plan to begin in 2027 isn’t too terribly far in the future, either. Except, as it turns out,… Read more.
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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.
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OCTOBER 4, 2023
It’s tough starting a new electric vehicle company these days, just ask Faraday Future or Lordstown Motors. But Rivian seemed like one of the good ones that might actually make it, as it’s been shipping its electric trucks out to customers for almost two years now. However, the company is still burning through cash at… Read more.
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OCTOBER 23, 2023
The presence of women in motorsport is still a rarity, but new series like F1 Academy are designed to help bridge the gap and lift young women from the grassroots to an international open-wheel series — and at Circuit of the Americas during the United States Grand Prix , I got to witness firsthand just how important… Read more.
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NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Californian startup Lucid took a bold approach for its introduction to the world, launching in 2021 with the phenomenal Air , a large electric luxury sedan that entered a small, competitive segment of the auto market. Despite garnering tons of acclaim—including from me—the Air has been a slow seller and the brand has… Read more.
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OCTOBER 10, 2023
This past weekend saw Formula 1 run the Qatar Grand Prix for the second time in history, and conditions were so oppressively hot for the drivers that some withdrew from the event, vomited inside their helmets, and needed assistance to exit the vehicle. But for pundits like Martin Brundle, that kind of suffering is… Read more.
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OCTOBER 26, 2023
Moab is arguably the most important venue in American off roading, and this month the federal Bureau of Land Management has closed 317 of the area’s 812 trail miles to motorized vehicles. The closure takes effect this Saturday , October 28, closing ORV trails to the thousands of off-roaders who frequent the park. The… Read more.
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OCTOBER 13, 2023
Real world testing data shows that the Tesla Semi truck can travel about 400 miles per charge, and recharge to 80 percent in just 45 minutes. Considering just how large the onboard battery pack is (roughly the size of ten Model S packs) that’s not too shabby. In a recent three-week test across 22 electric… Read more.
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OCTOBER 19, 2023
After missing yet another deadline for the Tesla Cybertruck to actually launch, company boss Elon Musk has come out to set the mood ahead of the electric pickup’s eventual rollout. In a Tesla earnings call last night, Musk explained the challenges the EV maker has faced bringing the angular Cybertruck to fruition and… Read more.
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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.
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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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