Month: January 2022

1:49 PM ET Associated Press Ernie Francis Jr., who earned national recognition when he won a race in Tony Stewart’s all-star series over the summer, has been hired to drive in Indy Lights this season as part of IndyCar’s Race for Equality & Change initiative. Francis is a Florida native of Haitian descent who has
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What kind of car is the 2022 Volvo XC60? What does it compare to? The XC60 crossover seats five people and surrounds them with available all-wheel drive, plug-in hybrid technology, placid light-toned interiors, and a touchscreen infotainment system that’s not as useful as prior versions. Competitors include the Audi Q5, Mercedes GLC-Class, and BMW X3.
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SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — Ford Motor Co. has booked 10,000 orders for the 2022 E-Transit electric van from about 300 commercial and government customers, including retail giant Walmart. Ford will soon begin customer deliveries of the electric vehicle, which starts at $44,900 including shipping and comes in eight configurations. The automaker until now had not disclosed
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Nissan will launch a full-electric successor to its Micra small car that will be based on a new EV platform shared with the upcoming Renault 5. The Micra will be designed by Nissan, engineered by alliance partner Renault and built at Renault’s ElectriCity network of factories in Douai, France. The battery-electric hatchback will use Renault-Nissan’s
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CARMEL, Calif. — Like its platform mate, the redesigned 2022 Tundra pickup, the Toyota Sequoia large SUV was showing its age in unflattering ways, a victim of the Japanese brand’s extremely long product cycle for its body-on-frame light trucks. Its last full redesign had occurred in 2008, in the midst of the Great Recession and
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10:24 AM ET Some minor adjustments will be made to the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix’s Jeddah street circuit to improve driver visibility around corners, organisers said on Thursday. “Firstly, there are going to be one or two slight changes to the track,” Saudi Motorsport Company Chief Executive Martin Whitaker said in a statement. “These tweaks
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What kind of car is the 2022 Volvo XC40? What does it compare to?  The XC40 pitches Volvo virtues in a compact-crossover footprint. Rivals include the BMW X1, Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class, and the Audi Q3.  Is the 2022 Volvo XC40 a good car? Review continues below It’s perky, unpretentious, and plugs in to the electric-car future:
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Getty Images Car production in the UK last year fell to its lowest level since 1956, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. The SMMT said the figures were dismal, largely thanks to a global microchip shortage and disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. It said there was optimism for the
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Tesla‘s quarterly revenue rose as the world’s most valuable automaker sold a record number of vehicles to customers despite supply chain headwinds. Net income attributable to shareholders surged to $2.32 billion, compared with $270 million a year earlier. Revenue rose 65 percent to $17.72 billion in the fourth quarter, from $10.74 billion a year earlier.
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Tesla will not be launching output of the Cybertruck EV pickup this year as it focuses on increasing capacity at current plants in California and China and begins production at new factories in Texas and Germany, CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday. “We will not be introducing new vehicle models this year,” Musk said on the
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What kind of truck is the 2022 Jeep Gladiator? What does it compare to? The Gladiator is the pickup-bedded companion to the Jeep Wrangler. Both are sort of the IRL version of a can of energy drink, which sets the Gladiator apart from Tacomas and Frontiers and pitches it more in the direction of the
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Reuters Tesla sales will grow by more than 50% in 2022 compared with last year despite supply chain problems, chief executive Elon Musk has said. The electric carmaker recorded a record $5.5bn (£4bn) earnings last year. Sales at the firm rocketed 71% to $53.8bn in 2021, as it delivered more than 936,000 vehicles to customers.
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In this article TSLA Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures as he visits the construction site of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, August 13, 2021. Patrick Pleul | Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call that the company won’t release any new models this year, and isn’t currently developing
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General Motors said on Wednesday it would hire more than 8,000 new technical staff this year, as the U.S. automaker accelerates its development of electric vehicles and software-driven services. The automaker hired about 3,000 tech people in 2021. GM said it is expanding teams that electrify cars, develop vehicle software and autonomous technology and engineer
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PARIS — French auto supplier Valeo said on Wednesday it had appointed deputy CEO Christophe Périllat as its new chief executive, confirming previously announced plans, as the company posted preliminary 2021 results including disappointing cashflow numbers. Valeo said outgoing CEO Jacques Aschenbroich, who became CEO in 2009, will continue to act as chairman of the
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Tesla’s Director of Artificial Intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, says that he believes ‘Tesla Bot’ is “on track to become the most powerful AI development platform.” Since Tesla AI Day last year, CEO Elon Musk has been slowly pushing the idea that Tesla is becoming more of an AI/robotics company. Musk has been boasting about the company’s
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3:56 AM ET Formula One is brimming with exciting young talent on the verge of making themselves top tier talents. F1’s youth revolution was underlined by Max Verstappen winning the title last year but it’s been hard to ignore the rise of several other young stars. Whether it was Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in 2019 or
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What kind of car is the 2022 Volvo S60? What does it compare to? The S60 is Volvo’s smaller sedan, with seats for five and a passel of powertrains, including plug-ins; there’s even a V60 Cross Country wagon version, if your weather’s like that in Stockholm. Rivals include the Audi A4 and Allroad, the Mercedes-Benz
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