Month: February 2022

EV startup Faraday Future has built the first production-intent FF 91 featuring production-specification components at its plant in Hanford, California. By manufacturing the first pre-production FF 91 flagship EV, Faraday Future says it has marked manufacturing milestone #4—”pre-production builds for final engineering validation and certification.“ As a result, the company claims it remains on track
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2:00 PM ET BARCELONA, Spain – Haas will run a plain white car, minus any of its Uralkali branding or Russian flag colours, for the final day of F1 testing on Friday. Russia’s military launched a long-feared invasion of Ukraine early Thursday, attacking its ex-Soviet neighbour from multiple directions despite warnings of dire consequences from
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Autonomous vehicle venture Motional and ride services company Via said they will launch on Thursday a robo-taxi service in Las Vegas, the latest step by Motional toward commercial deployment of its autonomous vehicle systems. Via will use vehicles outfitted with Motional autonomous driving systems to offer free rides between several locations in downtown Las Vegas.
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Faraday Future is edging closer to the start of production of its FF91, an electric crossover first unveiled to the world in early 2017. The California-based electric-vehicle startup on Wednesday unveiled the first production-intent example of the FF91 at its plant in Hanford, California, and said the first customer examples remain on track to enter
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Airstream began working on its concept eStream all-electric trailer only about a year ago along with its parent Thor Industries, but the maker of iconic luxury recreational vehicles plans to field its first EVs within a few years. Of course, Airstream trailers are towed behind other vehicles, not self-propelled like a travel coach. But the
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service has finalized a contract to replace its mail-truck fleet with almost all gasoline-powered models, drawing an angry response from Biden administration officials who unsuccessfully pushed the agency to buy electric vehicles instead. The record of decision signed Wednesday represents the culmination of a failed lobbying effort by the Environmental
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Dealers love free advertising, so it’s common to see vehicles plastered with tacky stickers or dealership-branded license plate surrounds. However, Ohio’s Performance Lexus is apparently taking things to an even more appalling level by replacing the standard startup screen with an ugly ad. As you can see in this picture posted to Reddit, the startup
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Approvals for Rivian Automotive Inc.’s planned EV plant in Georgia will be handled by state authorities after local opposition threatened to delay groundbreaking on the $5 billion investment. Construction is scheduled to start in the summer but no specific date has been given by the company, which announced the location in December. Split across Morgan
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The McLaren P1 launched almost a decade ago was a pioneer when it came to using electrification in high-performance applications. Remember when hybrid technology was synonymous with the Toyota Prius? One of the holy trinity of hybrid hypercars, together with the Ferrari LaFerrari and Porsche 918 Spyder, the P1 combined a powerful V-8 with an
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We’ve published many stories about people with powerful cars underestimating that power, overestimating their skills, and crashing their cars. Sometimes, though, the supercar’s owner truly isn’t at fault, as was the case in this accident in which the high-performance vehicles really weren’t doing much of anything. The accident scene, sadly, was the owner’s Beverly Hills
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CHANDLER, Ariz. — There are assumptions about why Waymo chose this sprawling Phoenix suburb as the location to launch the world’s first commercial robotaxi service more than three years ago. Vehicle-friendly streets. Modern infrastructure. Eternal sunshine. Those are sensible criteria for a fledgling proving ground of self-driving technology. But they can be misleading, and they
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Former Opel CEO Michael Lohscheller has been hired by Nikola as president and tasked with helping the U.S. electric truck maker ramp up production. Lohscheller joins Nikola after a short stint as CEO of VinFast Global, the automotive arm of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup. Lohscheller arrived at VinFast in July 2021 but stepped down five months
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