Fisker has released more details on its highly anticipated Project PEAR, a vehicle which has the potential to bring EVs to a much wider audience thanks to a promised starting price of $29,900. Fisker on Wednesday announced that the PEAR will hit the road in prototype form later this year and make its official debut
Month: June 2022
By Maria Merano Posted on June 8, 2022 Tesla has kicked off the 2022 Model Y’s customer deliveries from Gigafactory Texas. One of the first customers to receive a Model Y from Giga Texas shared a review of his new vehicle with the public. According to the host of YouTube’s Spoken Reviews channel, he recently
12:36 PM ET Isle of Man TT organisers said on Wednesday they had misidentified a French sidecar racer who died in a crash at the weekend. Passenger Olivier Lavorel was named last Saturday as the man who had died but organisers said he had been confused with compatriot Cesar Chanal. “An initial identification procedure was
Fifteen years is an eternity in the automotive world, but that’s how much time has passed between the introduction of the second- and third-generation Toyota Sequoia. Introduced at the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show, the second-generation Sequoia debuted a few months after the original Apple iPhone. However, it failed to have a lasting legacy as
European Union lawmakers voted to uphold a ban on new combustion engine cars from 2035 despite attempts by industry groups and conservative politicians to weaken the proposal. The European Parliament on Wednesday rejected an amendment that would have eased a requirement on carmakers to cut emissions to a 90 percent reduction by 2035, instead of
A Minnesota woman and her child narrowly escaped death when a semi trailer drove into their disabled Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck at high speed on a busy freeway last week. Shocking footage shows the red pickup stationary in the middle of the three-lane I-35 before a black semi attempts to drive straight through it, causing
European Union lawmakers voted to uphold a ban on new combustion engine cars from 2035, holding off a challenge that would have put the bloc’s climate goals at risk. Members of Parliament voted against an amendment that would have eased a requirement on carmakers to cut emissions, to a 90 percent reduction by 2035, instead
Self-driving truck startup Gatik will expand its operations through an agreement with new partners Georgia-Pacific and KBX to deliver paper goods to 34 Sam’s Club hubs and stores in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area. For Gatik, which concentrates on traveling shorter “middle mile” truck routes and foregoing interstate travel, the new partnership represents substantial growth
Scott Keogh, VW, in San Francisco, California, Sept. 18, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Volkswagen is “actively” looking to establish new assembly and battery facilities in the U.S., Volkswagen of America CEO Scott Keogh told CNBC on Wednesday. Keogh declined to discuss potential locations for such operations. The
The Ports of Auckland in New Zealand has welcomed a new member to its maritime family. A bright green, electric tugboat named Sparky recently arrived in Auckland as “the world’s first full-sized ship-handling electric tug.” By delivering the same bollard pull as the Ports of Auckland’s strongest diesel tug, Sparky represents a future in which
4:55 AM ET Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko believes it is only a matter of time before Mercedes is challenging for victories every week. Mercedes has been off the pace of Red Bull and Ferrari this season but made clear progress with an upgraded car at the Spanish Grand Prix, although the team remained a
Western European new car sales could dip below the 10 million mark this year because of continuing supply chain issues, forecaster LMC Automotive said this month. LMC’s forecast of 9.81 million passenger cars sold in the region would be only two-thirds of the pre-pandemic level of 14.29 million in 2019. That figure is 7.4 percent
The latest entry into the rich library of Ford Mustang indiscretions has arrived. This time, a black Mustang has managed to drive off a raised parking lot and to land squarely on top of a poor, unsuspecting Tesla. Although the context is unclear from the photographs, photos posted to Reddit by u/mattmobb (claiming to be
WASHINGTON — U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating whether a Ford dealership in New York complied with federal regulations requiring dealers to not deliver a new vehicle with an outstanding safety recall. NHTSA said it had received information indicating that Healey Brothers Ford in Beacon, N.Y., sold at least one new vehicle to a customer
Automakers seek every edge in the race for innovation, from investing in startups to incubating solutions in-house. Porsche is adding a new page to that playbook — joining with a Los Angeles-based startup accelerator program to develop next-generation technologies and business models. Porsche will partner with UP.Labs to seed six mobility startups by 2025. The
In this article ZE594-CN This photo from Dec. 2019 shows robotic arms spray painting a car body shell at the BYD Automobile Company Limited Xi’an plant. BYD is set to supply Tesla with batteries “very soon,” a senior company executive told a Chinese state media anchor. Yuan Jingzhi | Visual China Group | Getty Images
Ever wondered what a job at HOT ROD magazine is really like? In this episode of HOT ROD Unlimited we take you inside the offices at HOT ROD to show you what goes in to publishing the longest running automotive magazine of all time. You’ll see the staff at work as we brainstorm new issues,
Audi is out testing prototypes for a redesigned A4 and the latest tester to be spotted is for the sporty S4 model. The prototype is specifically for the S4 Avant wagon body style but testers for the S4 sedan should also be out and about. The current A4, the B9, arrived for the 2017 model
Cupra has revealed an all-new, urban electric car – the Cupra UrbanRebel – which will be launched in Europe in 2025. The company says that it’s the biggest project in the pipeline, which indicates a mass-market approach. In the midterm, the brand would like to sell 500,000 cars per year (compared to 80,000 in 2021)
9:41 AM ET MONTE CARLO, Monaco — Charles Leclerc knew what an opportunity Ferrari had let slip through its fingers on Sunday. “No words,” he said on his radio after the race. “The season is long, but we cannot do that.” There must have been a lot going through Leclerc’s mind. Just an hour or
TERRAMAR, Spain — Volkswagen Group’s Cupra brand has set a target of 500,000 sales a year by 2025 — more than the combined 2021 sales of Cupra and Seat, VW’s other Spanish brand. Cupra sold 79,327 cars in 2021, with the Formentor compact crossover the most popular model with 54,595 units sold. Cupra had said earlier
Sideshows, where large groups of people gather to watch and cheer on drivers participating in illegal performance driving maneuvers, remain a problem for many cities. Now, the city of New Orleans is seeing a rise in the practice, also called “pop up shows”, and it’s searching for solutions. New videos emerging from the city show
Former Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein, now in prison after being convicted of sex crimes, on Tuesday sued the U.S. business of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles over a 2019 crash in which he flipped a Jeep Wrangler while trying to avoid a deer. Weinstein is seeking $5 million in damages, saying the Aug. 17, 2019 accident
One of the earliest battlegrounds in industry efforts to commercialize self-driving truck technology may play out on Uber Freight, the online platform that matches carriers and customers. On Tuesday, Waymo said it reached an agreement with Uber Freight to deploy its self-driving trucks on the network at a scale eventually reaching “billions of miles” of
By Joey Klender Posted on June 7, 2022 Polestar will debut its first all-electric SUV, dubbed the Polestar 3, in October 2022, the Swedish automaker announced today. Polestar has not yet brought an SUV to the EV sector, which is one of the most highly-competitive segments of the automotive industry. With vehicles like the Tesla
What kind of SUV is the 2022 Buick Enclave? What does it compare to? The 2022 Buick Enclave is one of the best luxury crossover vehicles GM builds. With three rows of seats for up to seven passengers, the 2022 Enclave blends tailored looks with expansive space to compete with vehicles like the Acura MDX,
Solid Power, a developer of solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, aims to begin shipping pre-production battery cells by year-end for validation testing by partners BMW and Ford Motor, the company said. In an interview, Doug Campbell, Solid Power’s CEO and co-founder, said the Colorado company has set up a pilot production line to provide validation
We have seen some weird incidents involving high-powered sports cars and supercars over the years but this case involving a Porsche 911 GT2 RS is a little stranger than most. This particular video was recently filmed in Mexico and shows a white 911 GT2 RS stuck in a bunker of a golf course. Yes, a
MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has asked Mexico to probe alleged worker rights violations at a Mexican auto-parts plant owned by Italian-French carmaker Stellantis, the fourth such investigation under a revised trade deal. The U.S. request for Mexico to look into possible rights abuses at Teksid Hierro de Mexico in the northern border state
In this article TSLA Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during a news conference after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in President Joe Biden’s bid to rescind a Trump-era immigration policy that forced migrants to stay in Mexico to await U.S. hearings on their asylum claims, in Washington, U.S., April 26, 2022. Elizabeth
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