The McLaren P1 that was famously destroyed by Hurricane Ian in Florida is back up for auction through Copart. As you may recall, the Volcano Yellow P1 was caught in flood water just one week after the owner purchased it through Bring a Trailer. In November, the car was listed for sale on Copart and
Month: December 2022
The VF-8 electric vehicle from VinFast, a Vietnamese automaker producing electric cars and SUV’s, is on display at their showroom in Santa Monica, California, on July 18, 2022. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Vietnamese EV maker VinFast is going public in the U.S. VinFast on Tuesday said it has filed a registration
Electric vehicles battery makers will need to respond to climate change and sustainability goals by disclosing their carbon footprints and reducing the use of rare metals, according to a senior executive at Panasonic Holdings Corp.’s battery unit. Customers are now adding carbon footprints — or the total greenhouse gases generated during a product’s life-cycle —
Top automotive, technology, and EV battery executives gathered for the Automotive News Detroit Congress Dec. 5 to share their vision and strategies for long-term success. Stellantis North America COO Mark Stewart opened with a keynote interview and Ford CEO Jim Farley wrapped up the event with a discussion on the automaker’s dealer EV certification program
Just over a week after beginning deliveries of its first EVs to the US, Vietnamese automaker VinFast has publicly filed the necessary form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to begin its process toward an initial public offering, or IPO. If you’ve been following VinFast at all the past year, today’s official announcement should
We take Saab’s new flagship 9-5 to the test track to find out how well it performs. Read the full story here: http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedans/1010_2011_saab_9_5_aero_turbo_6_xwd_test/index.html
As the move to electrification continues, some automakers are leaping toward the future while others are looking to the past for one last final hurrah. These trends are clearly evident in this year’s crop of finalists for Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2023. Last year marked a first for our award. A clean-sheet-design electric
BERLIN — Mercedes-Benz will double production capacity for electric motors to 1 million units at its Untertuerkheim plant in Germany, which has traditionally focused on combustion engines, the automaker said in a statement. The announcement confirmed an earlier report in Germany’s WirtschaftsWoche magazine. Mercedes‘ management and works council struck an agreement on restructuring the site
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In this article GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT General Motors continues to monitor Twitter and evaluate its decision to suspend advertising on the social media platform following Elon Musk’s takeover of the company, CEO Mary Barra told CNBC Tuesday. Barra said that the automaker’s decision to suspend advertising in October was in part
The 2022 Automotive News All-Stars persevered during a challenging year for the industry, with the chip shortage improving somewhat but still lingering. These All-Stars delivered excellent products and services to their customers, introduced innovations and made other significant contributions to the industry. Their successes were celebrated at a ceremony Dec. 5 at the Detroit Athletic
DETROIT — The auto industry winnowed from hundreds of companies from its beginnings a century ago to the Detroit 3 in the U.S. There once were a dozen or so popular search engines. The number dwindled to, charitably, two. Chris Urmson, one of the founding members of Google’s self-driving car project more than a decade
The Tesla Semi Class 8 all-electric semi truck, in its top configuration, has a range of 500 miles (805 km) and energy consumption of less than 2 kWh/mile (1.24 kWh/km). Those are the official numbers from the manufacturer, who is reluctant to reveal the battery pack capacity. Combining the two values we can estimate that
A year and a half of tight dealership inventories and strong consumer demand have let automakers dramatically curtail what they spend marketing their products, allowing those dollars to instead pad their bottom lines and soothe any financial damage from rising costs. But while the industry doesn’t need a lot of glitzy television ad campaigns or
Two of China’s biggest automakers are so determined to ensure their cars make it from factories on the mainland to anyone who wants to drive them they have bought their own ships. BYD, which only makes electric and hybrid cars, is going the extra length to avoid any last mile supply chain snarls, ordering at
The Chief of Police in Tampa, Florida, has resigned after a recent traffic stop. As the subject of that stop, she flashed her badge and requested that the on-duty officer let her go. Now, officials are calling for a full investigation. O’Connor and her husband were subjects of a traffic stop on November 12th when
In this article F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ford F-150 Lightning trucks manufactured at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn Michigan. Courtesy: Ford Motor Co. DETROIT – About 65% of Ford Motor’s dealers have agreed to sell electric vehicles as the company invests billions to expand production and sales of the battery-powered
DETROIT — About two-thirds of Ford Motor Co.’s U.S. dealer network has signed up for the automaker’s electric-vehicle certification program, CEO Jim Farley said Monday. Speaking at the Automotive News Congress in Detroit, Farley said 1,920 retailers have agreed to follow rigorous new sales standards and invest heavily in EV chargers and training. Of those,
By Simon Alvarez Posted on December 4, 2022 Tesla CEO and new Twitter owner Elon Musk shared a number of optimistic updates about the social media company’s advertisers recently. Musk noted that Apple Inc. has now “fully resumed” its advertisements on Twitter. E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly planning on increasing its Twitter ad spend as
Editor’s note: Manufacturers are responsible for ensuring that their vehicles meet all National Highway Traffic Safety Administration safety standards and must certify the compliance of their vehicles. An earlier version of this story misstated how the certification process is executed. Lordstown Motors Corp. made first deliveries on its initial batch of 500 electric pickups for
Watch this episode on MotorTrend! https://bit.ly/2lA1aXG How many times have David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan been burned by rescuing a car from a junkyard? Too many, but this time it’s a total win! Steve Magnante found an awesome ’71 Pontiac T-37 at L&L Classic Auto in Idaho on Episode 15 of Roadkill’s Junkyard Gold, and
Bentleys and sneakers don’t normally go together, but they do when we’re talking about the one-off 2022 Flying Spur Hybrid developed by Bentley in collaboration with Dominic Ciambrone, or better known to fans as The Surgeon. Ciambrone is a custom shoe designer who launched a line of Bentley-inspired sneakers, and he was recently picked by
Volkswagen Group’s Audi brand will lose a key autonomous driving project under a new software strategy that aims to make the group’s proprietary software competitive and market-ready by the end of the decade. Audi‘s Artemis project, which aimed to develop a Level 4 self-driving electric car by 2024, has shown little progress amid delays in
As we’ve come to learn in recent years, some Ford Mustang drivers are truly a different breed, seemingly unable to perform even the most basic of driving tasks without disastrous results. This Mustang driver is just like that. This clip appears to have been filmed at a drag strip somewhere in the U.S. and a
Ford CEO Jim Farley told Jim Cramer that the F-150 Lightning’s abilities as a source of backup power for homes and job sites have been a real “eye-opener” for the automaker. Farley was responding to an inquiry from the Club after Jefferies earlier this week downgraded generator mainstay Generac on the thought that electric vehicles
Ford Pro, Ford Motor Co.’s unit focusing on commercial customers, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Deutsche Post DHL Group to supply the German courier service with 2,000 electric vans, as well as access to E-Telematics software and charging solutions. At least a portion of the order will come in the form of Ford‘s
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Training self-driving vehicles to handle unexpected situations is one of the biggest challenges to commercialization. Autonomous technology companies frequently showcase how their self-driving software responds to unusual events and edge cases in general traffic, but few demonstrate what happens when something is physically amiss with the autonomous vehicle itself. Flat tires,
Ford Pro, the automaker’s software and commercial fleet division, announced today it has entered into a new agreement with logistics leader Deutsche Post DHL Group (DHL). The deal is designed to accelerate electric van deployment, starting with Ford supplying over 2,000 E-Transit EV vans to DHL by the end of 2023. Ford unveiled the E-Transit
McLaren has recently sold some of its prized heritage car collection to Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat Holding to raise capital to upgrade its Artura supercar. McLaren was forced to seek an injection of funds after identifying “certain technical upgrades” on the Artura plug-in hybrid car that triggered delivery delays, McLaren said earlier this week
When I was about 20, it fell upon me to buy the tree for the family holiday celebrations, and to cut a long story short, I nearly ruined Christmas. With little more than a roof rack, some rope, and a jingle in my heart, I decided to put the tree on top of my Beetle