11:49 AM ET NASCAR Cup Series team owners boycotted a meeting with the series Wednesday. David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images NASCAR‘s kumbaya has been replaced by a record scratch. And a boycott. This feels like a bad idea. Remember 2020? That’s when the pandemic shuttered the world, but it was NASCAR, bunkered in with
Month: April 2023
Funko Pop Collector Trades Rare Figurines For Two 2023 Cadillac Escalades Worth Over $160K | Carscoops Junot Ignacio was able to collect almost all of an extremely rare line of bobble head toys, sending values skyrocketing by Sebastien Bell 17 hours ago by Sebastien Bell Like the market for used vehicles, prices for Funko Pops
Tesla Inc. assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately
NEW YORK – Walmart plans to have its own network of electric vehicle charging stations for public use by 2030, to tap into growing adoption of EVs in the United States. The new fast charging stations will be placed at thousands of Walmart and Sam’s Club stores, alongside nearly 1,300 it already operates as part
In this article WMT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Walmart logo is seen on the shop in Streator, United States on October 15, 2022. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Jakub Porzycki/ | Nurphoto | Getty Images Walmart announced Thursday it plans to add electric vehicle charging stations to thousands of U.S. stores
During the first quarter of 2023, Audi sold in the United States 52,763 cars (up 49 percent year-over-year from a relatively low base). Out of that, 4,438 cars happen to be all-electric. That’s a 36 percent increase year-over-year and 8.4 percent of the total volume. That’s not bad, considering that the lineup of imported BEVs
New-car registrations in the UK rose for the eighth consecutive month in March, recording 18 percent growth from a year earlier, and also marked the best month ever for full-electric car sales, the UK’s auto industry body, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), said New-car registrations jumped to 287,825 units as supply chain
Watch Ferrari F1 Driver Charles Leclerc Chase Down The Thieves Who Stole His Watch | Carscoops Leclerc tracked down the perpetrators in his Ferrari 488 Pista, leading to the arrest of four criminals involved in the heist by Andrew Gutman 3 hours ago by Andrew Gutman It’s no surprise that celebrities have many valuable possessions
Lucid Motors layoffs are hitting across all levels of the electric vehicle startup, including its head of customer experience, Len Devanna, who announced his exit on social media. “During my two plus years with the company, I’ve had the pleasure of working with one of the most passionate and dedicated groups of people,” Devanna wrote
To support its transition from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles, China has rolled out more public charging facilities than the rest of the world combined. The problem is many are barely being used. New research from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies found that public charging posts in China are used on average about once
In this article .FKRX300 Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT 2024 Kia EV9 Courtesy: Kia Motors NEW YORK — Korean automaker Kia on Wednesday unveiled the U.S. version of its upcoming EV9, a three-row electric SUV that will serve as the brand’s flagship model when it launches late this year. The EV9 is a midsize
The Jeep Wrangler enters the 2024 model year with a round of updates that add both capability and value to the popular off-roader. The big news is a new Sport S 4xe grade, which Jeep said will lower the price of the Wrangler’s 4xe plug-in hybrid option. Pricing hasn’t been announced but the current entry-level
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By William Johnson Posted on April 4, 2023 Newsweek has published its annual “World’s Greatest Disruptors” list for the automotive industry, notably excluding both Tesla and Elon Musk. No matter how you view Tesla CEO Elon Musk, his impact on the automotive industry and the world is clear, and at no time has it been
Chinese automakers have started making inroads into Germany after they targeted Europe’s biggest market to offset their tough domestic market. The Lynk & CO brand increased sales in Germany by 356 percent to 429 units in March, data from the KBA motor transport authority showed. SAIC-owned MG‘s volume grew by 271 percent to 2,010 vehicles.
Watch Workers Pull Out A Mustang Wedged Under Big Rig After Horrific Crash | Carscoops Amazingly, the driver survived but the accident cause is still unknown by Stephen Rivers April 3, 2023 at 18:33 by Stephen Rivers A recent car crash involving a Ford Mustang has left many shaken. While some details of the crash
NEW YORK — Jeep is upping the comfort and technology in the 2024 Wrangler as the venerable nameplate jousts with the Ford Bronco. The refreshed Wrangler SUV is getting a quieter cabin and power seats in the front row on top trim levels, standard wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, a larger 12.3-inch touch screen
The 2025 Ram 1500 REV electric pickup will have a more conservative look than the Revolution concept truck shown earlier this year and a targeted range of 500 miles with its largest battery pack — numbers that will best its competitors. Ram said the REV will offer a standard 168-kilowatt-hour battery pack with a range
2024 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon X 4xe Jeep Jeep is updating its flagship Wrangler SUV with more capability, technologies and features as it battles for off-road buyers against Ford’s newer Bronco. The 2024 Jeep Wrangler features an evolutionary exterior design, which is typical for the quintessential SUV, and a redesigned interior that includes additional safety, convenience
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Stellantis and BMW are in talks with Panasonic Holdings about teaming up to build electric vehicle battery plants in North America, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the talks. Global automakers are investing billions of dollars to set up battery plants for electric vehicles, as demand surges for less polluting transport
NEW YORK — The Super Bowl is the advertising industry’s grandest stage with viewership that surpasses 100 million people each year, but it’s not always the best option for marketers. Hyundai has shown, with the launch campaigns for the electric Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6, that brands can draw plenty of eyeballs without investing in
BMW Lambasted For Using Models And Internet ‘Celebrities’ To Promote XM | Carscoops Does BMW really need celebrities and models to sell the ugly XM? by Brad Anderson 1 hour ago by Brad Anderson BMW really wants the world to know about the hybrid XM and has recruited a host of famous models, influencers, and
NEW YORK — General Motors is adding some options near the bottom of the price spectrum at a time when consumers are increasingly struggling to afford a new vehicle. Average transaction prices for the Detroit 3, with their mammoth pickups, have soared. GM’s average transaction price was $51,808 in the first quarter, up 2.3 percent
The ghosts of Nikola’s past are still clattering around in the startup commercial truck maker’s corporate attic. But they aren’t distracting CEO Michael Lohscheller, the 31-year auto industry veteran who became Nikola CEO just over a year ago. The company, founded by disgraced former CEO Trevor Milton, convicted last year on three counts of fraud
In this article F GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT DETROIT – General Motors pulled ahead of Ford Motor to become the country’s second best-seller of all-electric vehicles during the first quarter, trailing only industry leader Tesla. GM on Monday said it sold 20,670 EVs during the first three months of the year. Ford,
The path to electrification, for some automakers, doesn’t come with a lot of guardrails. The auto world has seen a fusillade of new EV brands—and some have already run out of rocket fuel, in the form of dollars and runway. There’s an EV brand reckoning coming, and it won’t be pretty or cheap. Other brands
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General Motors reports 603,208 vehicle deliveries during the first quarter of 2023 in the United States. That’s a 17.6 percent increase year-over-year, but the result is still some 6 percent below Q1 2021. The most important thing for us is that GM is quickly increasing battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales, setting a new all-time quarterly
Legacy automakers have been sounding optimistic lately about vehicle sales in China heading higher following the great reopening. Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume seemed to come away bullish from his visit in February, and others such as BMW have offered similarly positive sentiment. That near-term swagger hides an uncomfortable point for established automakers: Many of