Automakers and battery suppliers are in search of a vehicular holy grail — a battery chemistry for electric vehicles that sharply reduces charging times and greatly increases range while remaining cheap and easy to mass produce. Unprecedented sums of money are being poured into battery research to find such a solution, and battery performance has […]
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Security camera footage has captured the moment that thieves stole a Bentley Continental GT from the South Florida home of famous sports agent Drew Rosenhaus. The video shows the thieves breaking into Rosenhaus’s property. One thief then proceeded to get into the Continental GT and start it up as it was left unlocked and the
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There’s a phrase that keeps getting tossed around in the autonomous vehicle business: trough of disillusionment. Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said it on General Motors‘ recent earnings call, and Aurora Innovation CEO Chris Urmson used a variation of to describe where the industry is right now. Their comments came after Ford and Volkswagen-backed Argo AI
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WASHINGTON — Three House lawmakers have joined a push in the Senate to delay certain sourcing and manufacturing requirements in the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credit for consumers buying new electric vehicles. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., introduced a bill — known as the Affordable Electric Vehicles for America Act — in September that would create
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Bugatti is close to completing the last of its Chirons, after which the company will start building the Mistral, a roadster sharing its platform with the Chiron and destined to be Bugatti’s last car powered by the quad-turbo 8.0-liter W-16 that first appeared in the Veyron almost two decades ago. Bugatti presented the Mistral for
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Safford Automotive Group on Monday bought 16 stores in Maryland and Virginia from Brown Automotive Group, more than doubling its dealership count in the largest buy-sell transaction of 2022 so far. The deal adds 14 franchised dealerships, one used-vehicle store and a muscle and classic car store to Safford of Springfield, Va., Safford owner James
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Hitting an animal while driving can be quite dangerous, even more so if you’re riding a motorcycle. The nerve-wracking moment when a Yamaha motorcycle collided with a deer on a country road in the US was caught on camera. Thankfully the rider is safe, since the heavily damaged bike miraculously stayed on its wheels following
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GRAZ, Austria — Fisker Inc. is poised to begin production next week as promised a year ago, although some features, including those that are common on many competing vehicles, may not be ready until 2024. Early next year, the company plans to add lane-keep assistance, blind-spot monitoring and automatic high beams to its launch edition
BMW’s X1 compact crossover has been redesigned for 2023, and our latest spy shots and video show a prototype for a new performance flagship that’s still in the works. The 2023 X1 currently tops out at 241 hp in internal-combustion guise and 308 hp in electric iX1 form. This new performance flagship, which we expect
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Volvo is setting lofty U.S. sales expectations for its EX90 crossover, the Swedish automaker’s most significant launch since the XC40 in 2017, foreshadowing the brand’s future technology, design and sustainability efforts. Volvo Car USA CEO Anders Gustafsson said the seven-seater, introduced Wednesday in Sweden, will become the brand’s No. 1 volume EV in the U.S.
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