A major blaze in South Korea that knocked out a wide range of key digital services for days — snarling banking, ride-sharing and online deliveries — is reigniting safety concerns in a nation that’s a key global supplier of lithium-ion cells used in electric vehicles. The days-long outage followed a fire Oct. 15 at a […]
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Mercedes-Benz Maybach last week opened what it refers to as an “Atelier” in Shanghai, China. It’s the latest in a series of Maybach brand stores, but unlike the existing stores, which focus on fashion and in some cases saddles for horseback riding, the Atelier, a French word meaning “an artist’s studio,” makes it possible to
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Mullen Automotive has tapped former General Motors executive John Schwegman to be the electric vehicle maker’s chief commercial officer. Schwegman spent 35 years at GM in a variety of marketing-related roles, most recently senior director of global Chevrolet product marketing, according to his LinkedIn profile. Mullen, of Brea, Calif., said Schwegman will primarily focus on
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Autonomous vehicle companies and suppliers have collectively spent about $75 billion developing self-driving technology, with scant sign of meaningful revenue emerging from AV services after all that investment. This has spelled disaster for Aurora Innovation, TuSimple Holdings and Embark Technology, whose shares have each plunged at least 80 percent this year. It’s no wonder Intel
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Police officers aren’t usually big fans of burnouts, especially when drivers decide to do them on public roads with other drivers around. But officers in Timmonsville, South Carolina, while definitely not condoning tire fires, think you ought to at least do it properly to make it worth the ticket they’re going to write you. This
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If you’ve ever want to own a muscle car powered by Dodge’s 1,000-hp Hellephant crate engine, now’s your chance. A Hellephant-powered 1968 Dodge Charger named Dumbo is slated for a Mecum auction running in Las Vegas from November 10-12. The supercharged 7.0-liter V-8 was unveiled at the 2018 SEMA show, and went on sale as
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Social media is filled with all kinds of weird car-related videos but this one, recently filmed somewhere in the U.S., is one of the most bizarre we’ve come across in quite some time. It is understood that things may have started when the driver of a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat was being chased by police.
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The second generation of Kia’s Niro EV, which tops off the automaker’s trio of electrified compact crossovers that also includes plug-in hybrid and gasoline-electric hybrid powertrains, goes on sale this month in all 50 states. The Korean automaker slashed $200 off the price for buyers that opt into the higher of two trims, called the
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Ouster Inc. has unveiled a series of digital lidar sensors that use a new chip and provide double the range of the previous generation. The San Francisco company said its REV7 sensors have a maximum range of more than 400 yards, allowing detection of objects up to a quarter-mile away. The distance is achieved by
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Rolls-Royce has entered the EV game with its new Spectre. The car is a big coupe that Rolls-Royce bills as the spiritual successor to the Phantom Coupe. Jeep Avenger Jeep has also entered the EV game with its Avenger. The subcompact electric crossover starts sales in Europe in 2023 but isn’t expected to reach the
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