In case you missed this story from June in the Detroit Free Press: Drivers of the nation’s top-selling vehicle, the 2018 or 2019 Ford F-150 pickup, could be spending an extra $2,000 in fuel because Ford Motor Co. falsified fuel economy tests. Detroit Free Press Another great example of hiding costs outside the sticker price. On Feb. […]
Interesting story from August on Reuters: e U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to test how drivers could use cameras to replace traditional rearview mirrors in automobiles, a technology already allowed in other countries, the agency said on Tuesday. Reuters Cars like the Audi étron have this sytem in Europe, but it’s not allowed […]
If you had any doubt that the competition is shitting their pants over Tesla’s Cybertruck unveil tonight, look no further than this story from Reuters: General Motors Co’s (GM.N) first electric pickup truck model will go on sale in the fall of 2021, the company’s top executive said on Thursday, around the same time as […]
Interesting story at Fortune from a few days ago from David Meyer, titled “Why Mercedes’s Self-Driving Trucks Are Set to Overtake Its Robotaxis” (nice spin). Don’t hold your breath for a self-driving Mercedes car anytime soon. Fortune Don’t worry, I wasn’t 😂 But everyone who was can now exhale! Anybody? At Daimler’s capital market day […]
Limited because they need a 100 kWh battery pack. If Ford sells every Mach-E they make, Tesla will still sell 10 times more EVs than Ford did. Sooooo… Tesla killer?
Friday evening, groups of three journalists were able to ride in prototype Mach-Es over a 10-minute route that included the streets of Hawthorne, California—right past Tesla’s Southern California design studio, where we rode along in a Tesla Model Y earlier in the year—and both an acceleration run and a short slalom course. Green Car Reports One […]
Bankruptcy in 10 minutes?
Ford will unveil the Mustang Mach-E tonight, and I’m incredibly excited to see what they have to tell us. You can watch live on YouTube at 6 PM California time, 9 PM Eastern Time, 02:00 UTC: The Leaked Specs Someone found a Mach-E website which looks like it wasn’t supposed to be released yet. The […]
An NHS doctor has warned other diesel BMW owners to buy the best fire extinguisher they can after his four-year-old car became the latest BMW to spontaneously burst into flames as he drove home from work. The Guardian Read more at the Guardian
Nissan is recalling over 450,000 vehicles worldwide because a brake fluid leak could cause them to catch fire. KTLA 5 Oopsy doopsy The recall, detailed in documents posted Friday by the U.S. government, covers the Nissan Murano SUV from 2015 through 2018, and Maxima sedans from 2016 through 2018. Also included are Infiniti QX60 and […]
