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 […]
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Last night was another turning point in the electrification revolution: Ford unveiled it’s first fully-electric vehicle, the Mustang Mach-E. There’s a lot of details to dig into, so let’s get started reviewing what was announced. New Mustang? or Tesla clone? Ford started off the event by talking about the history of the Mustang brand. For […]
Patrick Collison rounds up a handful of different studies documenting the fact that air pollution makes people stupider: Air pollution is a very big deal. Its adverse effects on numerous health outcomes and general mortality are widely documented. However, our understanding of its cognitivecosts is more recent and those costs are almost certainly still significantly under-emphasized. For […]
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 […]
We’ve been hearing about the Saudi Aramco IPO for years, and now we finally have a price range: $1.6 trillion to $1.7 trillion. For those who don’t know about Saudi Aramco, it’s the most profitable business on Earth: Saudi Arabia’s state owned oil company. At around $2 a barrel, they have the lowest oil production […]
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
Welcome to our new series: delicious tasty claim chowder! In the series, we revisit past predictions about the future to see how they stand up against reality. Today, let’s revisit this video from Business Insider “columnist” Linette Lopez on Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai. From March 12, 2019: Tesla has planned on making a huge entrance into […]
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 […]
