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9 May 2022, 15:03 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / It’s not often that you find a travel trailer on Bring a Trailer, but this Forest River R-Pod surely deserves your attention. It’s fairly new and with modern amenities, it could be everyone’s dream, especially as it’s light ...
9 May 2022, 13:53 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Many people still believe that used EV batteries will go to landfills at the end of their useful life. The truth is, Li-Ion batteries are too precious to be wasted, and Tesla confirmed it recycles every battery it can get. As much as 92% of the raw...
9 May 2022, 10:55 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Active safety systems help reduce the crash rates in today’s vehicles and are paramount to achieving the best crashworthiness ratings. The Automatic Emergency Braking systems are already slashing the crash rates by as much as half for vehicle...
9 May 2022, 10:09 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / EV chargers have been the target of criminals or just bad people, be it for ICE-ing, cord-cutting, and other questionable practices. Recently, the chargers got on hackers’ radar, too, who discovered they are easy to hack for profits or simply...
9 May 2022, 08:37 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Car thefts have seen a steady increase in the past two years. Not only that, but the thieves have become bolder, stealing many vehicles at once, sometimes from the dealers’ lots or straight from the factory. Recently, a gang of thieves have b...
7 May 2022, 22:58 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / GM EV1 was not the first electric vehicle ever to hit the market, but surely its story was controversial enough to make everything else fade into history. With or without controversies, the EV1 was a pioneer of many technologies we take for granted...
7 May 2022, 10:15 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Despite all the high-profile Tesla crashes that the media doesn’t get enough writing about, records show that Tesla Autopilot is incredibly safe, and improving by the month. Tesla’s 2021 Impact Report released Friday shows that its cars...
6 May 2022, 22:24 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Three months after GM’s CEO Mary Barra vowed to overtake Tesla by mid-decade, she doubled down on her pledge. Part of her strategy is selling cheaper electric vehicles, something that Tesla also promised a couple of years ago. We don’t ...
6 May 2022, 19:41 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The Volkswagen Vanagon is a worthy upgrade over the second-generation Type 2, especially as Westfalia upped its game in the camper department. This 1983 Vanagon Westfalia is living proof, and it can still keep up with more modern campers, although ...
6 May 2022, 16:49 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Many drivers crash their cars at this exit from a tunnel in Seattle, and people are curious to see why. It turns out the exit from a high-speed road ends with a sharp curve just outside the tunnel. So unless drivers notice the signs or know the are...
6 May 2022, 15:13 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla Giga Berlin’s opening was preceded by epic struggles with environmentalist groups and the local authorities. Far from over, these will not stop the American EV maker to seek to significantly expand operations at the Gruenheide gigafacto...
6 May 2022, 13:53 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / CATL is the biggest producer of Li-Ion batteries in the world and one of the major suppliers for Tesla. The Chinese battery producer will soon start producing its signature Kirin batteries, offering improved performance, even compared to the 4680 c...
6 May 2022, 07:42 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Around 200,000 reservation holders are waiting to convert their reservations into orders for the new Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck. For some, it might take years until this happens, but a lucky Atlanta teacher got himself in front of the line...
5 May 2022, 17:20 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Microsoft’s next-generation AR headset named HoloLens 2 has a new “moving platform” feature which allows it to be used in a moving vehicle. The enhancement was co-developed with Volkswagen, which wants to use the headset inside it...
5 May 2022, 16:55 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / If you want to be part of the hippie revolution, you can’t go wrong with a second-generation Volkswagen Type 2 featuring Westfalia camper paraphernalia. Luckily, we’ve just found a 1970 example that is still in good shape despite being ...
5 May 2022, 15:30 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The car industry faces disruptions as the sales model they were used to started to disintegrate in the past years. Carmakers search for new revenue streams to make up for the losses in sales, but their expectations seem rather unrealistic. Car buye...
5 May 2022, 10:45 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Polestar will start U.S. sales of the 2023 Polestar 2 in September and is confident enough that it will compete with the Tesla Model 3. This is obvious when looking at Polestar’s pricing strategy, with the electric sedan starting just below $...
5 May 2022, 09:35 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Ford has an incredible start this year, with its electric vehicle business booming on the back of Mustang Mach-E’s popularity. The electric van E-Transit also entered the fray, instantly becoming the bestseller of its segment. Overall, Ford s...
5 May 2022, 08:37 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Microchip shortages have wreaked havoc across the auto industry, causing production disruptions and delivery delays. Many carmakers have decided to continue building vehicles even without the precious chips and install them later, as they become av...
4 May 2022, 15:50 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The grappler is a James-Bond-inspired device used by the cops across the country to quickly stop chased vehicles. The most recent case was caught on tape in Phoenix, Arizona, when a suspect trying to escape arrest started a high-speed race. Acc...