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28 Mar 2022, 13:12 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / We live in extraordinary times, with inflation making a dent in everyone’s wallet. It’s usually in times like this that theft rates increase, and we’ve already seen thieves stealing catalytic converters and gas from tanks or direc...
28 Mar 2022, 10:05 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Every carmaker has experienced production delays in the past years, with the main causes being the pandemic, the chip shortage, or other supply chain problems. But a delay caused by such a crazy reason as a leopard shutting off the factory is extre...
28 Mar 2022, 08:54 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla’s German gigafactory is finally online, which brings huge relief to the EV maker’s production nightmares. Giga Berlin is far from ramping up to full capacity but taken from previous experience we expect a rapid pace increase in th...
26 Mar 2022, 22:04 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Faced with restrictions, people wanted to evade and turned to campers and RVs to free themselves from the cities. The new trend was so strong that the RV industry recorded the best sales in history during 2020 and 2021. The market is still hot, and...
26 Mar 2022, 11:44 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Car dealers seem engaged in a self-destructive spiral that would render them irrelevant in the years to come. The fact that the world is already moving away from the dealer sales model sure doesn’t help, but abusive practices like insane mark...
25 Mar 2022, 18:41 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Nothing in life is free, they say, and yet this is one thing that people forget quite easily when presented with the opportunity. In face of increasing gas prices, people found a businessman’s offer to fill up their tanks for free very compel...
25 Mar 2022, 17:34 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Two seemingly unrelated news came from California this week, but they compound to change the automotive landscape in the most EV-friendly state in the U.S. One is Tesla losing the generous state subsidies that helped it gain traction in California ...
25 Mar 2022, 15:59 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / We all want the latest technologies into our cars, and the carmakers have tried to satisfy everybody. We can now enjoy remote control via phone apps to check on our car’s fuel level, location, and more while sitting inside our houses. This sy...
25 Mar 2022, 13:58 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Li-Ion batteries are the most important component of an electric vehicle, and EV market expansion has led to rapid developments in this field. Traditionally, EV makers favored nickel-based chemistries, like NCA (Tesla) and NCM (other carmakers), bu...
25 Mar 2022, 11:15 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / A flying Tesla video that went viral over the weekend started a chain of events that should make it a textbook for social media deceit and police incompetence. Five days later, the LAPD is still struggling to find out what happened, even though thi...
25 Mar 2022, 09:31 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The 23-windows Volkswagen Bus was the top of the line of the first-generation Type 2. Although its production was discontinued in Europe and the U.S. by 1967, the Brazilians were still making it until 1975. This 1973 example comes with all the bell...
24 Mar 2022, 17:39 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The gas prices have gone way up after Russia invaded Ukraine and people across the U.S. have been hit with huge gas bills. The situation is also hard for the gas station owners since people buy less gas. That’s why some try to lure people in ...
24 Mar 2022, 16:27 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Lithium-ion batteries power almost every device in our lives, from the watches on our wrists to the houses we live in. Electric vehicles have pushed battery development to a neck-breaking pace, leading to new chemistries with increased energy densi...
24 Mar 2022, 15:22 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Analysts are bullish about Tesla’s prospects to dominate the EV sector in the years to come. They take into account recent price hikes to compensate for the cost inflation, the new gigafactories coming online, and the positive cash flow. Base...
24 Mar 2022, 14:24 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Every driver dreams of becoming Ken Block, so drifting is considered the technique to learn if you’re serious about being considered a pilot. Ford let anyone with a driver’s license look like a competent drift pilot with the launch of t...
24 Mar 2022, 13:41 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / One of the biggest disappointments for Tesla fans is that Cybertruck has yet to enter production, more than two years after it was introduced in November 2019. Of course, the most disappointed has to be those 32k folks who paid to reserve the Cyber...
24 Mar 2022, 09:15 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Rivian was the talk of the town last year after succeeding in beating Tesla to market with the first electric pickup, the R1T. Since then, Rivian position has weakened, due to missed production targets and mixed prospects. But this doesn’t me...
23 Mar 2022, 17:41 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The whole automotive industry is affected by the chip shortage that hit the world after 2020. Despite efforts, the precious pieces of silicon are still hard to find, and the plans to expand existing factories will not change the situation in the ne...
23 Mar 2022, 16:38 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Soaring fuel prices incentivize hackers to rig fuel pumps, showing just how vulnerable the whole system is. According to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, four people were caught installing sophisticated devices inside pu...
23 Mar 2022, 15:23 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is a very special breed of the high-performance SRT Hellcat, with a lighter body and a more powerful engine. One of the only 3,300 units built for the 2018 model year is up for grabs at Bring a Trailer and it already ...