We’re Driving The 2024 Audi Q8 e-tron: What Do You Want To Know? | Carscoops The newly named Q8 e-tron is Audi’s flagship EV SUV and we’re going to test it with your questions in mind July 31, 2023 at 13:01 Audi has rebranded its e-tron and e-tron Sportback as the Q8 e-tron and Q8
Month: July 2023
MILAN — Lamborghini could sell 10,000 cars this year for the first time, its CEO said, as the luxury sports carmaker reported a rise in profit and revenues for the first half. The Italian brand, a subsidiary of Germany’s Volkswagen Group, sold 5,341 cars between January and June, up 4.9 percent on the same period
Lewis Hamilton quoted from “Austin Powers: Goldmember” to poke fun at how dominant Max Verstappen is in Formula One this season. Verstappen breezed to an eighth straight race win at the Belgian Grand Prix, one away from Sebastian Vettel’s record of nine consecutive. Editor’s Picks 1 Related Asked Sunday evening if Verstappen is having it
Nearly 500 EVs Are On Board That Cargo Ship Burning In The Ocean | Carscoops BMW and Mercedes both have hundreds of vehicles on the vessel and crews are still working to extinguish the blaze July 28, 2023 at 15:29 What’s harder than putting out an electric vehicle battery fire? Putting out nearly 500 electric
Toyota will strengthen development of EV technology in China, the automaker said on Monday, as it looks to catch up with increasingly tough domestic competition in the world’s largest auto market. The move is the latest from the world’s top-selling carmaker to show a sharper pivot to EVs. It recently detailed an ambitious new EV
Once considered a niche environmental play as the automotive industry focused on battery-electric and fuel cell vehicles, hydrogen internal combustion engines have gained renewed attention as a green vehicle technology. A pending European Union regulatory change would classify heavy-duty trucks using the engines — which burn hydrogen to push pistons — as zero-emission vehicles. That
Companies that make parts for internal combustion engines are facing a harsh future. Revenues for internal combustion engines, as well as fuel and exhaust systems, are expected to decline 44% through 2027, according to the 2023 Deloitte Automotive Supplier Study. Meanwhile, revenues for electric drivetrains and batteries or fuel cells are expected to rise 245%,
By Maria Merano Posted on July 30, 2023 A recent sighting of a Tesla Model 3 Project Highland edition teases upgrades for the sedan’s front bumper. Tech content creator Colin W. From the Bay Area recently spotted a Tesla Model 3 Highland edition. He saw the upgraded Model 3 sedan cruise through Palo Alto, California.
Volkswagen and Xpeng’s jointly developed electric vehicles will use Xpeng’s G9 ‘Edward’ platform, in a boost for the Chinese startup that analysts said could lift its sales and profitability. Xpeng will also receive so-called technology service revenue from Volkswagen from next year onwards, overturning a four-decade-old model of foreign automakers charging their Chinese partners for
Hitting A Porsche 911 Is How This Toyota Driver Learned To Look Both Ways When Crossing The Street | Carscoops This short video demonstrates why alertness is a key factor on the road July 30, 2023 at 18:49 One of the very first things we all learn as youngsters is to look both ways while
Auto supplier Dana Inc. said net income rose strongly in the second quarter, offset somewhat by currency headwinds, customer demand volatility and supply chain disruptions. The company said in a call with investors Friday that net income climbed $22 million to $30 million in the second quarter, a strong showing but not quite a full
Hydrogen fuel cell and battery- electric vehicles are companions, not opponents. The technologies should be considered complementary rather competitive, experts following the transition to a zero-emission future say. While they can overlap, fuel cell and BEVs will mainly fill different transportation niches. Most expect hydrogen to be a replacement in large vehicles, such as heavy-duty
In this article F F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ford CEO Jim Farley poses for a photo at the launch of the all-new electric Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck at the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center on April 26, 2022 in Dearborn, Michigan. Bill Pugliano | Getty Images Ford Motor said Thursday pushed
“Jay Leno’s Garage” has featured a wide variety of cars, but this 1923 McFarlan Model 154 Knickerbocker Cabriolet is truly one of a kind. The car is part of California’s Nethercutt Collection, and Vice President Cameron Richards believes it’s the only surviving example. Originally based in Connersville, Indiana, McFarlan was a carriage builder that moved
“Humans are terrible drivers,” General Motors’ one-page advertisement in The New York Times and other papers last week claimed. The advertisement for Cruise, a GM-backed autonomous driving startup, argued that while “people cause millions of accidents every year in the U.S. … Cruise driverless cars are designed to save lives.” The advertisement prominently featured the
Spend the day with Mr. Hot Wheels, Larry Wood also known as Elwood (like his initials L. Wood). Wood has designed Hot Wheels since 1969 and still consults on designs today. He has designed some of the most famous Hot Wheels ever, including the 1949 Mercury, the Boyd Coddington collector set, and the Ramblin’ Wagon.
The New York Times published a pair of articles this weekend highlighting the rising number of deaths of cyclists riding electric bikes. However, in one of the most impressive feats of victim-blaming I’ve seen from the publication in some time, the NYT lays the onus on e-bikes instead of on the things killing their riders:
A cargo ship carrying almost 3,800 cars and construction vehicles is likely to continue burning for days, according to the Dutch coast guard, which is leading efforts to contain the blaze. BMW and Mercedes-Benz each have several hundred cars among the cargo aboard the Fremantle Highway, which caught fire off the coast of the Netherlands
Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJul 30, 2023, 11:25 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Max Verstappen‘s march towards a third world championship continued at the Belgian Grand Prix with his 10th win of the season, his eighth in a row and a 22.3-second victory margin over
Brand-New Model Y Owner Discovers Tesla’s Quality Control Is Lacking | Carscoops This Tesla Model Y Long Range came with a protruding exterior molding on the driver’s door 3 hours ago Another example of Tesla’s poor quality control appeared online when an owner of a new Model Y posted photos of an improperly aligned door
As the U.S. auto industry attempts to do its part to slow the warming of the planet, there’s room for debate about how big that role needs to be. The head of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, the industry umbrella group for many automakers and suppliers, argues that the EPA’s proposed emissions rules for the
Thirty miles north of General Motors’ headquarters in Detroit, hundreds of engineers are developing a zero-emission alternative to battery-electric vehicles: hydrogen fuel cells. They coat ink onto carbon paper and produce miles of seals that separate air, water and coolant. They build small-scale electrodes to test chemistries designed to create electricity from hydrogen with water
In this article F GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Electric Chevrolet Silverado shown at the New York Auto Show, April, 2022. Scott Mlyn | CNBC With unsold electric vehicles backing up on the lots of rivals’ dealers, General Motors’ electric-vehicle rollout strategy for the fall is shaping up to be a key moment
WASHINGTON — Consumers will continue have a choice between electric and combustion powertrains for the next several years, but Audi‘s global head of marketing and sales says automakers need much more “edutainment” to salve consumer apprehension about electric vehicles. Hildegard Wortmann visited the U.S. this month as part of the German premium brand co-hosting the
The NEVS Emily GT project acquisition has been a story going on for the past several months. When Saab became defunct in 2011, New Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) purchased what was left of the auto manufacturer. NEVS had its own aspirations for the brand, and Chinese conglomerate Evergrande eventually took control of it. However, Evergrande
LOS ANGELES — Electric vehicles are crisscrossing the globe to reach their eager buyers, but the battery technology involved in the zero-emission automobiles is exposing under-prepared maritime shippers to the risk of hard-to-control fires, industry, insurance and emergency response officials said. That risk has been put under the spotlight by the burning car carrier drifting
Associated Press Jul 29, 2023, 07:03 PM ET ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Wisconsin driver Sam Mayer won on his home-state track for his first career NASCAR Xfinity Series victory, pulling ahead for good in the next-to-last lap of a wild second overtime session Saturday. Mayer won by 0.368 seconds over Parker Kligerman on the sprawling
22-Year-Old Learner Arrested In Florida After Police Chase, Says It Felt Like Grand Theft Auto | Carscoops The 22-year-old has been hit with a felony charge of fleeing with eluding https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ by Brad Anderson 4 hours ago A young learner driver in Naples, Florida has been arrested and charged for leading police on a high-speed
Robust second-quarter earnings from the Detroit 3 were tempered last week by the growing realization that their pivot to electric vehicles will be slower and costlier than anticipated. Ford Motor Co., which said its quarterly net income tripled from a year earlier, delayed its EV production goals and cautioned that its EV business would lose
In this article MBG-DE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Mercedes-Benz EQA photographed in Berlin on Jan. 20, 2021. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images The shift to zero-emission mobility should be viewed as a marathon not a sprint, according to the CEO of Germany’s Mercedes-Benz. Speaking to “Squawk Box Europe,”
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