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Watch a 7,000-LB Rivian R1T Destroy a Guardrail in Eyebrow-Raising Test

Watch a 7,000-LB Rivian R1T Destroy a Guardrail in Eyebrow-Raising Test

News → News by Brand → Rivian News Our guardrail system was only built to handle vehicles up to 5,000 pounds. byNico DeMattia| PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2024 9:40 AM EST University of Nebraska | YouTube. In the 1990s, the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility looked into the then-50-year-old highway guardrail system and found it to be incapable […]

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The Electric Jeep Wagoneer S Is Taking Jeep Down the Wrong Trail

The Electric Jeep Wagoneer S Is Taking Jeep Down the Wrong Trail

News → News by Brand → Jeep News Jeep has problems right now, and the Wagoneer S doesn’t seem likely to fix them. byAndrew P. Collins| PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2024 7:00 PM EST Jeep In 2015, then-boss of then-Fiat Chrysler Sergio Marchionne was quoted as saying: “When I see a Range Rover on the street,

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Tesla Autopilot Cheat Devices Reveal US Cars Have Less Safe Software Than Exports

Tesla Autopilot Cheat Devices Reveal US Cars Have Less Safe Software Than Exports

News → News by Brand → Tesla News A cheap gadget that tricks Teslas into thinking a driver’s hands are on the wheel curiously only works in North American cars. byJames Gilboy| PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2024 10:30 AM EST Teslaunch.net Last month, Tesla recalled more than two million cars to implement stricter driver monitoring following

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Chinese EVs Will Flatten US Car Industry Without Trade Barriers, Musk Says

Chinese EVs Will Flatten US Car Industry Without Trade Barriers, Musk Says

News → News by Brand → Tesla News China’s BYD outsold Tesla last quarter, and Musk seems unsettled. byJames Gilboy| PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2024 9:30 AM EST Xinhua/Ding Ting via Getty Images The western world is readying itself for a Chinese onslaught in an industry it has historically dominated: cars. The rapidly maturing Chinese car

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Harvard Claims ‘Holy Grail’ EV Battery Breakthrough. But When Will We See It?

Harvard Claims ‘Holy Grail’ EV Battery Breakthrough. But When Will We See It?

News → Car Tech → Electric Vehicles As promising as this sounds for next-gen EV batteries, it still needs a reality check. byJames Gilboy| PUBLISHED Jan 19, 2024 5:30 PM EST James Gilboy Harvard University claims to have invented a new battery chemistry that could finally realize solid-state battery technology. The results of its experiments

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Borla’s Fake V8 ‘Exhaust’ for the Ford Mach-E Is Out, and Here’s What People Think About It

Borla’s Fake V8 ‘Exhaust’ for the Ford Mach-E Is Out, and Here’s What People Think About It

News → Culture You can now make your EV sound like a Ford, Chevy, or Dodge V8. But it’s not going down well with everyone. byJames Gilboy| PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2024 6:00 PM EST Ford, Borla Borla’s “active performance sound system” for the Mach-E consists of an exterior speaker hidden underneath the rear bumper, which

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Funky Hyundai EV Concept Makes Parallel Parking Trouble a Thing of the Past

Funky Hyundai EV Concept Makes Parallel Parking Trouble a Thing of the Past

News → Car Tech It spins you round, round like a record, baby. byKristin V. Shaw| PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2024 3:00 PM EST Hyundai Mobis Hyundai Mobis (the automaker’s dedicated supplier and technology partner) took the ball and ran with it, unveiling its updated Mobion concept this week at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show in

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Revealed: 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona Shown for First Time

Revealed: 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona Shown for First Time

News → News by Brand → Dodge News More than a year after Dodge unveiled the Charger Daytona SRT Concept, the automaker gives us a glimpse at an evolved pre-production model. byCaleb Jacobs| PUBLISHED Jan 12, 2024 12:38 PM EST Dodge It almost feels like Dodge has walked us through the grieving process as the

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Ex-Hertz Tesla Model 3s Cost as Little as $14,000. Would You Buy One?

Ex-Hertz Tesla Model 3s Cost as Little as $14,000. Would You Buy One?

News → News by Brand → Tesla News That’s around a third of the price of a new Tesla Model 3. byJames Gilboy| PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2024 10:00 AM EST Hertz Hertz is offloading used Tesla Model 3s from its fleet at a deep discount. They may be former rentals, but they’re cheap enough that

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