Jay Leno broke several bones in a motorcycle crash earlier this month, as revealed in an interview with the comedian yesterday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.Leno said he was riding a vintage 1940 Indian motorcycle when he got unexpectedly clotheslined in a parking lot and knocked off the bike.The accident happened not long after Leno was seriously burned by a car fire in November.Jay Leno has been a lucky man, spending years as a successful late-night talk-show host and stand-up comedian as well as focusing on his passion as an automotive enthusiast and hosting his own related TV show. Unfortunately, Leno has run into a string of bad luck of late, including two bad accidents that have sent him to the hospital. The most recent incident, he revealed in an interview, happened on January 17 when he crashed a vintage motorcycle and broke several bones.Leno yesterday spoke to the Las Vegas Review-Journal and confirmed that he was okay. The 72-year-old also shared the story of the crash, which he said happened while he was riding a 1940 Indian motorcycle. “So I turned down a side street and cut through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, some guy had a wire strung across the parking lot but with no flag hanging from it,” Leno told the Review-Journal. “So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just clotheslined me and, boom, knocked me off the bike.”This video from the popular Jay Leno’s Garage series features Leno showing his 1940 Indian Four with a sidecar—”a good old girl,” as Leno called it—which may or may not be the bike on which he had the accident, but which is part of his extensive vehicle collection. This content is imported from youTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.1940 Indian Four with the Sidecar – Jay Leno’s GarageWatch onThe motorcycle crash comes only a couple of months after Leno was seriously burned by a car. That incident, too, involved a vintage vehicle—a 1907 White Model G steam car. Leno was released from the hospital in late November after a 10-day stay and said at that time that he would continue outpatient treatment to recover from burns.This content is imported from youTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. More

Rivian has delayed deliveries of the R1T pickup until September 2021.The Launch Edition version will arrive first, with other models set to be delivered in January 2022.The related Rivian R1S SUV model will also launch in 2022, the company says.Customers who ordered the Rivian R1T Launch Edition will have to wait a bit longer than planned. The first deliveries of this new electric pickup truck were initially scheduled for July but will now take place in September 2021, as first reported by Automotive News and confirmed to C/D by a Rivian spokesperson.

The Launch Edition model (pictured here) starts at $73,000, comes in a special green paint color, and has its own badging. Rivian’s website says that reservations for this model are full. All Launch Edition models have an estimated 300-mile driving range; a larger battery pack with a claimed 400 miles of range is coming later and will cost $10,000 extra.Other versions of the R1T include the $67,500 Explore and the $73,000 Adventure, both of which are said to begin deliveries in January 2022. The R1S SUV will follow later in 2022, and will also be offered in Launch Edition, Explore, and Adventure variants.Both Rivian models will be produced at a plant in Normal, Illinois, that was formerly a Mitsubishi manufacturing facility. Rivian is also planning to build its electric delivery van there.
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It is Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance time again, when the most expensive cars in the world migrate to the coastal town of Monterey, California, accompanied by their owners, and followed by those who dream of owning them. The week leading up to the concours is a rush of themed shows, from little tiny autos to powerful racetrack legends. Flitting about like the monarchs the area is famous for are streams of classics and exotics sporting one-of-a-kind bodywork and rare engine options. It is, without a doubt, the most jaw-dropping car-spotting of the year. Michael Simari|Car and DriverWe’ve sent a few of our lucky editors to brave the traffic and the funny-colored trousers to bring you the best of Monterey Car Week. Check back from now through the weekend for updates leading up to the Concours d’Elegance on Sunday, August 20.Michael Simari|Car and DriverWednesday: The ArrivalsThursday tends to be the busiest day on the highway from Los Angeles to Monterey, but we set out in the wee hours this Wednesday morning in order to make it to a few of the earlier events. On the way up you can always tell who, as Lenny Kravitz says, is gonna go your way. Car and DriverElana Scherr|Car and DriverThe Little Car ShowMonterey Car Week is all about big numbers, from auction results to hotel room tabs, but the festivities start off small, at the Pacific Grove Little Car Show. Pacific Grove neighbors Monterey, but it’s more suburban, with a charming main drag that’s perfect for lining up wee machines and taking a sunny stroll. 2023 marks the 13th year of the Little Car Show (with one year off during 2020), and there were so many itty-bitty cars that the show spilled out into the surrounding streets, with Peels, Messerschmitts, and MGs parked all over the neighborhood.If you’re curious as to how little a little car has to be, it’s really a little engine show, with a recently raised cap of 1800 cc (that’s almost two soda bottles’ worth of power, pals). “We considered doing it by wheelbase,” an organizer told me, “But nobody knows their car’s wheelbase.” I suggested taking a page out of the airline carry-on book and having a “Car Must Fit in This Space” template that participants must drive through. So maybe that will be next year. I’ll report back, as I’m hoping to sneak my 2.0L Opel GT in despite its cheater engine.Follow Along from Home More

Polestar has revealed that the Precept concept will enter production as the Polestar 5.The Polestar 5 will be launched in 2024, following the 2023 Polestar 3 and future Polestar 4 SUVs.Polestar showed an image of a near-production 5, which ditches cameras for real side-view mirrors and seems to have removed the lidar pod jutting out from the roof on the concept.In early 2020, Polestar debuted the jaw-dropping Precept concept, a sharp, low-slung electric four-door hatchback said to preview the future of Polestar design and featuring a protruding lidar pod on the roof for advanced driver-assistance features. Then in September of this year, Polestar revealed that the Precept will enter production before 2025 and become the flagship model in the lineup. At that time, the company showed an image of a prototype Precept under development. Now, the Swedish electric automaker has announced more details about the upcoming production version of the Precept and provided a behind-the-scenes look at the car transitioning from concept to road car.

The original Precept concept from 2020.
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Polestar has now revealed that the Precept concept will reach showrooms as the Polestar 5. So far Polestar has sold the 1, a sleek two-door grand-tourer, and the 2, a boxy Tesla Model 3 competitor. Polestar has confirmed that the 5 will be launched in 2024, and presumably following the 3 and 4, both of which will be SUVs. In terms of classifying the 5, the Precept concept featured four doors and a hatchback at the rear, and Polestar is dubbing the the upcoming car “an electric performance four-door grand touring car,” making it a competitor to the likes of the Tesla Model S, Lucid Air, and Mercedes EQS. In the behind-the-scenes video below, Polestar shows the process for transferring the exterior design of the Precept to a production model. The company says the Precept’s taut, creased design language will bleed over onto the Polestar 3 SUV that’s due next year. Polestar also provided a single image of a “near production” Polestar 5. We see that the 5 will feature regular side-view mirrors instead of cameras and subtle changes to the front end, and the lidar sensor is no longer perched on the roof. Stay tuned for more details on the 5 as Polestar continues the development of its stunning concept into a production car.
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Tesla held an Investor Day event today in Austin, Texas, hosted by CEO Elon Musk.Much of the talk was about the company’s “Master Plan,” which is now all about sustainability.There’s also talk of updates coming soon to the Model Y and Model 3.”There is a clear path to a fully sustainable earth, with abundance.”That’s not the way most automotive company investor presentations start, but that was the early message from CEO Elon Musk during Tesla’s Investor Day presentation today in Austin, Texas.The event was billed as the third in Musk’s long-term strategy outlines for the automaker, the next Tesla Master Plan. In short, the first TMP, from 2006, was about financing lower-cost EVs by first selling a more-expensive sports car (the original Tesla Roadster). The second, which followed a decade after the first, broadened Tesla’s scope to include solar roofs with battery storage, expanded the company’s product line to “address all major segments,” developing safer self-driving capability that and finding a way to let Tesla owners “make money for you when you aren’t using it.” Not all aspects of these plans have come to pass.Tesla’s New Master PlanMusk’s third Master Plan shifts its focus to the entire world. “Tesla’s purpose is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy,” the company said today, calling its latest plan a “path to a fully renewable energy future for the earth.”Musk said a sustainable energy economy is within reach, but it will require incredible levels of investment—around $10 trillion—in new technologies to get there. That means 240 total tWh (terawatt hours) of energy storage (stationary batteries and electric vehicles) and 30 tW (terawatts) of renewable power generation. The benefits far outweigh the cost, Musk said, and the next two hours of the presentation beefed up this vision, including the many ways Tesla is working toward this goal—and, of course, how its own fleet of vehicles fit into this overall plan.TeslaUpdated Model 3 and Model YAs far as new details on Tesla’s vehicles themselves, the highlight came not from the official presentation itself but rumors that came out today about a revamped Model Y that is code-named Juniper. The new Model Y will have upgraded exterior and interior and should arrive in 2024, according to Automotive News. Another upgraded vehicle, a new Model 3 code-named Highland, is also in the works.More on Tesla VehiclesWhile Tesla didn’t officially talk about these models during Investor Day, it did explain how it will build EVs on its next-generation platforms in a more efficient manner than it does today thanks to a new process called unboxed assembly strategy, where the new platform and its integrated battery pack allows the unnamed future car to be put together without the traditional automotive frame (box), which will make assembly cheaper and faster.Another change comes from the way Tesla has steadily increased the percentage of controllers it designed itself that can be found in its vehicles’ powertrains. In the original Model S, for example, just 20 percent of the controllers were designed by Tesla. In the Model Y, it’s 61 percent. In the Cybertruck, Tesla says it will be 85 percent, and in the next-gen vehicles, every controller will be Tesla-designed. The main benefit of this shift will be better control of all of the vehicle’s software, Tesla said.An actual Cybertruck was on display at the Investor Day event as well, showing off a new steering yoke design, rear folding seats and a screen for rear passengers.This content is imported from twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.Contributing EditorSebastian Blanco has been writing about electric vehicles, hybrids, and hydrogen cars since 2006. His articles and car reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Automotive News, Reuters, SAE, Autoblog, InsideEVs, Trucks.com, Car Talk, and other outlets. His first green-car media event was the launch of the Tesla Roadster, and since then he has been tracking the shift away from gasoline-powered vehicles and discovering the new technology’s importance not just for the auto industry, but for the world as a whole. Throw in the recent shift to autonomous vehicles, and there are more interesting changes happening now than most people can wrap their heads around. You can find him on Twitter or, on good days, behind the wheel of a new EV.  More