There’s a new full-length trailer for the forthcoming Ghostbusters movie, and it features a reborn Ecto-1.The movie, called Ghostbusters: Afterlife, features a multigenerational cast of phantom fighters and will include appearances from original cast members Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Annie Potts, and Sigourney Weaver. The movie’s release was originally scheduled for summer 2020 but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. It is now scheduled for a November 11, 2021, release.

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In a perfect world, the third installment in the Ghostbusters franchise (or fourth, if you count the Leslie Jones–Melissa McCarthy–Kate McKinnon–Kristen Wiig movie from 2016—Sony appears not to) would have come out in July 2020. But we do not live in a perfect world. So instead of being on our third rewatch of the newest Ghostbusters movie, we’re only now watching the second official trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which features a cast of proton-pack-wielding kids and cameos from beloved members of the original cast.
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A new full-length trailer for the film was released yesterday, and there’s a lot for fans of the original movies to love. The best news for us is that it appears the Ecto-1 will feature heavily in Afterlife. If you’re not up on Ghostbusters lore, that’s the 1959 Cadillac Futura Duplex with an ambulance/hearse conversion that helped the original Ghostbusters save New York (and the world), but which did not make an appearance in the 2016 film.

The trailer casts the Ecto-1 as a barn find. The barn is on the Oklahoma homestead of now deceased Egon Spengler, a member of the original Ghostbusters crew. The finder is Spengler’s teenage grandson, Trevor, played by Finn Wolfhard of Stranger Things fame. In the trailer, Trevor is shown whipping a revived Ecto-1 around a wheat field, and when the story takes its inevitable paranormal turn, the car swerves through the streets of the plains-state ghost town where the movie takes place, proton streams blasting. The Ecto-1 is revealed to have a pop-out jump seat ideal for hunting ghosts on the fly. There’s also a shot of what looks like an RC car dropping out of the floor of the Ecto-1, perhaps for a paranormal reconnaissance mission or to serve as a capture drone. Ghostbusters: Afterlife is scheduled to be released in theaters on November 11.
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GM shared a teaser video of the upcoming Chevrolet Bolt EUV’s steering wheel complete with a Super Cruise light bar.
The 2022 Bolt EUV will be the first Chevrolet to get GM’s Super Cruise hands-free driver-assistance feature.
Both 2022 Chevy Bolt EUV and the refreshed Bolt EV will go into production this summer.
The 2022 Chevy Bolt and Bolt EUV electric vehicles won’t get a CES reveal like the original Bolt which was unveiled back in 2016 at the annual tech convention. But GM did take the opportunity to share a teaser video of the Bolt EUV’s steering wheel with Super Cruise and we know that both vehicles will be unveiled in February.

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The video shows the Bolt EUV’s steering wheel and dashboard during startup. In it, we can see the Super Cruise light bar flashing red, blue, and green as the vehicle gets ready to go for a drive. The light bar’s illumination color indicates the status of Super Cruise to the driver. If it lights up green while driving, then the Super Cruise hands-free feature is available. The wheel flashes red when it determines that the driver has disregarded the flashing green light that signifies that the person behind the wheel is not paying attention. Finally, the light bar will flash blue when the driver takes over the wheel while Super Cruise is engaged.
The Bolt EUV will be the first Chevrolet product with GM’s hands-free driver-assistance system. Super Cruise made its debut in 2017 on the Cadillac CT6. GM says that it will be coming to 22 vehicles by 2023, including the 2022 Hummer EV.
GM already shared a silhouette teaser of the upcoming Bolt and Bolt EUV, so we have a bit of an idea of how they look. Plus, there have already been spy shots of the Bolt EUV. But next month we’ll finally get to see them out of the darkness and without camouflage.
Both vehicles will go into production in summer 2021.
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General Motors has announced official plans to produce its own Formula 1 power units (meaning both engines and hybrid components) starting in 2028, and to make them for Andretti Cadillac. This is a big announcement given that there’s a catch: F1 hasn’t approved Andretti’s entry into the sport. What we’re seeing is GM throwing some of its multibillion-dollar weight around.Alongside Cadillac’s previously announced plans to join the proposed Andretti Global F1 team, General Motors has announced plans to build Andretti’s F1 proposal into a factory-backed powerhouse that can work on chassis and engine design in concert.F1 Approval NeededAndretti Global, which was the only team approved by the FIA in its recent search for viable new F1 teams, still needs approval from F1 itself before it can enter the championship. That process is ongoing and has become contentious, with direct quotes from executives suggesting an open attempt by current members of the F1 grid to bring GM in without accepting Andretti’s team. Williams executive James Vowles has optimistically suggested an intent to poach GM as a partner after loudly objecting to Andretti’s F1 bid and reporting from the Associated Press suggests that F1 itself has requested the company abandon Andretti to partner with an existing team, but GM president Mark Reuss stated simply this week that “GM is committed to partnering with Andretti to race in F1.”Fun with F1This is to say, F1 wants GM’s involvement, but it wants its time and engineering and money to flow into one of its existing teams. GM wants in on F1, but it wants to do so with one of GM’s own tight partners. GM wants to do things its way. Honestly, calling Andretti “one of GM’s own partners” is understating Andretti here, though. Andretti is a massive name in American racing: the biggest Honda team in IMSA, winner of a third of the last 15 Indy 500s, reigning Formula E champion.The addition of a unique engine partner committed only to their program makes Andretti’s bid far and away the most complete proposal to join the series since Toyota entered as a 12th team in 2002, but it will not change the simple truth that an 11th F1 team means reduced revenue for ten other teams already on the grid. While that argument may be odious to anyone who does not currently own a Formula 1 team, it is still something Andretti and Cadillac will have to navigate to get their place on the F1 grid.If Andretti Cadillac Becomes 11th Team . . . If Andretti Cadillac is approved as an 11th team, the team would have to operate with an engine provided by another supplier from 2025 through 2027. With new engine regulations set to be introduced in 2026, that partnership will span two generations of powertrain with whatever manufacturer they choose. Alpine was initially expected to be that partner, but the French brand said that its deal to supply engines to the team expired last month.While the team itself is still in flux, GM joins Honda and Audi in announcing intentions to build a powertrain for F1’s new simplified engine regulations, which go into effect in 2026. Mercedes-AMG, Ferrari, Alpine, and Red Bull’s in-house engine shop will continue as engine suppliers when the new regulations kick in, although Red Bull’s engine program will add a crucial partnership with Ford that introduces another manufacturer’s name to the grid. In addition to its upcoming Formula 1 program, Cadillac currently races in the IMSA GTP and FIA World Endurance Championship Hypercar classes with the new-for-2023 V-Series.R racer. Action Express Racing, one of two factory teams running under the Cadillac Racing banner, won this season’s IMSA championship by just 21 points. GM also runs factory-backed programs in GT racing in both sports car series, NHRA drag racing, NASCAR stock car racing, and IndyCar open wheel racing. Future Cadillac F1 partner Andretti, notably, currently races against GM programs as a factory partner of Honda in both IMSA GTP and IndyCar. More

Honda and GM will co-develop a line of affordable electric compact SUV models.They will share platforms and new battery technologies that could include solid-state batteries.We can expect these models to arrive in the U.S. starting in 2027.We already know that Honda will use GM’s EV platform for two upcoming electric SUVs coming in 2024. But that won’t be the end of the two automakers’ partnership, as they have just announced a massive expansion of their plans. GM and Honda now say they will co-develop a lineup of affordable compact crossovers set to launch in 2027 with new battery technologies. The companies clearly have high sales ambitions for these vehicles, as they cite manufacturing plans that will “enable global production of millions of EVs.”

These new models will use a common platform and share new battery technologies that the two companies are exploring, such as solid-state batteries and materials such as lithium-metal and silicon. Due to their affordability bent, we can assume that these compact SUVs will wear Chevy and Honda badges at first, but they may expand into GM’s more upscale Buick, Cadillac, and GMC brands as well and could also result in a product for Honda’s Acura luxury division.These new models will be smaller and cheaper than the previously announced 2024 Honda Prologue and its Acura spinoff, which could be called ADX. These vehicles, launching in about two years, are expected to use a version of the Ultium platform that will be similarly sized as the mid-size Cadillac Lyriq electric crossover that has already begun production.

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Both GM and Honda say they are working to achieve price parity between EVs and existing gasoline models, and that a key mission of this project is to drive down the cost of electric vehicles so that they can sell in higher volumes. GM, for its part, is currently way ahead of Honda towards achieving this goal; it already offers the Bolt, starting at $32,495, and has announced plans for an Equinox EV coming next year that it claims will start around $30,000. GM also claims it will later launch an EV to slot in below the Equinox EV price-wise. Honda, meanwhile, does not currently sell an EV model in the U.S. at all but has shown EV concepts (pictured at top) for various global markets.

Honda also says that it is developing electric models on its own platforms, but won’t share where these vehicles will fit in with the GM partnership. If we were to guess, we’d think that Hondas own EVs may take the form of smaller hatchbacks and sedans rather than the SUVs it will build with GM. The company does currently sell the tiny Honda e hatchback abroad but has no plans to bring this vehicle to the U.S. Honda also recently announced that it plans to establish a new EV brand with Sony, so we’re not sure how that fits in with these new plans with GM.Look for more information to come within the next few years as we find out more about GM and Honda’s growing collaboration in terms of production, technology, and where these new EVs will fit into the automakers’ respective lineups.
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