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Rivian, the EV startup, will deploy 100,000 delivery vans for Amazon by 2030. The first of these vans are expected to be on the road by next year at this time. Rivian’s electric skateboard platform is also being used for the company’s own vehicles and an upcoming electric Lincoln SUV. Rivian is thinking big and […] More
Kia has announced that the 2021 Sorento will be unveiled on March 3 at the 2020 Geneva auto show. We’ve seen what it looks like, though. We spied it twice already, and we like what we see. Expect the new Sorento to be on sale in the United States by the end of 2020 as […] More
Paul Chesley/Getty Images Hyundai has temporarily shut down production at its three South Korea factories because it can’t get necessary parts from China due to coronavirus-related shutdowns there. China production from several auto companies, from BMW to Toyota, has been suspended as measures to contain the coronavirus continue to grow. Nobody knows how long the […] More
Audi is offering a free 10-year subscription to solar power that could potentially power 2400 miles of driving per year by letting e-tron owners get solar energy from panels to power their EVs. Only the first 3000 customers can get in on the deal. The offer (and the EV) are all part of Audi’s carbon-neutral […] More
Tesla’s recent surge in stock price is puzzling to those of us who know the auto industry well. We know, empirically, that Tesla does not make cars that are as well built and reliable as those from traditional automakers. We’ve read through Tesla’s financial reports, and we know how close they have skated to the […] More
Getty Images/Harold Cunningham Ferrari announced in 2018 that its first SUV is to be called the Purosangue. The Italian phrase means “pure blood,” a name meant to signal that the SUV would be a true-to-form Ferrari. The problem is that The Purosangue Foundation, a small Italian charity that fights against doping, has been using that […] More
Berlin artist Simon Weckert found a way to turn green streets into red on the Google Maps app to discourage app users from going there, thereby sharply reducing traffic on those streets at will. Weckert pulled it off using 99 smartphones running the app. This sort of hack has been around since as early as […] More
Ford made it known today that the front trunk (frunk) of its full-electric Mustang Mach-E can be filled with just about anything. The frunk is built to be a cooler, and it’s equipped with a plastic liner and a drainage hole. The Ford Mustang Mach-E goes on sale late this year. “Anyway, like I was […] More
