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Donald Trump, speaking during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22, said we should protect Tesla CEO Elon Musk as a genius. Tesla has not announced any plans for additional U.S. facilities, but the president stated that the EV maker is “going to be building a very big plant in the United […] More
On the Cruise Origin autonomous-car development project, all three companies involved—Honda, General Motors, and Cruise itself—had teams operating in Warren, Michigan, and the vehicle is likely to be built at a GM plant in Michigan. A larger vehicle based on this architecture could be coming later. Important caveat: Cruise hasn’t built the autonomous “brain” of […] More
Subaru said during a technology briefing in Japan that it will bring an electric vehicle to market before 2025, jointly developed with Toyota. Subaru plans to have 40 percent of its global sales be hybrid or electric vehicles by 2030. Every Subaru product will have a hybrid or electric version by the mid-2030s, which means […] More
Cruise Automation is a California startup bankrolled by GM and Honda. The company has been testing specially built self-driving Chevrolet Bolt EV crossovers in the San Francisco Bay Area since September 2016. This new rear-wheel drive minivan-looking electric bus will hold four passengers—no drivers, though—and is expected to be producible for half the cost of […] More
The stellar Brumos Collection in Jacksonville, Florida, is going public in a big way. It held a gala ribbon-cutting event Monday evening that featured a major surprise: that the newest addition to the already stunning collection is the 1970 Gulf-liveried Porsche 917K that actor Steve McQueen drove in the movie Le Mans. The car sold […] More
General Motors is testing a new trailer-braking system, saying it can reduce stopping distance up to 20 percent or 40 feet, the same stopping distance as a truck by itself at the same gross vehicle weight rating without a trailer. To do this, GM equips both trailer and truck with its eBoost braking system and […] More
A video of the C8 Corvette Z06 testing outside of San Diego, California was posted to a C8 Corvette owners Facebook group. We know it’s the Z06 because it sounds higher-pitched and smoother, meaning it has a flat-plane-crank V-8. We expect that the new Z06 will be powered by a naturally aspirated flat-plane-crank 5.5-liter V-8. […] More
Michael SimariCar and Driver Toyota announced that it is giving away free blueprint posters of the new 2020 Supra. The number of posters is limited, so act fast, Toyota says. All you have to do is fill out the online form to get one mailed to you in six to eight weeks. Toyota is giving […] More
