Hertz Made A Customer Pay $277 For Gas In His Tesla Rental [Update]

Hertz Made A Customer Pay $277 For Gas In His Tesla Rental [Update]

A longtime Hertz customer with President’s Circle status was slapped with an unexpected $277.39 charge after returning the Tesla Model 3 that he rented during a weekend in Los Angeles. The renter was Joshua Lee, who selected the “skip the pump and save time” option on his reservation, so he wouldn’t have to worry about … Read more

The Best Oil Drain Pans In 2024

The Best Oil Drain Pans In 2024

Autoblog may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. Pricing and availability are subject to change. Oil changes can get a bit messy if you don’t have the proper tools or technique. Before starting, you need an oil drain pan to catch the old oil. These pans are designed to hold … Read more

Watch A Car Nearly Leap Clear Over An Entire House In High-Speed Crash

Watch A Car Nearly Leap Clear Over An Entire House In High-Speed Crash

You can’t park there, mate. Gif: AZ Family Arizona News via YouTube There must be something in the water, because speeding cars keep getting dangerously close to smashing through people’s homes. After a car in California served briefly as a plane before plowing through someone’s garage, a driver in Phoenix has now tried their hand … Read more

CNG vehicle sales: Maruti Suzuki expects over 30% jump in CNG vehicle sales at six lakh units in FY25

CNG vehicle sales: Maruti Suzuki expects over 30% jump in CNG vehicle sales at six lakh units in FY25

Maruti Suzuki India expects its CNG car sales to rise over 30 per cent to around 6 lakh units this fiscal, according to a senior company official. The country’s largest carmaker also aims to export around 3 lakh units in the ongoing financial year. “So CNG, this year, we did about 4,50,000 (units) in passenger … Read more

Anti-Biden Vanity License Plate Rejection Hurt Snowflake’s Feelings, So Now He’s Suing

Anti-Biden Vanity License Plate Rejection Hurt Snowflake’s Feelings, So Now He’s Suing

As those famous rock n’ rollers once crooned, you can’t always get what you want. That’s especially true for personalized license plates. Plates can’t display something vulgar about a social movement group you don’t agree with, creepy or sexual references, drug or criminal references and, often, negative things about the current sitting president. An Ohio … Read more

Tesla Cuts Thousands Of U.S. Job Listings Following Massive Layoffs

Tesla Cuts Thousands Of U.S. Job Listings Following Massive Layoffs

Good morning! It’s Thursday, May 9, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Tesla Had A Very Interesting Week 1st Gear: Tesla Deletes Over 3,400 Job Listings Tesla just cut over … Read more

Escorts Kubota news: Escorts Kubota plans to invest up to Rs 4,500 cr in new plant over next 3-4 years

Escorts Kubota news: Escorts Kubota plans to invest up to Rs 4,500 cr in new plant over next 3-4 years

Farm and construction equipment manufacturer Escorts Kubota Ltd plans to invest up to Rs 4,500 crore over the next three to four years to set up a new manufacturing plant, according to its whole-time director and CFO Bharat Madan. The company is currently in talks with the Rajasthan government for a site at Ghiloth, where … Read more

Engineers Plan To Blow Up The Baltimore Bridge To Free Stuck Cargo Ship

Engineers Plan To Blow Up The Baltimore Bridge To Free Stuck Cargo Ship

The enormous Dali container ship has been stuck in Baltimore since it hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key bridge way back in March. The ship lost power and careered into one of the supports for the bridge, bringing it crashing down and killing six workers on the bridge. Now, engineers are planning to blow … Read more

Tesla Autopilot probe: NHTSA prosecutors focus on securities, wire fraud

Tesla Autopilot probe: NHTSA prosecutors focus on securities, wire fraud

U.S. prosecutors are examining whether Tesla committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about its electric vehicles’ self-driving capabilities, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems assist with steering, braking and lane changes – but are not fully autonomous. While Tesla has warned drivers to … Read more

Citroen Sells A Push-Me-Pull-You Van For A Very Simple Reason

Citroen Sells A Push-Me-Pull-You Van For A Very Simple Reason

Image: Citroen If you happen to end up on Citroen’s website and decide to configure one of its Relay commercial vans, you’ve got plenty of options. There is, of course, a panel van version, as well as a window van, several choices of chassis cab and even a floor cab. The most interesting and possibly … Read more