Happy Friday! It’s August 30, 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. Walter Isaacson On Elon Musk(s) 1st Gear: Elon Musk’s ‘Master Plan’ For Climate Change Disappears From Tesla’s Website Elon … Read more
Good morning! It’s Thursday, August 29, 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. What Is The Most American Car? | Jalopinions 1st Gear: Ford Panders To Right By Cutting DEI Policies … Read more
An iconic Australian linen retailer has collapsed after almost 40 years. Lorraine Lea Linen entered voluntary administration on Monday, appointing Andrew Yeo and Tim Bradd of insolvency firm Pitcher Partners Melbourne as administrators. “Lorraine Lea Linen is an iconic National brand that many Australians have in their homes,” Yeo told 7NEWS.com.au. Know the news with … Read more
It’s been over a year since Tesla CEO Elon Musk agreed to open up the company’s Supercharger network to vehicles from other automakers. At the time, it was looked at as a great move for the auto industry and, in theory, it still is. However, more than 12 months later, Tesla’s network (with nearly 30,000 … Read more
Almost three million Australians missed out on billions of dollars in unpaid super in a single year, with the average affected worker left $30,000 worse off at retirement. New analysis of Australian Taxation Office (ATO) data by the Super Members Council (SMC) found about 2.8 million workers missed out on some of their legal entitlements … Read more
2025 BMW M5Image: BMW If what BMW is saying is true, M5 owners aren’t using their cars as intended. Motor 1 reports that Daniela Schmid, product manager for the M5, told Romanian auto magazine Auto Critica that most M5 owners don’t take their cars to the track and those who do usually do it once … Read more
Photo: Hyundai Hyundai surprised us all two years ago when it revealed the N Vision 74. The retrofuturistic coupe was gorgeous, and we wanted it put into production as soon as humanly possible. It was just a concept, of course, but we wanted it to be a real car that you could actually buy. Then … Read more
So far this year, the Tesla Cybertruck has been bricked by car washes, gotten stuck on the sandy bank of a lake and been utterly destroyed by a YouTuber’s stress test. However, anyone lumped with the gargantuan electric pickup truck has faced some pretty strict penalties if they try to sell off their Tesla truck, … Read more
The monthly consumer price index rose by a stronger-than-expected 3.5 per cent over the 12 months to July. The inflation gauge was tipped to moderate to 3.3 per cent in July, from 3.8 per cent in June, to reflect energy bill relief kicking in across some parts of the country. “The first instalments of the … Read more
Good morning! It’s Monday, August 26, 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. Even EVs Can’t Get A Break From The Heat 1st Gear: Ford’s New EV Plan Means More Hybrids … Read more
