Weekend News Roundup January 06, 2024

Weekend News Roundup January 06, 2024

Here we present our weekly Jalopnik series that recaps the latest in news. We’ve showcased our most read offerings as well as some you may have missed. Hyundai Considers Jumping On The Tesla Charger Bandwagon Too Consumer Reports Says These Are The Best Hybrid Cars For Less Than $35,000 In 2024 Photo: Toyota We’ve come … Read more

Automakers Buying EV Credits From Tesla Is Short Term Thinking At Its Worst

Automakers Buying EV Credits From Tesla Is Short Term Thinking At Its Worst

The future of personal transportation, cars and trucks and bikes and scooters, is electric. We know this now, and we’ve known it for some time, but automakers, despite all that knowledge, have dragged their feet on actually producing electric cars. Instead, when mandates came down from on high demanding more battery-powered cars, automakers simply shelled … Read more

Tesla Lowers Range Estimates On Model Y, S, And X By Up To 6 Percent

Tesla Lowers Range Estimates On Model Y, S, And X By Up To 6 Percent

Image: Tesla Some of Tesla’s best selling models have received an adjustment to their posted EPA range estimates, lowering some of them by as much as six percent. It has long been known that Tesla has a tendency to exaggerate its range estimates, failing to bake in any leeway for weather, terrain, or speed. Some … Read more

Ford F-150 Lightning Just Got More Expensive, But It’s Still $5,000 Cheaper Than The Cybertruck

Ford F-150 Lightning Just Got More Expensive, But It’s Still ,000 Cheaper Than The Cybertruck

Ford has confirmed that it’s going to be raising prices for its base-model 2024 F-150 Lightning by roughly $5,000. This isn’t the first time Ford has toyed with the pricing for its electric pickup truck, but with its biggest competitor, the Tesla Cybertruck, still undergoing countless delays and still more expensive than the Lightning, Ford … Read more

Tesla’s CCS Adapter Doesn’t Work With The Cybertruck: Report

Tesla’s CCS Adapter Doesn’t Work With The Cybertruck: Report

In general, I don’t trust NACS to CCS adapters, or vice versa. If the car wasn’t designed to accept the cable, it’s not a great idea to try to shove electrons through any variety of contraption. That’s a lot of energy, a lot of heat, and a lot of deadly flowing through that hunk of … Read more

Car Dealerships In Kyiv Hit By Russian Bombing Strike

Car Dealerships In Kyiv Hit By Russian Bombing Strike

Screenshot: Radio Svoboda Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed increased intensity and frequency of attacks on Ukraine, and started 2024 with a bombardment of the country’s two largest cities, Kyiv and Kharkiv. Tuesday’s shelling and drone attacks lasted more than ninety minutes and resulted in death and destruction, leaving smoldering residential and commercial districts across the … Read more

Getting Access To Tesla Superchargers Won’t Solve All Your Charging Woes

Getting Access To Tesla Superchargers Won’t Solve All Your Charging Woes

Last year, a whole host of automakers adopted Tesla’s NACS charging plug as their own — from Ford to GM, Subaru to Mercedes, the number of brands that won’t use Tesla’s plugs in their cars is starting to dwindle. Hyundai Considers Jumping On The Tesla Charger Bandwagon Too Yet, despite the vast chasm between the … Read more

Tesla Isn’t Saying How Many Cybertrucks It Built In 2023

Tesla Isn’t Saying How Many Cybertrucks It Built In 2023

Photo: Tesla The first weeks of January are always full of number crunching, as automakers start putting out their sales results for the fourth quarter and the previous year as a whole. Tesla is one of the first to release Q4 2023 numbers, announcing that in 2023 it produced 1,845,985 vehicles and delivered 1,808,581 — … Read more

Your New EV Is Even More Expensive Now

Your New EV Is Even More Expensive Now

Happy Tuesday! It’s January 2, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Rivian Recalls Nearly Every Car It Has Built 1st Gear: EVs In The U.S. Just Got More … Read more

What Are Your Automotive Predictions For 2024?

What Are Your Automotive Predictions For 2024?

Photo: FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP (Getty Images) I’ve made a tradition out of asking you fine readers of Jalopnik for your automotive predictions for the upcoming year, and as we enter 2024, it’s time to ask it again. You’re a reader of culture and taste. What do you think is going to happen in … Read more