Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Transit Connect electric is touted by its seller as a “piece of automotive history.” Let’s see if its price sets some sort of historical record. The 2014 BMW 328d wagon we looked at yesterday featured BMW’s brand of AWD, which the company oddly calls xDrive, as standard. However, X … Read more
Many folks believe the myth the process of mining metals for thousands of brand new electric cars to replace internal combustion engines causes more harm than good. The debate surrounding the true environmental impact of producing electric vehicles is seriously complex, but this video does a great job of summarizing it. While this video doesn’t … Read more
Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna says the automaker’s future electric vehicle will not be quiet like other EVs. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Italians are traditionally not quiet people. Growing up in New Jersey and living amongst them means I have first-hand knowledge of this fact. Vigna intends to carry the tradition forward. … Read more
You’ll be forgiven for not knowing much about the automotive world around the mid-1890s. It was a long time ago, and the world was a very different place back then. The automobile was pioneered by thousands of people making iterative improvements to four-wheeled transport, some more important than others. History remembers the Henry Fords and … Read more
While Mercedes backtracks on its future electric vehicle plans and Ford cuts production of its battery-powered F-150 Lightning, British automotive upstart Ineos has entered the murky waters of electrification with an EV of its own, the Fusilier. But at its launch, company boss Jim Ratcliffe made no excuses for the limitations of purely battery-powered cars, … Read more
Lucid is dropping the price on its flagship and sole vehicle (for now), the Air sedan, because demand just isn’t where the nascent automaker needs it to be. Three trims of the Air — the Pure, Touring and Grand Touring — will all see varying degrees of price cuts. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived The base model … Read more
If you’ve never driven a Tesla before, it’s something of an immediately alien experience. The tip-in acceleration isn’t like any gasoline-powered car on the market, because it doesn’t need to ramp up. If you stomp on the throttle in an EV, it goes right when you tell it to go. Quicker acceleration is a major … Read more
Image: Polestar There has been a lot of doom and gloom about EV adoption slowing down in the U.S. market lately. Sure, the electric segment hasn’t exploded here like it has in other countries, but just under 1.2 million new EVs were sold in 2023, and that’s nothing to sneeze at. A record 7.6 percent … Read more
Happy Thursday! It’s January 11, 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. Jalopinions | The Best Type is Jaguar’s E-Type 1st Gear: Student Loans Are Getting In The Way … Read more
