Screenshot: WCBS / YouTube Two people are dead after a dramatic Tesla crash on Monday morning in White Plains, just north of New York City. The electric vehicle hopped a curb, hit a tree and slammed into an apartment building. Firefighters pulled the flaming wreck away from the structure, but then the EV exploded, injuring … Read more
Photo: BMW Considering the shambolic state of the American economy, inflation, and rampant wage stagnation, I love finding stories about affordable cars and prices dropping. In this case, the team at iSeeCars analyzed the listing prices of over 1.6 million one-to-five-year-old used cars listed for sale online between August 2023 and August 2024 to determine … Read more
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, September 17, 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. The Property Brothers First Car Literally Spoke To Them 1st Gear: Driver Assist Systems Are Letting Us Get … Read more
The race to create a real self-driving car is heating up, with startups like Waymo deploying its autonomous taxis across U.S. cities, billions of dollars being plowed into new technology and Tesla shouting that its cars will one day really be able to drive themselves. Now, a new report has looked into what it really … Read more
The Tesla Cybertruck has been plagued with problems since its launch, with seemingly every issue imaginable manifesting in the first few thousand units. Now, though, an issue no one could’ve imagined has popped up in a widely viewed video: It seems a messed-up Tesla wall charger can electrify the very skin of the Cybertruck. Tesla’s Cybertruck … Read more
Elon Musk has been an irredeemable weirdo for years, but recently his absurdist rhetoric and cringe memelord persona has swung violently toward the political alt-right. In a recent (now deleted) tweet he wondered aloud why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris haven’t yet been assassinated. This man, particularly as head of SpaceX, is a major contractor … Read more
Larry Ellison, Chairman of Oracle, has overtaken Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to become the second-richest person in the world. Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to lead the list with a net worth of $251 billion. Ellison’s net worth is now approximately $206 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time billionaires list. Bezos, who has fluctuated between the … Read more
Good morning! It’s Monday, September 16, 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. Learn How BMW Names Its Cars In Under Four Minutes 1st Gear: BMW, Rolls-Royce Recall 1.5 Million Cars … Read more
A mom in California faced a frightening situation last week when her child was locked inside her Tesla while it was charging on a 109-degree day. With no way of opening up the vehicle to get her child out of the sweltering car, Kassandra Pineda and a bystander were forced to smash the car’s window … Read more
Say what you will about the Tesla Cybertruck and the people who drive it, but folks who want an electric pickup truck are choosing it over the competition at an astonishing rate. Granted, it’s a very small sliver of the overall car market, but back in July Cybertruck sales pretty much equaled the sales of … Read more
