Transport

The Baltimore Bridge Collapse Is About to Get Even Messier

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In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the global supply chain and US coastal infrastructure collided in the worst possible way. An enormous container ship, the Dali, slammed into a support of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, crumpling its central span into the Patapsco River and cutting off the city’s port from the … Read more

Maruti Suzuki looking at transporting more vehicles via railways to cut down costs and reduce emissions

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The country’s leading carmaker Maruti Suzuki is looking at transporting more vehicles it makes via railways to cut down costs and reduce emissions in line with the government’s push towards clean mobile solutions. The company, along with joint-venture partners, has invested over Rs 1081 crore to commission the country’s first in-plant railway siding at its … Read more

Previously Unseen Videos Show Shocking Carnage In Early Development Of The IIHS’ Small-Overlap Crash Test

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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has been slamming cars into barriers in the name of science for nearly 30 years, and modern cars are much safer thanks to its efforts. I have been watching IIHS crash test videos on YouTube since I was a little kid, and before you ask, yes, my parents … Read more

Henry Ford’s Most Famous Quote About Racing Is Flat-Out Wrong

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“Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built” is a sentence that most racing fans have heard at least once during their lives. It is usually evoked to illustrate humanity’s innate competitiveness and how racing was a natural use for automobiles. The quote is widely attributed to Henry Ford, except there is … Read more

Team Kicks Off 31,000-Mile Road Trip From The North Pole To The South Pole And Back Again

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On a cold, blustery Friday in Detroit, members of the Explorer’s Club Transglobal Car Expedition paused on their around the world road trip to take in the Motor City. The less than a dozen team members and logistics personal didn’t seem to mind the cold or the wind — it was only going to get … Read more

Tesla shares: Tesla shares drop on plant shutdown due to Red Sea attacks

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Tesla shares dropped in trade after the carmaker said its lone European factory will be disrupted by attacks in the Red Sea. It also cut car prices in China. The company reduced starting prices of the Model 3 sedan by 5.9% to 245,900 yuan ($34,300) and marked down the Model Y sport utility vehicle by … Read more

The Cheapest Bugatti You Can Buy Is An E-Scooter

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Image: Bugatti & Bytech Good news fellow plebeians! Bugatti has unveiled a vehicle we common folk may actually be able to afford… and it’s an EV. Sounds too good to be true? It is. The French hypercar maker unveiled its first electric scooter at CES. Exciting, I know. Bugatti teamed up with U.S. company Bytech … Read more