Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen extended his lead in the 2021 Formula One World Championship on Sunday with a decisive win at the Mexico City Grand Prix, formerly the Mexican Grand Prix. Starting from the second row, Verstappen made a brilliant move on the outside going into Turn 1 to take over Mercedes-Benz AMG’s Valtteri […]
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Tesla‘s overall sales/export of Made-in-China (MIC) Model 3/Model Y reached a near-record level in October. The total volume (sales and export) – according to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA)’s data (via Reuters, Moneyball and Chinese media) increased 348% year-over-year to 54,391 units. * CPCA reports wholesale shipments, not registrations/deliveries. Only the month of September was
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Ford recently unveiled its $3,900 Eluminator crate motor for electric vehicle conversions. It currently only sells the motor, with no other major components (controllers, cooling or battery pack), but according to a Blue Oval official, the first batch of Eluminator motors has already sold out. Ford Authority says it learned of the news in a
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Wright Electric, an electric aircraft start-up founded in 2016, announced a new project – the Wright Spirit, which joins the previously announced Wright 1 flagship. The Wright Spirit is a 100-passenger electric airliner envisioned for one-hour flights, equipped with four, “megawatt-class” motors. The initial design is based on the BAe 146 platform: “The Wright Spirit
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Apple hired former Tesla engineer Christopher “CJ” Moore for its self-driving electric car project. According to people with knowledge of the matter cited by Bloomberg, Moore is working on the software side of the program and reports to Stuart Bowers, another former Tesla executive who joined Apple at the end of last year. Bowers was the
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Production of the 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV electric cars is back on temporarily as General Motors continues to work through a large-scale battery recall. GM initially halted Bolt EV and Bolt EUV production at its Orion Assembly plant in Michigan in August as part of the recall, which was triggered by battery-fire
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DETROIT — General Motors‘ Cadillac brand is gearing up to challenge Tesla and other rivals in the luxury electric vehicle market with a new electric utility vehicle and nearly 40% fewer U.S. dealers than it had in 2018, the brand’s global chief told Reuters. Cadillac has largely completed a restructuring of its U.S. dealer network
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Recently I wrote an opinion column about how too many cars are too fast to actually enjoy. Then I got a fast car in my driveway that bucked the rule. Like I said then, when a car has speed, I don’t want to be isolated from the experience. I want to feel it. Then I
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Geely’s Volvo Cars sold 581,464 cars in the first 10 months of 2021, up 12.6% year on year. But October volume fell 22.2% to 50,815 cars due to a shortage of components. Fully electric or plug-in hybrid Recharge models accounted for 25.5% of sales for the first 10 months of the year. That slice rose
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber third quarter 2021 sales were US$4.9bn, up 42% year on year. The increase was driven by the Cooper Tire merger, improvements in price/mix, increased sales from other tyre-related businesses and higher volume. Tyre unit volume was 48.2m, up 32%. Replacement tyre unit volume increased 44%, reflecting the addition of Cooper Tire
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