The starting date has been set for extreme racer Renee Brinkerhoff’s 356-mile trek across Antarctic ice driving the 1956 Porsche 356 in which she and her Valkyrie Racing team have challenged every other continent on Earth in grueling cross-country racing and rally events. Dubbed the Project 356 World Rally Ice Challenge, the trek across the …
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Which company aims to help install 40,000 more destination chargers? Which EV startup plans to use Panasonic cylindrical cells, like Tesla? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending October 30, 2021. In a review update of the 2021 Kia Sorento Hybrid, we found that …
Men work inside a HL-2M Tokamak nuclear fusion reactor, dubbed the “artificial sun,” in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in 2019. (Reuters) WASHINGTON — From replicating the process that fuels the sun to harnessing scorching temperatures deep below our feet, scientists, companies and venture capitalists are betting on high-tech ways to power the planet without …
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[embedded content] With the sun gradually sunsetting on the internal combustion engine, stricter emissions regulations are forcing more and more automakers to reduce their diesel offerings while focusing on making gasoline units greener before switching to EVs. The oil-burner is still going (relatively) strong in Europe where BMW offers a wide variety of models running …
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Presented by GAA Classic Cars – Heading to GAA Classic Cars’ November 2021 auction is a very rare 1999 Shelby Series 1 supercar. This example features the CSX5093 4.0 Litre Northstar 474hp V8 engine and is believed to be one of only nine examples equipped with the X-50 supercharger. Mated to the engine is a six-speed ZF …
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The next-generation Mini Countryman, due in 2023, will be offered in all-electric guise as well as in ICE, hybrid and PHEV form. The crossover will be built at BMW’s Leipzig plant and will reportedly share much in common with the next-gen X1 – hence according to reports both vehicles will be built alongside each other. …
Lucid Air, one of the most technologically advanced electric cars ever created, has entered the market. Let’s take a look at some of its specs. The limited Dream Edition version is equipped with a 118 kWh battery pack, featuring 22 modules totaling 6,600 cylindrical cells (2170-type, similar to the Tesla Model 3/Model Y and Rivian …
Lucid Air Specs Revealed: 118 kWh Dream Pack, 112 kWh Grand Touring Read More »
We already know that very strange things might happen at a charging station (like a broken off cable shown a week ago). Here is another example, kind of related to cables, provided by Wham Baam Dangercam (with a misleading title though). A Tesla Model Y user appeared at a ChargePoint dual-head AC Level 2 station …
Cable Management Gone Wrong: Tangled Cords, Unplugged Teslas And More Read More »
Today is the historic launch of the Lucid Air Dream Edition, the first electric car with more than 500 miles (800 km) of range on a single charge. Multiple cars were handed over by the company’s CEO Peter Rawlinson. As we can see in the video shared by Len Devanna, Head of Digital Experience at …
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Intentional or non-intentional blocking of charging stalls (aka ICE-ing) happens from time to time, but here is some kind of record-breaking attempt. A photo shared by The Girl With the Mozart Tattoo @phibetakitten (via Teslarati) shows a large pickup truck with another car on a trailer that has parked across multiple Tesla Supercharging stalls at …
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