The Tesla Cybertruck, Tesla’s first vehicle to fully utilize its larger 4680-format cell, has been out for about a month now. But with only limited quantities on the road in the public’s hands, there have still been a lot of questions about the vehicle. Now we’ve got an answer to one of the most important …
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As 2023 draws to a close, it’s easy to look at the headlines and charts and feel a bit uneasy about the electric vehicle future. But the truth is that more people bought, rented, tested and drove EVs this year than ever before this year, and while it didn’t bring the permanent up-and-to-the-right adoption curve …
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Hyundai was earning a big name for itself in North America when the 1990s dawned, first with the 1983 Pony (in Canada only) and then with the spectacularly cheap Excel beginning in 1986. The Sonata debuted here as a 1989 model, luring some buyers away from the more expensive Honda Accord and Toyota Camry. Two …
It’s the last day of 2023, a time of looking back before looking ahead, and these are the top 20 most-read stories on Autoblog in the year gone by. They may not have always been the biggest news, nor does this list include the hundreds of vehicle reviews and buying guides we provided — including …
The tale of the two Lamborghinis from “The Wolf of Wall Street” took another turn this month. Two genuine examples of the 1989 Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary Edition in Bianco Polo saw screen time. One made it through filming unscathed. The other, used to demonstrate how not sane and sober protagonist Jordan Belfort was during …
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Current Formula 1 engines generate up to 1,000 hp from just 1.6 liters of displacement, and now Engineering Explained has video breaking down the details that make that possible. Technically, Formula 1 cars have “power units,” not “engines,” as the 1.6-liter turbocharged V-6 is just one part of a hybrid powertrain. Since 2014, F1 has …
Electric vehicles remain the future of transportation at the end of 2023, as they were at the start of the year. But it was a year of tough questions to accompany vast market change, not just as the massive scales of supply and demand swung the other way, but as an industry refocused. While 2023 …
Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla started the year back on its heels. Elon Musk’s price war and the Cybertruck gave the company big wins in 2023. Musk’s personal drama continues to overshadow some of Tesla’s success. Tesla did a lot of growing up in 2023. Elon Musk’s company started the year back …
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The 2024 BMW XM SUV goes big: big V8 engine, big horsepower, and a truly enormous price tag. Now offered in two flavors – standard trim and the limited-production BMW XM Label (formerly “Label Red”) designation – the polarizing SUV otherwise offers no changes from its 2023 model year debut. We’ve driven both, and ultimately, …
One of BMW’s most striking production cars ever is the i8 mid-engined plug-in hybrid sports car, which looks like a concept for the road (and it stayed very close to the daring 2009 Vision EfficientDynamics design study that previewed it). The i8 was introduced in 2014 and was kept in production through 2020. 20,000 Units …
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