Category: Transportation

The Morning After: Foldable phone hype flopped in 2019

[ad_1] Has anyone seen a Royole Flexpai in the wild?2019 wasn’t the year of foldables we were promised For a while there, it seemed like 2019 would be the year foldable phones took over. You know how it played out: flaws, delays and mentions on “worst of” lists. Chris Velazco takes a look back at […]

Mazda claims long-range EVs are worse for the planet than diesels

[ad_1] The company determined that a 95kWh battery (close to what you’d see in Tesla’s higher-end Model S and X) would require more emissions from the very start due to both the larger pack and extended use while driving. That situation would only get worse if you replace the battery around the same interval, according […]

Uber clears a key hurdle to buying its Middle Eastern rival

[ad_1] The company will have to drop exclusivity deals with partners and intermediaries. It’ll also cap its fare increases (beyond inflation) to 10 percent for its most common Uber X and Careem Go tiers. Surge pricing, meanwhile, can’t jump beyond 2.5 times the normal rate and can’t be applied to more than 30 percent of […]

Kia will release a production version of its Imagine EV in 2021

[ad_1] The Korean automaker is also poised to roll out an EV-only architecture it’ll share with its sibling brand Hyundai. That should deliver faster and longer-ranged cars than existing models like the Niro EV and Soul EV. In the interview, Herrera mentioned that Kia would have a hydrogen fuel cell car by late 2020 or […]

Turkey’s first fully homemade car is an electric crossover SUV

[ad_1] The machine will be quick enough to reach an 80 percent charge in 30 minutes on sufficiently fast (roughly 150kW) chargers. It’ll be technically savvy beyond the powerplant. TOGG is boasting of a “Slow Traffic Pilot” that will offer Level 2 semi-autonomous driving, with a platform that could upgrade to Level 3 autonomy “and […]

After Math: Driving into a new decade

[ad_1] The EPFL released a study this week pitching a novel method of drastically reducing the amount of CO2 heavy trucks produce: liquify the combustion byproduct and store it onboard until the trip is done. It’d eliminate all but 10 percent of CO2 produced while only taking up around 7 percent of the vehicle’s total […]

The next wave of electric vehicles will appear in 2020

[ad_1] Today, however, as American consumers face rising fuel prices and a deepening climate crisis, EVs are undergoing a resurgence in popularity. Over a million plug-in vehicles now drive on US roads and account for 2.5 percent of all new vehicle sales in the country. Though to be fair, that figure pales in comparison to […]

Tesla’s Cybertruck found its way into a Travis Scott music video

[ad_1] It’s not clear how the EVs ended up in Scott’s video. We’ve asked Tesla for comment. There’s a good possibility Scott or the producers have a close connection with Elon Musk, though. He’s one of the very few people to drive the Cybertruck in public, and Musk has been spotted hobnobbing with Scott and […]

Ford Mustang Mach-E timing details revealed

[ad_1] By Byron Hurd ​​​​​​The Ford Mustang Mach-E electric crossover was one of the biggest hype magnets of the 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show, but with deliveries still a year away, would-be buyers have been waiting patiently (or perhaps not-so-patiently) for any production and delivery updates. Thanks to a Ford dealer in Colorado, we have […]

Tesla will deliver its first Chinese-made Model 3 on December 30th

[ad_1] Tesla began construction on the plant this past January and started making vehicles there in October. The company told Reuters it plans to manufacture approximately 250,000 cars per year at Gigafactory 3 once it ramps up production. In addition to the Model 3, it also plans to make Model Y crossovers at the plant. […]