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The Porsche Taycan has broken another Guinness World Record. This time it’s for the greatest altitude change ever achieved by a battery-electric vehicle. Driving the Taycan Cross Turismo is the team of J.F. Musial, a producer, and director that’s well known for creating automotive content. Out of curiosity, his team decided to take the electric […]

Hyundai has been on a motor sport roll lately. In addition to competing in the TCR class with the Veloster N, i30 N, and Elantra N, the company is also in the World Rally Championship. Today, its latest rally car has debuted and it’s been electrified to comply with the latest WRC regulations. The Hyundai […]

The 2022 BMW iX will have one of the longest driving ranges with all variants rated over 300 miles. With the standard 20-inch alloy wheels, the iX is rated at 324 miles. Oddly, the optional 21-inch alloy wheels cut the range down the most to 305 miles while examples equipped with the 22-inch units travel […]

Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” software suite is controversial at best. It’s a Level 2 ADAS system that promised to be fully autonomous in the future, based on the hardware currently in the car. While paying a few grand for the promise of something in the future, the price continued to rise for the software. Keep […]

The Ford F-150 Lighting is going to be an incredibly popular vehicle when it comes out later this spring. Dealerships know that, and some are doing less than savory things to try to drive up their revenue. One of the things some places has attempted is by adding an additional reservation fee on top of […]

Hot on the heels of its U.S. debut at the 2021 Los Angeles Auto Show, Vietnamese automaker VinFast used the 2022 CES Show to announce that it will stop producing vehicles with internal combustion engines at the end of 2022. The company noted that it will pivot to battery-electric powertrains, making it one of the […]

General Motors announced at the 2022 CES Show that it will be the first to use Qualcomm Technologies’ Snapdragon Ride Platform for its driver assistance features. This will form the basis for its Ultra Cruise hands-free system, which will use two 5.0-nanometer Snapdragon SA8540P SoC and a single SA9000P artificial intelligence accelerator. The computing architecture […]

Volvo Car Group has announced that it will introduce its unsupervised autonomous driving technology in California first. Called Ride Pilot, the system builds on the Swedish brand’s safety leadership in the auto industry and aims to give owners back more time. The system will appear on Volvo’s next-generation battery-electric vehicles, the first of which is […]

Our Next Energy (ONE), a battery technology company based in Michigan, has just unveiled a proof-of-concept battery that allows an electric vehicle to travel up to 752 miles per charge. The vehicle, called Gemini 001, is a Tesla Model S retrofitted with an experimental pack that was put through a road test across Michigan in […]

Magna has shown off its latest electrification solution. Called EtelligentForce, this powertrain is specifically developed for use in pickups and light commercial vehicles. This 4WD-based system is paired with Magna’s eBeam technology to help trucks and commercial vehicles retain their capabilities and not compromise on payload and towing. “EtelligentForce comes at a pivotal time — […]