Coal investor and US Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) opposes his own political party’s clean energy program. And since not a single Republican will support the infrastructure bill that contains the program, Manchin has disproportionate power to sink the US plan to decarbonize in order to slow global warming and meet the Paris Agreement target of
Month: July 2022
Aston Martin said on Friday it was looking to raise 653 million pounds ($772 million) through a right issue to shareholders, while bringing in Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund as its second-largest shareholder. The luxury automaker said Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Yew Tree Consortium and Mercedes-Benz will together invest 335 million pounds. The
What kind of vehicle is the 2023 Toyota Crown? What does it compare to? Toyota is sunsetting one premium full-size sedan only to introduce another, this one with crossover influences and a pair of hybrid powertrains. It competes with the likes of the Subaru Legacy, Nissan Maxima, Dodge Charger, and Volvo V90. Is the 2023
Drag racing can be a very dangerous pastime and an Aussie enthusiast discovered just that while competing at the recent 2022 GT-R Challenge at Cootamundra Airport in New South Wales. The car owned by Mick Mansour is no ordinary Nissan Skyline R33 GT-R. Indeed, the RB26 turbocharged six-cylinder engine is capable of pumping out 2,100
Toyota on Friday unveiled a redesigned, 16th-generation Crown that arrives in the U.S. late this year as a 2023 model, with the arrival to mark the nameplate’s return to these shores after a hiatus that dates back to the 1970s. However, the Crown headed for the U.S., a high-riding sedan, is just one of four
Netflix and Toyota finally have something in common: Both are reviving “The Crown” in the U.S. this fall after an extended hiatus. Only instead of a dramatized story of Queen Elizabeth II in the 1990s, Toyota dealers will get a hybridized fastback crossover, intended to replace the Avalon large sedan, with a resurrected nameplate that
A person claiming to be a current Cruise employee raised concerns with California regulators about the self-driving tech company’s safety culture and readiness to begin commercial operations in San Francisco. The letter arrived at the California Public Utilities Commission’s inbox for whistleblowers May 19, two weeks before the regulators cleared Cruise’s robotaxis for those commercial
A Tesla Model S car equipped with Autopilot David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla AI and Autopilot leader Andrej Karpathy announced Wednesday that he is no longer working for the electric vehicle maker. Karpathy wrote on Twitter, “It’s been a great pleasure to help Tesla towards its goals over the last 5
The time of the Nissan LEAF – the first all-electric compact mainstream model, originally introduced in 2010 – is coming to an end. According to an interesting Automotive News article, based on an unofficial source, the Nissan LEAF will be phased out. Production of the LEAF (currently at three sites: in Japan, in the US,
Aston Martin is closing in on a deal to raise over 500 million pounds ($589 million) by bringing in Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund as a major shareholder and launching a rights issue for investors, the Financial Times reported. The proposal will result in Saudi’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) investing up to 200 million pounds
4:41 AM ET Ferrari test driver Robert Shwartzman represented Israel as he tried out last year’s Formula One car ahead of two Friday practice sessions at grands prix later in the season. The 22-year-old, who was born near Tel Aviv and has dual nationality, represented Russia last season in Formula Two where he finished runner-up
What kind of vehicle is the 2023 Hyundai Venue? What does it compare to? With the Venue, Hyundai straddles the fence between small SUV and hatchback with this boxy, inexpensive model that starts around $20,000. Shop the Venue against the Nissan Kicks and Honda HR-V. Is the 2023 Hyundai Venue a good car? Review continues
This, ladies and gentleman, is a prime example of how you should not drive and what can go wrong while driving distracted. The clip was (likely) filmed somewhere in the U.S. and shows a pair of young men messing around in a bright orange Chevrolet C8 Corvette Convertible. One of them can be seen behind
Alain de Cadenet profiles this rare Alfa Romeo as it competes in the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d’ Elegance.
Tesla Inc on Thursday asked a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the electric car maker violated federal law by laying off hundreds of workers without advance notice. Tesla in a filing in federal court in Austin, Texas, where the company is based, said the workers who were terminated signed valid agreements to bring
Ford Motor Co. and South Korean battery maker SK On Co. along with its subsidiary on Thursday finalized setting up a joint venture for building and operating battery production facilities in the United States. The JV, BlueOval SK LLC, will establish a battery plant for EVs in Tennessee and two other facilities in Kentucky, the
In this article GM GM EVGO General Motors is building out a new network of EV fast chargers in partnership with Pilot Co., owner of the Pilot and Flying J highway travel centers, and EV charging network EVgo. The companies will install a total of 2,000 fast chargers at 500 of Pilot’s locations along American
By Maria Merano Posted on July 13, 2022 Volkswagen opened orders for the ID.Buzz in the United Kingdom with a starting price of £57,115 ($67,744.10). Three ID.Buzz variants are available for order in the UK: the ID.Buzz Life, ID.Buzz Style, and the ID.Buzz 1st Edition. The ID.Buzz Life is the base variant, costing £57,115 ($67,744.10).
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