Alpine’s A110 sports car might not be the most powerful mid-engined machine, but it’s so much fun to drive you know you risk getting a speeding ticket every time you get behind the wheel. As one French owner discovered, however, you might even end up getting a ticket when there’s no one behind the wheel,
Stellantis last week said it will spend $2.8 billion to retool a pair of assembly plants in Canada in preparation for making electric vehicles. The automaker said it will turn its Windsor and Brampton plants into “flexible, multi-energy vehicle assembly facilities” and build two new R&D centers in Windsor focusing on EVs and battery technology.
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Maserati’s MC20 supercar this week spawned an open-top version and it goes by the name Cielo, Italian for “sky.” The car features a retractable hard-top roof complete with glass panels to give you the open air feeling whether the roof is up or down. 2023 BMW Alpina B3 Alpina revealed its take on BMW’s updated
The latest addition to the Carscoops’ fleet is a brand-new EU-spec Honda HR-V e:HEV. The smallest SUV offering in Honda’s European range will stay with us for a week, and we intend to drive it inside and outside the city in order to see how well it stacks up against the competition in the crowded
Almost a decade after playing home to Europe’s first mass-produced electric car, the UK is at risk of becoming a footnote in the global auto industry’s shift to battery-powered vehicles. The UK lacks the battery cell and packaging factories automakers will need to support their transition away from the internal combustion engine. In what could be
4:00 PM ET Formula One. IndyCar. NASCAR. Breakfast in Monaco. Lunch at Indianapolis. Dinner in Charlotte. Mimosas. Bloody Marys. Beer. This is racing’s highest of holy days, and it’s not even close. A motorsports harmonic convergence that doesn’t happen every year but does more often than it does not. Thank the horsepower heavens. That perfect
In what must be one of the weirdest videos we’ve seen recently, a Texas man has filmed an on-road interaction that sounds utterly absurd. After a minor traffic disagreement, one driver in an Infiniti G35X sedan busts out a hatchet before crashing into another vehicle. The driver of the camera vehicle is DexFPV on Reddit
Electric Last Mile Solutions Inc. warned Friday it may run out of cash in June, at least one month sooner than previously projected, unless it can raise additional capital. The latest projections reflect higher costs in a number of areas, including employee retention and payments to suppliers, the suburban Detroit EV startup said in a
In this article 9868-HK Guangzhou-based Xpeng is one of several Chinese electric car companies that’s started to expand overseas. Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — In a sign Chinese drivers are still willing to buy electric, start-up Xpeng said that demand for its cars has shaken off the impact of price
CATL will be supplying BMW with cylindrical lithium-ion battery cells for electric vehicles, starting from 2025. This interesting news was announced by CATL (via Reuters), which has confirmed the signing of an agreement with BMW, but without elaborating on it. We guess that details will be announced later by BMW itself. “Chinese battery giant CATL
Pro driver Randy Pobst hot laps the 2016 Cadillac CTS-V Sedan around Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for Motor Trend’s 2015 Best Driver’s Car. The Cadillac CTS-V is one of 10 contenders competing for the title of 2015 Best Driver’s Car. The winner will be announced on Thursday, October 1st on the Motor Trend Channel –
SHANGHAI — The Chinese battery giant CATL said it will start supplying cylindrical cells to BMW from 2025 to power its new series of electric vehicles. The battery maker has signed an agreement with BMW in which it is nominated as the supplier of the cylindrical cells for the automaker, CATL said without elaborating. BMW
5:31 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo has not delivered the results hoped for in Formula One, McLaren boss Zack Brown said on Friday after announcing that their IndyCar team had extended their agreement with Pato O’Ward who is eyeing a Formula One seat. McLaren took care of a bit of business ahead of Sunday’s Indy 500
Brake-checking a following driver is dumb, and you should never do it no matter how mad you are with the idiot riding your tail. If a cop saw someone do it to you, you’d expect them to be dealt with harshly, and rightly so. But in this video it’s a cop doing the brake-checking, and
Toyota is adding special editions and trim levels to its car and light-truck lineup for the 2023 model year, including two which mark significant anniversaries of vehicles in the U.S. 4Runner: The brand plans a run of 4,040 special editions of the midsize off-roader to mark the 4Runner’s 40th anniversary in the U.S. The vehicles
Tucked beneath the floor of most electric vehicles today is a nickel manganese cobalt battery, a type of lithium ion battery. The chemistry has had a dominant run as EVs have proliferated because of its ability to hold an ample charge. But nickel manganese cobalt, called NMC, is being challenged, experts say, as lithium iron
In this article UBER For years, Uber has faced opposition from taxi drivers in Italy. Now, the company is signing a partnership with the country’s largest taxi dispatch service. Alvaro Padilla | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Uber has signed a partnership with IT Taxi, the largest taxi dispatch service in Italy, in a tie-up