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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Chinese start-up SSC says it will be unveiling a brand-new customer-ready electric sports car for deliveries later this year. It’s called the SC-01, and if everything the company is saying about the car is true, it could be the most exciting driver-focused electric car since the original Tesla Roadster.

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MAY 9, 2024

It planned to invest $2 billion to transform the Cologne, Germany plant into an electric car production giant. The plan had stepping stones toward a fully electric 2030 , including every one of its cars coming with… Read more.

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MARCH 18, 2024

There are currently 57 electric vehicle models on sale in the U.S., and while Tesla is still the most popular, new players in the electric car market are driving competition and prices keep dropping. EV sales are still growing, though that rate of growth has slowed dramatically over the last year or so. The… Read more.

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APRIL 6, 2024

The dark underbelly of car buying that is un-affordability and bad financial decisions is always with us. Car payments are still at all time highs, and more people than ever are underwater on their auto loans. That hasn’t seemed to stop people from wanting to go into debt for a shiny new piece of metal, though. -… Read more.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

The future of personal transportation, cars and trucks and bikes and scooters , is electric. We know this now, and we’ve known it for some time, but automakers, despite all that knowledge, have dragged their feet on actually producing electric cars. Read more.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

Hertz has invested in an electric car portfolio of rental cars, including 35,000 Tesla models. Hertz stock value tumbled some fifteen percent Thursday morning, following the company’s third quarter reporting , showing missed earnings estimates largely due to Tesla’s recent price cuts.

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MARCH 5, 2024

It wasn’t too long ago that some people seriously believed that legacy automakers ’ time was limited and that it was only a matter of time before Tesla and its electric cars would drive them out of business. It was a laughable idea on its face, but that didn’t stop people from repeating it. And yet, somehow, against… Read more.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Out of all the legacy automakers, Volvo is one of the most steadfast and fastest working when it comes to the transition to electric cars. Volvo already has a growing lineup of electric cars that are either on sale now… Read more.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

While you might like to think you can fix your car after a crash with nothing more than a hammer and wrench , that’s not really the case. But while it turns out that most electric car drivers will pay only… Read more.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Despite some of the things you may read online, demand for electric cars both in the U.S. More than one million EVs were sold here in 2023 , and the price premium versus gas cars is lessening. and globally is at an all-time high, and sales are increasing exponentially. While many new EVs are big hulking trucks and… Read more.

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MARCH 11, 2024

Tesla’s “no haggle” direct-buy pricing model was once heralded as the future of how Americans would buy cars. Several years later, the dealership system is still going strong. Now, according to a recent stud y, Elon’s insistence on adjusting MSRPs based on market conditions has had detrimental effects on Tesla’s resale… Read more.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Just over 10 percent of Canadian new car buyers this year chose to buy a battery electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. million new cars, trucks, and SUVs… Read more. According to CTV , the exact number is 10.3 The Canadian market is relatively small, as the massive frigid country is expected to purchase around 1.63

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

After Chinese automaker BYD dethroned Volkswagen as the best selling automaker in China late last year, VW said last week that it will develop a new, cheaper electric car platform using more Chinese-made components to reestablish dominance in the world’s biggest car market. Read more.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As it turns out, car dealers seem to know even less than buyers do when it comes to electric vehicles , and they don’t really seem too keen on learning about them. The Washington Post spoke with a number of customers who said dealers tried to redirect them to gas cars or gave them unclear or downright incorrect answers … Read more.

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MARCH 23, 2024

A sucker walks into a new car dealership every minute. There are shiny new cars on the floor, and rapacious young sales professionals just waiting to lure you into something you can’t afford , don’t need, or otherwise shouldn’t own.… Dealership showroom floors are practically delivery rooms for freshly-born suckers. Read more.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Norway has been the poster child for the electric vehicle transition. EVs have outpaced gasoline-fueled cars in sales for the past few years , encouraged by generous subsidies and an expansive charging network. However, the country is beginning to realize the combustion versus electric struggle doesn’t exist in a… Read more.

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APRIL 25, 2024

The EV revolution has hit a stumbling block. Sure, sales are technically rising , but they’re not rising anywhere near as quickly as projected. Automakers like Ford are losing big on each vehicle sold, with losses totaling in the billions — and now, The Verge reports that Ford is starting to wonder if maybe it should… Read more.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, March 13, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Each of those cars delivered accounted for $433,000 worth of red ink on the company’s balance sheets , which is… Read more. California-based automaker Lucid reported third quarter results on Tuesday, and the numbers aren’t great. The company announced that it built 1,550 Air sedans in Q3, and delivered 1,456 to customers.

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MARCH 11, 2024

Good morning! It’s Monday, March 11, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Good morning! It’s Monday, March 25, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

Happy Tuesday! It’s December 26, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Happy Thursday ! It’s January 11, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, January 24, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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MARCH 9, 2024

Sometimes cars look beautiful. Sometimes cars look functional. Sometimes cars look downright ugly. And sometimes, well, cars just look dumb as hell. Of course, “dumb” is a very subjective concept , possibly even more subjective than beautiful and ugly.

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JULY 5, 2023

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, July 5, 2023 and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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MAY 1, 2024

When you were a kid and you had a little radio control car that you zoomed around the kitchen floor or built jumps for in the back yard, did you throw it away when the batteries died ? For many owners of early electric vehicles from a decade or more ago, that seems to be the answer to electrical issues.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Tesla is taking a buzzsaw to the price of its best-selling Model Y electric crossover in an attempt to clear out its biggest-ever inventory stockpile. That means it has more cars… Read more. The Austin, Texas-based automaker is dropping prices after it produced 46,561 more vehicles than it delivered in the first quarter of 2024.

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APRIL 23, 2024

First, the car; the automaker claims it’s the most powerful electric sedan it has ever produced, boasting an advertised 163 mph top speed and a 2.9 Tesla launched the newest iteration of its Model 3 Performance Tuesday, just in time for what promises to be a tense Q1 earning call. second 0-to-60 mph time. Tesla… Read more.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Two facts about the automotive world are immutable: Americans love pickup trucks , and the future requires drastic reductions in the environmental harm caused by passenger cars. Automakers, seeing these two truths, slapped them together and started selling massive, hulking EV pickups with six-figure price tags. Turns… Read more.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

This week's reader has $60,000 to spend on an EV to replace an aging Audi.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Life is unreasonably expensive in our post-pandemic, geopolitically spicy modern world, but life doesn’t wait for prices to fall — if you need a car ASAP and the budget is tight, Jalopnik has your back. This list of lease deals good through the end of Marchis ranked from the cheapest cost per month to the most… Read more.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Sure, the electric segment hasn’t exploded here like it has in other countries , but just under 1.2 percent of all new cars sold in this… Read more. million new EVs were sold in 2023 , and that’s nothing to sneeze at. A record 7.6

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MARCH 13, 2024

Buying a used EV or hybrid can be risky since there is no way to truly know the health and potential remaining longevity of these cars’ integral batteries. Or, at least that was the case until recently. A new product called vsNEW is currently aimed at dealers , but the team is considering making it publicly available,… Read more.

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MARCH 22, 2024

GM spectacularly blundered the Blazer EV’s launch by selling cars with debilitating software bugs and then issuing a stop-sale order, but the electric SUV is finally allegedly ready for consumers. GM even dropped the price of the Blazer EV as much as $6,520 for the LT AWD trim, but what does that mean for folks who bou… Read more.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

The tip-in acceleration isn’t like any gasoline-powered car on the market, because it doesn’t need to ramp up. If you’ve never driven a Tesla before, it’s something of an immediately alien experience. If you stomp on the throttle in an EV, it goes right when you tell it to go. Quicker acceleration is a major selling… Read more.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Back then the car was promised to be delivered in 2020, which obviously… Read more. The Tesla Semi launch event was held on November 16th, 2017, exactly six years ago last week. At the end of that launch event, Elon Musk had a signature “one more thing” that was the unveiling of the incredible second-generation Tesla Roadster.

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