Auto Service World
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Simply signing up to a social media platform for your videos isn’t enough. Auto repair and marketing experts observed that the right kind of content needs to be on the right platform. There are two styles to go with: Long-form and short-form videos. The former is better for YouTube, Facebook and even LinkedIn, which was recommended if you’re trying to reach a professional audience.
Automotive Fleet
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
“Accidents” suggest inevitability, but most crashes are preventable — caused by driver actions and behaviors. Here’s why shifting the narrative can improve road safety.
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Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
The United States may not have the kinds of pre-Christian mega-structure buildings that exist in nearly every other corner of the globe. No, we aren’t living amongst the gorgeous marble altars to a pantheon of gods, or the crumbling remains of towering temples or palaces. But what we lack in vintage we’re more than… Read more.
Auto Service World
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
A recent study has found a stark gender divide in attitudes towards careers in the automotive industry. According to the research from Nationwide Vehicle Contracts, one in three women would never consider a career in the male-dominated field, in contrast to 80 per cent of men who would. The study sheds a light on persistent challenges in the auto sector, particularly concerning how women perceive their experiences in car garages.
Auto Service World
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
There are too many challenges in the way for fuel cell electric vehicles to become a viable option for consumers, according to aftermarket experts. The topic of hydrogen-powered vehicles for mass market use came up during a pair of discussions at the Worldpac Supplier and Training Expo. While generally acknowledging that FCEVs are superior to battery electric vehicles, hydrogen has many more obstacles for reaching the mass market than BEVs.
Automotive Fleet
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
How do gas prices in the U.S. compare to previous weeks? The average price of gas per gallon decreased in most across the nation. See what's contributing to the decline.
Automotive Fleet
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Third quarter U.S. electric vehicle sales grew 11% YoY on the back of incentives, new models, and initial affordability compared to gas models.
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Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
When the Tesla Cybertruck first launched , its earliest Foundation Series models cost $120,000. This didn’t stop Tesla loyalists from spending up to nearly double that to get their hands on one, and resale values have shown the folly of that approach: Cybertruck values are dropping far and dropping fast. Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Tesla introduced its 4680 battery during a massive “Battery Day” event in late 2020 , with company CEO Elon Musk then saying the new battery would more than halve the cost to produce batteries for its cars. This was important for Tesla’s plan to build a $25,000 entry-level EV. The battery exists and has been used to… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Four people were killed in a fire after a Tesla Model Y lost control and hit a pillar in Toronto last month. The four people were reportedly unable to open the doors of the car after it caught fire and a fifth passenger only survived the crash after onlookers smashed a window and dragged them from the wreckage. Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Tesla has the deadliest cars on the road today. According to a new study from iSeeCars , Tesla vehicles have the highest fatal crash rate among all vehicle brands in the United States. The organization analyzed data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System. Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Back in 1959 , the Army Corp of Engineers carved its own Echo Base into the Greenland ice as a testbed for launching nuclear missiles from Arctic locations. The base was abandoned in 1967, but a new scan from NASA shows it’s still sitting 100 feet below the ice — along with all its radioactive waste. Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
It’ll be a battle for the ages when Ford and General Motors face off on the Formula 1 grid in 2026. Ford will be working with Red Bull Powertrains to build engines from that point forward , while Cadillac will partner with Andretti Global to enter a Ferrari-powered car as the 11th team. Sorry Europe, you had your time… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
After almost a year terrorizing the streets of America , the Tesla Cybertruck has finally made it across the pond and into the hands of a buyer in the UK. The gargantuan truck has been let loose on the streets of Britain and the experience for its new owner has been far from plain sailing. Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
During a meeting with the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group, an internal NASA working crew dedicated to supporting missions to Mars included a pitch from Elon Musk’s SpaceX to deploy Starlink satellites around the red planet to create “Marslink.” Having a thick layer of satellites around Mars would certainly… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
There are many, many reasons why you shouldn’t buy a Tesla Cybertruck , but even if you don’t have a problem giving your money to its bigoted CEO , there’s also no getting around the fact that it just isn’t a good vehicle. Heck, even if you don’t mind the recalls, we’ve also seen them get bricked in a car wash , send… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
The Tesla Cybertruck is not a good truck or even a good vehicle. Children point and laugh when they see it. Women leave their husbands and take the children when one shows up in their driveway. Friends stop talking to friends who think they’re cool. It’s the incEl Camino through and through, almost like it was… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
After dealing with things like arrests over false complaints of rental thefts and a bad EV bet that’s seen a massive sale of a bunch of cheap Teslas , Hertz has another problem on its hands, at least at one of its locations. Workers at a Hertz in Syracuse, New York, abandoned their posts, resulting in customers… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
NASA is racing itself to the Moon in a new Space Race, pitting contractors against each other to produce the most cost-effective means of delivering astronauts to space. However, some of the agency’s partners simply aren’t delivering. NASA is now considering canceling the Space Launch System, the Artemis program’s… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
In 1971, a man going by the name Dan Cooper hijacked a plane, took $200,000 and two parachutes, and vanished into the night sky somewhere over the state of Washington never to be seen or heard from again. Armchair investigators have long theorized where he might have gone, and the FBI thinks he may have never landed… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Three people have died and another person is in hospital after a Tesla Cybertruck crashed and burst into flames in California in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The truck reportedly mounted a curb , smashed through a barrier and got wedged in between a tree and a wall before bursting into flames. Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
For the second year running the Formula 1 race in the desert metropolis of Las Vegas, Nevada is throwing another challenge at the 20 drivers on the grid, the biting cold. As I sit here writing this, it is currently 38 degrees in Las Vegas. The coldest Grand Prix on record was the 1978 Canadian Grand Prix, which was… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Despite the constant debunking of UFO sightings, skeptics and grifters claim that aliens have visited Earth in vehicles beyond human comprehension but decided not to implode the planet to build an interstellar bypass. These so-called experts were again given a platform in Congress at a House Oversight hearing on… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Niantic, the privately-held Pokémon Go app parent company, brought the augmented-reality app to the masses in July of 2016 , and the game made it onto over a billion phones before 2019. Statistically you’ve probably played it , but in case you haven’t, players of the game must travel to locations in the physical world… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Nevada arguably offers more personal freedoms than any of its 49 star-spangled siblings, with just about everything you could think of being legal, from prostitution and gambling to dumbass tunnels , guns and weed. The state legalized recreational use of cannabis during the 2016 election cycle, and use of the… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
For an electric truck that’s been touted as the perfect vehicle for the apocalypse , the Tesla Cybertruck is proving to be a bit of a snowflake in the real world. Since deliveries of the electric pickup started, Tesla’s flagship has been damaged by water , slippery accelerator pedals and even an angsty YouTuber. Now,… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
We all know HOAs suck , but as with all things that suck, Florida HOAs are on another level. An HOA in Florida contracted with a tow company to tow vehicles with expired registration out of people’s driveways and, predictably, this is p **g people off. Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
The New York Times of 2024 is a rag of transphobia and genocide denial , but 100 years ago the paper wasn’t quite so cowed by the American halls of power. Back in 1924, the paper was speaking truth to power about the threat automobiles posed to American pedestrians , and the paper’s concerns are as valid as today as… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
The SS United States was originally scheduled to be towed to its final resting place at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico last week after its sale to Okaloosa County, Florida. However, “a tropical disturbance” in the Gulf delayed the voyage. With this delay, a Brooklyn concrete magnate is making a last-gasp effort to… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
A Southern California truck driver who Walmart fired after falsely accusing him of workers comp fraud has been awarded millions by a jury. Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
The most controversial car of 2024 isn’t the Tesla Cybertruck or whatever cool new BMW you think is ugly, it’s the Dodge Charger Daytona EV. This electric muscle car is so plagued by anti-woke culture b t that it had to be saddled with a gas engine option while the EV seems a bit doomed to fail. Still, after… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Since The Boring Company began operating in 2017 it has announced massive car tunnel projects all over the world, including Washington D.C., Los Angeles , San Jose, Chicago, San Bernardino and even Sydney, Australia. There have been discussions about hundreds more , but the Texas-based tunnel company has, so far, only… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Tesla’s Cybertruck is selling surprisingly well. It’s outselling other electric pickups like the Ford F-150 Lightning and was also the best-selling vehicle over $100,000 this summer. Given the notoriety and novelty of the truck’s design, some owners think they’re sitting on an art piece that will make them a quick… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
There’s nothing more exciting for a car fan than seeing a low-loader pulling up to drop off a new car. That excitement will quickly turn to dismay if the driver of the delivery truck takes those instructions a bit too literally, as one unlucky Lamborghini owner found last week when their Diablo was physically dropped… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Wayne Enterprises is selling the Tumbler, the prototype military vehicle made famous by Batman in Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” movie trilogy. This iteration of the Batmobile will have a limited production run of 10 vehicles, each costing just under $3 million. A select number of wealthy superhero fans will be… Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Today, being Thanksgiving here in the U.S., most of us are thinking about one kind of bird: the turkey. I will offer you an alternative: the screaming chicken on the hood of today’s Nice Price or No Dice classic Trans Am. Between eating, watching football, and naps, let’s decide what this bird might be worth. Read more.
Jalopnik
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
You don’t have a fraction of the talent that Michael Schumacher held in his left pinky finger, but if you have enough money you can buy the car he used to win his final races. Fighting tooth-and-nail with eventual champion Fernando Alonso in 2006, Schumi used this chassis as a tool to win the San Marino, European,… Read more.
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