Jalopnik

JULY 18, 2024

Ford is investing $3 billion to build more of its extremely profitable F-Series Super Duty pickup trucks at a plant in Ontario, Canada that was previously earmarked to build an electric crossover. The plant is set to be opened in 2026, and it will employ 1,800 workers to build the large work trucks.

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Jalopnik

MAY 16, 2024

Good morning! It’s Thursday, May 16, 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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Brake & Front End

JUNE 30, 2023

Managed by the new Stellantis Charging and Energy Business Unit, Free2move Charge addresses electric vehicle customer needs at home, in their business and on-the-go. “As Free2move Charge Home delivers private customers support with installation, financing and warranty of home charging and other energy hardware and services.

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Jalopnik

OCTOBER 17, 2023

General Motors is kicking production of its electric pickup trucks at its Orion, Michigan factory down the road for a year as it deals with “evolving EV demand ,” according to Reuters. The move may be a sign that EV demand in the near future just isn’t as strong as automakers were predicting. Read more.

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autoevolution

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It's time to check those finances if you're an off-roading truck fan, as we just stumbled upon a Shelby Baja Raptor. Based on the Ford F-150 Raptor, it came from Shelby American featuring off-road bumpers, additional LED lights, a ram air hood, electric running boards, tw. continue reading. )

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Jalopnik

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Automakers have gone to great lengths to make their electric vehicles feel a bit less alien. There are some that have created synthetic engine notes to pipe out their non-existent exhausts, while others have even simulated manual gearboxes to replicate the shudder of a sharp gear change. Now, Stellantis is looking… Read more.

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Jalopnik

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Say what you will about the Tesla Cybertruck and the people who drive it , but folks who want an electric pickup truck are choosing it over the competition at an astonishing rate. Granted, it’s a very small sliver of the overall car market, but back in July Cybertruck sales pretty much equaled the sales of every other e… Read more.

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Jalopnik

MAY 13, 2024

Parking lots full of Tesla vehicles are becoming impossible to ignore as the electric automaker seemingly can’t sell enough cars and trucks to match its rate of production. According to its own figures, the electric automaker produced 46,561 more vehicles than it delivered to customers during the first quarter of 2024.

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Jalopnik

JULY 3, 2024

For as long as there have been electric vehicles, their critics have disingenuously argued that it’s impossible for EVs to ever take hold in the U.S. Despite that not having been a prerequisite for the proliferation of pricey trucks and SUVs, it’s been a pervasive… Read more. until the working class can afford to drive them.

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Jalopnik

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A 663 horsepower Range-Extended Electric Truck coming in 2025.

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Jalopnik

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Is it a swanky espresso machine perched on their kitchen counter, or perhaps a boujie electric bike that’s stored in their shed? What’s the sign that someone has more money than sense? Personally, I think it’s paying more than double for a Tesla Cybertruck that’s been flipped at auction. Read more.

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Jalopnik

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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Jalopnik

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

From 2019 to 2023 the van was exclusively available for Amazon drivers , as the e-commerce Goliath commissioned the Illinois-based electric truck manufacturer to build 100,000 of these van s and paid handsomely for Read more. Anyone who owns a business and needs a delivery van has a newly available option today in the Rivian Van.

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Jalopnik

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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Jalopnik

MAY 24, 2024

If you’re looking for an electric truck that still feels like a regular pickup, you’re going to have a hard time beating the Ford F-150 Lightning. The Tesla Cybertruck may get all the attention, but if you’re actually going to be hauling anything, for example, you’ll have a far easier time reaching into the… Read more.

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Jalopnik

JULY 5, 2023

Nikola, the company reported on Wednesday , sold 66 trucks in the second quarter of 2023,… Read more. What follows is your irregular check in on the state of Nikola, an EV semi startup whose founder got in quite a lot of trouble with the authorities but whose company is still somehow alive and kicking, and still publicly traded.

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Jalopnik

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Good morning! It’s Thursday, September 12, 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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Jalopnik

JANUARY 4, 2024

This isn’t the first time Ford has toyed with the pricing for its electric pickup truck , but with its biggest competitor, the Tesla Cybertruck , still undergoing countless delays and still more expensive… Read more. Ford has confirmed that it’s going to be raising prices for its base-model 2024 F-150 Lightning by roughly $5,000.

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Jalopnik

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Electric vehicle makers are in a tight spot right now, with sales struggling to the extent that Ford is even considering cutting a shift at the factory that assembles its F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck.

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Jalopnik

OCTOBER 25, 2024

We’ve known for a while that Volkswagen had plans to revive the Scout name , and this week, we finally got to see the first two vehicles planned for the new electric automaker — an SUV and pickup truck. It still remains to be seen whether or not Scout will be a success once production begins in 2027, but aside from… Read more.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 4, 2024

When you’re shopping for a new car , price and practicality are important, but so is fuel economy. The Environmental Protection Agency provides fuel economy ratings for almost every vehicle currently on sale, but how does that translate to real life? Our friends over at Consumer Reports independently test new cars to… Read more.

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Jalopnik

JULY 17, 2024

If there’s one thing Americans love, it’s full-size pickup trucks. Both Nissan and Toyota have tried to steal some of those big truck sales but have been largely unsuccessful. Compact crossovers are incredibly popular, sure, but the Ford F-150 and Chevrolet Silverado are still the top dogs in the U.S. Until recently,… Read more.

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AutoSuccess

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Best Compact Truck: 2024 Ford Maverick Ford didn’t invent the compact pickup; they just reminded everyone how much Americans missed having the option. Its compact size easily slips into parking spaces often too small for a full-size truck, and its lower ride height means loading the bed doesn’t require body-builder-size arms.

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Jalopnik

APRIL 3, 2024

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

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Jalopnik

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Irvine, California-based electric automaker reported third-quarter deliveries above what analysts were estimating. At the same time, it’s ramping up production to meet steady demand for its R1T pickup truck and R1S SUV , according to Reuters. Rivian is having a nice little time right now. Read more.

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Jalopnik

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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Jalopnik

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Just a little over a month out from the event, Tesla still has not finalized pricing for the truck. Tesla has said the first deliveries of its long-awaited Cybertruck will begin November 30 at its Giga Texas facility, with actual production to begin in 2025. Some who have ordered Cybertrucks claim to have been… Read more.

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Jalopnik

OCTOBER 19, 2023

After missing yet another deadline for the Tesla Cybertruck to actually launch, company boss Elon Musk has come out to set the mood ahead of the electric pickup’s eventual rollout. In a Tesla earnings call last night, Musk explained the challenges the EV maker has faced bringing the angular Cybertruck to fruition and… Read more.

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Jalopnik

JULY 11, 2024

It’s a pretty impressive feat for a truck that a lot of people absolutely hate. Despite the fact it’s one of the most divisive – if not the most divisive – vehicles on sale today, the Tesla Cybertruck was apparently June’s best-selling vehicle that costs over $100,000. Read more.

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Jalopnik

AUGUST 21, 2024

Ford has once again announced a change in its electric vehicle strategy after canceling its plans for a three-row EV in favor of much smaller, more affordable models that might actually be able to make money. Read more.

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Jalopnik

APRIL 30, 2024

Starting in 2029, all new cars and trucks sold in the U.S. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration made a bold move on Monday to notify automakers that within five years they will all be mandated to include technology in cars that is already widespread, if not 100 percent adopted. market will be required to… Read more.

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Jalopnik

OCTOBER 25, 2023

are mostly oversized SUVs and trucks , the best-selling EV in Japan is the small, light, cheap, too-cute-for-life Nissan Sakura kei-car. While EV options in the U.S. Read more.

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Jalopnik

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles are spending nearly three months sitting on dealer lots. Data shows that it took Mercedes dealers an average of 82 days to sell the automaker’s battery-powered EQ models , according to Automotive News. Read more.

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Jalopnik

JULY 6, 2024

For as long as there have been electric vehicles, their critics have disingenuously argued that it’s impossible for EVs to ever take hold in the U.S. Despite that not having been a prerequisite for the proliferation of pricey trucks and SUVs, it’s been a pervasive… Read more. until the working class can afford to drive them.

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Jalopnik

DECEMBER 27, 2023

However, pickup trucks and SUVs continue to… Read more. The Environmental Protection Agency’s annual report on automotive trends in the United States illustrates a strange landscape. At a nationwide average of 26 miles per gallon, fuel economy has never been better. Vehicle carbon dioxide emissions are also at an all-time low.

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Jalopnik

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Rivian finally started offering leases for its electric R1T pickup in 14 states on Monday, and these leases are eligible for the full $7500 federal EV lease credit – in contrast to the $3750 credit that Rivian buyers are eligible for. Read more.

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AutoSuccess

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Among other factors, better vehicle quality and economic considerations have led to people keeping their passenger and light truck vehicles for longer. Higher interest rates make financing new vehicle purchases more expensive, and the average interest rate for new car loans has risen to over 7%. years (see chart below).

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