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LOS ANGELES — Groundbreaking is set for next month on what’s billed as the world’s largest wildlife crossing — a bridge over a major Southern California highway that will provide more room to roam for mountain lions and other ...

Nissan to electrify all new offerings in Europe starting in 2023

Nissan is making good on its promise of electrification. The Yokohama-based company has announced that it will only introduce electrified vehicles for the European market starting in 2023. That’s a shorter timeline than expected, but it follows with Nissan’s ...

Postal Service doubles EV buy in $3B mail truck order

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday it placed an initial $2.98 billion order for 50,000 next-generation delivery vehicles from Oshkosh Corp and will double its initial planned EV purchases. U.S. Postmaster Louis DeJoy said that based on USPS’s ...

Jeep previews military-inspired Wrangler 4xe for Jeep Safari

As we get nearer to the Easter Jeep Safari, the off-road brand continues to roll out more teasers of its concept vehicles. The latest is shown above. It’s clearly a military-inspired Wrangler 4xe, since it has the charge port near ...

Lotus Type 132 gets another teaser in before debut

Lotus has teased the Type 132 for what could be the final time before the battery-electric crossover debuts next Tuesday, March 29. Swinging for the fences with a special guest star that would help forestall the inevitable discord about ...

2022 Polestar 2 single-motor variant now available to order

Polestar announced the presence of a single-motor, front-wheel-drive Polestar 2 model last year, and today the Swedish car company is announcing that this new variant is available to order. Thankfully, the initially quoted starting price of $45,900 hasn’t changed ...

2022 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Bronze Edition Road Test | Cold but competent

I drove the 2022 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Bronze Edition back in January, which was awkward timing, really. Bronze seems like an odd choice for an Olympic year. Sure, it’s thematically consistent, but it also seems a bit self-deprecating. While ...

Nikola started production of electric trucks on March 21

Nikola said on Wednesday it started production of its electric semi-trucks at its facility in Coolidge, Arizona, on March 21. Shares in the company rose about 9% in premarket trade on Thursday. Chief Executive Officer Mark Russell had said ...

2024 Mini Hardtop has fun in the snow before its unveiling

Mini is nearly ready to unveil the first member of the next-generation Hardtop family. It will introduce the two-door hatchback variant in 2022, and it released official spy shots showing a test mule in a frozen part of Sweden ...

Stellantis and LG announce Canadian EV battery joint venture

SEOUL — South Korean battery giant LG Energy Solution (LGES) said on Wednesday it plans to invest $1.5 billion to set up a joint venture with Stellantis in Canada. LGES owns 51% of the joint venture, tentatively named “LGES-STLA ...

Kia EV6 Luggage Test | How big is the trunk?

The collection of EVs introduced in the past year-and-change has made us rethink vehicle sizes and segment names. If you look at the dimensions of the 2022 Kia EV6, Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Ford Mustang Mach-E, they sure seem to ...

Embrace one-pedal driving in EVs and PHEVs

I just came back from a trip out to California, where I was able to drive the new 2022 Volvo XC60 Recharge in its new extended-range form (you’ll find that review on Autoblog tomorrow). One of the newly-added headline ...

Tesla jump stunt victim reaches GoFundMe goal to replace Subaru

Remember the story about the unknown guy who rented a Tesla that was totaled in a ridiculously stupid jump stunt on a public road in Los Angeles? As you already know, there’s pretty much no such thing as a ...

Honda Civic hybrid revealed for Europe, no word on U.S. version

With the last generation of Honda Civic, Honda dropped the hybrid variant in the U.S. in favor of reviving the Insight. And that Insight was mostly a restyled Civic sedan with only a hybrid engine. For the new, eleventh ...

How a new Jeep factory in Detroit turned into a civil rights fight

When plans for a new Jeep factory on Detroit’s east side were announced in 2019 — the city’s first assembly plant in nearly 30 years — it was celebrated as an economic boon for the city, bringing 5,000 jobs and ...

Lawsuit filed against Tesla after fatal crash in Paris

PARIS — A Paris taxi driver whose Tesla Model 3 crashed in December, killing one person, has filed a legal complaint against the U.S. carmaker, his lawyer said on Sunday. The French government said in the days after the accident ...

2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE First Ride | E-Class of the future now

LOS ANGELES – The tricky question for legacy automakers developing their new electric vehicle fleet is how much their EV version should feel like the internal-combustion counterpart. That is especially true with Mercedes-Benz, which is developing its BEV and ...

EV charging companies adding chargers to vacation rentals

We imagine there have been more than a few AirBnB renters who’ve snuck an extension cord out of a narrow bathroom window to reach their electric vehicle parked temporarily in the driveway. While fun, these long wires might soon ...

House Democrats seek probe of USPS mail truck contract

WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an investigation into a U.S. Postal Service plan to replace its aging mail trucks with mostly gasoline-powered vehicles. The plan largely ignores White House calls to replenish the mail-service ...

Energy agency: 10 steps would save 2.7M barrels of oil a day

BERLIN — The International Energy Agency says the world could quickly reduce global oil demand by 2.7 million barrels a day by cutting down on car and plane travel, helping easing the supply crunch caused by Russia’s invasion of ...

Porsche 718 Boxster and Cayman are going electric

Confirming a long-standing rumor, Porsche announced that the 718 Boxster and the 718 Cayman will go electric by the middle of the 2020s. This shift is part of the Stuttgart-based company’s goal to have electric cars represent at least ...

Mercedes cars will be made from 40% recycled materials within 10 years

Photo / Supplied Mercedes-Benz has the goal of having a CO2-neutral fleet of new passenger vehicles by 2039. To achieve this goal, the automaker has outlined a number of new processes and materials it’ll be introducing to its vehicle ...

Acura Integra, Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing, Porsche Taycan | Autoblog Podcast #721

In this episode of the Autoblog Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Greg Migliore is joined by Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Pras Subramanian. They kick things off by talking about driving the Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing and Porsche Taycan. In this week’s news, they discuss ...

Stellantis, LG Energy pick Ontario for EV battery plant

Stellantis NV and LG Energy Solution will build their new battery plant in Ontario, Canada, according to a person familiar with the matter, with an official announcement likely on March 23. The Canadian government’s incentives for clean-energy businesses helped ...

Electric Maserati GranTurismo Folgore will have over 1,200 horsepower

Maserati is in the midst of a renaissance. It released the MC20 in 2020, it’s preparing to unveil the Grecale, and it confirmed that its first electric model will be an evolution of the next-generation GranTurismo with over 1,200 horsepower ...

Maserati confirms next Quattroporte, Levante will be EV-only

Maserati’s lineup will look a lot different in the second half of the 2020s than it does in 2022. The company confirmed that the Levante and the Quattroporte will be replaced by electric models, and it announced that the ...

2022 Ford F-150 Lightning EPA range figures leaked online

Official EPA range and efficiency numbers for the 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning are still not posted to the EPA’s website, but photos of window stickers posted to an F-150 forum may have just given it up. The monroneys for ...

Audi RS E-Tron GT Road Test Review | The EV deluge is coming

HOOD RIVER, Oregon – The Columbia River Gorge formed when a glacial lake half the size of Lake Michigan repeatedly emptied during the last Ice Age. And we’re not talking about pulling the plug in a bathtub – more ...

Tesla fires worker who posted YouTube video of FSD accident

Tesla Inc. terminated an employee six days after he posted a YouTube video of his car running into a traffic pylon while using Full Self-Driving, or FSD, the carmaker’s controversial driver-assistance system. John Bernal, who worked on the data-annotation ...

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Photo / Supplied Thanks for sharing your thoughts on sustainable mobility, your input is really appreciated! This survey is now closed. Congratulations to our winner: Merry Tsao. You’ve won yourself a prize pack consisting of a $200 Fuel Voucher ...

Audi A6 Avant E-Tron concept wants to make you lust after wagons again

Audi previewed the electric version of the next-generation A6 by unveiling the sedan as an eye-catching, close-to-production concept in April 2021. It’s only half of the family: The second part is the Avant station wagon, which the firm just ...

Analysis: Demand for fuel-efficient used cars spikes along with gas prices

While the overall trend in used car values appears to be declining, prices for EVs and smaller, more fuel-efficient models spiked in February as the market reacted to soaring gas prices. The average used car cost 35% more in ...

2024 BMW 7 Series previewed as a technological tour de force

BMW is nearly ready to unveil the next-generation 7 Series. It released a handful of preview images that confirm the big sedan will wear a more extroverted exterior design than the current model, and it detailed some of the ...

Tesla halts work at Shanghai factory amid China COVID curbs

SHANGHAI — Electric vehicle giant Tesla is suspending production at its Shanghai factory for two days, according to a notice sent internally and to suppliers, as China tightens COVID restrictions to curb the country’s latest outbreak. The Shanghai factory ...

Cadillac Lyriq order books open in May, Celestiq coming next year

During a briefing with the media, Cadillac executives provided a rough outline of the business and near-term product plans. The most interesting tidbits revolved around the brand’s electric cars, the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq and the later Celestiq, and its advanced ...

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