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Why did the flywheel hybrid system never catch on for road cars?

Enlarge / Why did the flywheel hybrid never catch on for road cars? (credit: GKN/Jonathan Gitlin) When a Speed network television crew interviewed Margo T. Oge, then-director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality, during the 10-hour long 2010 Petit Le Mans Series race at Road Atlanta, Porsche’s experimental 911 GT3 […]

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Will Ferrell and GM want to prank Norway with pizza, but why?

Enlarge / GM and Will Ferrell took a Cadillac Lyriq EV to Sweden to highlight the fact that Norway buys more electric vehicles per capita than the US. (credit: General Motors) Although a bunch of automakers chose to sit out 2021, General Motors still saw value in advertising during this year’s Super Bowl. The automaker […]

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A silicon chip shortage is causing automakers to idle their factories

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) You may have noticed that it’s difficult to get ahold of new high-end graphics cards and game consoles these days. In large part, that’s due to an ongoing global shortage affecting semiconductor foundries. As it turns out, the problem is even more pronounced in the auto industry. In […]

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Lizzo Surprises Her Mother With A New Car For Christmas! Awww!

So very happy for Lizzo… along with her momma! The Great As Hell singer and rapper will be spending the holiday year in an remarkable manner, and now we ’re motivated by her own generosity towards her household after all of her success in the audio world during the past couple years! On Sunday afternoon, the Detroit-born […]

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{Audi and BMW to {} Formula E–here Is why that Is OK

|} When Audi demonstrated its FE07 race car a week, it did not tell us it’d be the corporation’s last Formula E automobile. [credit: Audi ] Formula E likely expected that its preseason evaluation could be the source of several headlines today. Ahead of this electrical racing series’ seventh year launch in Chile in January, […]