Enlarge / In April 2020, Volkswagen tweaked its corporate logo. (credit: Volkswagen) On Monday, automotive journalist twitter was roiled by the news that Volkswagen—literally the people’s car in German—was going to change its name in the US. According to CBNC, a press release published on VW’s US media site on March 29, but dated April […]
A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority on March 24, 2021 shows a part of the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 400-meter- (1,300-foot-) long and 59-meter-wide vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt’s Suez Canal. [credit: Suez Canal Authority/HO/AFP via Getty Images ] After nearly a week […]
Ford has been using 3D printing for prototyping and other design and engineering work. But 3D printing does not lend itself well to mass-produced parts. [credit: Ford ] Slowly but surely, car companies are beginning to make themselves more sustainable. We most often hear about this in the context of using clean energy to power […]
By year’s end, 99 of these electric Transit vans will be delivering packages for DHL Express in California and New York. [credit: Lighting eMotors ] Electrifying commercial fleets of vehicles makes even more sense than trying to persuade individual private citizens to switch to electric vehicles. After all, if you convince your neighbor to buy […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) The auto industry continues to suffer the effects of a worldwide shortage of silicon chips. General Motors will idle production of midsize pickup trucks at a factory in Missouri until April 12 and extend the shutdown of another factory in Michigan. In South Korea, Hyundai Motor Group, which […]
Enlarge (credit: TSMC) When Li Ta-sen was a little boy, he used to walk to school through fields of sugarcane taller than himself. Some 40 years later, he is making a living by selling off the same fields as a property boom takes hold in his hometown of Shanhua. The reason for the construction frenzy […]
Enlarge / Push button, but watch out for SUVs. Particularly at night. American drivers were an even more deadly threat to pedestrians in 2020, according to data analyzed by the Governors Highway Safety Association and published on Tuesday. Early data from state highway safety offices shows that 2,957 pedestrians were killed by drivers in the […]
Valtteri Bottas (L) and Lewis Hamilton (R) shake hands after a race. Bottas gets far more screen time than his teammate, who only broke a number of long-standing F1 records in 2020. It’s an odd omission by Netflix. [credit: Netflix ] Drive to Survive, the fly-on-the-wall documentary about Formula 1 racing, started streaming its third […]
Enlarge / Tesla’s Shanghai car factory in 2020. (credit: Ding Ting / Xinhua / Getty Images) The Chinese government is restricting the use of Tesla vehicles at military bases, some state-owned enterprises, and other sensitive facilities, The Wall Street Journal reports. Tesla vehicles have eight cameras outside the vehicle and an internal camera facing the […]
An average Supercross track uses 5,500 cubic feet (155 m3) of dirt, which is built into a track inside an existing stadium. [credit: Monster Energy Supercross ] When it comes to racing games, do you prefer digital replicas of real-world racetracks? Obviously, it depends on the game. Few will complain that Mario Kart‘s Rainbow Road […]