Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) The short-selling firm Hindenburg Research has published a new report alleging that startup electric truckmaker Lordstown Motors has been exaggerating customer demand to aid in fundraising. CEO Steve Burns has claimed that Lordstown already has more than 100,000 pre-orders—enough to keep its Ohio factory busy for more than […]
Enlarge / Before anyone else runs to the comments to point it out, almost no adaptive cruise control systems will engage at speeds above 95 mph. (credit: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images) Another day, another Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study looking at how people are using advanced driver assistance systems. Like the study we covered on […]
No, it’s not a Bedford Rascal—it’s a new electric pickup truck from Canoo. [credit: Canoo ] If you follow the electric vehicle world closely, you may have heard of Canoo. Started by some former Faraday Future people, the company broke cover in 2019 with a subscription-only electric van that was built on a low-profile skateboard […]
Enlarge / Would you notice if a large pink bear in a high-vis vest drove past you on the highway? (credit: IIHS) Depending on your perspective, the advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that are appearing in more and more new cars are either a panacea for an epidemic of distracted driving or a reaction to […]
Enlarge / The lettering “BMW i – Hydrogen Next” can be seen on the front of a BMW X5 equipped with a hydrogen drive. The car is equipped with two 700 bar tanks for a total of 6 kg of hydrogen. (credit: picture alliance | Getty Images) Europe’s two biggest industrial and economic powers are […]
Enlarge / Frederick Patterson standing beside a bare Patterson-Greenfield automobile chassis, probably for a larger touring car body. (credit: Courtesy of The Historical Society of Greenfield, Ohio: www.greenfieldhistoricalsociety.org) It’s September 1915 in Greenfield, Ohio, a small town located on the Paint Creek between Columbus and Cincinnati. At a time of year when summer’s warmth gives […]
Enlarge / YouTuber Brandon M captured this drone footage of his Tesla steering toward a parked car using the FSD beta software. “Oh Jeeeesus,” he said as he grabbed the steering wheel. (credit: Brandon M) The transparency site Plainsite recently published a pair of letters Tesla wrote to the California Department of Motor Vehicles in […]
Enlarge / A photo shows a traffic jam at 1905 Street and Third Ring Road in Moscow, Russia, on March 3, 2021. Moscow ranked fourth-worst in the world for traffic congestion in 2020, with an average of 100 hours spent in jams. (credit: Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Image) In 2020, the average US driver […]
Acura just redesigned its best-seller, the MDX SUV. [credit: Acura ] Now must be an interesting time—in the Pratchettian sense—to be a car maker. All you want to do is sell vehicles, but there are economic downturns and the occasional pandemic to factor in. Around the world, climate change policies are heavily favoring electric-powered machines, […]
A sign reads “Gambit Construction Entrance” at a construction site outside Angleton, Texas, on March 4, 2021. [credit: Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images ] Tesla is best known as an electric car company, but the firm also has a thriving business in battery storage—including utility-scale battery installations to support the electric grid. Bloomberg reports that […]