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On Wednesday, the Hoonigan team released a video to YouTube discussing what’s next after the loss of co-founder and automotive icon Ken Block. Hoonigan co-founder and Block’s business partner Brian Scotto said the team was supposed to start the year by traveling to Australia to film a down under version of their video series “This vs. That.” The trip was cancelled after Block died in a snowmobile accident on Jan. 2. Over the last few weeks, Scotto said, the Hoonigan team discussed the project’s future, and concluded that it was time to change its direction. As a result, a new YouTube…
The BMW 5 Series is a hugely capable, beautifully built and spacious premium saloon that’s also great to drive. Arguably, it is still one of the most complete cars on sale today.Few vehicles are as accomplished as the 5 Series. BMW’s executive saloon has long been considered one of the best all-round cars you can buy, and the seventh-generation model delivers the talents of its predecessors with a healthy dose of hi-tech kit and construction in the mix. About the BMW 5 SeriesThere’s been a 5 Series in BMW’s line-up for more than four decades now, and we’re well into the…
The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Biden administration on Wednesday laid out a set of requirements for charging hardware—and charging network behavior—that any company looking at claiming federal funds in the buildout of the $7.5 billion national EV charging network will need to submit to. Even Tesla. The final requirements add to the administration’s “Build America, Buy America” approach, and they’re requirements that any of the federally approved, state-designated processes granting companies any of the $5 billion designated as National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funding will need to comply with. NEVI is effectively the policy name of the national…
After dominating Formula 1 for much of the past decade, Mercedes-Benz AMG saw its performance fade with the new car design regulations introduced for the 2022 season. The team finished third in the Constructors’ standings, behind Red Bull Racing and Ferrari, while its best-ranked driver, George Russell, finished fourth in the championship. Mercedes on Wednesday revealed the W14 E Performance as its contender for the 2023 season, and even though the design rules haven’t changed, Mercedes said it has taken the lessons learned from the difficult previous season to develop the new race car. Some of the results of these…
The Volkswagen Group is preparing a family of subcompact EVs that will include a member for the Volkswagen brand. VW previewed a potential design for its EV in 2021 with the ID.Life concept, though the automaker has since abandoned the boxy crossover design of the concept in favor of a sleeker hatchback shape. The new EV, together with siblings from the SEAT and Skoda brands, will be built at plants in Spain, with the first expected in 2025. VW has previously mentioned a starting price of around 20,000 euros (approximately $21,350) for its version, though that was before the start…
A handful of Formula 1 teams have revealed their race cars for the 2023 season, and among them is Ferrari which showed off the new SF-23 on Tuesday. The car was shown at Ferrari’s Fiorano test track in Maranello, Italy, with current drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz on hand to help present it. Also joining them was new Team Principal Fred Vasseur. As is the case with other cars developed for the new season, the SF-23 is largely an evolution of the previous season’s design. Its livery is new, though. It features some areas in bare carbon fiber, and…
A portion of Tesla’s vast charging network in the U.S. will soon be open to electric vehicles from other brands, the White House announced on Wednesday. The move is in response to the $7.5 billion federal investment in charging infrastructure that forms part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed in 2021, rules for which were detailed on Wednesday. Under the plan, by the end of 2024, at least 3,500 of Tesla’s high-speed Supercharger chargers located along major highways and 4,000 of its slower Destination chargers located at sites like hotels and restaurants, new or existing, will feature the Combined Charging…
Cadillac’s slow rollout of EVs seems to be a precursor to a flood that’s on the way. On Wednesday during a media briefing, Cadillac Global Vice President Ron Harvey confirmed the luxury automaker will debut three new EVs in 2023. Harvey said all three EVs will go into production in 2024, but it gets complicated from there. Some of the undisclosed EVs will be global vehicles sold in multiple markets. This will lead to them being produced in multiple factories in different regions with staggered rollouts for various markets. Harvey would not comment on what type of vehicles these new…
Toyota is recalling certain 2021 RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrids to address an issue that could cause vehicles to stall in cold weather. The affected vehicles have hybrid-system software that could trigger a shutdown of the powertrain while driving in EV mode in cold temperatures “if the accelerator is rapidly pressed to further accelerate the vehicle,” according to a report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). However, that’s dependent on “the battery parameters and the vehicle operating mode at the time,” the report said. 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime XSE The recall encompasses 16,679 vehicles, but not all were sold…
The Maserati GranTurismo has been redesigned for 2024, and we’ve just tested it ahead of the market launch this spring. The big coupe may feature evolutionary styling, but the previous model’s V-8 has made way for a twin-turbo V-6, and there will eventually be an electric option promising 760 hp. Ram revealed its electric 1500 pickup truck in an ad that aired during Sunday’s Super Bowl LVII. The battery-powered truck is due in 2024 and features styling that’s much closer to the current internal-combustion 1500 than the electric 1500 Revolution concept shown during January’s 2023 CES. Toyota gets a new…