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High-roof Slate Auto cargo; made w/ AI. Bezos-backed Slate Auto is serious about the commercial truck market, and the company’s Fleet Business Development team shared some of the most detailed information about the rumored high roof cargo kit yet at the brand’s ongoing Portland ride-along event. Instagram account slateautomods reported that Christian Kreipke, Slate Auto’s Fleet Business Development and Government Sales Lead, confirmed that a high-roof cargo topper conceptually similar to the brand’s existing SUV kit would be made available to buyers of the minimalistic, $25,000 “affordable” truck. The best part? The new cargo kit isn’t just for fleet buyers:…
Maserati: The Brothers is a new movie that tells the story of the automaker’s triumph at the Indianapolis 500. The film stars Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Andy Garcia, and Jessica Alba, along with Michele Morrone as Alfieri Maserati, Salvatore as Bindo, and Lorenzo De Moor as Carlo. The film has a tentative release date of October 15 in Italy. International distribution is in the works. Six brothers, a workshop in Bologna, and a dream that in 1926 seemed out of reach: taking on the automotive world with hand-built machinery. That dream is now turning into a film, previewed by its official trailer.…
The Tiger Li-Ion electric baggage tug is quietly revolutionizing the airport ground handling and ground support equipment (GSE) market with silent, emission-free running, massive fuel savings, and a 60,000 lb. (!) payload capacity. Despite their fun, approachable appearance, airport baggage tugs are seriously capable machines, geared down to produce the sort of immense torque necessary to haul literal tons of luggage (or airplanes) from terminal to tarmac hundreds of times a day on duty cycles that would trash your neighbor’s “tough guy” pickup in under a month. That amount of work requires huge amounts of energy and, as a consequence,…
BMW’s next M Performance X7 SUV has been caught on test at the Nurburgring. The flagship SUV keeps V8 power while gaining BMW’s latest cabin technology. An electric iX7 is coming too, plus an Alpina flagship for really wealthy buyers. BMW might be pushing hard into its Neue Klasse era, but its biggest SUV isn’t throwing everything familiar in the bin. Fresh spy shots show the next X7 pounding around the Nurburgring in M Performance tune, complete with four very visible, very rumbly exhaust pipes confirming V8 power will survive for a few more years yet. var adpushup = window.adpushup…
Tesla is denying rumors that it has pulled its “Full Self-Driving” team out of China, saying its Shanghai data center is “operating normally” and that it has even reported the claims to police. The denial comes as China remains conspicuously absent from Tesla’s own list of markets where customers can subscribe to FSD because of the regulatory limbo the driver assist system faces. What the rumors claimed Rumors circulated on Chinese social media on Tuesday claiming that Tesla’s Shanghai data center — set up specifically to prepare the ground for a “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” launch in China — had been…
Tesla’s residential solar business has been shrinking for most of a decade, ever since the company absorbed SolarCity in 2016. Now, with electricity rates climbing across the US, Tesla is trying to revive it around a new in-house solar panel and Powerwall 3 — while quietly retiring the product it was once best known for. Earlier this month, Tesla discontinued its Solar Roof, the glass solar tile it launched in 2016. It was always a tiny piece of the business, and its end says more about where Tesla solar is going than where it’s been. From the biggest installer to…
96 electric terminal trucks from Orange EV, 34 electric rubber-tired gantry cranes from Konecranes, and massive investments in modernization and workforce development – and that’s just part of what APM Terminals Elizabeth is bringing to the Port of New York and New Jersey. APM Terminals Elizabeth is a massive operation, moving nearly 30% of container traffic across the Port of New York and New Jersey and supporting more than 600 vessel calls and 800,000 truck loads each year. That kind of volume puts things like managing projections and minimizing downtime absolutely critical for the company’s long-term success – so, of course, they…
Just when you thought the SONDORS story was over, Storm Sondors appears to be mounting another comeback. The entrepreneur behind one of the most influential – and eventually most controversial – electric bike companies in the US has resurfaced with a mysterious new two-wheeler being teased on the SONDORS website. For now, details are exceedingly thin. The SONDORS website has been stripped down to little more than a dark teaser image showing what appears to be a new moped-style electric bicycle, along with “001” and a September 3 date. Admittedly, it doesn’t show much. But after I cranked up the…
The Mercedes-Maybach G 650 Landaulet is already one of the rarest and most outrageous versions of the G-Class. Now, one of just 99 examples is heading to auction in Belgium, and it has barely been driven. The 2018 G 650 Landaulet shows just 200 km (125 miles) on its odometer. It is finished in Designo Mystic White with a Beige Exclusive leather interior and a matching folding soft-top covering the rear passenger compartment. It is brought to life by a 6.0-litre twin-turbocharged V12 from Mercedes-AMG, producing 621 hp. Power goes through a seven-speed automatic transmission, allowing this enormous luxury off-roader…
Leading today’s Green Deals is the Segway Navimow Labor Day robot sale, with offers like the advanced X430 Robotic Lawn Mower down at its second-lowest $2,249 price, among others starting from $669. We also have the EcoFlow August Monthly Madness flash sale with three power station units, a dual fuel generator unit, and two EcoCredits promotions starting from $1 – plus, there’s a 24-hour deal to score the 1,024Wh DELTA 3 Classic Portable Power Station with a 45W solar panel for $499. We also have a budget-friendly Worx cordless electric hedge trimmer at its 2026 low, and more waiting for…