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Ford to pull out of 2019 Geneva International Motor Show
Ford will not attend the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show Ford is pulling out of next years 2019 Geneva International Motor Show. They are not the first to pull out of the iconic car show as they will join Volvo in skipping the annual event that marks the start of Europe's show calendar. The giant car manufacturer said the decision...
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Global Transportation to Change and Change Utterly
Global Transportation set to Change The global transportation economy and landscape is totally changing and within 15 years virtually all vehicular traffic will be by autonomous electric vehicles (A-EVs). This will inevitably and fundamentally change how society works and thankfully, largely for the better. EV’s are cheaper. Period, which means we are going to use them and this transition won’t...
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Tesla has reached target and rolled out 7,000 cars in one week
Tesla Motors has reached their ambitious meeting goal of 5,000 Model 3s manufactured in one week and surpassing them to build 7,000 cars in all. Their goal all along was to produce 5,000 Model 3 cars per week before the close of the second quarter. They have certainly demonstrated their ability to mass produce the battery-powered vehicles to cover demand....
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South Korean cars rank top in quality in the United States
An annual study of new car quality in the United States has revealed that the Genesis, Kia and Hyundai brands outdone Porsche to take the top three spots in J.D. Power's closely watched annual study. Hyundai's luxury line, Genesis, ranked No. 1, with 68 problems reported per 100 vehicles, with Kia and Hyundai trailing closely behind. The Initial Quality Study...
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BP buys UK's biggest electric car charger network for £130m
BP has acquisitioned Chargemaster, the UK’s biggest electric car charger network for £130m. This is being spun in certain sectors as a milestone towards cleaner motoring with 6,500 charging points. This is the latest sign of a major oil producer addressing the threat that low-carbon vehicles pose to their core business. British Petroleum estimates the number of electric vehicles will...
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WATCH: Driver crashes Ferrari 458 Italia minutes after renting the expensive supercar
A combination of bad fortune and poor weather led this driver to crash a Ferrari 458 Italia supercar, just minutes after renting it. The incident took place in the city of Wenling in China and shows the exotic sports car going out of control, slipping and sliding across the road before hitting a guardrail median and colliding with an oncoming...
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What should you do when you see a dog in a hot car?
What should you do if you see a dog locked in a hot car? Can you break into someone else's car to save a dog's life? Well, this question has been asked by many as it is a continuing problem. So can you break into a car to save a dog's life? Well just recently, the Thames Valley Police...
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Italy Wants to Put a Million Electric Cars on the Road
Italy has the most sluggish market for electric cars in the whole of Europe and to catch up with the emerging EV market, they are rolling out an ambitious plan to put 1 million electric vehicles on Italy’s roads. It is estimated that cost of the plan will cost the state almost €10 billion in incentives. The incentives that are...
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Car investment slumps as Brexit uncertainty strikes the industry
According to some of the latest figures from the motoring industry in Britain, Investment in has fallen by half since Brexit preparations began. The Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders (SMMT) in the UK said that Brexit uncertainty was "thwarting" decisions by all the biggest car manufacturers to invest more money into their UK factories. In the first half of...
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Saudi women celebrate as driving ban is finally lifted!
Saudi women celebrate as driving ban is finally lifted Saudi women are celebrating this week as the driving ban for women has been lifted. One Saudi lady exclaimed, 'I feel free like a bird'. Up until September 2017, Saudi Arabia was astonishingly the only country in the world where women were forbidden to drive cars. The women to drive movement...