January 25, 2017
Driving the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV
The Bolt is designed to be approachable and at least a little familiar at first, even though it’s actually a very different kind of car under the hood,…
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January 24, 2017
Here’s how Chevrolet built a practical electric vehicle with the 2017 Bolt EV
Chevrolet said it was going to bring an affordable, long-range electric vehicle to market – and it did, with the 2017 Bolt EV. I visited Palo Alto to…
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Ford, GM and FCA CEOs meet with Trump to discuss regulation and job creation
Donald Trump met with top execs at all three major U.S. automakers on Tuesday, in a sit-down in which he laid out his desire to see the car…
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Kreisel’s fully electric Mercedes G-Class is the Terminator’s off-road vehicle of choice
Electric vehicles tend to be designed with a certain customer in mind, and typically this imagined buyer is probably bookish, possibly vegan and mostly concerned with getting around…
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EquipmentShare, the Airbnb of construction, raises $26 million
It hasn’t even been a year since EquipmentShare raised a Series A round of funding, but the “Airbnb of construction rentals,” has closed a $26 million Series B…
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FLYR raised $8 million to change the way we buy plane tickets
Travel tech startup FLYR raised $8 million in Series A funding for technology that predicts the price of airfare by applying artificial intelligence to a database of both…
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Ford begins testing Transit Plug-in Hybrids in London ahead of 2019 production
Ford has begun testing of its new Transit Custom Plug-In Hybrid with Transport for London, working with the UK city’s local transit authority to pilot 20 of the…
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Tesla now offers a 100D Model S and Model X with extended range
Tesla’s new 100 kWh battery pack first arrived with a “performance” designation, hence the “P” in P100D, but now the company has released the 100D version of the…
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Tesla to build Model 3 motors and gearboxes at its Gigafactory
Tesla will be making electric motors and gearboxes at its Nevada Gigafactory, in addition to batteries. The news comes from Nevada governor Brian Sandoval, who discussed that additional…
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Fiat Chrysler under investigation by U.S. Justice Department over emissions
Thursday we learned that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is investigating Fiat Chrysler U.S. (FCA) regarding alleged software-based circumvention of emissions standards. On Friday, Bloomberg reported that the…
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