Most of the changes occurring within the automotive market in the present day, together with tightened credit markets in a capital-intensive trade and increased authorities involvement are the newest global challenges. On the end of World Conflict II the American car business had intact amenities, somewhat enlarged by construction for […]
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Future Developments, Imports, Exports & Costs
Transport infrastructure consists of the fastened installations, including roads , railways , airways , waterways , canals and pipelines and terminals resembling airports , railway stations , bus stations , warehouses , trucking terminals, refueling depots (together with fueling docks and gasoline stations ) and seaports Terminals could also be […]
How Cadillac’s EV Future Won’t Leave Internal Combustion Fans Behind
Cadillac VP Rory Harvey joined Cadillac in 2018 after three decades in the business working with General Motors and leading Opel Ireland as the CEO. He doesn’t mince words and he has a holistic view of the business: he isn’t jaded and he isn’t blind, either. So when I asked […]
How Rising F1 Star Lando Norris Sees the Sport’s Future Beyond 2022
Lando Norris is a busy man. When he’s not hauling in the points in a Formula One car, he’s streaming on Twitch, where the 21-year-old just went over a million followers despite being in the middle of the most gruelingly long F1 season ever. And if he isn’t doing that, […]
A Realistic Look at How Future Electric Jeep Wranglers Could Drive Underwater
Floating is very different from fully submerging, though. Again, there are some electric vehicles—well, one I could find—that are actually built to run through water with their wheels on the ground. The FOMM One, which seems to be some sort of Thai Renault Twingo, originally announced itself as a swimming […]
The Stinky Chemical in Cat Pee Could Fuel the Hydrogen Future
How to power a greener future is a big question. Climate change is an extinction-level threat to a hell of a lot of life on earth, including us, but we don’t have a magic bullet solution for how to transition to cleaner technologies. Battery electric vehicles are currently dependent on […]
Porsche’s Future EV Batteries Will Be Developed on the Race Track
Volkswagen Group’s Power Day had a fair number of surprises, from a gigantic investment in battery supply to a moment early on when Porsche CEO Oliver Blume came forward to talk about motorsport’s role in the companies’ electrification strategy. It was surprising not because you wouldn’t assume Porsche—whose sister-brand Audi […]
The Future Might Be Even Bigger Touch Screens In Your Car
From $16,000 bathtubs to wine robots, CES 2021 hasn’t let the pandemic get in the way of showcasing tons of new, innovative and downright bizarre products. Many of the creations shown, however, have also been just really enormous touchscreens for your car. The question of how the information on your […]
The Cadillac Lyriq Leads GM’s Electric Luxury Future, But It’s Not Really For the US
The goal was to point out the new Cadillac range encompassed everything from the new CTS sport sedan to the Escalade to a luxury touring convertible built alongside the C6 Corvette. (The CTS appeared in The Matrix Reloaded the same year.) The message was that the brand with the newly […]
The Electric Future Comes at the Cost of Updates to Today’s Cars
Good morning and welcome back to Speed Lines, The Drive’s roundup of what matters in the world of cars and transportation. It is a slow news Friday in the business, although I may have jinxed myself for saying as much. Today we’re talking about the costs of electrification, Tesla’s sky-high […]
The Ford Ghia Concept Car Is a ’90s Vision of the Future That You Can Buy on Bring a Trailer
Occasionally, an automaker will roll out a concept car that’s as functional as it is wacky, but those are traditionally the exception rather than the rule. This Ford Via Concept, unfortunately, falls on the non-functional end of that spectrum, but it’s up for auction right now on Bring a Trailer […]