Market Gladiators BMW sees significant profit growth in 2021 verified_publisherCNBC German carmaker BMW on Wednesday said it expects a significant year-on-year increase in group pretax profit in 2021 as it forecast a strong …
Market GladiatorsAutomotive Industry Lordstown Motors Sets Debut Report Without Any EV Pickups to Show Off verified_publisherBloomberg - Esha Dey Lordstown Motors Corp.’s first-ever quarterly report is likely to be overshadowed by broader concerns about customer demand and progress on getting …
Market Gladiators Kia unveils the EV6, the most okay-est looking EV of 2021 verified_publisherTNW - Matthew BeedhamIt’s Monday, so you know what that means! It’s time for another legacy automaker to unveil how they’re going to pivot to a world where every car is powered by electricity. Yay! This week, it’s the turn...
Market GladiatorsAutonomous Vehicles Cruise acquires driverless vehicle startup Voyage to tackle dense urban environments verified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersGM-backed Cruise today announced it is acquiring Voyage, following Bloomberg’s early March report of a potential deal. Terms of the buyout weren’t disclosed, but Voyage CEO Oliver Cameron said “key members”...
Market Gladiators Watch Tesla’s all-electric Semi hum around a test track verified_publisherDigital Trends - By Trevor Mogg Tesla has just released a video showing its all-electric Class 8 Semi truck humming around the automaker’s test track beside its factory in Fremont, …
Market Gladiators Kia offers a first look at its new EV6 electric car | Engadget verified_publisherEngadget - Steve DentIt shares Hyundai's Ioniq 5 platform, but Kia took a different design approach. After teasing it last week, Kia has fully shown the EV6, its next-generation electric car built on parent Hyundai's E-GMP...
Market Gladiators Xpeng predicts it will deliver fewer electric cars than Nio verified_publisherCNBC - Evelyn Cheng BEIJING — Chinese electric car maker Xpeng forecast it will deliver far fewer cars than rival start-up Nio in the first three months of the year. New …
Market Gladiators Electric Vehicles Closing Price Gap verified_publisherBloomberg Inexpensive new cars have practically vanished from the U.S. market. One upside? Comparable electric vehicle prices
Market Gladiators Elon Musk trolls GM, Chrysler on Twitter. Ford CEO responds with 1 word. verified_publisherUSA TODAY Money - Phoebe Wall HowardJust one word. That's all Ford CEO Jim Farley used to respond to Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday. "Tesla & Ford are the only American carmakers not to have gone bankrupt out of 1000’s of car startups. Prototypes...
Market Gladiators Ultra-fast charger by Israeli startup promises to power up e-vehicle adoption Mashable - Ayub DawoodElectric vehicles may be a transport system for the future, but the fear of running out of power and the uncertainty of finding charging points in time, causes reluctance among consumers. Another factor...
Market Gladiators Electric vehicle companies you may not know: Weltmeister - Electrek verified_publisherElectrek - Scooter DollWe tend to cover a lot of big news pertaining to electric vehicle market leaders (by value and recognition). That said, there are a lots of lesser-known electric vehicle companies that don’t get as much...
Market Gladiators20 cars we'd buy if we suddenly had the cashBy AutoweekMeme stock money? Bitcoin windfall? These are the cars we'd splurge on.
Market Gladiators Florida man pleads guilty to using PPP funds to buy a $318,000 Lamborghini verified_publisherFortune - Chris Morris A man in Miami has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining funds from the Paycheck Protection Program and spending them on, among other things, a …
Market Gladiators Idemitsu Plans to Sell Electric Vehicles This Year, Nikkei Says verified_publisherBloomberg - Takashi Mochizuki Japanese oil company Idemitsu Kosan Co. plans to market an electric vehicle this year, making it the first non-carmaking company in the country to …
Market Gladiators Tesla produces another new Tesla Semi electric truck - Electrek verified_publisherElectrek - Fred LambertAnother Tesla Semi electric truck prototype was spotted, the second one in a few weeks after years without a new prototype, as Tesla is moving to volume production later this year. As we reported earlier...
Market Gladiators Watch the fiery Daytona 500 crash that caused a wild finish and Michael McDowell's win sportingnews.com - Jordan Heck The Daytona 500 ended in a fiery crash on the final lap of the race, setting up an upset win by driver Michael McDowell. McDowell was a 100-1 underdog …
Market GladiatorsTesla Roadster Elon Musk wants to make the Tesla Roadster hover -- yes, really verified_publisherRoadshow - Kyle Hyatt Tesla's CEO talked about the Roadster as well as the infamous Cybertruck window incident on the Joe Rogan Experience.
Market GladiatorsEnergy Polydrop camping trailer optimized for EV towing and off-grid living verified_publishernewatlas.com - By C.C. Weiss In 2019, California startup Polydrops reimagined the teardrop trailer as an angular mobile personal space designed to escape the world. Now it's back …
Market Gladiators Mercedes recalling more than 1 million vehicles over emergency-call location error verified_publisherThe Verge - Kim LyonsMercedes-Benz USA is recalling 1.29 million vehicles because of a failure in its eCall software which may not provide a vehicle’s correct location to emergency responders after a crash, Car and Driver...
Market GladiatorsAndroid Auto How to set up Android Auto; driving with Google as your copilot verified_publisherDigital Trends - By Michael Archambault With Android Auto, you can keep your focus on the road while still accessing maps, music, podcasts, messages, phone calls, and more from your Android …
Market Gladiators VW boss isn't worried about threat of overnight success for Apple Car Cult of Mac - Luke DormehlWelcome, Apple…. Seriously. That, in essence, seems to be the message from Volkswagen chief exec Herbert Diess in a recent interview, responding to rumors about the Apple car. “The car industry is not...
Market Gladiators Jaguar to build only all-electric cars by 2025 verified_publisherRoadshow - Sean Keane The luxury brand will move away from gas and hybrid models completely, while its Land Rover division will shift more gradually.
Market GladiatorsTesla VW’s Battery Bet Reveals Data Showing Tech Could Top Tesla verified_publisherBloomberg - Gabrielle Coppola, Akshat Rathi QuantumScape Corp., a battery startup that counts Volkswagen AG as its largest shareholder, says new data show its batteries can be charged to as …
Market GladiatorsThe One Electric Car That Might Beat Tesla At Its Own GameBy HotCarsFisker Inc.—the car company built by Henrik Fisker—has a new crossover luxury SUV coming out, and it’s making a big splash. Unveiled just before the 2020 CES in Las Vegas, the Fisker Ocean is its first fully-electric SUV, and once people learned more about it, they realized that it might have the capability to dethrone Tesla in the EV/SUV market segment.
Market Gladiators Alfa Romeo Berlina Aerodinamica Tecnica Concept Cars verified_publisheruncrate.com - Uncrate There was a time when concept cars were more than just a preview at an upcoming model — they were an unleashed vision of what every part of an …
Market Gladiators Tesla refreshes the Model 3 with improved range, a heated steering wheel, and more TechSpot - Cohen Coberly In brief: Tesla's first mass-market vehicle (or as close to mass-market as it gets for the carmaker), the Model 3, has just received a significant …
Market Gladiators Tesla’s seven-day return policy has been quietly removed verified_publisherThe Verge - Nick StattTesla has reportedly canceled an audacious return policy in which new buyers of its electric vehicles could return them for a full refund within seven days. The news, reported on Friday by Electrek, marks...
Market Gladiators Rivian builds an all-electric delivery van for Amazon verified_publishernewatlas.com - By Nick Lavars Last year, Amazon signed a deal to buy 100,000 electric trucks from automotive startup Rivian, and today the pair have offered a first real look …
Market GladiatorsWaymo Waymo Begins Fully Driverless Rides for All Arizona Customers verified_publisherBloomberg - Ira Boudway The Google sister company is the first to offer a commercial ride-hailing service in cars with empty front seats. Waymo said Thursday that it is …
