Could EVs Help Stabilize Electric Grids?
About a billion vehicles are on roads around the world, and while electric cars are in the minority, their piece of the pie continues to grow. As electric cars gain popularity there will be more of them hooked up to the electric grid to take power and charge, with a bigger drain on the system […]
Should I Buy an EV or a Plug-in Hybrid? A Four-Question Guide
Electric vehicles are becoming more and more common, with automakers promising more and more to come. So, as the holiday buying season comes around, one question rises to the forefront: should I buy an electric car or a plug-in hybrid? To answer that, there are a few questions to ask yourself (please note that these […]
BMW Updates the 2018 i3 with Sharper Looks and More Performance
Ever since the BMW i3 arrived on the automotive scene back in 2014, it has garnered a healthy amount of praise. With that said, the BMW i3 is not without criticism, most of which is due to its looks and lack of performance. In response, BMW addressed both of these concerns with the 2018 BMW […]
10 Vehicles Named After Animals
From the Ford Mustang to the Dodge Viper, explore the vehicular animal kingdom in this special car safari
Choosing what to name a vehicle is an important decision to make during that model’s design process. Names like “Corvette,” “Civic,” and “Mustang” have only become iconic and recognizable due to automakers carefully selecting those titles. Automakers often obtain inspiration for vehicle nameplates from a wide range of sources. One of the most common of these sources […]
Couple Buys San Francisco Street in Posh Neighborhood, Enraged Millionaires Sue
Home ownership is pretty common. But street ownership? Not so much. Two real estate investors from San Jose, Tina Lam and Michael Cheng, actually did buy a street. Back in April 2015, they purchased an exclusive private street in the Presidio Terrace neighborhood that was being sold via public auction along with other tax-defaulted properties. Now, […]
Report: Focus Group Shown Encore-Like Buick EV Crossover Based on Chevy Bolt
The future, at long last, seems increasingly likely to be an electric one for the automotive industry. Among those leading the charge is General Motors, whose new Chevrolet Bolt EV has been tapped to begin its nationwide rollout this month and has thus far been a hit in its limited release. This might lead one […]
Where the Top 10 Companies are with Self-Driving Cars
With so many major car manufacturers and tech companies in the self-driving car race, it’s hard to keep up with each one’s progress. Each one has a different proposed release date for their self-driving car contribution. Some manufacturers have modified those proposed release dates based on how fast or slow the technology development and design […]
Car News In the Rearview: Mustang Burnouts to the People
Hello, and welcome to In the Rearview, where I bring you the week’s car news, this time in a nice, concise bundle of information. First up this week, Mitsubishi Motors President and CEO Osamu Masuko has dropped the second of those two titles, and will soon be dropped from the first one as Mitsubishi restructures […]
How to Polish Your Car’s Castle — Garage Organizing Tips
If your car’s castle, aka the garage, is threatening the beauty of your car, then it’s time to clean out, de-clutter, and organize. The stuff in your garage–bicycles, tools, outdoor equipment, lawn care, decorations, and everything else that doesn’t have a place in the house–can easily start to take over until your garage is just […]
Car News In the Rearview: Cuba Is a Bummer
Welcome once again to In the Rearview, where I, your friendly neighborhood farmer of car news, carefully harvest the kernels from the past week’s stories, bring them to you here in a nicely bottled, distilled form. This week, our first story is a bit of a followup to a story from the previous In the […]
Datsun Brings Home Gold At the Concours d’Elegance of Texas
When you hear the words “Concours d’Elegance” you think of beautiful classic cars from the best luxury brands. However, when you think of Texas, images of trucks and wild terrain comes to mind instead. Those two things came together in Arlington, Texas, this month at the Concours d’Elegance of Texas, and a classic Datsun rolled […]
Oil Prices Thrashed By Conflict and Production Changes
One commodity price that has enormous influence over the American mood is oil. Our country’s dependence on our vehicles to get to work, school, and other essential places means that when gas prices rise we all feel the pain in our budgets (unless you made the decision to buy an EV). Two major factors this […]
Mitsubishi Expects US Sales to Surpass 100,000 in 2017
Mitsubishi expects vehicle sales in the United States to surpass the 100,000 mark this year for what would be the first time in a decade, even though its highly-anticipated upcoming crossover won’t launch until early 2018—and of course, despite the 2016 fuel economy scandal. Then again, the latter did little to slow down Mitsubishi’s US […]
Mitsubishi Refuses to Give Up; Sales Up 1% in December 2016
Yep, Mitsubishi is still around—and it has no intention of going anywhere. If you were staying on top of current events in the automotive world about eight months ago, when the news came out that Mitsubishi had been cheating its fuel economy numbers, you might have believed that by now, Mitsubishi—which had already been struggling […]
In the Rearview: All of 2016
Welcome to this special edition of In the Rearview, where instead of looking back over the last week, we looked back over the last 52, picking out some of the biggest and best automotive news of 2016. I Heard ‘Biggest’ and ‘Best’: So check out Chevy’s sweet lineup of SUVs and crossovers We begin with […]
Carlos Ghosn Honored by LinkedIn
Carlos Ghosn, the chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, is kind of a rockstar in the business world. This is especially true in France and Japan, where the automotive giants maintain their respective headquarters. It should come as no surprise, then, that Ghosn has been given the top spot on LinkedIn’s “Top Voices” in […]
Ford Thinks Sailor Moon Drives a Ford Fusion
In a series of commercials released by Ford this year, the automaker records new English dialogue for several famous foreign language shows (like Japanese anime and Spanish telenovellas) and video games, a process called overdubbing, as a way to advertise for new Ford vehicles. One of the shows that received this treatment was the old […]
Chevy Bolt to Hit Dealers Between October and December
Chevy has been very aggressive with getting its (and the industry’s) first long-distance, affordable EV ready to sell. It seems like just yesterday that the car was small, boxy, orange, and being trotted around the Detroit Auto Show in 2015, and the brand has pushed the development of the car quickly, debuting a production version […]