Voice of AOL’s “You’ve Got Mail” Now an Uber Driver in Cleveland
If you’re old enough to recognize the cacophony of screeches and beeping noises that once signaled the start of your dial-up Internet connection, no doubt you also recognize the famous AOL sign-on greeting, “You’ve got mail!” The phrase entered the popular lexicon during the 1990s, at one time being heard more than 35 million times […]
The Indians Lost Last Night, But So Did This Car Parked On Addison Street
As someone who recently moved from Ohio to Chicago, I was faced with a real moral dilemma last night while I watched Game 7 of the World Series: Should I root for the team from my home state, or should I root to not die in the riot that inevitably breaks out if the Cubs […]
Chevrolet Officially to Ship Bolt EV to South Korea
As we have talked about a few different times, Chevrolet has been pretty low-key about where it was going to be selling the Bolt EV once it was ready to be shipped out. Now, it seems that one of the places to receive the Bolt early next year will be a country which the brand […]
Watch the 2017 Chevy Silverado 2500HD Carhartt Concept Debut in Detroit [VIDEO]
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Chevrolet has stumbled upon a pretty brilliant marketing scheme—pair its popular Silverado pickup with a clothing company beloved by rural, blue-collar truck drivers. Perhaps that strategy was inspired by that custom Silverado that Kid Rock made for last year’s SEMA Show that featured metallic seat inserts patterned after acid-wash jeans. Either way, it has led […]
GM’s Maven Expands to Ninth Market, San Francisco
General Motors’ own car-sharing service, Maven, has expanded once more into a new market, the company announced on the 13th. This time, it will open for business in San Francisco, its ninth market since its launch at the beginning of the year. San Francisco provides unique challenges for competition, since as a technology hub the […]
GM Invests in Chinese Car-Sharing Company
When it comes to the debate over whether or not car-sharing services will replace traditional car ownership, General Motors certainly appears to be covering all the possibilities. First, GM invested heavily in Lyft, then created its own car-sharing service called Maven, and finally has recently invested in Yi Wei Xing Technology Company. Yi Wei Xing […]
Congrats, California and Oregon: You Get the First Chevy Bolts
As we creep closer and closer to the release of the Chevy Bolt, General Motors has kept absolutely silent on the delivery schedule for the electric vehicle, even when an executive from Lyft claimed that the ridesharing company would receive the first models. However, now, thanks to a southern California dealer first posting on the […]
GM Expands Car Sharing Interests With Investment in Yi Wei Xing
General Motors has shown an eye for the future of transportation by investing big in car sharing and ridesharing companies. GM has already invested quite a bit (as in $500 million) in Lyft, and partnered with the company to create Express Drive, which allows Lyft drivers to rent GM vehicles. The company also has its […]
Kia Report Predicts Future of Automotive Industry
It has been 25 years since the Kia brand launched in the United Kingdom, and the Korean carmaker wants to celebrate this milestone right. So what did it do? Well, Kia released a report to predict the future of the automotive industry in 25 years—and it has some interesting predictions. Kia believes that over half […]
Chevy #DiscoverTheUnexpected Students Interview Civil Rights Figures in Chicago and Atlanta
In March, Chevrolet announced that it had teamed with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) to help sponsor a new fellowship program at Howard University’s School of Communications, called “Discover the Unexpected” (DTU). As part of the fellowship, eight Howard students were selected to gain valuable experience working at NNPA-member papers based in Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, and Washington DC. […]
IRS Reminds America That Even Uber Income is Taxed
Driving a car for Uber and Lyft can be stressful, especially since there are so many services and laws coming out of the woodwork to regulate the very legitimate challenge to existing taxi services. Being able to choose hours to work based on your schedule, however, is very attractive to many people looking to make […]
GM and US Army Create Chevy Colorado-Based Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle
Today General Motors announced that it has teamed up with the US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) to create a Chevy Colorado-based fuel cell electric vehicle. The collaborative EV will be revealed this October at the fall meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) in Washington, DC. The vehicle […]
Chevrolet Quells Rumors, Confirms Bolt Will Still Come to Dealerships This Year
Chevrolet has confirmed that its new all-electric hatchback is on track for a late-2016 launch, counter to rumors flying that the Bolt would be delayed by as much as 6 months. Fred Ligouri, Chevrolet spokesman, told Automotive News, “We’re on the same timeline we’ve always communicated. […] Retail production of the 2017 Bolt EV begins […]
Taxis Become Beneficiaries of New Massachusetts Uber Tax
The ongoing battle between established taxi companies and ride-sharing drivers for Uber and Lyft continues on the streets of America’s largest cities. One state, Massachusetts, decided to pass a new law that not only makes operations by Lyft and Uber more expensive but actually subsidizes the struggling taxi industry. According to Mashable, the state will […]
Toledo Celebrates 75th Jeep Anniversary with First-Ever Jeep Festival
Since Jeep first rolled off the assembly line during World War II, Toledo, Ohio, has been its home. Willys-Overland Motors first began production in 1941, creating the perfect military vehicle. When the war neared its end, the company recognized that the military-oriented vehicle was popular among civilians, too—so it decided to produce the Jeep CJ […]
2017 Lincoln Continental Overview
After being discontinued in 2002, the Lincoln Continental has returned to the luxury sedan segment for the first time in 15 years. Based on the CD4 platform that’s also used with the Lincoln MKZ and Ford Fusion sedans, the 2017 Lincoln Continental comes standard as a front-wheel drive vehicle, but all-wheel drive is available at […]
Didi Chuxing Buys Uber China
If you have followed Uber’s foray into the Chinese market, you already know that it has been met with myriad difficulties, from not being explicitly legal to a much, much larger competitor in Didi Chuxing, a huge company which offers the same sort of ride-hailing service, while also offering taxi hailing, private car hiring, and […]
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 […]