Driving The ‘Beast’, Drinking The Mirai’s Exhaust And Slashing EV Production In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup
The Tesla Cybertruck has only been terrorizing America’s roads for a little over six months, but someone has already managed to get their massive electric pickup truck totalled. A plucky engineer bought the wrecked monstrosity and is attempting to brin...
2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1: The Fastest, Most Powerful Corvette Ever
The LT7 engine produces 1,064 horsepower at 7,000 rpm and 828 lb-ft of torque at 6,000 rpm, per SAE guidelines ? the most power ever from a factory Corvette and the most powerful V8 ever produced in America from an auto manufacturer.2025 Chevrolet Corv...
2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 arrives with over 1,000 hp
Chevrolet has revealed the 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, the most powerful member of the C8 Corvette lineup to date, featuring numerous performance and design updates. Powering the 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is Chevrolet’s new 5.5-lt “LT7” V8, a derivative of the engine found on the Z06, though with quite a few upgrades. This LT7 engine […]
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Startups and slowdowns in EV and battery plans
Over the past few weeks, BEV assembly and battery plants have
opened, started construction, and been delayed, as globally the
industry adjusts to an inconsistent demand path.The S&P Global Mobility AutoIntelligence service
provides daily analys...
China retail June 2024: Market sinks -13.3%, AITO, Zeekr break records
Zeekr breaks its monthly volume record in June. We can share with you today All brands and All models retail sales data for China in June. Sales for the selection of vehicles included in this report drop a harsh -13.3%…
China imports June 2024: Range Rover up to #4
The Range Rover is up to #4 among imports in China in June. Sales of new imports in China retrograde -14.7% year-on-year in June to 52,925 units, bringing the H1 2024 tally -10.1% to 316,171. Lexus (-0.9%) resists very well…
July US auto sales to realize bounce from June impacts
Given the shift of delayed new vehicle purchases which stemmed
from the dealer management software cyberattack, the pace of sales
in July is expected to realize a notable boost.S&P Global Mobility projects US sales volume for new light
vehicle ...
Fuel for Thought: Battery Industry Blues: Consequences of the EV Slowdown
Listen
to the Fuel for Thought podcast.With a slowdown in enthusiasm for battery electric vehicles,
the battery industry is wrestling with a combination of oversupply,
underutilization of capacity and lower return on investments.Since the second half o...
BriefCASE: Self-driven – Rising from the East
If you travel to mainland China 10 years from now, you will see
more commercial autonomous vehicles operating on public roads than
anywhere else in the world. That's an estimate based on the
mainland Chinese government's focus to build a regula...
Singapore June 2024: BYD (+571.7%), Hyundai (+231.3%) impress, sales up 61.8%
Hyundai sales are up 231.3% year-on-year in Singapore. 3,774 new cars found a buyer in Singapore in June, a fantastic 61.8% year-on-year improvement. However keep in mind June 2023 was off -28.4% on the year prior. H1 2024 volumes are…