Shell closes its light-duty hydrogen refilling stations in California
Saturday, 24 February 2024
Life’s always been tough on hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEV), and it’s only getting tougher thanks to Shell announcing the closure of its retail refilling stations in California. Hydrogen Insight reported that the energy company ran seven stations for consumer FCEV owners, six of them shut down immediately because of “supply complications and other external
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Long-Term Subaru WRX Interior Review: Sporty with a dash of tech
Friday, 23 February 2024
Change tends to happen slowly when it comes to Subaru interiors. It makes sense, as its buyers are and always have been the sort to enjoy the consistent, rugged nature of its products. Our long-term Subaru WRX sips heavily from that same cup of evolution for its new generation. However, there are still a lot
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The 10 cars with the least expensive destination charges
Friday, 23 February 2024
Hidden fees might be one of the last things you want when car shopping. The good news is that the shopping process is a lot more transparent than it used to be, but the bad news is that there are still some fees you can’t avoid. Destination charges are one of them. Automakers apply the
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2025 Ram 1500 First Drive: A Hurricane of class and elegance
Thursday, 22 February 2024
AUSTIN, Texas. — I power up the 2025 Ram 1500 and scoot away through the outskirts of Austin. When I pull up to the first stoplight, it all sinks in. There’s no Hemi tick. The cabin is vibration-free. Did the auto start/stop turn the engine off? Nope. Then when I pull away from the light,
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2025 Mini Countryman First Drive Review: Mini no more
Wednesday, 21 February 2024
CASCAIS, Portugal — Let’s cut straight to the issue of size. If the original Mini was a sporting beagle ready for the hunt, the reborn version that hit the world stage in 2001 may have been an English bulldog, albeit bred in Germany, its parents being the engineers and coffers of BMW. From there, the
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Junkyard Gem: 2005 Honda Accord Hybrid Sedan
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Honda was the first car manufacturer to sell a production hybrid-electric car in the United States, with the Insight beating the Prius to showrooms here by nearly a year. Few remembered that a couple of years later, once the Prius became a big sales success and even after Honda introduced the Civic Hybrid as a
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Junkyard Gem: 1993 Mitsubishi 3000GT
Monday, 19 February 2024
Mitsubishi is down to just three models in the United States now: the Eclipse Cross, Mirage and Outlander (and the Outlander is sibling to the Nissan Rogue). Back in its glory days of the 1990s, however, Mitsubishi offered American vehicle shoppers a comprehensive line that included minivans, wagons, sedans of all sizes, pickups, econoboxes, sport
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Junkyard Gem: 1982 Nissan Stanza 4-door hatchback
Sunday, 18 February 2024
Datsun went from small-timer to major force in the United States during the decade of the 1970s, and Nissan decided to celebrate the following decade by selling the Violet-based Auster with Stanza badges here, while simultaneously phasing out the Datsun name in favor of the actual name of the company. Today’s Junkyard Gem is a
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Faraday Future in danger of losing L.A. headquarters for failing to pay rent
Saturday, 17 February 2024
Struggling EV startup Faraday Future owes the landlord of its Los Angeles headquarters nearly $1 million after missing the last two months’ rent, TechCrunch has learned. The landlord, Rexford Industrial, filed a previously unreported lawsuit against Faraday Future this week in Los Angeles Superior Court that accuses the startup of missing its January and February
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Here are all the 2024 Formula 1 car liveries
Friday, 16 February 2024
The 2024 Formula 1 season is coming in hot. Teams revealed their cars over the past couple weeks, and now that Red Bull took the wraps off its car, the entire field is out. We’ve been following along with all the individual car reveals, and now we have the whole list compiled for you below.
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