Luxury Cars
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Tesla announced in November that it would end free unlimited use of its Supercharger DC fast-charging stations. Now that the cutoff point for that perk has arrived, the company is offering more details on Supercharger pricing. The new rates take effect for buyers who ordered a Tesla electric car after January 15, a deadline Tesla extended from its original cutoff point of January 1. DON'T MISS: Tesla to charge new buyers for Supercharging after Jan 1 (Nov 2016) As the company previously mentioned, new customers will get credits for 400 kilowatt-hours of free charging, after which fees kick...
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Tesla P100D 'Ludicrous Plus' mode makes electric car even fasterAs well as software updates to add back Autopilot functionality in its latest cars, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has hinted on Twitter at an update to improve performance even further. Musk recently teased a software update that would allow the latest Model S P100D to do 0 to 60 mph in 2.4...
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Why Faraday Future's luxury electric car is named FF 91Faraday Future unveiled its FF 91 electric car at a special event held during the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. It's a crossover-utility vehicle with a claimed 1,050 horsepower and 378-mile range, the latter courtesy of a 130-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack. Aside...
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Advocacy group says diesel cars coming back; it meant trucksThe Diesel Technology Forum notes that diesel's market share increased in the second half of 2016, but that was mostly due to truck sales.
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Tesla delivered 76,000 cars in 2016, missing its goalWhile the auto industry will start to report December and year-end sales totals today, Tesla Motors issued its year-end delivery and production results yesterday. The Silicon Valley car maker, now completing its ninth year of production, delivered 22,230 electric cars during the fourth quarter of...
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Faraday Future unveils FF 91, its first production electric car; deposits open, no price givenFaraday Future unveiled its FF 91 electric car on the sidelines of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The battery-powered 1,050-horsepower vehicle is intended to rival (or perhaps best) anything Tesla Motors may have up its sleeve. As an upright crossover, it appears to be designed to...
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Tesla launched its upgraded Autopilot software on a handful of cars December 31.
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Donald Trump owned two American cars; one was a TeslaDonald Trump's campaign said last year that he owned a Tesla electric car.
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EU fuel-economy ratings move further from reality; Mercedes tops offender listSome Mercedes-Benz models return 50-percent lower fuel economy than EU ratings, according to a new study.
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Karma gets approval to build electric cars in ChinaKarma parent Wanxiang received approval from Chinese authorities for an electric-car factory.
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Tesla tops Consumer Reports' customer satisfaction indexConsumer Reports' enthusiasm for Tesla electric cars has fluctuated, but owners' enthusiasm has apparently remained steady. The magazine that once declared the Tesla Model S to be the best car it ever tested, but more recently it has raised concerns over reliability, and criticized the automaker's...
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2018 BMW 530e 'iPerformance' plug-in hybrid sedan for U.S. unveiledThe 2018 BMW 530e iPerformance is a plug-in hybrid version of the recently-redesigned 5-Series sedan.
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Tesla settled a lawsuit brought by 126 Norwegian Model S owners out of court.
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Lucid reveals design for its luxury Air sedan, a Tesla competitorLucid Motors' electric luxury sedan is called the Air.
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Fisker EMotion 400-mile luxury electric car: new teaser photo releasedWe've seen it teased a couple of times in shadowy photos, and now we have the first renderings of the whole car. In this case, "it" is the Fisker EMotion, the latest striking, low-slung sedan drawn by car designer Henrik Fisker. This is to be the second car to bear his name, following the 2012...
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Porsche too said to use 'defeat device' software for gasoline carsIt's been 15 months since news broke that VW Group had used "defeat device" software in its diesel cars and SUVs that let them emit far more than permitted levels of nitrogen oxides in real-world use. Even now, however, the Volkswagen diesel scandal continues to grow new tentacles as investigators...
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Lucid electric 'executive sedan': 100-kwh battery, 1,000-hp motorThe base version of Lucid Motors' electric car will have 1,000 hp and a 100-kWh battery pack.
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BMW plans to sell 100,000 plug-in cars in 2017, CEO saysBMW aims to sell 100,000 electric cars and plug-in hybrids next year.
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Tesla will recall three types of accessory adapter because of the risk of overheating.
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Audi e-tron vs Jaguar I-Pace vs Mercedes EQ: electric luxury SUVs comparedAudi, Jaguar, and Mercedes-Benz all plan to launch luxury electric SUVs in the next few years.
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Tesla a 'predator,' dealer lobby howls; second VA store OKed anywayVirginia auto dealers rally against Tesla's proposal for a second retail store in the state.
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Consumer Reports' view of Tesla Model X: 'fast but flawed'Consumer Reports cited numerous issues with the Model X in a recent review.
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Why Tesla Model 3 should use standard model-year changes: opinionElectric-car maker Tesla Motors has always followed a different path than the rest of the automobile industry. Among the ways it has violated industry convention is ignoring annual model changes and simply updating its cars whenever changes were ready for production. This has occasionally made for...
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Which electric car will history view as most important? Poll resultsIt wasn't even close. When we asked our Twitter followers which electric car they thought would be judged by history as most important thus far, it was a slam-dunk. Fully four out of five survey participants voted for the same vehicle out of the four choices we offered. DON'T MISS: Tesla Model S...
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