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Hundreds of new Tesla owners thronged the carmaker’s showrooms and distribution centers in China over the weekend, demanding discounts and credit after showroom prices suddenly fell. Owners of cars that were bought earlier believe that they overpaid for their cars. On Saturday, about 200 recent Tesla Model Y and Model 3 buyers gathered at Tesla’s […]
New information about Xiaomi electric cars, as well as the first photos of the prototype, appeared on the Internet. According to Chinese media, the less expensive model will compete with the Tesla Model 3 sedan. Codenamed Modena, the variant will be larger and more powerful than the Tesla model, and will cost about the same […]
They will try to sell a rare Ferrari F512 M for $700,000. Sotheby’s will be auctioning one of 75 US-spec supercars. Sotheby’s auction house will offer one of the Ferrari F512 M copies – the evolution of the Testarossa and the last model from Maranello with an opposed twelve-cylinder engine – at the January auction […]
UAZ-452 or ‘Buhanka’ is the oldest car model among those currently produced in the world. They tried in vain to create its electric version back in the 70s. In the occupied Crimea, they are working on the electric UAZ-452. A new version of a long-outdated minibus should be presented in the summer of this year. […]
The chameleon car currently has 32 fixed shades, but the authors of the technology claim that their number can be unlimited. At the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show, BMW unveiled the X6 with Vantablack VBx2, a substance that absorbs more than 99 percent of visible light, creating the blackest black ever. For CES 2022, the iX […]
Goodyear has shown off a tire made almost entirely of what it claims are ‘sustainable materials.’ The company promises to increase this percentage to 100% by the end of the decade. The new tire also has lower rolling resistance compared to the ‘reference tire’. Less rolling resistance means less friction with the road, making the […]
Sony’s first car will be available to order from 2025, with production starting a year later. Honda specialists help create Afeela. Afeela, a new car brand created by Sony and Honda, was presented at the CES 2023 show in Las Vegas. The first car of the new brand debuted, a concept electric car. This is […]
A driver fell asleep while his Tesla car was on autopilot on a German highway. The police tried to wake him up for 15 minutes. His license was suspended during the investigation. German police stopped a Tesla driver who fell asleep at the wheel with the autopilot assistance system on. The car accelerated to nearly […]
A large-scale accident involving 200 cars occurred on a bridge in Zhengzhou. More than 200 vehicles collided in the city of Zhengzhou in central China’s Henan province due to heavy fog. At least one person has been killed, according to China Central Television. According to details, the incident happened on the road bridge with two-way […]
British company Velocity Patching has created a machine that cleans, compacts and inserts aggregate into road defects. The whole process takes a little more than three minutes. The Velocity Patching System can fix potholes in just over three minutes at a much lower cost than traditional methods A team of three people goes to the […]