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Chinese cars secure a 33% share of global car sales in March 2024 – Geely, BYD, Chery, Changan in Q1 top 20

May 7, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Auto BYD, car, cars, Changan, Chery, Chinese, Geely, global, March, sales, Secure, share, Top

Chinese car brands accounted for 33% of the global sales of passenger vehicles in March 2024, in which 8.15 million units were shifted during the month. This was revealed in statistics released by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), as CarNewsChina reports. In the first quarter of this year, 21.05 million vehicles were sold worldwide, [...]read moreChinese cars secure a 33% share of global car sales in March 2024 – Geely, BYD, Chery, Changan in Q1 top 20

These Are The Fastest 0-60 Times Ever Set By Production Cars

2021 Porsche Taycan Turbo S cold weather performance. 0-60, 1/4 mile, 60-130, 1/2 mile, top speed. Motor: EV Power: 938 horsepower (using launch control) & 818 lb-ft of torque The Taycan Turbo S is mighty fast as a sedan, but if you don’t mind losing a few tenths of a second off your 0-60 time, [...]read moreThese Are The Fastest 0-60 Times Ever Set By Production Cars

Americans Are Driving Their Cars To Death In Order To Save Money

Here at Jalopnik, we know there’s nothing wrong with keeping a beloved old beater running for mile after mile, and we regularly celebrate high mileage heroes. Now, it turns out the rest of America is catching onto this way of thinking as the savings of holding onto an old car for longer begin mounting up. [...]read moreAmericans Are Driving Their Cars To Death In Order To Save Money

Here’s Why You Get So Sleepy While Riding In Cars

May 5, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Auto Acoustics, cars, Drowsy driving, Heres, Jalopnik, Nap, Noise pollution, Riding, sleep, Sleepy, Somnolence

THIS IS US — “The Fifth Wheel” Episode 211 — Pictured: (l-r) Susan Kelechi Watson as Beth, Sterling K. Brown as Randall Photo: Ron Batzdorff/ NBCU Photo Bank/ NBCUniversal (Getty Images) There’s nothing like riding passenger on a road trip and letting the car lull you to sleep, but [...]read moreHere’s Why You Get So Sleepy While Riding In Cars

Import Cars More Likely To Receive Speeding Tickets Than U.S. Brands

Photo: Mark Ralston / AFP (Getty Images) There’s rarely ever data to back up the preconceived notions we all hold about how cars look, like how we’ve all been led to believe that police pull over red cars more often than others. However, the data paints an interesting picture when [...]read moreImport Cars More Likely To Receive Speeding Tickets Than U.S. Brands

Nude Cruise, Boarding Planes Suspicious Bike Chains In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup

Screenshot: Morning Joe If there’s one thing New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants you to know about the student protests on the campuses of Columbia University and City College of New York, it’s not that the students are justifiably upset about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. No, after nearly 300 people [...]read moreNude Cruise, Boarding Planes Suspicious Bike Chains In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup

Let Some Rowdy 8,000 RPM Lancia Rally Cars Melt Your Work Week Pains Away

It’s nearly time to turn off your work computer, and your overworked brain, for a few dozen delightful hours of you-time known colloquially as the weekend. In anticipation of ending your capitalistic toils to enjoy an ever fleeting sense of leisure, click the play button and slather the folds of your brain [...]read moreLet Some Rowdy 8,000 RPM Lancia Rally Cars Melt Your Work Week Pains Away

Fisker Resorts To Fixing Customer Cars With Preproduction Parts From ‘Graveyard’

The launch of the Fisker Ocean has been plagued with problems, and those problems are now compounding in ways that make everything worse for owners. See, problems mean repairs, but parts shortages mean those fixes could take eons to actually complete — unless you have a “graveyard” of preproduction parts to slap onto customer cars. [...]read moreFisker Resorts To Fixing Customer Cars With Preproduction Parts From ‘Graveyard’

The 10 cheapest cars to drive per mile in 2024

May 3, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Auto cars, cheapest, Drive, mile

Automakers are increasingly stepping back from EV-only product roadmaps in favor of more hybrids and PHEVs, and recent driving cost data between November 2022 and April 2023 from iSeeCars shows that this might be good for buyers in more ways than one. While electric vehicles can save money on gas, they cost more and are [...]read moreThe 10 cheapest cars to drive per mile in 2024

U.S. loosens battery rules, potentially making more cars eligible for EV tax credits

May 3, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Auto battery, cars, Credits, Eligible, loosens, Making, potentially, rules, tax, U.S

DETROIT — The U.S. government has loosened some rules governing electric vehicle tax credits a bit, potentially making more EVs eligible for credits of up to $7,500. The Treasury Department announced final regulations for the credits under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act on Friday, giving automakers more time to comply with some provisions about where [...]read moreU.S. loosens battery rules, potentially making more cars eligible for EV tax credits