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Gordon Murray reveals MOTIV autonomous pod car with one gull-wing door

The MOTIV was revealed by Gordon Murray today with the autonomous quadricycle / pod vehicle future in mind. Gordon Murray Design, Delta Motorsport, and itMoves worked in collaboration to make this tiny, yet tough autonomous-ready vehicle a reality. This vehicle was part-funded through the UK-government’s ‘IDP14’ program, and acts as a centerpiece for the MOTIV …

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Supersized trucks and SUVs seem here to stay, unlike the auto show

There was little technological innovation on display, mostly intimidating bulk. After essentially flat sales in 2019, (most of) the auto industry came to Chicago this week for the first big auto show of the year. In terms of making headlines, the 2020 Chicago show is yet more proof that the days of the big trade …

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Welcome to the era of supercharged lithium-ion batteries

Batteries with silicon anodes promise 20% longer life on a single charge. Gene Berdichevsky believes in batteries. As employee number seven at Tesla, he helmed the team that designed the lithium-ion battery pack for the company’s first car, the Roadster, which convinced the world to take electric vehicles seriously. A decade later, EVs can hold their own against …

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The 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLB gets good infotainment, but don’t get the AI

The GLB takes a niche slot and throws shade at the smaller GLA If there were any doubt about the utter dominance of the market by SUVs, consider that prior to 2020, Mercedes—that storied brand built on luxury sedans—offered six different classes of them. Wait—seven, if you count the hatchback GLA they slot in as …

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BMW to close its Munich plant this summer to get ready for all-electric i4 sedan in 2021

BMW will close its main Munich plant this summer for six weeks. That will allow the company to retool and modify more than one-thousand robots to get ready for production of the all-electric BMW i4 in 2021. Competing legacy automakers, notably Volkswagen, are establishing dedicated vehicle platforms and assembly lines exclusive for electric vehicles. However, …

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The Laffite X-Road Looks Like a Brand-New, Steroidal ’80s Group B Rally Car

It starts at nearly half a million dollars and is seemingly stopped by nothing at all. The flagrantly anything-goes Group B rally car era is long gone, but its memory and the spirit of its wildest overpowered race cars lives on. Need proof? How about the Laffite X-Road, a supercar with all-terrain capability that looks like the …

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The Cruise Origin is GM’s take on an autonomous vehicle

Electric, self-driving, shared. This is your future people… Back in 2016, General Motors acquired the self-driving startup Cruise for an undisclosed fee, just nine months after the company had acquired a licence to test autonomous cars on the streets of San Francisco. Then, in 2018, it was announced that Honda had taken a small 5.7 per …

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