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When the Toyota Mirai first went on sale in Japan in late 2014 and later in the U.S. and Europe, it wasn't the first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle available to consumers. The Mirai was the first FCEV available in significant volumes and also to purchase…

The typical sales pattern for most vehicles is to peak somewhere around year two or three of their lifecycle before plateauing and declining in the final years before a redesign. But these aren’t typical times. American car buyers seem to be in a…

Over the past 15 years, Volkswagen has displayed numerous minivan concepts with designs inspired by the classic Microbus with many of them using electric propulsion systems. Unfortunately to date, not one one them has made it to production. The…

Earlier this decade, Ford had to make some tough decisions about the future of the Lincoln brand. Over at least the past ten years, the entire brand has consistently been outsold by most of the Ford nameplates including Mustang. The powers that be in…

Creating an automated driving system for demonstrations in a limited environment is now pretty commonplace. Developing automated driving (AD) systems that are reliable and safe enough to use on a regular basis in complex and unpredictable real-world…

Ford recently announced that as part of the mid-cycle update for its Fusion sedan, the plug-in hybrid variant would be getting a notable improvement in fuel efficiency. In fact, the EPA fuel economy estimates for the Fusion Energi have gone up by 10…

Back in 2009, Ford kicked off the modern compact van movement in America with the launch of the original Transit Connect. Those first-edition models weren’t terribly sophisticated, but they filled an unserved niche for smaller but still capable cargo…

All things considered, there have been remarkably few accidents so far as a result of real-world testing of automated vehicles. However, those vehicles have all had safety drivers and engineers on board to monitor the situations and take over when…

For the past week, BMW has been privately previewing a concept version of the next official vehicle in its i electric sub-brand, by flying it around the world in a specially outfitted Boeing 777 freighter. A production version of the Vision iNext is…

A sad reality of growing older is that most of us (yours truly included) tend to become less svelte than we were in our physical prime. The same seems to happen to most of the car brands we drive. On the plus side, hopefully the passing years bring…