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A decade ago, the Mercedes-Benz launched its first ever hybrid electric vehicle in the form of the midsize ML450 SUV. Few of those ML450 hybrids were ever built and it quietly faded away after just a few years on the market. These days, the midsize…

The Chevrolet Camaro 1LE performance package returns for 2017, poised to set new benchmarks for… [+] attainable track performance. The package builds off the success of the previous-generation 1LE, offering increased handling and track performance.…

It’s been almost 10 years since Nissan began U.S. deliveries of the Leaf, its first mass-produced mainstream electric vehicle. While the Leaf was the best selling EV in the world until the Tesla TSLA Model 3 arrived, it never quite lived up to the…

Tesla is the first new American automaker making more than a tiny trickle of vehicles to see any modest degree of success (at least in terms of sales if not financial results) in nearly a century. Remarkably, the company has achieved this while…

There’s no question that sedans are a shrinking segment of the U.S. car market. That doesn’t mean that every automaker is giving on a vehicle type that still accounts for almost 18% of sales the way that Fiat Chrysler and Ford have. For now at least,…

FILE- In this March 14, 2019, file photo Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks before unveiling the Model Y at… [+] Tesla's design studio in Hawthorne, Calif. Musk was the top paid CEO in California for 2018, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar,…

There is increasingly a consensus that electric propulsion will eventually overtake internal combustion in transportation. What is less agreed upon is the timing. One of the brands that has veered to a more aggressive timeline recently is Jaguar and…

I’ve finally just gotten around to reading Ashlee Vance’s 2015 biography of Elon Musk and overall I found it very interesting, well written and largely resistant to buying into the Elon cult of personality. Vance spoke with many of the people and…

In the coming decade as vehicles get more electric, more connected and more automated than ever before, we are also going to see some fundamental changes in the electronic architecture of vehicles. With more data being generated by sensors, exported…

The idea of hands-free driving might seem antithetical to the experience of owning a Ford Mustang. Then again, so is the premise of a Mustang SUV or one powered exclusively by batteries. Nonetheless, all of those aspects are coming with the 2021…