A little over a year ago, Honda vice president and Acura Brand Officer Jon Ikeda told me over dinner that Acura was recommitting to being Honda’s premium performance brand. The launch of the third-generation RDX A-spec was the first tangible step in…
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GM And EVGo Team Up To Deploy 2,700 New DC Fast Chargers
Two of the biggest advantages attributed to Tesla for the success of its electric vehicles over the past eight years are long driving ranges and the ability to relatively quickly recharge them in many locations thanks to the Supercharger network. As…
Ram Lays Claim For Now To Light Duty Towing Title With New EcoDiesel
Barely a month after reaching an $800 million settlement over allegations that it cheated on a diesel emissions in a similar way to Volkswagen, Fiat Chrysler is getting ready to jump back into the diesel market. This fall, the 2020 Ram 1500 will…
ReachNow Expands Service Offerings With New App That Adds Ride-Hailing
ReachNow, the U.S.-based branch of BMW’s mobility service operation is revamping its service offerings. Up to this point, ReachNow has operated a free-floating carsharing service in Seattle, Portland, OR and New York City. With the roll-out of its…
GM Teams Up With Honda To Manufacture Fuel Cells Near Detroit
It seems like the hydrogen fuel cell has been just five years away from reality for at least the past 20 years. With an announcement today in downtown Detroit, the other electric propulsion system may have just taken another step closer to viability.…
Mazda Hits The Mark With 2020 CX-30 Crossover
Like the universe, the small crossover utility segment seems to be in a phase of perpetual expansion, at least until customers decide to latch onto the next trend in automotive form factors. For now at least the growth continues and Mazda wants a…
2017 Fiat 124 Spider: Is This The Best Miata Ever?
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At the recent New York Auto Show, Fiat Chrysler unveiled the quickest and most powerful production car it has ever built, the 2018 Dodge Challenger Demon. This isn’t the first time that Chrysler has used the Demon name…
2017 Kia Niro: All Else Equal, Americans Want Crossovers
When Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group decided to develop a dedicated platform for electrified vehicles several years ago, the group’s two mainstream brands diverged a bit when it came to the design of their respective variants. Hyundai opted to follow…
Lucid Air Gets 113-KWh Lithium Ion Battery For 500 Mile Range
As Lucid Motors inches towards the full production reveal of its first vehicle on September 9, it continues to trickle out details. Most recently we heard that independent testing done by FEV had projected its expected EPA range rating at 517 miles,…
The Internal Combustion Engine Is Dead? Mazda Has Another Idea With Innovative SkyActiv-X
There is no shortage of people around the world today who seem pretty certain that the days of the internal combustion engine (ICE) as the primary form of propulsion for transportation are effectively over. Mazda North America senior vice president…