The Tesla Cybertruck sucks. It’s been a reliability disaster, can’t even survive a simple car wash, is incredibly difficult to repair, has edges that are so sharpowners have ended up in the hospital from their injuries, and it looks like it was designed in a lab to crush pedestrians. It also hasn’t been crash-tested… Read … Read more
Trucks have replaced sedans and wagons as the everyday driver from thirty years ago, that’s just a fact. Remember when your friend’s mom in high school had a wagon with seats in “the way back” that folded out of the floor? What’s old is new again. Ram filed a patent for a third row of … Read more
Remember when Lexus had artificial intelligence write an entire car commercial for them, and it was exactly as boring as everyone thought it would be? This wasn’t during the recent (ridiculous) AI explosion, either, it was all the way back in 2018, using IBM’s Watson. This is a great example of a bad ad, and … Read more
In today’s episode of Quick Charge we’ve got serious software upgrades from Tesla, questions about the company’s energy storage business, Ford’s record EV sales, GM’s bananas lease rates on the new Silverado, Blue Bird business news, and some fancy electric boats to take you into the weekend. It’s July 3rd, which means tonight is the … Read more
A woman in Knoxville, Tennessee had to turn to a local news station’s “Help Me” consumer affairs guy after a used car dealership sold her Ford Taurus out from under her after she brought it in for repairs. If that wasn’t bad enough, months later, the car was still registered in her name. For just … Read more
The period of 2008 to 2009 was rough for Detroit’s Big 3 automakers. While Ford technically never filed for bankruptcy — though it did receive some of those sweet bailout funds — GM and Chrysler did. GM seemed to have it the worst, as the automaker had to get rid of four of its divisions … Read more
The Biden administration on Wednesday slashed its target for U.S. electric vehicle adoption from 67 per cent by 2032 to as little as 35 per cent after industry and autoworker backlash in the political battleground state of Michigan. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) instead adopted a “technology neutral” regulatory scheme that allows automakers far more freedom … Read more
Chevrolet It looks like the Bolt isn’t dead after all. Only a few months after Chevrolet announced that it would be killing the Bolt EV, the company reversed course and said that the Bolt will live on. And, finally, we have a few more details about what will likely remain one of the cheapest EVs … Read more
The 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV isn’t the General Motors brand’s first electric model, but it might be its most consequential. Chevy has plenty of EV experience, but with the Equinox EV, which is scheduled to go on sale later this year, it’s prioritizing mass-market appeal. The car follows the likes of the Chevy Bolt and … Read more
Image: RAM Shane lives in Wisconson and has a Ram truck that served him well when he was fixing up his house, but he is tired of the poor MPGs and bad ride quality. He wants to sell the truck and buy two cars, a daily driver with modern features and all-weather traction, and something … Read more
