Anyone stepping out of the relatively minimalist cabin of the previous A3 and into this new one will be in for a shock, albeit mostly a pleasant one. There is a wider variety of materials and a dashboard that is, to a degree, split in two, with a more driver-focused design. Audi acknowledges that this generation of […]
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Ask someone who drives a gasoline-powered car why they wouldn’t want to get an electric one, and you’re almost certain to hear this answer: they take way too long to charge. They’re not even entirely wrong. Even though DC fast charging times are getting shorter and shorter for modern electric vehicles, they can seem totally
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There was plenty about the design of the EQS that, when the car first came along in 2021, made it seem like a tellingly direct riposte to the Tesla Model S – an EV that had been eating into S-Class sales in the US for several years. But nothing did more so than Mercedes’ Hyperscreen infotainment system, which
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Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company WeRide plan to expand a commercial robotaxi partnership and bring the service to another 15 cities over the next five years. The expansion comes five months after the two companies launched a commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi. As part of that expansion, Uber will increase its investment into
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Mercedes-Benz made a curious decision with the new CLA EV. The sleek sedan can only use 800-volt fast chargers. Despite it coming with a Tesla-designed NACS charging port in the U.S., the CLA won’t be able to use any Superchargers. The new electric Mercedes-Benz CLA is touted as the next best thing in the EV
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The Musso’s turbodiesel four-pot makes the slightly gruff, crotchety first impression you might expect of it on start up and at low speeds; but it soon settles down to an acceptable standard for cruising refinement, considering the territory we’re in here. Our six-speed auto test car’s engine had some clatter and thrash about it, but
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Few markets are moving as rapidly as China’s automotive sector. There, new models are rolled out in as little as 18 months, putting tremendous pressure on legacy Western automakers, which need four-plus years to go from concept to sales floor. “With the increasingly short development cycles in China, it’s driving a huge amount of cost
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Rivian keeps reducing the manufacturing costs for its EVs. In just six months, the startup slashed over $50,000 from its automotive cost of goods sold per vehicle delivered. This helped it make a gross profit for the second quarter in a row. Rivian just posted its second quarter in a row with a positive gross
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Autonomous and semi-autonomous cars bring with them new methods of safety testing. What happens, for example, if a tyre deflates suddenly when the car is doing the driving rather than the human and how well will it cope? US firm Koala Technologies has developed a new piece of equipment that enables a road tester to
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Mitsubishi Motors is in talks with Taiwan-based Foxconn’s electric vehicle division to source an OEM electric car model that the Japanese automaker plans to sell in Australia and New Zealand in the latter half of 2026. Mitsubishi said on Wednesday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Foxtron Vehicle Technologies to develop the
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