It’s not that you can’t financially encourage societies to be more planet-conscious, but this charade of perverse incentives, inefficiencies, and negative side effects is not it. Norway’s electric car miracle is primarily one of numbers. Last year, EVs acco…
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Month: September 2019
Stripped-back auto show mirrors German car industry gloom
Frankfurt am Main (AFP) – Frankfurt’s biennial International Auto Show (IAA) opens its doors to the public Thursday, but major foreign carmakers are staying away while climate demonstrators march outside — forming a microcosm of the industry’s woes. “There …
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream is a wildly underrated car movie – Roadshow
Automotive history is littered with small car companies that were formed as the result of the vision of one person that then failed spectacularly and have since been consigned to the dustbin of history. Tucker could have easily been one of those, but instead,…
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Elon Musk Insists Tesla Solar Is ‘Guaranteed Instant Money Printer’
Elon Musk insists that Tesla solar panels and roofs are “unequivocally a guaranteed instant money printer” despite the recent fires they allegedly caused. Musk tweeted that Tesla Solar can save you $300 to $1,000 a year off your utility bills. For the remai…
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Elon Musk’s Ego Pits Tesla Versus Porsche at the Ring
Elon Musk loves a contest. The Tesla CEO has been all worked up over Porsches Taycan Turbo, the German automobile manufacturers first production electric car. Um @Porsche, this word Turbo does not mean what you think it does — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Septembe…
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