land transport
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The Dongfeng M18 Is China’s Answer To America’s Oversized Electric Off-Roader, The Hummer EV
The Chinese automaker Dongfeng is back with another familiar model that borrows its design from an American vehicle, but this time it’s taking more than the look — it’s going for the attitude, too. Dongfeng Motors is making an oversized and overpowered off-road EV called the M18 that’s more or less the Chinese copy of…
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Volvo To Start Selling Its First Autonomous Vehicle This Year
In collaboration with Luminar Technologies, Volvo announced an autonomous driving system called Ride Pilot on Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show. Volvo customers in California will have access to Ride Pilot as a subscription service at some point after 2022.
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Electric Snowmobiles Were Impossible Until a Startup Got Funding To Make Them
A new powersports company may have spurred on a flurry to produce electric snowmobiles, which had previously been written off by major manufacturers as impossible. The nascent company, Taiga Motors, announced its lineup of production EV snowmobiles in 2019. Taiga went public afterwards, merged with an SPAC, and raised $US146 million (about $201 million), according…
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Finally, US Headlights Will Suck Way Less
U.S. vehicle lighting standards suck. That’s not my opinion; that’s the opinion of our own Jason Torchinsky, who’s been beating this drum since long before I was born and will continue to long after I’m gone. Because he will outlive me, as soon as he finds a way to immortalise himself as an amber rear…