New Vehicle Reviews (Page 17)

When searching for information on the purchase of the next car, it is clearly seen that electric cars generally cost much more upfront than combustion engine (ICE) cars. But the low operating cost of EVs means that they are already cheaper today, as per the total cost of ownership (TCO), as is the case in practically all European car segments and countries.

Nissan aspires to continue expanding in 2023. To do this, it has presented the new, renewed version of its Altima medium sedan. This week I test drove it at Torque News and will be sharing my impressions in this review below.

Buying accessories or add-ons with a new vehicle purchase is one way dealerships inflate your new car price and are often recommended against to keep new-car costs down. However, here is one must-have optional accessory Toyota now offers that you will be glad you agreed to on the 2023 Toyota Prius that it turns out will also greatly benefit some earlier Prius models as well. Plus, find out how to save money by installing this accessory yourself.

For a few months now the rumor has been running on social media that Tesla is preparing to launch a new model (“Model C” or perhaps “Model 2”: name not official yet). A proposal confirmed by Elon Musk himself, who also indicated that it will cost half the price of Model 3 or Model Y. Now it has been reported that Tesla would have acquired land in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, where it will build a new Gigafactory.

Last week we got reports suggesting Tesla has chosen Mexico as the site for the company's next Gigafactory. And today we have gotten further details regarding Giga Mexico including the fact that the plant when fully built out could cost as much as $10 billion and that Tesla is looking to announce it as soon as this Friday.

This solar electric car, built by Australian university students, has covered 1,000 Km (621 miles) at an average of 84 km/h (52 mph) on a single charge of its battery, beating the previous Guinness record (though not officially at the moment).

According to German manufacturer ZF, its new electric motors are superior in every way to those developed by in-house manufacturers, including Tesla, NIO, Porsche, and Nissan.

Two days ago, on December 15th 2022 Chinese manufacturer SVOLT made an important presentation, where it showed the world its commitment to development of high-tech batteries, and where up to three different chemical models were presented - all promising a high energy density-. Each one has its own physical characteristics and costs, which will basically allow electric cars that mount them to reach ranges of up to 1,000 km by 2023, when their production will begin.

Two companies, Plastonix (Canada) and Elemental Recycling (Texas, USA), have done what others could not in the last half a century: they have just found technologies that recycle all kinds of plastics, an amazing achievement that benefits the environment and the whole world.

Tesla officially inaugurated Giga Texas only 8 months ago. However, today, the EV maker has announced that the plant has reached a Model Y production rate of 3000 vehicles a week for the first time. This gives Giga Texas an annualized production rate of 150,000 vehicles per year.

Tesla just launched a major system update for its electric vehicles, which allows existing customers to receive upgrades remotely, and more importantly, completely free of charge: a "Holiday Update" that has interesting features, such as the incorporation of the Steam system or the possibility of holding video conferences via Zoom.

Great news after 60 years of research: a scientific advance that brings the possibility of having clean, inexhaustible and cheap energy is one step closer, opening the door to a new technological era; nuclear fusion arrives.

Here are the latest selections car buyers need to know on what 2023 models right now that are the best SUV deals available today with current incentives offered by dealers that are good until January 3, 2023.

An international research team has just designed a sodium-sulfur battery with the potential to quadruple the capacity of current lithium-ion batteries, in turn significantly reducing manufacturing costs.

A few days ago, we got our first picture of the Cybertruck's exoskeleton chassis as it was being worked on in Giga Texas. And today, Sandy Munro has reacted to those pictures and has called the Cybertruck's body "more revolutionary than I thought."

The pictures of a Tesla Cybertruck chassis taken at the Gigafactory in Texas show the work carried out so far with the large foundry machines that the company acquired from Indra - Italy.

Tesla has been working on a model smaller than the Model 3 and Model Y for some time now. Known by mainstream media as Model C or Model 2 (names that most probably will not correspond to the final name chosen by Tesla), this vehicle will fit into segment C (that is, compact) and will apparently have a starting price of $25,000.

It has been more than two years since Tesla last delivered the Model S and X to Europe. This has undoubtedly disappointed a lot of prospective buyers, however, the wait is finally over as Tesla has delivered the first Model X Plaid to a customer in Germany.

It's no secret at this point that Tesla is working on an update to the Model 3. The relaunch of the electric sedan basically means that assembly lines have to be updated as well, which is already happening at the factory in Fremont, California.

Tesla recently removed radar from the company's vehicles and moved to a camera-based pure vision system. However, today we have gotten conflicting information that suggests, Tesla is planning to bring back updated HD radar to the company's vehicles with the upcoming Autopilot Hardware 4 upgrade.

The Tesla Cybertruck will get ultra-fast charging technology, coming directly from the Tesla Semi. Additionally, Tesla´s chief designer also specified some aesthetic issues about the vehicle, such as why it is taking so long to ramp up production, or the fact that its image is actually highly aerodynamic.

The final presentation and the first deliveries of the Tesla Semi have opened the door to speculation about its viability; the company did not actually tell everything about its new electric truck: battery capacity, total weight and price, and advantages as compared to regular, legacy diesel trucks.

Elon Musk has said that in the future Tesla will "make an international version of Cybertruck that will be kinda smaller, kind of like a tight Wolverine package." And today we have seen our first glimpse of a smaller, 2 door Cybertruck design directly from Tesla.

Production of electric cars at Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory is steadily ramping up, with amazing output numbers. The brand has just announced that last November it produced more than 100,000 electric vehicles, a new record for the factory.

Winter is coming, with warm clothes, movie nights and a blanket at home, Christmas lights and decoration and inevitably, the cold on the road and lots of snow in some areas. Having an electric car is not a problem at all to having a good driving experience during these months though, even in the coldest northern countries; on the contrary: an electric vehicle works down to around -40ºF, even in colder conditions than a diesel, which usually has a limit of around -13ºF.

It has been more than two years since Tesla last delivered the Model S and X to Europe. This has undoubtedly disappointed a lot of prospective buyers, however, the wait seems to finally be over as a ship carrying Model S Plaids is expected to dock in Zeebrugge, Belgium today.

At yesterday's Semi delivery event, Tesla has officially taken the wraps off the company's next-generation V4 superchargers. According to Tesla, the V4 supercharger can charge at 1000KW and has 3 times the current density. However, even more impressively, Elon Musk has also shared that the V4 supercharger "is going to be used for Cybertruck."

In a somewhat decaffeinated ceremony, Elon Musk delivered the first units of the Tesla Semi last night. The electric truck is already on the road, although at the moment we still do not have much - needed - information other than what was officially shared during the event.

According to new reports in Taiwanese media, Tesla has become one of TSMC's biggest customers after securing the purchase of large quantities of microchips for its new generation of the FSD system.

The Tesla Cybertruck has one of the most iconic designs of any production vehicle. However, today, in a new CNBC interview, asked what his favorite vehicle design is, Tesla's Chief Designer, Franz von Holzhausen revealed that he prefers the design of the upcoming driverless "futuristic" robotaxi even to that of the design of the Cybertruck.