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Car Insurance Rate Increases Offset the Gradual Price Drops

The Truth About Cars

New car prices are slowly returning to reality, but the universe isn’t done torturing buyers. A new report from Reuters found that insurance rates are climbing just as the financial pain of buying a new car is easing. It just so happens that many of those places are highly populated, driving up the averages for everyone.

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Tesla Model S Plaid goes up for grabs in fight for climate change policies

Teslarati

There are simply not very many vehicles in the auto industry that could hold a candle to a large, four-door legitimate family-hauler with literal supercar-beating performance. There are vehicles that can compete with the Model S Plaid, of course, but those cars typically cost several times more. Credit: MotorTrend. Make a difference.

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Electric-car and climate-change tipping points, Prius details, Audi e-tron drive: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

What electric car may finally have gotten a name? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending Dec. This week our news came mostly from follow-up insights from the LA Auto Show as well as mainly.

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Rio Tinto and Shougang Group to explore steel decarbonization solutions

Green Car Congress

The two companies will work together, leveraging their respective strengths in research and development, technologies, processes, equipment, logistics and industry coordination to support their shared objectives of limiting the impacts of global climate change and reducing carbon emissions.

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The REAL Climate Change Debate: Are All Deniers Evil or Are Some Merely Ignorant?

Creative Greenius

If you weren’t a fellow traveler along the path of discovery with me, you might believe there is still a debate about the major issues of climate change. The video was auto-scrubbed by YouTube after Watts claimed the video broke YouTube’s copyright rules. But you would be wrong. There is no debate.

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Aston Martin to make petrol cars ‘for as long as allowed’

Baua Electric

Read more Aston Martin has decided to continue manufacturing petrol cars as long as it can after the carmaker delayed the arrival of its first ever electric vehicle. “For as long as we’re allowed to make ICE (internal combustion engine) cars, we’ll make them. Also Read : Will Ferrari EV get Ferrari-made batteries?

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Big Auto is begging governments to let them go bankrupt as Chinese EVs loom

Baua Electric

The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future. And yet, the auto industry – which is responsible for more pollution than any other sector, at least in rich countries – still lobbies to worsen emissions reduction targets, even when those targets were already pushed back to begin with.

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