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The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ Gets Impressive Tech and a Six-Figure Starting Price

The Truth About Cars

The hulking luxury family hauler has been around since the late 1990s and has become a showcase for the automaker’s technology and design prowess, but GM is going electric, and a three-ton V8-powered SUV doesn’t fit with that vision. The system uses a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and runs Google built-in.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes (Daimler), BMW, Audi, GM, Ford, Nissan, Toyota and others are now delivering cars with some of these features and developing cars with all of these. You Can Buy Level 2 Today. Wisely, GM does not require V2V for the autonomous steering, braking and lane-keeping to work. Own a Level 3 in 2017.

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Flash Drive: 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV RST

Clean Fleet Report

Through the GM Energy V2H Bundle, once installed, the bi-directional power flow can charge the Silverado EV and also take power from the Silverado into a home or other EV. They understand the challenges of converting current diesel and gasoline-powered truck owners to buy an electric pickup.

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Tell Toyota to Get With the Program!

Plugs and Cars

Google is spending oodles doing it to their cars, but the rest of us need the carmakers to produce the plug-in hybrids and electric cars we want. Both GM and Toyota are disingenuously pushing the nonsensical notion that plug-ins need to wait for Lithium batteries to prove themselves. Tell them you won't buy a new car without a plug.

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

Clean Fleet Report

As an EV, the 2021 Polestar 2 is a silent traveler, and the time on the road gave me the chance to test what is the world’s first in-vehicle application of an infotainment system powered by Android with Google apps and services built-in. Google in the car. Inside, the 2021 Polestar 2 shows its Volvo origins. Open the door and sit down.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

The example I used at the time was, I think it was a Google program labeling an image of people playing Frisbee in the park. So it’s a lot better than just a 10-word Google search. GM supposedly lost $561 million on Cruise in just the first three months of this year. You buy stuff at home, expect it to be delivered to your home.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., Representatives of GM stoked the clamor for the Volt, and a Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid sat on the show floor. But neither car, GM execs made clear, will appear for sale on a showroom floor for more that two years. Once again, a conference on plug-in cars.

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