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Consumer Reports Says EVs Less Reliable Than Traditional Automobiles

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For 2023, CR reported that EVs had 79 percent more problems than automobiles that use internal combustion. If a defect robs a vehicle of motive power and/or results in a giant repair bill, it’s deemed as more important than the windows failing to work or the paint being cheap.

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

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Indeed, the Jeep Compass I am testing now makes only 200 horsepower – more than 300 less than the Bentley – and 221 lb-ft of torque, yet it also uses an eight-speed automatic transmission. The lack of strict speed governors in modern automobiles? But, of course, the two aren’t necessarily related. Expensive luxury/performance cars?

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You Can Now Buy A Toyota Cargo E-Bike In France !!!

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Many automakers have also joined the electric bicycle bandwagon in recent years, drawn by the rapidly increasing market and cheap barrier to entry for lightweight two-wheeled electric vehicles. Essentially, all automakers can foresee the future of urban mobility but it’s not looking good for traditional automobiles.

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Can-Am Spyder First Drive: Embracing The Third Wheel

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But it can certainly be placed in spaces that would never be feasible with an automobile and nimble enough to be squirted in reasonably quickly. Every version of the Spyder will handily out accelerate practically every automobile that wasn’t developed with performance as its primary goal and will reportedly press on to 125 mph.

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Dark Horsing Around at the Woodward Dream Cruise

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Formerly dominated by American automobiles, attendees can now spend their day car-spotting an array of foreign and domestic vehicles of every type. Ford had its most exciting automobiles in their hottest trims on hand for us to drive, ensuring that they’d be getting sustained attention on Woodward Ave.

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