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Hyundai Takes Pot of Inky Paint to Palisade

The Truth About Cars

Bad news for anyone who likes their vehicles in Visible Light – the styling department at Hyundai has decided to expand the Night package to its Calligraphy trim on the Palisade. We’ve always found this to be an agreeable mill whose personality suits this huge crossover very well, paired as it is with all-wheel drive and an 8-speed automatic.

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Hyundai Offering Free Chargers to EV Buyers, Swelling Industry Incentives

The Truth About Cars

Hyundai is offering customers willing to buy an all-electric vehicle a Level 2 home charger for no extra cost. While the ChargePoint device is framed as being free, it does require the purchase of a new automobile through the automaker’s captive finance arm Hyundai Capital America. or from a free-trade agreement partner.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. They then sold us a brand new 2021 Bolt EV Premier for $28,500. Let me tell you about it.

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How Much Privacy Do You Really Have In Modern Vehicles?

The Truth About Cars

It looked into 25 popular brands representing a majority of the vehicles people tend to buy and determined that none of them are seriously interested in protecting your privacy. Our main concern is that we can’t tell whether any of the cars encrypt all of the personal information that sits on the car. Though they weren’t all equal.

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Electric Car Buyer’s Guide: 7 Steps to Find The Best EV for Your Life

EV Life

Most car sites are built for gas vehicles, so you have to do countless hours of blog research. To help you save days or weeks of research, here is our guide to using a tool like EV Life to simplify your journey to buy an electric car. On EV Life, you can see personalized recommendations for any car you’re considering.

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Driving Dystopia: Eight Automakers Accused of Lying About Customer Data Protections

The Truth About Cars

Earlier this year, similar allegations were being leveled at General Motors, Honda, Acura, Kia, Hyundai, and Mitsubishi. But this will always happen so long as they have the tools and customers don’t have full control over the products they buy. This is hardly the first time we’ve seen companies willing to hand over customer data.

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5 Ways Owning an EV Can Save You Money

Blink Charging

For the time being, some electric vehicles (EVs) are more expensive to buy than their internal combustion engine (ICE) counterparts. Purchase incentives Not every vehicle is one that the government will “pay” you to buy, but many EVs fall into this category. However, that higher upfront cost is mitigated in other ways.