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Waymo Autonomous Vehicle Set Ablaze By Crowd In San Francisco

The Truth About Cars

The Alphabet-owned company said a crowd used fireworks to set the Jaguar I-Pace on fire in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood. Things started somewhat calmly with a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration, but the situation escalated when a person jumped onto the vehicle and smashed its windshield.

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2024 Ford Mustang Comes With ‘Remote Rev’ System

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If you’re the kind of person that wants to make a strong impression on the neighborhood and are less than concerned whether it’s good or bad, Ford is offering 2024 model year Mustangs with a key fob that lets the holder remotely rev up the engine. While a pointless gimmick, it would be a lie to say that it doesn’t sound like fun.

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

Cars That Think

Where everyone had access to preventative health care that was both personalized and less invasive? What we need is something called cozy futurism, a concept I first encountered while reading a blog post by software engineer Jose Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente. What about reducing pollution in urban and poor communities?

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

Creative Greenius

It’s rare when consumer karma actually works out for any buyer of any product made today, but then again, your friendly neighborhood Greenius is not your usual consumer. I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. The first Bolt displayed at the annual National Drive Electric Event in 2016 in Los Angeles.

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Homeland Security Now Combating Street Takeovers

The Truth About Cars

It's probably not something you'd want to see a lot of in your own neighborhood and there was some isolated violence. Meanwhile, the police need to find some way of preventing the worst kind of street takeovers without taking a scattershot approach that ropes in every person that squeals their tires.

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Meet the Boomers Trying to Scupper 2,500 Jobs in Rural Michigan

The Truth About Cars

To be sure, plans for huge factories like the one Ford is proposing are not without problems, and we’d be remiss not to point out that more than one neighborhood has been decimated in the name of so-called progress. But hey, at least whoever’s behind the account seems to admire Elon Musk.

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Greenius Plants Tree to Help Restore Hope

Creative Greenius

But time has afterburners when the holidays roll around especially when your friendly neighborhood Greenius is in such demand locally. Very good news indeed.