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First Look: 2024 Ford Ranger and Ranger Raptor

The Truth About Cars

With Ford having debuted the global version of the midsize Ranger pickup in 2021, the only question was what kind of changes would be made for the American market. Ranger happens to be to the versions you can already buy in countries where they have the steering wheel on the wrong side. But Ford said it would likewise offer the 2.7-liter

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The Inefficiency of Car Buying

Clean Car

Buying a New Car is inefficient, its no wonder that electric vehicle sales are still pretty low. The buying experience of a new car for each of us is different, but the one similarity for all of us is its inefficiency. Each of us has a different approach to buying a new car. The steps are easy: Download the CleanCar app.

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EV Radar: December 2021

Noodoe

UK Law Requires EV Chargers for All New Buildings. New buildings will be required to include EV charging stations, as will renovated structures that have 10 or more parking spaces. Fleets not only buy vehicles but (some) must sell them long before they’re out of commission. Ford Plans to Produce 600,000 EVs.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

You now have hundreds, thousands of different entities, whether it is a municipal government, a retail shop owner, or someone who manages parking garages or a utility or someone else who has to make decision about well, what are we going to do, how are we going to build this infrastructure? —Dan Ford. Earlier post.).

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

For some (not all) use cases, the economic advantages of going electric have been clear for a long time, and yet we’ve seen a dozen EV manufacturers go bust while trying to address the commercial market, while fleet operators continue to buy diesel vehicles, which continue to belch out clouds of oily black smoke. It’s less time and effort.

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I drove the new Tesla Model 3, here’s what got better

Teslarati

I totally realize that these are pretty tedious complaints, but I do believe there are some people who would see this as such an inconvenience that it would stop them from buying a car. There was not very much creaking or movement from these parts , which can sometimes be cheap and seem like an inferior quality.

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Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on

EV Central

We bleated away like blind sheep, buying Ford EcoSports at twice the rate we did Souls in 2019, the last year it was sold in Australia. Build quality’s excellent, and you score LED lights everywhere (boomerang-shaped at rear), leather heated seats, 10.25-inch

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