The Truth About Cars

MARCH 22, 2024

It's not as fun to read about as a well-written car review of some sexy sports car being tested in Spain, but it matters a lot. Not just to those employed in the industry (or in industry-adjacent jobs, like mine) but also to the car-buying public. As well as here. Thanks for listening!

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This research was conducted through Google Surveys in October 2020. When asked about buying or renting a car powered by hydrogen, more than a quarter of respondents in Belgium and the UK reported concerns with the upfront cost. Nearly half of commuters in Belgium and Germany expressed the same view.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

The technology has gotten better and many of the elements of self-driving cars are already embedded into our current automobiles. 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.

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Teslarati

MAY 28, 2023

Long-time TSLA bull ARK Invest predicted that the “Cybertruck could be as mainstream as the Tesla Model Y,” based on Google Trends data. million existing Cybertruck reservations, early Google Trends data suggest that the Cybertruck could be as mainstream as the Tesla Model Y,” wrote ARK Invest analyst Sam Korus. “On In addition to 1.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It’s much less expensive than a daily car rental, by about half. How it works: Customers download the Evolve+ app from Google Play or the Apple Store to their smartphone. Evolve+ is currently available at select dealerships in six states with plans to add more by the year’s end. Consumers can find available dealers within the app.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 22, 2023

We gave you our picks for worst cars of 2023 earlier today. Again, here are the rules: The vehicle has to be a car/truck/SUV/crossover at least one of us drove during the calendar year, even if only for a few minutes. Trucks, subcompacts, sports cars, and crossovers. Now, predictably, it's time for our picks for the best.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 8, 2024

The Flexis vans will be Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs) built around Google’s Android Auto operating system. This allows Google to go beyond the screen into the functions of the car,” says de Meo. Electrek’s Take Volvo EM90 minivan; via Volvo Cars.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

“At Mercedes-Benz, we are dedicated to building the world’s most desirable cars,” says Ola Källenius, Mercedes-Benz CEO. is a partnership with Google. Integrating products like Google Maps and other purpose-built features will hopefully make phone integration better than ever.

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My Energi

MARCH 11, 2021

Who wants to hear yet another article on ‘daddy owns a flash car’?… Buying the perfect electric car for Mums. to Google Play Store to purchase a digital parrot. Welcome to the world of kids, cars and parenting in the 2020’s! Which was the last petrol / fossil fuel car you owned? Mum, Get a Tesla!”.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He said that Tesla doesn’t pay or provide discounts for celebrities to drive its cars and that the automaker doesn’t pay to advertise – though we have seen exceptions before. Last year, Tesla did start advertising with some targeted ads on Google , but it stayed away from Twitter, now X. That smells like Elon’s doing.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

CarsDirect scouted out this Greater New York deal that enables car buyers to lease a bZ4X XLE for just $299 per month for 36 months with $3,999 due at signing. It’s focusing on hybrids and gas cars. These figures are based on an MSRP of $47,734 and an allowance of 10,000 miles per year.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What we don’t know is why the car accelerated to a high rate of speed and went airborne before becoming a fireball. More to our speed is this Slate piece which came to my attention via a tweet from Car and Driver senior editor Andrew Krok. According to Krok, Kois never even reached out Car and Driver to ask about the Bentley.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 10, 2023

& The IQ’s $130,000 starting price buys a three-row SUV with curvier lines than the current gas model, and Cadillac said it’s the most aerodynamic Escalade to date. The system uses a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and runs Google built-in. The current Escalade’s cabin is packed with screens, and the IQ will follow suit.

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EV Central

MARCH 4, 2024

The 2025 Renault 5 E-Tech Electric has been unwrapped at the Geneva motor show and from our first look at the reborn French icon this could be one of the most desirable EVs not a lot of money can buy. As far as recharging goes, cars with the smaller battery get 80kW DC charging while the 52kWh R5s can be topped up at up to 100kW.

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EV Central

APRIL 11, 2024

Hoping to repeat what Tesla did for electric cars, but for vans, the key to the success of the new Flexis brand that is also bankrolled by a French shipping and logistics firm CMA CGM is a bespoke dedicated architecture that will offer cutting edge EV tech.

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Plug In Partners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Philanthropy Google’s Way: Not the Usual By KATIE HAFNER New York Times Published: September 14, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13 — The ambitious founders of Google , the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Last week, Google or Alphabet or X or whatever you want to call it announced that its Everyday Robots team has grown enough and made enough progress that it's time for it to become its own thing, now called, you guessed it, "Everyday Robots." But this doesn't seem fair to me, especially for a company that Google used to own.

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Plug In India

MARCH 9, 2021

He has not used his Petrol cars and only uses the Nexon EV. He loves the instant acceleration and fun of driving an eletric car. Video : Real Life EV Story : Arun abandoned his ICE cars & only uses Tata Nexon EV Arun Somyaji is a car aficionado. His two cars are the Chevrolet Cruze and the Tata Nano.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 27, 2015

Car buyers today have far more information than they did just 15 years ago, and they're using it. Google says that three-quarters of all auto shoppers now do hours of research before they ever visit a dealer.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 11, 2009

When Google asked for submissions of a 90 second video on the benefits of plug in cars to show at a 2008 Washington DC Brookings-Google Electric Car conference, Alexandra Paul and Stefano Paris decided to rise to the challenge! Stefano’s archive of the 2008 Brookings-Google Plug-In Conference Webcast.

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Teslarati

JULY 21, 2022

Model e is tasked with creating a “new shopping, buying and ownership experience” for future customers using simple, intuitive e-commerce platforms. ” However, given recent circumstances with other car companies, it would not be outlandish to suggest Ford may be making cuts.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 22, 2021

They are coming, they are going to take over our roads, Tech and automobile giants such as Google, Apple, Tesla are going to introduce their autonomous cars into the market next year, etc. Have you ever wondered why is it taking so long to have self-driving cars on our roads? What is an autonomous vehicle?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. Click to enlarge.

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EV Connect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Let’s look at a few of the benefits of electric car charging stations and explore how your business can showcase its commitment to EVs to reach more customers. 3 Marketing Benefits of Electric Cars There are many advantages to being among the first businesses to offer EV charging stations for public use.

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Cars That Think

MAY 7, 2022

They were buying a $249 thermostat—they were expecting a different kind of experience. Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2 In 2016 Google decided to sell Nest, so I left the company. Months after I left, Google changed its mind. Problem solved. Their first experience of Nest.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 11, 2023

In an interview with Body of workers Reporter Mark Hollmer, Mayfield tested dealership shortfalls in attaining Spanish-speaking consumers and why a Spanish translator instrument can move some distance towards serving to dealershipsreach an an increasing number of notable buying groceries demographic. Listed here are edited excerpts.

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Blink Charging

MARCH 30, 2023

Chances are that your customers are already asking about test driving and buying EVs from your dealership. While electric vehicle charging equipment is new for car dealerships, it does not need to be a mystery. In January 2023, 7.1% percent share in January 2022” according to InsideEVs.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

You will notice that it’s a handsome, premium-grade midsize car that looks like a tall sedan (it’s actually a hatchback). The car is a “2” because it was preceded by the “1,” which is an electric performance plug-in hybrid GT, with a six-figure price tag and a limited output of 500 units per year over the next three years.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 3, 2012

For luxury car buyers, the ground has shifted. Buying the best car now means buying the electric car. But the efforts to ensure charging is available to enable the takeoff of plug-in cars has become bogged down. Because the cars sit for many hours. Because the cars sit for many hours.

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

When are we going to have full (level-5) self-driving cars? 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. I think the Level-2 and Level-3 stuff in cars is amazingly good now. More context.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

The company has expanded its payment options to Shop Pay by Shopify, Paypal, GPay by Google, and Venmo. It can withstand 6,600 pounds of pressure if you accidentally run over it with your car. You don’t need to pay an electrician to install it, and you only need to buy one charger, so it’s cost-effective. Just remember to RTFM.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The target customer may be someone buying their first Lexus and their first luxury car, a combination Lexus wants to take the lead in reaching. If you can imagine an interior feature or treatment that should be on a premium car, then Lexus packed it into the UX 250h. The wireless phone charger is a $75 option.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

While others have come to market with varying flavors of car-like EVs, Rivian has gone all-in on the most all-American pickup truck - and a related SUV with legitimate off-road ability. But someday, someone will buy a well-used Rivian and find all kinds of hardware funkiness. It might not happen under warranty.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

That's why Amazon , Google , and Microsoft maintain massive data centers all around the world. But that only shifts the burden, buying time for rethinking how to manage our computing in the face of limited power resources. How much of our computing now happens in the cloud? dollars a year. Something will have to give.

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Blink Charging

MAY 9, 2023

It’s a new car-buying season and many new car buyers want to take advantage of the federal government’s electric vehicle tax incentives. To help, we have compiled some of the most common frequently asked questions asked by dealership customers and new EV owners before buying their first EV.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You might not know it to look at them, but these two cars—one Swedish, one Chinese—share underpinnings and a parent company. Volvo and its Chinese parent Geely are very serious about selling cars that plug in. It’s “not a traditional car brand,” according to executives, and will offer a new type of premium experience.

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Electric Auto Association

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You buy your own solar panels, you power your house and your car, and the utility wants to get paid for your doing that.” I had to pay an extra $100 for registering my Nissan LEAF this year, but the car has never been out of Topeka. They’re just putting up one more barrier to make sure people keep buying gas guzzlers.”

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