Author: Jonathon Ramsey

Over the weekend, Karma Automotive CEO Marques McCammon presided over the re-relaunch of the 10-year-old automaker. The best way forward might be led in spirit by this, the Karma Kaveya coupe. We are saying “in spirit” since the automotive is not due until the tip of 2025; nevertheless, it sets the tone for the vehicles coming before then, which incorporates an updated Revero range-extender EV and the Gyesera “touring sedan.”  As a primer on how we came, Henrik Fisker co-founded Fisker Automotive and launched the Fisker Karma EV in 2011. The ex-designer’s first foray into launching an EV company didn’t…

Components in an electrical vehicle create all types of electromagnetic interference (EMI) with the AM signal; such EMI cannot be stopped, but might be reduced to an affordable level with items like shielded cables, component placement, and energetic noise cancelation. For the past few years, a growing variety of carmakers elected to skip the hassle by eliminating AM broadcast radio from their EVs. Ford went further, planning to eliminate AM radio in all its cars starting with the 2024 Mustang. In response, a growing variety of opponents want AM radio restored. The general public battle to avoid wasting AM heated…

Hyundai might bring its five-year-old one-make racing series to the U.S. next 12 months. In 2019, Hyundai inaugurated the N Festival in its home South Korean market, a series of six events that included single-model racing that is since turn into the most important of its kind within the country. The initial classes for amateurs counted the Veloster N Cup and Avante N Line Cup, the Avante being our Elantra N Line. In 2022, Hyundai added the Avante N Cup that put 15 skilled drivers amongst 15 amateurs. Korean Automobile Blog reported the automaker recently debuted its updated Avante N…

A Wikipedia page titled “Nissan Motors v. Nissan Computer” lays out the barest bones of a industrial spat between late North Carolina resident Uzi Nissan and Nissan Motors. Nissan the person began incorporating businesses using his last name around 1980, when Nissan the automobile company was still known almost exclusively as Datsun. In 1994, almost as soon as registrars cropped as much as sell domains to the general public, Mr. Nissan registered Nissan.com and Nissan.net. In 1999, the automobile company decided it wanted the domain and fought Mr. Nissan for it. The courts decided the case in Uzi’s favor in…

We only have a crumb for now, observers gathering morsels of intel on what to anticipate of the next-generation Chevrolet Bolt. During GM’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Mary Barra confirmed the hatchback’s return, telling analysts, “I do know there was some speculation available in the market as to why we’re developing a brand new Bolt EV. Our strategy is to construct on the tremendous equity we’ve within the brand and to do it as efficiently as possible.” The efficiency bit is the important thing phrase in that sentence, Barra explaining that GM can get the brand new Bolt to market…

Earlier this month, Honda loosed the small print on the 2024 Passport. Mostly a shorter version of the old Pilot, it’s also mostly unchanged for the brand new model yr. The one revision common to all the lineup is a brand new center console with a bigger storage bin. Amongst individual trims, the TrailSport received probably the most attention. The journey variant of the journey crossover sits on a wider track, stretched nearly half an inch, and wears a quartet of nearly 30-inch General Grabber A/T tires on 18-inch wheels. The suspension’s shocks, springs, and antiroll bars have been retuned for…

Mercedes is all concerning the GLC variants this yr after launching the refreshed GLC 300 SUV last yr. In March, Mercedes rolled out the larger and sleeker 2024 GLC 300 Coupe, which can only are available AMG Line spec. In July, Mercedes-AMG launched the regular, boxy versions of the GLC 43, GLC 53, and GLC 63. Now it is time for AMG’s tackle the GLC Coupe, which can only are available GLC 43 and GLC 63 S E Performance trims. Downsizing claims one other pair of larger-displacement engines, the previous V6 and V8 giving method to turbocharged inline four-cylinders, as…

Hyundai used “N-Day” in 2022 to indicate two N-flavored concepts. The primary was the RN22e, an Ioniq 6 sedan changed into a rolling widebody testbed for features like performance-focused regenerative braking and N Sound+ synthetic audio effects. Nobody remembers it, since the second concept was the N Vision 74, a hydrogen-powered fancy that turned the unique 1974 Pony Coupe Concept right into a concentrated retro-modern sports automobile with classic, chiseled lines. The most important query asked about it was, “Hydrogen?” The second-biggest query asked about it continues to be, “What is going to it take to construct it?” Even Hyundai…

Last month, we took the 2023 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat for what we called “one last thrill ride.” Seems there are a couple of thrills left within the old girl yet, Dodge announcing the Hellcat-powered model will return for the approaching model 12 months at the identical time the automaker detailed updates for the 2024 Durango. There’s not much happening for next 12 months, perhaps influenced by the mystery of how long the Durango itself has to live; there’s been all types of speculation concerning the Durango retiring, or perhaps just the name retiring, or perhaps the Durango becoming a…

The ice under the Kia Soul appears to be getting real thin. The third-generation hatchback is entering its fifth model yr for 2024, and despite small visual tweaks for 2023, news for going into 2024 continues Kia’s trend of creating the merest of changes and a sales trend on the decline. From a high of 154,768 sales within the U.S. in 2016, sales in 2022 amounted to 56,740 units. It looks like dealers should hit that number again this yr unless the underside falls out, but with the Soul not far behind the Seltos in sales figures or price, we…