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Tesla CEO unveils Powerwall 2.0 and solar roof
Tesla [NSDQ:TSLA] CEO Elon Musk on Friday unveiled two new products, one from Tesla and another from SolarCity, the solar home installation firm Tesla is hoping to acquire and headed by Musk’s cousin Lyndon Rive. Tesla’s new product is a second-generation Powerwall home energy storage system while SolarCity’s product is a new…
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2017 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car revealed
Don’t think there’s any relevance or relationship between modern road and race cars? Then meet the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, which shares around 80 percent of its components with the 911 GT3 RS road car—and the remaining 20 percent mostly concerns safety and weight reduction, rather than raw performance. The latest version of Porsche’s…
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‘Engineering Explained’ is already fixing its Honda S2000
Remember that 2002 Honda S2000 that Jason from Engineering Explained recently acquired? Well, he’s already set to wrenching on it because, well, that’s what he does. In this video, Jason is installing a fresh timing chain tensioner, as it seems this is a potential failure area for the Honda S2000. The engine in the S2000…
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China’s Geely is new partner for Bloodhound land speed record team
The United Kingdom’s Bloodhound has secured vital funding from Chinese automaker Geely in order to complete its attempt on the world land speed record, scheduled to for South Africa in October 2017. Geely, which is the parent company to Volvo, has been named the prime sponsor of Bloodhound, as well as the team’s official automotive…
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More details on ambitious project to build Porsche 917 replicas
We recently told you about an ambitious group setting out to build Porsche 917 replicas aimed at track day enthusiasts keen to live out their Le Mans fantasies in real life. The group’s goal is clear: to build a 917 replica so fans can experience what it’s like to drive the classic racer. Reaching that…
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Get ready for Johnny Cab: Uber offering autonomous ride-sharing
Uber on Tuesday started allowing users of its popular ride-sharing service to hail rides from its autonomous prototypes currently testing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It’s not the first autonomous ride-sharing service—that honor goes to fellow American firm nuTonomy, which started a similar service in Singapore in August—but the…
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Volvo builds first prototypes for ambitious Drive Me autonomous car trial
Volvo in 2014 announced an ambitious project that would see autonomous car prototypes handed to members of the public for evaluation. As part of the project, called Drive Me, 100 of the prototypes, all of them based on the XC90 SUV, would be lent out to participating customers in Gothenburg, Sweden starting in 2017. Volvo…
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2017 Mercedes-AMG E63 spy shots and video
Mercedes-Benz has shown us its new E-Class, but soon after the car reaches showrooms in the summer we should have had our first look at the high-performance version from Mercedes-AMG. No, we’re not talking about the new E43. We’re talking about the new E63 sledgehammer, which once again will pack a twin-turbocharged V-8. A debut…
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Watch the Mercedes museum turn into a… hungry t-rex?
A pair of film students in Germany have taken a bite out of Mercedes-Benz’s history by creating a short video that turns the automaker’s historical museum into a car-eating tyrannosaurus rex. The film isn’t quite as far-fetched as you might think. And one thing’s for sure: You’ll never look at the distinctive architecture of the…
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Manifesto Supercar Wins 2015 Ferrari Design Challenge: Video
Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] recently ran a challenge that pitted students from some of the world’s top automotive design schools against one another in a mission to pen the supercar of the future. Student projects from around 50 schools were submitted and then these were whittled down to four finalists from Hochschule Pforzheim in Germany, Hongik…