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Time to Worry About Thieves Stealing Your Car’s Catalytic Converter
The past couple of weeks have not been good for catalytic converter thieves in California. Last week, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department raided four locations, arresting 19 people and seizing 250 stolen catalytic converters. This week, sheriffs in neighboring San Bernardino county raided a home and recovered 400 stolen converters. Meanwhile, in nearby Anaheim, a would-be converter thief died when he was crushed by the Toyota Prius whose converter he was trying to pillage.
What Your Car Might Say About How You’ll Vote – Forbes Wheels
Democrats also are less likely to be new-vehicle buyers because they skew younger and are more likely to get a used car, according to Edwards. They also are open to foregoing car ownership in favor of public transportation or ride sharing, and if they do own their own vehicles, it’s for a longer period of time, he said. “Republicans are more likely to own a vehicle for only three to six years,” Edwards said. The average car on the road is nearly 12 years old, according to industry research firm IHS Markit.
While I think battery technology has progressed a lot in recent years, for long-haul trucking and even long-distance bus transportation, I think trackless trolleys along interstates and major highways
While I think battery technology has progressed a lot in recent years, for long-haul trucking and even long-distance bus transportation, I think trackless trolleys along interstates and major highways. I know a lot of people discount the possibility — after all it is expensive to run thousands of miles of electrified wires along with all the substations required to supply the wires, but it could provide a an economical source of power on go, beyond what even a large battery bank could provide.
GM to go all-electric by 2035, phase out gas and diesel engines
General Motors plans to completely phase out vehicles using internal combustion engines by 2035, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra announced Thursday. The automaker will go completely carbon neutral at all facilities worldwide by 2035.
Barra has frequently touted GM's plan for “an all-electric future,” recently increasing to 30 the number of pure battery-electric vehicles it will launch by the middle of this decade, but this marks the first time the largest Detroit automaker has set a hard target for completely phasing out gas and diesel engines for all light-duty vehicles, including pickups and SUVs.
I think Americans will like electric cars. They'll have good acceleration, with rocket-like starts onto the freeway if the drivers want to really wallop the accelerator. Battery packs are big and heavy, which necessitates larger, higher profile, longer vehicles. The demand for larger ranges and bigger battery packs might actually bring back some of the 220-inch behemoths that once ruled the road in 1950s and 1960s, especially for people who don't live in cities and have to parallel park.
It's unclear if there will be much of a push for efficiency standards with the new vehicles, especially right away, as electricity is so cheap and plentiful as gasoline once was, and the tailpipes for generating plants tends to be located outside of cities, so localized pollution is a lot less of an issue.
A Dream Car May Be Hard To Find : NPR
Automakers around the world, from Japan to Texas, are grappling with a global shortage of computer chips.
Volkswagen sounded the alarm about the growing problem last month. Now more automakers are reporting problems, including a ord plant in Kentucky that shut down temporarily, a Jeep plant in Mexico that extended its holiday shutdown and other factories that are trimming production plans based on their supply of semiconductors.
A Brief History of the Square Steering Wheel | Mac’s Motor City Garage
Fairly early in the development of the automobile, pioneer inventors seized upon the steering wheel as an ideal method of controlling a vehicle. (They were borrowing from the marine world, we presume.) But it wasn’t long until creative variations on the theme began to appear—square, rectangular, ovoid shapes. None of them ever caught on, but these unusual forms continue to appear occasionally to this day. Here are just a few examples.