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Tesla defends Elon Musk's enormous pay package and says he adds 'tremendous value'

Would you say Elon Musk is doing a good job at Tesla right now? After all, he has led the car company up to annual sales of 1.81 million cars in 2023,...

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Canadian police found $3 million worth of classic cars

A massive haul of classic cars has been uncovered by police in Ontario, Canada, following a months-long investigation into a spate of thefts north of...

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A person got sucked into a plane's jet engine and killed

A person has died at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands after they were sucked into the engine of a plane preparing for takeoff. A KLM...

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Tesla has settled another deadly Autopilot crash lawsuit

Tesla has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently. If it’s not recalls on its products, then it’s manufacturing issues, like sharp...

29.05.2024 6

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A passenger fell off the world’s biggest cruise ship and died

A man died after falling from the deck on the world’s largest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas last week. The massive vessel had just started a...

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Tesla shareholders should reject Elon Musk’s huge pay package, advisory firm says

After it transpired that Tesla was buying advertising to try and convince shareholders to back its massive new pay package for boss Elon Musk,...

28.05.2024 10

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GM's plan to make car enthusiasts buy EVs

After worries about charging and range anxiety, the biggest issue many car fans have with electric vehicles is that they’re no fun to drive. They...

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Tesla wanted to make 20 million cars a year by 2030. Never mind

Tesla is having a right old time of it right now. If it’s not recalls over shoddy building of its flagship Cybertruck then its mass layoffs and...

24.05.2024 30

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Teslas are still pretty easy to steal

Car thefts have been on the rise in recent years due to a couple of factors: TikTokers discovered Kias were ridiculously easy to steal and budding...

23.05.2024 30

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Tesla drivers aren't going to play Steam games any time soon

Elon Musk is pretty big on making promises he can’t keep. If it’s not cars that can actually drive themselves or affordable electric vehicles,...

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The ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key bridge is no longer trapped

It’s taken almost two months of work, a few tons of explosives and the construction of a whole new trench in the lower Patapsco River, but the...

21.05.2024 30

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Tesla dashcam footage shows full self-driving nearly crashing into a train

The rollout of Tesla’s advanced driver assistance technology Full Self-Drive and Autopilot has been fraught with issues. There have been...

21.05.2024 10

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Tesla's price cuts have hammered rental companies that bought EVs. Now it's doing damage control

If you’re in the market for an electric car, then Tesla’s barrage of price cuts in recent months might have been the welcome push you needed to go...

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13 of the best looking race cars ever made

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19.05.2024 20

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Tesla sales keep slipping — but it's still dominating the electric car market

Tesla might have had a little win Thursday when it emerged that the Cybertruck was officially the second-best-selling electric pickup truck in...

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Apple's newest software upgrade wants to fix motion sickness

Getting travel sick is rubbish, it can ruin a road trip, put you off taking that once-in-a-lifetime whale watching trip and dampen any excitement...

16.05.2024 10

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The most expensive movie ever made could star Brad Pitt racing cars

Brad Pitt has been working on a movie about life in Formula 1 for a couple of years now. The movie, which has Lewis Hamilton onboard as a producer,...

14.05.2024 50

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They blew up the rest of the Baltimore bridge to free the cargo ship that destroyed it

More than six weeks after it struck and destroyed the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, the Dali container ship has finally been freed after...

14.05.2024 30

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Ford is losing a ton of money selling EVs

It’s tough breaking into the electric vehicle game these days. Startups like Rivian and Lucid have posted massive losses while launching their...

13.05.2024 30

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A Tesla executive quits on Elon Musk, saying it's 'hard to see the long game' as layoffs crush morale

For weeks, Tesla has been cutting staff left, right and center. First it was teams at its California and Texas hubs, then the brains behind the...

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They're gonna blow Up the Baltimore bridge to free the cargo ship that destroyed it

The enormous Dali container ship has been stuck in Baltimore since it hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key bridge way back in March. The ship...

09.05.2024 50

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EV startup Rivian's losses just keep getting bigger

Tesla isn’t the only electric vehicle startup that’s struggling. Rivian has now admitted that losses at the company are widening as it begins to...

08.05.2024 30

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Rebuilding the Baltimore bridge will cost almost $2 billion and take until 2028

Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed in March after it was struck by an enormous container ship that lost power while exiting the city’s...

03.05.2024 20

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An AI-generated image shows what the Baltimore bridge collapse looked like in insane detail

Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in March after it was hit by a cargo shop that lost power. The strike from the ship brought the...

02.05.2024 10

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We're driving our cars cars to death so we can save money

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Planes have a secret wind turbine generator — just in case

Aircraft safety is a hot topic these days, with Federal Aviation Administration investigators looking into door seals at Boeing, aircraft slides...

02.05.2024 10

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Hertz is now offloading more than 30,000 electric cars

If you’re looking to pick up a used electric car bargain, then your luck may be in as Hertz is about to offload thousands of electric vehicles from...

01.05.2024 20

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A tornado ran into a BNSF freight train in Nebraska

If you’re anything like most of the Jalopnik staff, you’ve probable dreamed of becoming a storm chaser at some point in your life. The idea of...

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Self-driving trucks are coming to America's highways

The switch to our self-driving future has been far from smooth so far. In San Francisco, restless natives have come out in force against the rollout...

30.04.2024 30

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We always board planes on the left. Here's why

Flying is one of those strange times where you just have to go with the flow and do as everyone else does. So you put your liquids in a small separate...

30.04.2024 50

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The first-ever driverless car race didn't go so well

It was a historic weekend for racing, and I’m not just talking about Jaguar’s win in Monaco at the Formula E on Saturday. Instead, the Autonomous...

29.04.2024 30

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They cut a giant cruise ship in half to make it even bigger and it's amazing to watch

There’s something slightly unnerving about seeing an enormous cruise ship out of water. A skyscraper-sized vessel propped up by a few planks of wood...

27.04.2024 50

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Japan’s Moon lander survived a rough landing

Japan had its moment in the Moon’s glow earlier this year when scientists landed a lunar probe on the surface of our nearest celestial neighbor. The...

26.04.2024 20

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Toyota bet big on hybrids and it's paying off

While most automakers around the world made a sudden pivot to electric cars, Toyota held off and decided to stick with hybrid models and slowed its...

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Tesla's solution to a huge drop in profits is new Teslas

Tesla doesn’t seem to be able to catch a break right now. Whether it’s falling registrations as sales drop, or recalls of its flagship models, the...

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Tesla fired its marketing team in latest layoffs

If you were asked to name the car maker that’s having the worst week, would it take you more than a few seconds to shout out Tesla? There’s little...

23.04.2024 30

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Tesla's quick fix for Cybertruck's slippery gas pedal isn't much

Tesla was forced to issue a recall for the futuristic Cybertruck last week after it emerged that the accelerator pedal could come loose and jam the...

22.04.2024 30

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The best cars from the 1970s

Some of our posts include links to retailers. If you buy something from clicking on one, G/O Media may earn a commission. Because editorial staff is...

21.04.2024 10

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The owners of the ship that hit the Baltimore bridge are trying to avoid paying for it

A massive container ship hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last month, killing six people and shutting one of America’s...

19.04.2024 5

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American's bridge safety standards are based on ‘outdated’ regulations from Cold War West Germany

Protection around America’s bridges has been thrown into question in recent weeks after a massive container ship hit and destroyed the Francis Scott...

19.04.2024 10

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China makes a ton of EVs and the unsold ones are now piling up at ports

We’ve all heard the stories recently about electric vehicles sales falling short of expectations. Companies like Tesla have seen sales slow in...

17.04.2024 5

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Ford is slashing prices on its electric F-150 Lightning

If you’re looking to pick up a bargain EV, now is a good time to head to the dealers as companies across the U.S. are slashing prices of their...

13.04.2024 5

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A bridge collapsed 10 years after it was built because designers focused too much on making it look good

It’s a tough time to be a bridge designer right now, with a span in Baltimore collapsing after a ship crashed into it and New York’s...

13.04.2024 30

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A Boeing whistleblower says the troubled plane maker 'dismissed safety and quality concerns'

American plane maker Boeing is in hot water right now after a series of high-profile issues involving its aircraft. In the past few months alone,...

10.04.2024 20

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EV maker Lucid found a way to boost sales while Tesla and others struggled

It’s a tough time to be an electric vehicle startup, with pioneers like Tesla struggling to maintain momentum and demand at established automakers...

10.04.2024 6

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An RV startup wants to make the luxury camper of the future

Exotic, flashy RV makers are ten a penny these days, so if you want to stand out from the crowd of sleek interiors, electric power and chic small...

09.04.2024 5

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See what the total solar eclipse looked like from space

Did you get out and see the eclipse Monday? It was quite the site to behold, or so I’m told as I’m nowhere near the path of totality. It looked...

09.04.2024 3

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A cargo ship got dangerously close to hitting a New York City bridge

Less than two weeks after a massive cargo ship caused carnage when it hit a bridge in Baltimore, a second enormous vessel has come dangerously close...

08.04.2024 30

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Pickup truck sales are falling as buyers switch to smaller, cheaper cars

If you had to guess which car category floundered at the start of 2024, which would you go for? Maybe electric vehicles with all the press about...

08.04.2024 4

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Today's total solar eclipse is about to create a traffic apocalypse

Watch live: The 2024 total solar eclipseRead more...

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