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Tesla Motors announced it faces a shortage of U.S. tax credits for the Model 3, its first mass-market electric vehicle. It was said that, in the first week of orders, 325,000 people had placed refundable $1,000 deposits on the Model 3, a sedan starting at $35,000 with a range of 215 miles and up.As the company has struggled in the past to deliver products on time, some say that the announced crisis is an apparent one, seeing in this announcement a clever production strategy to squeeze more money out of the program for its buyers. Because of a limit on the number of Tesla cu...
Nissan has confirmed that it will not build small, rear-wheel-drive sports cars soon.The model which may have tackled the likes of Toyota’s 86 and the Mazda MX-5 in the sales-race would have sat below the current 370Z and GT-R models in the carmaker’s range.But now, according to reports out of Europe, the small sports car plans have been returned to the shelf where they may sit for quite some time. According to Nissan Senior Vice President Shiro Nakamura, the company has a modular platform currently under development that could underpin a model range featuring both electric and fos...
Roborace – a new driverless electric car series (from Formula E and Kinetik) is gaining shape with the first images of racing vehicles revealed. A new kind of vehicle was designed by the Daniel Simon.The cars has 4.8-metres long, and 2-metres wide, with a wheelbase of 2.8 metres and weighing in at 1000kg. To put that in context, the car will be 200mm shorter than a Formula E single-seater but 200mm wider. It weighs 112kg more than a FE machine, despite that car's all-up figure including the driver’s weight.Nvidia said that it will put its Drive PX 2 AI - the world’s most ...
Fiat Chrsyler Automobiles (FCA) recently announced the recall of 14,700 model year 2015-2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs because of the problems related to power steering and braking.In January 2016, a supplier had a machine failure that caused parts of be incorrectly manufactured. FCA opened an internal investigation after the supplier notified the automaker about a left front caliper that failed during a test. Additional tests showed the caliper housing falls below specification on torque fatigue and pressure fatigue tests.A cracked caliper can cause the risk of a collision or...
Several Illinois dealerships have recently filed a civil racketeering lawsuit alleging FCA paid dealers to improperly inflate sales. Fiat Chrysler reacted saying that the allegations are “baseless” and represent an attempt to “publicly smear” the automaker.FCA used a legal salvo for the first time since dealerships owned by the Napleton Automotive Group filed a suit on Jan. 12. FCA seeks to have the Napleton dealerships’ suit dismissed entirely, saying it is “replete with conclusory allegations, substitutes vitriol for plausibil...
