Spring is here, and it's the perfect time to discover fresh feelings of adventure.If you are willing to explore your need for speed, then RepoKar is the right place for you! RepoKar is a fun, high-octane online Public Auto Auction where you'r...
Daimler makes its managers drive hybrid and electric cars. Plug-in hybrids and all-electric vehicles will become actually its company cars. The German automaker established a new policy this week that will require top managers to drive electrified company cars—as opposed to gas-powered vehicles—to set an example and provide a clear role model.The company believes that electric cars have much more responses than usual models. Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz, announced it would invest another 30 million euros ($33 million) to expand its own charging infrastructure across its o...
Falling gasoline prices are hitting the residual values of used hybrids and electrics. For example the Nissan Leaf cars were sold just over 90,000 copies in the US. That means a lot of them are now on the used market. So many, in fact, that you can find them for crazy low prices all over the country.Electric vehicles are increasingly becoming popular with rising awareness about climate change and improving EV technology. These alternatively fueled vehicles not only fight pollution and emit less greenhouse gas emissions, but are starting to get competitive with fossil fuel-based vehicles due to...
The British brand hit the perfect car spot with its newest F-Type SVR. The Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) performance division starts by turning up the wick on the F-Type's supercharged 5.0-liter V-8. With techniques adopted from the F-Type Project 7, the SVR now makes 575 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque -- up from the R's 550 ponies and 502 pound-feet. It's not just more powerful; the SVR models are also 55 pounds lighter than their respective F-Type R AWD analogs -- 35 of those pounds were saved by replacing the standard steel exhaust with a...
Want to work at a new car company? Google is hiring!Google parent company Alphabet has posted ads for 36 positions for marketing to manufacturing jobs on its website related to the Google X car project.One listing for a marketing manager expects the person to shape a "go-to-market strategy and storytelling to win hearts and minds of community members, influences and governments".Another role for a manufacturing process engineer lays out responsibilities which include "designing factory assembly stations, optimizing production floor layout, automating critical manufacturing proce...
Elon Musk is convinced that some of the largest vehicles -- we're talking planes and ships -- will soon be electric. In an interview with Marketplace on Monday, the Tesla and SpaceX chief spoke of a future in which all manner of conveyances will shift away from traditional energy sources."Aircraft and ships, and all other modes of transport, will go fully electric -- not half electric, but fully electric," Musk said. Musk has been thinking electric for quite some time now, having devoted his time, energy and investments to Tesla Motors’ electric vehicles, such as the n...
