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Arcimoto begins customer deliveries of its fun little electric trike
Enlarge / Mark Frohnmayer, Arcimoto’s founder and President, with an Evergreen Edition at the company’s Oregon factory. (credit: Arcimoto)
We’ve been fortunate enough to test some fun vehicles over the past few years, but few have put as big a
Tesla Model 3 wins top safety rating after acing crash tests
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The small overlap driver’s side front crash test. [credit: IIHS ]
Tesla’s Model 3 has earned the highest possible safety rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety after the group performed a series of crash tests on the vehicle.
The world’s best bush plane is destroyed on take off in Reno
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Emergency services respond to the crash at Stead Airport in Nevada. [credit: Mike Patey/Youtube ]
Mike Patey, the Utah entrepreneur who transformed his Polish-built Wilga 2000 short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft into a million-dollar “ultimate bush plane”
Dear Honda, this adorable electric car needs to come to the US
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I’ve rarely had as much difficulty photographing a new car at an auto show press day than I had trying to get a good shot of the Honda e. It was always mobbed. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ]
FRANKFURT, GERMANY—Two
The fight over fuel economy rules is getting messy
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Legal wrangling among the federal government, the state of California, and four automakers who—oddly—are asking for more stringent regulations got even more knotty this month, when the Department of Justice reportedly launched an antitrust probe into
Volkswagen’s bold plan to create a new car operating system
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FRANKFURT, GERMANY—The cars we drive are increasingly defined as much by the software they run as their engines or chassis. It started slowly. Discrete electronic control units started to appear under the hood, controlling fuel management