2024 Audi SQ8 e-tron and 2024 Audi SQ8 Sportback e-tron are anticipated to arrive in U.S. showrooms in the fourth quarter of 2023 providing improved acceleration, increased handling dynamics, and elevated traction capabilities thanks to its three-motor quattro drivetrain. Audi SQ8 e-tron – $89,800 MSRP Audi SQ8 Sportback e-tron – $92,600 MSRP Three electric motors…
As Paris was banning e-scooters, European cities of comparable size, like Berlin, threw their weight behind the devices. Berlin has five scooter operators and 40,000 registered e-scooters zooming across the city. “There’s always more,” the Berliner Zeitung, a local news outlet, recently commented. The vote in Paris initially resonated in other French cities at a…
It has been quite some time since we last time heard about the Non-Tesla Supercharger Pilot program expansion to new markets. We recently visited Tesla‘s website and it turned out that currently, non-Tesla electric vehicles can use some of Tesla Superchargers in nearly 20 countries. The latest addition is Turkey, which joined as the 19th…
Fast-moving thunderstorms swept across the Las Vegas valley on Friday, causing flash flooding along parts of the Las Vegas Strip as the region braced for more rain into Saturday. The National Weather Service reported that 1.14 inches of rain fell on Friday in Boulder City, Nev., about 26 miles southeast of Las Vegas. Just over…
The all-electric smart #3 made its European debut at the IAA Mobility 2023 in Munich after its unveiling at the Auto Shanghai in April earlier this year. The vehicle features a sporty coupé body, athletic curves, and a powerful “shark nose.” The wide A-shaped grill and slim LED headlights skillfully round off the front view….
The remnants of Hurricane Idalia were dissipating on Saturday and pulling away from Bermuda, days after it made landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast and swept across the Southeast. On Friday, the storm, which was once a powerful Category 4 hurricane, had weakened to a post-tropical cyclone. At 5 p.m. Eastern on Saturday, the storm was…
Stellantis has revealed a prototype electric vehicle battery, which integrates the inverter and charger functions within the modules. This application frees space in the EV and makes the battery more efficient in terms of cost and range, the group said in a press release. Stellantis, along with TotalEnergies-owned battery solutions company Saft, worked with France’s…
When a mountain-size slab of space rock rammed into the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, the fallout was apocalyptic. Tsunamis washed away coastlines, raging fires engulfed forests and dust and debris blotted out the sun for months. Roughly three-fourths of the planet’s species, most notably non-avian dinosaurs, were wiped out. But one group appears…
Tesla recently expanded installations of V4 Superchargering dispensers to at least two additional countries – the United Kingdom and Norway. Several V4 stations were built so far in Europe (in Austria, France, Germany and the Netherlands), but that’s just the beginning. According to Tesla Owners UK, this week V4 charging dispensers were installed at the…
Katia has weakened into a Tropical Depression and “barely qualifies as a tropical cyclone at this time,” the National Hurricane Center said on Monday morning. In an advisory on Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center estimated that the storm had sustained winds of 35 miles per hour, with higher gusts. As of Monday morning there…
