The US specialist Newport Convertible Engineering offers a convertible conversion for the Tesla Model 3. The costs for this conversion is at least $29,500, but Model 3 owners can also go all-in and get an electric power top for $39,500.
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Rome’s transport company ATAC has failed to procure hydrogen buses. Somehow, not a single bid was submitted for a tender for five H2 buses published in February 2020. And this is not the first time: At the beginning of 2019 another hydrogen bus tender for Rome was equally unsuccessful.
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An unknown Tesla owner has fitted his Model 3 with a (small) BMW radiator grille, as the following photo shows. Maybe the waiting for the BMW i4 took too long for him.
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In October 2019 Dyson ended their electric car project for financial reasons. If you are still curious how the vacuum cleaner manufacturer wanted to tackle the electric car market, James Dyson now showed a prototype of the electric car and gives some more details.
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In the small town of Barstow, California, a man stopped a Tesla driver and dragged him out of the car. The thief then tried to escape in the captured Model 3 but soon found himself in a trap.
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The Gloucestershire Constabulary is putting the country’s largest police fleet of electric cars to new tactical use. On Twitter, they described their latest ops against illegal poachers with the electric vehicles being central to their strategy.
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The head of Tesla wants to move his headquarters and future operations to Nevada and Texas because Californian authorities will not yet let Tesla open its Fremont plant. Musk has even openly threatened the state with withdrawal from California altogether.
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Not only humans but horses too are hit by the coronavirus crisis although only indirectly. Vienna’s iconic horsedrawn carriages, the Fiakers, have come to stand utterly still with no guest sharing the ride. Now, they could be replaced for good.
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A Tesla-style lawn robot was set loose to prowl the lawn – as Tesla doesn’t have a mowing robot in its range quite yet, designer Prokop Strnka figured he’d do some groundwork for them. He built an autonomous electric lawn robot that looks straight out of Tesla’s catalogue.
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An electric car too cute to be true: The Malay Mini EV X2 that recently hit social media may turn out to be a scam. On their Facebook page, the Cyber Crime Alert Royal Malaysia Police on warned that there is not much behind the company except a bank account to order from.
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The Model S design initially announced in 2017 is now going on sale and has indeed turned the Tesla into a real ‘Shooting Brake’. However, the strictly limited offshoot from Dutch coachbuilder RemetzCar cost an impressive 224,522 euros.
Continue reading Elon Musk has again made statements about Covid-19 restriction that have caused an uproar. The latest comments included saying that stay-at-home orders were “fascist” as well as writing “free America now” in all-caps on Twitter.
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The ID.3 is not even on the market yet and Volkswagen is already giving car designers the task of designing the “ID.3 of the year 2050”. The competition on Instagram is being held for World Design Day. According to the Group, the winning design will be produced as a 3-D print on a scale of 1:4.
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A copy and paste job: Audi Ireland used Tesla content for their Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about electric cars on its website and forgot to change the Tesla-specific part after copying it.
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With the Revero GTE, Karma Automotive plans to launch its first all-electric car next year and said it would sell the platform to third parties. A US media report is checking the claims a little closer – and claims many of the announcements are simply untrue.
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Ford is expanding its Mustang family with a purely electric dragster version. The prototype of the Ford Mustang Cobra Jet brings a little more than 1 megawatt on the road and should be able to cover the quarter-mile in under 8 seconds.
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US presenter and car enthusiast Jay Leno released a video with previously unknown footage from 2008 showing Elon Musk introducing him to the first Tesla Roadster ever produced in series. And of course, Leno didn’t miss the chance to test the BEV himself.
Continue reading The hype around Elon Musk doesn’t stop and sometimes takes strange forms: Not only that Tesla fans celebrated the #ElonMuskDay on Twitter on 20 April, but also the “Church of Tesla” was uploaded on the net by a German fan.
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This Tesla Model 3 has rolled over several times and is accordingly outwardly a pile of scrap. However, the vehicle still can drive. The destroyed Model 3 was offered on eBay and has actually found a buyer.
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Formula E has created the ABB Formula E Race at Home Challenge, a nine-week e-sports competition in which a selection of the best gamers get to race against all Formula E teams.
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The French solar-film specialist firm Armor has designed an automatically retractable solar cover for cars. It has been shown covering a Gazelle electric car, but Armor says the cover could be used on any kind of electric vehicle.
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Audi factory driver Mike Rockenfeller has started a virtual racing series using the Audi e-tron Vision Gran Turismo. The races are held under the motto of #RaceHome and will give PlayStation Network members the opportunity to compete against the Audi DTM stars on PlayStation 4.
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A 13-year-old boy, known on the Internet as “Tesla Kid Grünheide”, was using a drone camera to document progress on the grounds of the Tesla’s Giga-Berlin building site in Brandenburg – until the police told him he wasn’t allowed to.
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When it comes to vast distances, Australia is a country of superlatives. Western Australia’s capital Perth is the world’s most isolated city. Here, electric racing motors specialists HyperPower have developed a superlative motor. The QFM-360-X boasts 1,000 kW or 1,341 horsepower.
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Tesla has unveiled the prototype of a ventilator using automotive parts including a touch screen, infotainment computer and Model 3 ECUs. The device looks like a hobby solution but fulfils the mission of avoiding using parts required by medical suppliers.
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The aerial racing series with electric aircraft planned by the Australian company Alauda has cleared an important hurdle with the conclusion of its first round of financing.
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German police recently confiscated a heavily-modified BMW i8 after the driver of the hybrid super sports car posted a video of himself doing 200 kph on a country road.
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Apparently Chinese EV manufacturer GAC is testing a system to perfume the upcoming Aion LX “with the healing aroma of traditional Chinese medicine”.
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Last year, Volkswagen’s subsidiary Electrify America submitted a formal proposal to the Unicode Consortium to introduce an EV with a charging station as an emoji for smartphone keyboards. Now a new proposal has been published.
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No sooner has Tesla started deliveries of the Model Y and two US tuning companies, Unplugged Performance and Signature Customs have already come out with the first conversions.
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