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About George hennessey.

Agyemang George Hennessey is a long time efficient vehicle enthusiast, writer, and photographer. He grew up around a transmission shop, and has been experimenting with vehicle efficiency since He was 19 and drove a 2019 Toyota Corolla s. He likes to get off the beaten path in her "Bolt EAV" and any other EVs he can get behind the wheel or handlebars of with her wife and kids. You can find him on Twitter here, and YouTube here

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Twenty years after the introduction of the Koenigsegg’s first production car, the CC8S, defined the new “megacar” category. In celebration of the CC8S’s 20th anniversary, the Koenigsegg CC850 was unveiled at 2022 The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering to an audience of media, customers, and industry luminaries. Performance is staggering-the CC850‘s 5.0-liter twin-turbo V8 delivers 1,185 hp on … Continue reading →

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Ford Mustang Mach-E Sales Moving Online Because EV Buyers Are Internet Savvy

Apparently, Ford’s research suggests that people looking to purchase an electric car are 6 times more likely to have buy online.

Ford Mustang Mach-E Seems To Present The Same Tesla Model Y Design Flaw

Sep 15, 2020 at 11:31am ET

By: Andrei Nedelea

Even though Ford is an established automaker with a vast traditional dealer network around the world, it’s still embracing change when it comes to the way it sells its cars. This is the case for the Mustang Mach-E electric crossover which will get its own bespoke order dashboard so that it can be purchased online, because apparently that’s where EV buyers acquire most of their cars.null

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First Drive: Rivian R1S Is the Most Lustworthy SUV Debut of the Last Decade

by Michael Frank

There was a time not too long ago when gasoline wasn’t quite so precious. In that prior era, carmakers who’d grown bored of merely making SUVs (a.k.a. station wagons on stilts) started to scratch their heads. If SUVs were in fact replacing sports sedans, why not actually make them sporty? What followed was an arms race: The M division of BMW began making X5 and X6s that were as fast as their much lighter and lower sports coupes. Porsche came out with the Cayenne, then the Macan. Jaguar chased after them with the F-Pace. Eventually, we got the $240,000 Lamborghini Urus, a supercar in everything but shape that could gun down 60 mph in 3.1 seconds and race to 190 mph top speed. Of course, its 12/17 mpg city/highway fuel economy is atrocious—though if you have that kind of money, who cares, right? Maybe you still do—especially when, for $90,000 you can have a Rivian R1S.


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The first Lucid Air – the luxury electric car certified for more than 500 miles of range – will reach find its way to a buyer’s driveway next month. Silicon Valley startup Lucid Motors has started production of the cars at its Arizona factory. It expects to make its first deliveries in late October.

About the Lucid Air

The Air is slightly larger than a Mercedes-Benz E-Class and is available in four trim levels ranging from $77,400 at the low end to over $169,000 for the range-topping Dream Edition (sold out for 2022).

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The EPA certified the car for up to 520 miles of driving on a single charge just two weeks ago. That figure makes it the longest-range EV on the market. It bests the Tesla Model S Long Range, the prior record-holder, by more than 100 miles. Lucid claims it is the fastest charging as well, adding up to 20 miles of range per minute, though no agency tests those claims.

The Company Behind It

The company launched in 2007 as Atieva, initially focused on designing electric powertrains for other manufacturers. It rebranded as Lucid in 2016 and announced the Air as a premium electric car. Lucid focused first on producing a car for the high end of the automotive market. It may expand into less-expensive models as it grows.
Lucid sells cars only through its website. The company operates a small number of “studios” in high-end shopping districts. There, buyers can see the vehicles before ordering directly from the manufacturer.
Starting a new automaker is one of the steepest challenges in the business world. Lucid’s approach is essentially the same model that rival Tesla followed as it grew into a successful company that delivered nearly half a million cars last year. It’s also the model Rivian has adopted and used to deliver the first electric pickups to reach buyer driveways earlier this month.