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Apr 22, 2020

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Earth Day 2020: Our favorite fun green cars in different, admittedly arbitrary categories

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2020 Porsche Taycan 4S First Drive | Forget 203 miles. We easily got 300

SANTA ANA, Calif. – I must admit that I was a bit nervous when I began my EV test loop in the 2020 Porsche Taycan 4S, the ink barely dry on its EPA range rating of 203 miles . I'd run this very same test some two months ago in a 2020 Porsche Taycan Tu…

Earth Day 2020: Looking forward to a cleaner, happier post-commuting world

This was the view on a recent 8 a.m. westbound crossing of the 520 floating bridge on Lake Washington in Seattle. Typically at 8 a.m., 7,000 vehicles would be on this bridge at once, and it normally carries 78,000 cars a day. Also in the photo: Impro…

Range Rover Evoque P300e and Land Rover Discovery Sport P300e PHEVs debut

After launching 48-volt mild hybrid versions of the Land Rover Discovery Sport and Range Rover Evoque last year , the iconic English off-road automaker goes all-in with the Discovery Sport P300e PHEV and Evoque P300e PHEV. Both share the Premium Trans…

Earth Day 2020: The Autoblog electric car buyer's guide

This wild rendering is a Koenigsegg-supervised student's design thesis

Imagined renderings without paths toward production typically don't make the cut here at Autoblog, but a sharp-looking exception to that rule has arrived courtesy of RAW Design House . The digital concept car was created as part of a graduation thesis…

Tesla now claims a 2.3-second 0-60 for the Model S Performance

Enthusiasts have been modding their cars for more performance basically since the dawn of the automobile's inception. For most of the history of four-wheeled vehicles, the only ways to cut a few tenths of a second off a 0-60 time involved some time w…

Hyundai Kona N sheds baggy camo, shows off beefy exhaust tips

The high-performance Hyundai Kona N has been spied in the wild yet again, this time with more form-fitting camouflage that gives us a better hint at what to expect from the Korean automaker's latest N model.  When we last saw "Kona the Destroyer ," i…

Refreshed Mercedes-AMG E63 caught on track in lighter camo

The revised Mercedes-AMG E63 sedan has been spotted wearing only minimal front-end camouflage as the unveiling of the high-performance variant inches ever closer.  While this prototype isn't completely undisguised, the scant covering on the nose lea…

The tire industry pushes back against evidence of plastic pollution

SINGAPORE — A growing body of scientific research linking tire wear to microplastic pollution, as well as increasing scrutiny from lawmakers in the European Union (EU), has led the $180 billion-a-year tire industry to fight back. The companies have …