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The Lone Star state isnt the only state considering this. The idea of Texas, or any other state in the union, applying a special tax to electric vehicle owners sounds kind of absurd. But there is a logic to it. Texas lawmakers have just introduced state Senate Bill 178 that if passed in its current form, will require EV owners to pay an annual fee of between $190 and $240. Owners who drive their EVs over 9,000 miles a year will be slapped with an additional $150 fee. Plus, therell be an annual ...

The Mercedes EQA family is expanding rapidly. Before the EQS set new standards for luxury electric sedans last month, Mercedes unveiled the EQA, the electric equivalent to the GLA. At the time, the only variant you could buy was the entry-level EQA 250 with 187 horsepower and 276 lb-ft of torque, which is sent to the front wheels, and a 66.5-kWh battery with over 300 miles of range. Now, Mercedes has expanded the EQA family with two more powerful variants: the EQA 300 4MATIC and EQA 350 4MATIC....

Nothing like this has happened before. Right now, there are thousands of partially built Ford F-150s sitting in massive parking lots around Detroit. Final assembly cannot be completed until one final component is installed, semiconductor chips. Without them, new cars and trucks cannot function properly as crucial systems like navigation and Bluetooth depend on them. Ford has been forced to idle several production plants, including the Mustang assembly line in Flat Rock, Michigan, for various pe...

Hypersonic Gray, Caffeine, and Amplify Orange are the new additions. Once the last 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8s were ordered late last year, we were able to find out what the most popular options and colors were for this mid-engined sports car. The findings revealed that Torch Red, Arctic White, and Black were the most popular colors, in that order. New colors and stripe options were added for the 2021 model and now Chevy has revealed the additions to the color palette for the 2022 model. The 20...

by Jake LingemanTechnology The company has clocked more than 100,000 miles in real world testing. Tesla has Full-Self Driving, Cadillac has Super Cruise, and now Ford has proven its own hand-free driving system, calling it BlueCruise. Ford put a half-million miles of development testing into the system, and just finished another 110,000-mile journey to test the system in the real world. It called the test, the Mother of All Road Trips; it included five F-150s, five M...

Theres no quick solution to the semiconductor chip crisis. It wasnt too long ago when top automaker executives, including Ford CEO Jim Farley, predicted the semiconductor chip crisis would be resolved in the second half of this year. The reality is very different and potentially far more painful unless steps towards greater domestic production are immediately taken. Automotive News spoke to some industry analysts about the current situation that began last year when chip suppliers sold their pr...

Heres what they want from Biden. Earlier this year, automakers manufacturing vehicles in the United States requested help securing a sufficient semiconductor chip supply from then-president-elect Joe Biden. A few months later, the situation has gotten worse as vital assembly plants have been forced to idle or dramatically scale back operations. Hot-selling vehicles like the Ford F-150 are directly affected, meaning automakers could potentially lose billions of dollars in sales. Dealership inven...

Audi is riding a wave of unprecedented success, with record sales in 2020 boosting the brand's confidence g...

Order books for the Mercedes EQA are now open in Germany. Last month, Mercedes expanded its EQ electric family with the new entry-level EQA crossover. In EQA 250 guise, the electric crossovers single-motor electric powertrain produces 188 horsepower and 276 lb-ft of torque, which is sent to the front wheels. Based on Europes NEDC test cycle, the EQAs 66.5-kWh lithium-ion battery pack enables an electric driving range of 302 miles. A more powerful dual-motor variant with AWD, 268 hp, and over 31...

Daimler CEO Ola Kallenius is making perhaps one of the biggest changes in the German automaker's nearly 100...