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The Lone Star state isn't 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, there'll be an annual $10 surcharge to help fund EV charging infrastructure. So, how does this make any sense? Because E...

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. These new variants utilize a dual-motor, all-wheel-drive setup, with power between the front and re...

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 periods of time to help balance out what chip supplies it has left. With no solution to the crisis on ...

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 2022 Corvette can be ordered in Hypersonic Gray Metallic, Amplify Orange Tintcoat, and Caffeine Metall...

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 Mach-Es, and covered 37 states plus five Canadian provinces. The tech isn't available yet, but if you...