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EV sales are up but market share is down. The Kia EV6 shows off a facelift and more range. And BYD drops a Shark of a plug-in hybrid pickup south of the border. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.
Alfa Romeo has stopped taking orders for the Giulia and Stelvio Quadrifoglio as the duo will be discontinued in the United States. But the pair soldiers on in Europe. But the two Quads are getting a special edition sendoff with a rather interesting red carbon weave interior.
A little over a year ago, Kia announced plans to launch two electric trucks by 2027. One of them has seemingly been caught testing in California while wearing bulky camouflage. It's not the recently announced Tasman since that one looks different and will have a combustion engine, at least initially. We're certainly dealing with a test mule since it uses parts from other models.
The Jimny is on our list of forbidden fruits, and it will stay that way because Suzuki has no intentions of coming back to the United States. It left the market in 2012, citing poor sales. Elsewhere, the Japanese automaker keeps finding ways to make the small off-roader more desirable. It launched a larger five-door version in 2023 and now it's giving it the special edition treatment.
When full-size pickup trucks were first equipped with diesel engines in the late 1970s, it wasn’t part of an effort to post huge performance numbers. Instead, General Motors’ much-maligned 350-cubic-inch diesel V8 was tuned primarily to sip fuel and spun out a paltry 120 horsepower. Dodge’s Mitsubishi-built diesel six-cylinder was even less powerful with around 100 horses on tap.
If you want to know why American automakers are terrified of Chinese brands, look no further than Mexico where BYD has introduced the all-new Shark. It’s an impressive looking mid-size truck that features a plug-in hybrid powertrain.Borrowing heavily from the Ford F-150 Lightning playbook, the Shark features a prominent BYD grille that is flanked by vertical headlights and LED “contour” lighting. They’re joined by plastic body cladding, roof rails, and a chase bar.
WASHINGTON — New tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and batteries, solar cells, medical equipment and other goods are intended to protect U.S. jobs and manufacturers. They could raise prices on certain specific items, experts say, though a broad inflationary impact is unlikely in the short term.
The site Go Banking Rates (GBR) attempted to figure out how much the average American driver spends on gas, per state, over the course of that driver's decades behind the wheel. Considering the methodology, it's probably best to look at this as a financial relationship between states regarding projected current outlay or how much drivers in each state drive on average. We've already got questions about what's happening in Wyoming.