Tag: electric

  • Bookend: A $150,000 Chinese SUV. Seriously.

    Bookend: A $150,000 Chinese SUV. Seriously.

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    If you found my previous post on the $3,850 Zhidou Rainbow a bit difficult to digest, try not to choke on this: The U8 “Master Edition” from BYD’s hyper-premium Yangwang brand. It’s a plus-size, four-motor electric SUV, unveiled at the Beijing auto show and priced at just over $150,000, according to our friends at CNEVPost.com.…

  • Future transport? The sky’s the limit

    Future transport? The sky’s the limit

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    Elon Musk’s recent remarks to Don Lemon about future Tesla products was intriguing in several respects, not the least of which were Musk’s teasing hints about the next-gen Roadster (“not really a car”) and how it would marry technologies from Tesla and SpaceX. This was just a day or two after I stumbled across a post…