• The 14 Pivots that Turned a Data-Driven EV Marketplace into a $100M Business

    The 14 Pivots that Turned a Data-Driven EV Marketplace into a $100M Business
    The secret to winning in the used EV market? Listening to the market itself. When ⁠Jimmy Douglas⁠, founder and CEO of Plug, shares how he went from slow growth to a $100 million business in just three years, one thing stands out: Stop pushing and started listening. It’s a lesson as old as sales itself: don’t get your way into a market. Let the market pull you in. Jimmy’s experience at Tesla taught him one thing: Data is king. But more than that, it’
  • Question of the Day: Polestar Won’t Fight U.S. Ban — Does Anyone Care?

    Question of the Day: Polestar Won’t Fight U.S. Ban — Does Anyone Care?
    It’s official: Polestar isn’t even going to try to fight for its right to par … er, sell EVs in the U.S. Despite scores of dealers encouraging the former Volvo offshoot to fight to stay, Polestar officials confirmed they’re going to take their EVs to Europe, China, and other markets. And despite Volvo, which is owned by the same Chinese investor, begin allowed to stay."We will instead focus our investments on markets where we have a strong brand position and abilit
  • The 1988 Ford Thunderbird Sport I Bought Sight Unseen

    The 1988 Ford Thunderbird Sport I Bought Sight Unseen
    I added a vintage Thunderbird Sport to the car line up and I bought it sight unseen. Sometimes when you put your trust in the word of someone selling a car it works out and sometimes it doesn't. When your rental car is a one way deal you are kind of committed. Check out how things went, what works and what doesn't and if I made 256 miles home.
    The TTAC Creators Series tells stories and amplifies creators from all corners of the car world, including culture, dealerships, collectio
  • Goodbye, lunch break: Supercar configurators are your new addiction

    Goodbye, lunch break: Supercar configurators are your new addiction
    Harrison wasn't sold on the new 849 Testarossa – until he fired up the configurator, that is
    I can't afford a Ferrari Testarossa, but I'll still waste hours choosing how to specify itWhen I was 13, my IT teacher sent a note home to my parents to tell them that I'd been caught viewing "inappropriate websites" in a lesson. They were naturally concerned - what could an innocent young teenager such as myself be looking at?
    The answer, to their eternal relief, was the configurator for the then
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  • Report: Honda Considering New Factory in North America

    Report: Honda Considering New Factory in North America
    Honda is allegedly considering establishing a new facility inside North America to help satisfy regional demand.
    CEO Toshihiro Mibe recently told Japanese outletYomiuri Shimbun that the automaker was mulling over building another factory for what has historically been its largest market by volume. This would be the company’s eighth production facility in the region.
    Mibe noted that Chinese sales have been declining for Japanese nameplates as domestic brands have continued to gain momentum.
  • From jet fighters to supercars: Why McLaren is using carbon tape

    From jet fighters to supercars: Why McLaren is using carbon tape
    Automated Rapid Tape technology is helping the Woking-based brand make stiffer supercar components
    It might seem as though some technologies underpinning automotive engineering never evolve, but that’s not the case in reality. On the face of it, carbonfibre falls into that category.
    This lightweight stuff is made using fine carbon strands set in resin and is employed to create incredibly light yet massively strong components in everything from aircraft to Formula 1 cars. But, in fact, carb
  • Kia EV4 GT review: low and fast, but a genuine electric hot-hatch?

    Kia EV4 GT review: low and fast, but a genuine electric hot-hatch?
    We get an early taste of the dual-motor EV4 GT to see if it can bring the classic hot hatch into the electric ageWe have had small electric hot hatchbacks such as the Alpine A290 and large ones like the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N but, as yet, not a lot in the real heartland of Volkswagen Golf GTI-sized machinery. 
    To be fair, the lack of traditional family-sized electric hot hatches has been due to a near total absence of donor cars. Almost all five-door, five-seat, circa 4.3m-long EVs have bee
  • Kia EV3 GT review: a 4WD hot hatch with 288bhp for £49k

    Kia EV3 GT review: a 4WD hot hatch with 288bhp for £49k
    Well-rounded high-riding hatchback receives go-faster GT treatmentThe EV3 is where it starts to get serious for Kia’s performance GT subbrand.
    So far we have had the super-saloonish EV6 GT and the hulking EV9 GT, but these are the big-money flagships and seldom seen. GT-ifying the smaller EV3 takes Kia’s performance sub-brand into sub-£50k territory, and as the most accessible model in the snowballing GT range, this is the one that matters.
    So what constitutes an EV3 GT, beyond
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  • All the winners of the Engine of the Year award - does your car have one?

    All the winners of the Engine of the Year award - does your car have one?
    From a frugal 1.0-litre to a mighty 3.9-litre V8, here’s a list of the overall winners of the International Engine of the Year trophyStart your engines.In 2021, Autocar picked 50 of our favourite road-going engines, including the Ford small-block V8, Lotus twin-cam and Porsche air-cooled flat-six. In truth, we could have selected twice as many, but we had to draw the line somewhere. Here, we’re looking at the best engines of the past two decades, according to the judges of the annual
  • The man who owns 120 Citroëns

    The man who owns 120 Citroëns
    Visiting his collection is like traveling through time and a must for all Citroën fansThe company-owned Citroën Conservatoire in Paris has serious competition.Over the course of 40 years, French enthusiast Henri Fradet has patiently and diligently put together a spectacular collection of over 120 post-war Citroën models. They’re housed in a museum named CitroMuseum located in Castellane, a small town in southern France. 
    Fradet prefers low-mileage, unrestored cars and h
  • Treasures of the official Volkswagen museum

    Treasures of the official Volkswagen museum
    Join us for a look inside Autostadt, the Volkswagen museum located next to its giant Wolfsburg factory, and one of the world's best car museumsLocated in the shadow of Volkswagen's Wolfsburg factory in Germany, Autostadt is essentially a theme park devoted to cars.Spread throughout the 70-acre site are pavilions devoted to each Volkswagen Group brand, along with exhibitions to learn about the history, culture and impact of cars – and with plenty of opportunities to try them out. And there&
  • Future classics that will climb in value

    Future classics that will climb in value
    Autocar recommends the future classics you should snap up before collector status sets inPredicting which cars will achieve classic status five or 10 years from now is a dark and uncertain art.
    What are the key factors? Scarcity, for one, and reputation for another. If a car is rare and widely reckoned to be one of the best of its type to drive, it’ll probably reach classic status.
    Beauty is another factor and so too is significance; a car that changed the game in its sector is bound to be
  • Screen Star Cars: Which were real, and which were fake?

    Screen Star Cars: Which were real, and which were fake?
    We’ve seen many cars on the big screen and TV over the years.
    Some make it to the end of a movie or season without a single scratch, while others are rolled down cliffs, blown up or piled into walls at speed, evoking the question “did they use a real car?” (and often destroy a large amount of money) Or was it a replica? Or some other type of car, different from the real thing?
    Sometimes, it’s difficult to tell whether the car used was real or fake, but in this gallery, we
  • Is Genesis a success? It depends how you judge a premium brand

    Is Genesis a success? It depends how you judge a premium brand
    Hyundai subsidiary prioritises brand prestige over fast European market growth, but can it ever match Lexus?What defines success for a car company? Sales, profits, happy dealers, happy customers, brand awareness: these are all attributes that go into what we would consider a healthy automotive business.
    All of which makes judging the success of Genesis quite difficult. It's now five years since Hyundai's premium brand launched in the UK, but rather than a brand with five years of exper
  • Petrol-powered Peugeot 208 to remain on sale past 2030

    Petrol-powered Peugeot 208 to remain on sale past 2030
    Combustion-engined 208 will continue for the foreseable – but CEO expects EV to become more popularPeugeot will keep the current 208 supermini on sale with petrol power well into the future, with CEO Alain Favey confirming the new electric e-208 will be sold alongside the ICE car rather than as a replacement for it.
    "We will continue to offer the 208 in its current form to cover the part of the market that will still not be EV and will still require some ICE or hybrid solutions," he s
  • MPs weigh 20mph limit for England as motoring groups hit back

    MPs weigh 20mph limit for England as motoring groups hit back
    MPs accused of wanting to "make car use more difficult" over proposal for 20mph default limitMPs are considering adopting a default 20mph speed limit across England - but critics have argued they are being sidelined in the debate and claim the evidence supporting similar schemes is flawed.
    Earlier this month, the Transport Select Committee invited road safety experts to discuss evidence about 20mph limits and explore whether England should follow Wales in reducing the standard restricted speed l