AMG and Linkin Park team up to give electric sports cars a new voice

There’s thinking outside of the box, and then there’s letting Linkin Park help decide what your next generation of electric cars will sound like, and that’s precisely what Mercedes-AMG is doing. As electric cars become more familiar and the lack

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AMG’s future electric cars might sound like Linkin Park

Mercedes-AMG Upcoming regulations mean that whisper-quiet EVs must make artificial noises to warn pedestrians, and automakers like Nissan are turning that into a weird marketing opportunity. AMG is taking it to another level, though, announcing that Linkin Park will be one of its

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Volkswagen shows off a line of electric vehicles at the LA Auto Show

Auto shows are where the boldest, most daring, least practical concept cars dazzle crowds with diverse and esoteric visions of the future. But thanks to the rise of electric-only vehicles and driver assistance technology, the cars of tomorrow on display

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What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World

Workers at a drilling site in the Czech Republic.CreditGordon Welters for The New York Times On the slope of a thickly forested Czech mountain, three men in hard hats and mud-spattered fluorescent vests dig for the metal that could power

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What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World

Workers at a drilling site in the Czech Republic.CreditGordon Welters for The New York Times On the slope of a thickly forested Czech mountain, three men in hard hats and mud-spattered fluorescent vests dig for the metal that could power

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This weird-looking electric car is ‘the future of driving’

The company says REDS is the ‘alpha prototype’ of a new kind of electric car. It looks like something Postman Pat might drive, but one of the world’s most influential car designers says REDS, or Revolutionary Electrical Dream Space, is

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Tesla Presents Electric Truck, Updated Sports Car

American electric carmaker Tesla hopes its electric-powered trucks will replace today’s diesel-fueled ones. Tesla founder Elon Musk showed off the new truck, called the Tesla Semi, during a launch event Thursday in Los Angeles. The company also announced a new sports car model.

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Polestar’s electric sports cars will be built here

Remember the Polestar 1? The 591bhp plug-in hybrid coupe got us all fairly excited when it was shown off last month. And this is where it will be built. Not in Sweden, but China. This Polestar Production Centre (an inspired name) has

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Elon Musk unveils Tesla electric truck – and a surprise new sports car

Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s first electric semi-truck on Thursday evening at an event in Los Angeles that also included the surprise reveal of a new Tesla sports car. The new Roadster, which has the same name as the first electric vehicle produced by

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