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Swiss police to get Tesla Model X police cars for active duty
Swiss police from the Basel-Stadt police force are ordering Tesla Model X vehicles for active duty. The first of these will be delivered later on this year with seven included in the initial order. The new Swiss police cars will be cleaner, cheaper, and way faster than the patrol cars they are currently using. The decision to replace current diesel-powered vehicles...
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What is Car Clocking?
What is car clocking? Car clocking is when a car's odometer (mileage recorder) has been put back or reduced so that it appears to have less miles on the clock. It is an offence under consumer law for a trader to give false, misleading or deceptive information about the history of a car, for example, if the car was previously...
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Swedish cities and towns may ban old diesel cars
Sweden's cities and towns will soon be allowed by the Swedish Government to ban old diesel engines from town centres. This move by the Swedes in a long line of similar moves across the world is being implemented in an effort to improve the environment and combat air pollution. The centre-left Social Democrat-Green coalition Swedish government didn’t actually impose the...
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Bright Headlights Dazzling Motorists
Drivers are being blinded by LED headlights which far ‘too-bright’. These bright LED bulbs that are becoming increasingly more common in newer cars are being blamed for temporarily blinding other drivers which could, potentially cause a fatal accident. One in six drivers say they have narrowly avoided an accident because of the blinding effects of the new headlights, the motoring...
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3D Printed Cars - 5 Times Stronger Than a Smart Car
The future of car building is here. For $10,000 you can now buy a 3D printed two-seater car which is about the size of a Smart car but will be five times stronger. Unlike Tesla which has thousands of parts and components, this small electric 3D Printed Car will have less than 100 parts. The LSEV is produced by XEV...
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Why should you monitor tyre pressure?
The importance of Tyre Pressure It is important for us to know that our vehicle is in good working condition and one of the ways we can do this is by monitoring our car’s tyre pressure. If you are not regularly checking the pressure of your tyres you could putting yourself at risk and reducing the vehicles overall performance. In...
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Petrol or Gasoline - What's the difference?
You may have often wondered why we call the fuel we use in our cars Petrol and also know that in the United States they run their cars on Gasoline and asked yourself the question, what's the difference, if any, between Petrol and Gasoline. Well actually, there is no difference, as petrol and gasoline are actually the same thing. The...
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New FordPass dongle adds LTE, WiFi and app control to older cars
A new LTE and WiFi dongle known as FordPass has been developed by Ford in order to give app control to older cars. The FordPass SmartLink system is essentially a 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution is a 4G wireless communications standard) dongle that plugs into your vehicle's OBD II port (On-Board Diagnostics) and then connects to the FordPass app on...
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Multi Millionaire Tycoon who spent £40m on classic cars sues car dealer
Multi Millionaire Tycoon who spent £40m on classic cars is suing the car dealer he invested with claiming that the dealer invented buyers and sellers so as to seal the deal. The wealthy classic car buyer claims that the car dealer is a “serial fraudster” who invented the fictitious buyers and sellers. The millionaire, Mike Tuke, who is an engineer,...
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U.S. Investigates 4 deaths as Hyundai-Kia airbags fail to deploy in collisions
The United States authorities are probing 4 deaths in Hyundai-Kia cars when airbags failed to deploy while in road collisions The airbags in some Hyundai and Kia cars failed to inflate in crashes in which four people died. The U.S. government’s road safety agency wants to know why? The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it’s investigating problems that affect...