French army AMX-10RCs in the Middle East in 1990 or 1991. Wikimedia Commons Back in January, France pledged to Ukraine an unspecified number—perhaps 50—of the French army’s soon-to-be-surplus AMX-10RC...
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Those Weird Russian Vehicles With 80-Year-Old Naval Turrets Might Have An Air-Defense Role
MT-LB-2M-3s. Via social media Those bizarre, improvised armored vehicles the Russian army is manufacturing—80-year-old naval guns on top of only slightly less aged armored chassis—are starting to make...
Ukraine’s New Stryker Recon Vehicles Can See Six Miles Away, And Call In Mortars And Missiles
A U.S. Army M1127. Wikimedia Commons Those 90 Stryker wheeled fighting vehicles the United States pledged to Ukraine have arrived in Germany aboard a roll-on, roll-off cargo ship. Video of the Stryker...
Rivian, Tesla, and 2 Other EV Makers Are Recalling Vehicles
Monday is looking like recall day for electric-vehicle makers. A few have showed up on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website. Recalls from the large players don’t look serious. Re...
Car Debt Is Piling Up as More Americans Owe Thousands More Than Vehicles Are Worth
(Bloomberg) — Chris Martin knew he needed a bigger car as the birth of his fourth child approached, but he and his wife were already $14,000 underwater on their two vehicles. Most Read from Bloo...
The Russian Army Is Time-Traveling Back To 1966 As It Reequips With Hundreds Of Old BMP-1 Fighting Vehicles
BMP-1. Wikimedia Commons The Soviet BMP-1 was one of the first modern infantry fighting vehicles. It both reflected, and helped to drive, profound changes in Soviet ground-combat doctrine when it ente...
The Ukrainians Are Converting Worthless Russian Tanks Into Priceless Engineering Vehicles
A Ukrainian BREM-1 recovers a Russian T-72. Via social media The Ukrainian army finally has found a good use for at least some of the dozens of ancient Russian army T-62 tanks it has captured. The Ukr...
FTX liquidators report exchange held $2.4M ‘fleet of vehicles’ in the Bahamas
The joint provisional liquidators of FTX Digital Markets — the firm’s subsidiary in the Bahamas — have released a report on the company’s physical assets in the island nation. According to an affidavi...
The Ukrainian Army Just Blew Up One Of The Russian Army’s 10 Terminator Fighting Vehicles
The BMP-T explodes. Ukrainian army capture The single company of unique BMP-T Terminator fighting vehicles that the Russian army deployed to eastern Ukraine last spring was, for many months, pretty lu...
Which brand of car is most reliable? These are the most dependable vehicles on the market
Looking for a dependable vehicle? Kia, Buick and Chevrolet are some of your best non-premium bets, according to a new report from J.D. Power. The analytics company’s annual vehicle dependability...
Tesla’s Crash And Musk’s Acquittal Is Good News For Electric Vehicles
AUSTIN, TEXAS – JANUARY 03: Tesla cars are seen on a lot at a Tesla dealership on January 03, 2023 … [+] in Austin, Texas. Tesla’s quarterly earnings fell short of Wall Street’...
FFIE Stock: Riding High on the Electric Vehicles Bandwagon
EV market share in the US is now 5.8%, which is a 3.2% positive from 2021. FFIE’s next earning date is estimated to be May 12, 2023. As of January 15, 2023, there was a 14.2% decrease in short interes...
Russia Built A Dozen Air-Defense Vehicles For War In The Arctic. Then Sent Them To Ukraine To Get Blown Up.
Test of a Tor-M2DT. Russian defense ministry photo Russia built a dozen special air-defense vehicles specifically for shooting down enemy warplanes in the brutal cold of the snowy Arctic. But the Tor-...
Ukraine’s New M-2 Fighting Vehicles Know A High-Tech Trick—Each Can See What The Others See
An M-2A2 ODS SA loads onto a cargo ship in Charleston, South Carolina for onward transportation to Ukraine. U.S. Transportation Command photo At least some of the autocannon- and missile-armed M-2 Bra...
Carvana Stock Soars – TheStreet
The stock of beleaugured car seller Carvana (CVNA) – Get Free Report surged on Monday by as much as 33%. Some traders speculated that the rise was from a short squeeze. “Carvana is on an ...
Tesla Bulls Are Making Their Buoyant Case
Tesla (TSLA) – Get Free Report bulls believe that the stock can rebound in 2023. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said the value of Tesla’s shares can turn around after it declined by 36...
Electric vehicles more expensive to fuel than gas-powered cars at end of 2022: consulting firm
For the first time in more than a year, owners of traditional gas-powered cars saved more money at the pump than those driving their electric counterparts, according to a consulting firm. As inflated ...
The Ukrainian Army’s Fast, Lightly-Armed Stryker Vehicles Are Best At Fighting In Cities
U.S. Army Strykers train in Hawaii in 2012. U.S. Army photo The 90 Stryker armored vehicles the United States has pledged to Ukraine could constitute the main equipment of an entire brigade. That brig...
There’s One Main Reason Ukraine Might Prefer German Tanks Over U.S. Tanks—The American Vehicles Guzzle Gas
A U.S. Army M-1 tank. U.S. Army photo Pressure is mounting on the German government to sign off on various European countries’ proposals to donate German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. But German of...
The Ukrainian Army Could Form Three New Heavy Brigades With All These Tanks And Fighting Vehicles It’s Getting
A British Army Challenger 2 tank testing new camouflage back in 2014. Crown copyright A deluge of new armored vehicles should allow the Ukrainian army to form three new, NATO-style heavy brigades. Arg...
The U.K. Is Giving Ukraine Hundreds Of Armored Vehicles. Russia Has A Plan For Wrecking Them.
A British Army Challenger 2 tank. Crown copyright The United Kingdom isn’t just sending Ukraine a small batch of surplus Challenger 2 tanks. It’s planning to donate hundreds of armored vehicles and se...
It Took Just Two Weeks For One Of The Ukrainian Army’s Newest Brigades To Get American-Made M-2 Fighting Vehicles
U.S. Army M-2 fighting vehicles and M-1 tanks at Grafenwoehr training area in Germany in 2018. U.S. Army photo Just two weeks after the administration of U.S. president Joe Biden announced it would do...
India is starting to love electric vehicles with two wheels
Electric vehicle charging stations from Tata Power can be found on 350 of the 600 highways in India. Puneet Vikram Singh, Nature And Concept Photographer, | Moment | Getty Images When most people thin...
Ukraine’s M-2 Fighting Vehicles Aren’t Tanks. But They Sure Can Kill Tanks.
M-2s firing TOW missiles. U.S. Defense Department photo The version of the M-2 Bradley fighting vehicle that the United States is donating to Ukraine isn’t the latest version. No, it’s the variant of ...
The Expensive And Harmful Truth About Electric Vehicles
The CEO of Toyota was skewered recently when he expressed serious criticism about the auto industry’s headlong rush into electric vehicles (EVs) by saying, “We shouldn’t limit ourselves to just one op...
With Ex-German Marder Fighting Vehicles, Ukrainian Infantry Can Keep Up With The Tanks
A German army Marder. German army photo After months of wheedling, the German government finally has pledged to Ukraine a first batch of Marder infantry fighting vehicles. The 30-ton, tracked vehicles...
Leased electric vehicles now qualify for $7,500 tax break that kicks in Jan. 1
The U.S. Treasury Department will now allow electric vehicles that are leased to qualify starting Jan. 1 for up to $7,500 in clean vehicle tax credits. The law allows for a conditional $4,000 tax cred...
Ukraine Could Get American M-2 Fighting Vehicles. They’re Exactly What The Ukrainian Army Needs To Stay On The Offensive.
U.S. Army soldiers dismount an M-2 alongside Hungarian solders in BTR-80 armored personnel carriers during a NATO training exercise. U.S. Army photo The administration of U.S. president Joe Biden is c...