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There’s A New EV Range Champion And It’s Not Tesla Or Lucid

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Audi has set a new record for longest electric trip on a single charge. Miko Marczyk traveled 831.4 miles during a lengthy drive in Poland. Car has 362 hp and is officially rated at up to 482 miles of range. Range anxiety is becoming a thing of the past largely, as charging infrastructure improves and modern electric vehicles can travel farther than their predecessors. While some models still come up short, there’s no shortage of long-distance options with beefy battery packs. Notably, the Lucid Air Grand Touring set a Guinness World Record for the longest journey by an electric car on a single charge in 2025. It traveled 748.8 miles (1,205 km), but that record has now been beaten by an Audi. More: Lucid Shatters World Record With A Drive So Long It Seems Impossible European Rally Champion Miko Marczyk recently set the new record in an A6 Sportback e-tron performance . The attempt started in Zakopane, Poland, where the Tatra Moun...
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New York Dealer To Refund Over $1 Million To Buyers Over Shady Selling Tactics

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DARCARS applied a 2% sales commission fee to new cars. The dealership must refund customers from 2021 and 2022. Car buyers received conflicting statements when they asked about the fee. Two car dealerships in Westchester County, New York, have been ordered to pay more than $1 million in refunds to customers, following an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG). An investigation into DARCARS of Railroad Venue (DARCARS Lexus) and MT Kisco Automotive, LLC (DARCARS BMW ) was initiated in February 2022 when the OAG received a complaint that the dealer had added a “sales commission charge” of more than $700 to the purchase of a new vehicle, without informing the buyer. It was soon discovered that these sales commission fees had been collected since October 2021. Read: The FTC Warned 97 Dealers, Now Autotrader And Cars.com Are Changing Their Price Displays Ordinarily, sales commission fees are paid directly to th...
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Volkswagen Turns Your Parked Car Into A Game Console For $149 A Year

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AirConsole launches on six Volkswagen models with 20 games. Smartphones become controllers while the vehicle is parked. Gaming requires VW’s $149-per-year In-Vehicle Premium subscription. Cars are increasingly becoming computers on wheels, so perhaps it was inevitable that we’d eventually start treating them like game consoles, too. Volkswagen is taking that next step for 2027, adding N-Dream’s AirConsole gaming to several of its U.S. models. The system lets you play everything from Tetris to Pac-Man on the car’s infotainment screen. There is, naturally, a subscription involved, because how could these games work without an internet connection? AirConsole will be offered on the 2027 Atlas, Atlas Cross Sport, Tiguan, Golf GTI, Golf R, and ID. Buzz. Volkswagen says that makes it the first volume-market automaker to offer the gaming platform in the United States . Notably, AirConsole is already available through premium br...
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Bentley Torcal Arrives With 876 HP And 375 Miles Of Range

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Bentley’s first EV offers up to 876 hp and 996 lb-ft. The Torcal S hits 60 mph in just 2.8 seconds. A 113-kWh battery delivers up to 375 miles of WLTP range. After several years in the making, Bentley just unwrapped its very first EV for the world to see. Dubbed the Torcal, the new SUV packs up to 888 PS (876 hp / 653 kW), 996 lb-ft (1,350 Nm) of torque, and enough battery to travel as far as 375 miles (600 km) on the WLTP cycle. More importantly, this isn’t simply an electric Bentayga. The Torcal becomes Bentley’s fourth model line and introduces a new design language the company says will influence future models regardless of what’s under the hood. In other words, the Torcal signals a new chapter for Bentley. The automaker will offer two versions at launch. The standard Torcal develops 821 PS (810 hp / 604 kW) and 881 lb-ft (1,194 Nm), enough to hit 60 mph (96 km/h) in 3.3 seconds before topping out at 155 mph (250 k...
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