Tim McKenzie
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Its Official! Stars Aligned As Celestial Is Declared Overall Winner of Sydney-Hobart Race
29 Dec 2022, 12:43 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / It must have been an agonizing 24 hours for the captain and crew of the Transpac 52 (TP52) as they waited for word to come down as to whether they would be crowned the overall winners of the 77th Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Skippered by owner a...
Tesla CEO Tells Employees to Forge On and Not Listen to the Stock Price Craziness
29 Dec 2022, 04:54 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / Despite the week between Christmas and New Year's Day being a bit calm on the automotive news wires, one company seems to be always making headlines in one way or another, and chances are everyone knows who. That's right, it is the alm...
Range and Charging Anxiety Are Real but There Is a Way to Alleviate the Stress
29 Dec 2022, 03:10 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / If you are an electric vehicle owner or thinking about becoming one, you undoubtedly have experienced a bit of anxiety about electric vehicles in general. The good news is that the industry has coined two terms that adequately describe those feelin...
Check Out These Epic Shots of the Sydney-Hobart Race as Overall Winner Still Unofficial
28 Dec 2022, 09:58 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / With Line Honours settled yesterday in the 2022 Rolex Sydney to Hobart race by Andoo Comanche outlasting LawConnect, Black Jack, and Hamilton Island Wild Oats, it was time to turn our attention to the next breed of water-borne thoroughbreds. Th...
Andoo Comanche Takes Line Honours of 2022 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
27 Dec 2022, 16:05 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / It was never a secret that Line Honours for the 2022 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race would go to the first of four super-maxi 100-foot (30-meter) boats in the race. Line Honours is the term used to describe the first boat to cross the finish lin...
Tense Moments as Crewman Goes Overboard in Sydney to Hobart Race, Leader Rages On
27 Dec 2022, 01:38 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / After a tense start to the 77th Rolex Sydney to Hobart offshore yacht race super-maxi LawConnect would lead the fleet of 109 boats out of Sydney Harbor, leaving the crews of Andoo Comanche and Wild Outs seething as a result of having to perform pe...
Tesla Celebrates Its Second Significant Milestone in 10 Days With 4680 Battery Cell
27 Dec 2022, 00:01 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / Tesla has been moving forward in ramping up production of its 4680 battery cells since 2020, and just two short months ago, it could have been described as slow. The 4680 battery cell technology is an advancement on the 2170 technology that was...
Andoo Comanche Leads Sydney to Hobart After Dramatic Start
26 Dec 2022, 09:55 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / For those in the yacht racing community, Christmas Day marks the eve of one of the most difficult offshore yacht races in the world. For the past 77 years, Boxing Day marks the start of the prestigious Sydney to Hobart yacht race. The only hiccup...
Toyota Manages to Beat Industry Productions Woes, Sets Sales Record
26 Dec 2022, 07:24 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / Unless you live in a cave and out of touch with the outside world, you are no doubt familiar with the chorus ringing out from automobile manufacturers regarding production problems. Parts shortages, supply chain disruptions, and shipping delays h...
Tesla Idles Giga-Shanghai for the Balance of the Year
25 Dec 2022, 08:01 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / A rumored planned shutdown at Tesla's Giga Shanghai took effect Saturday as the company told workers they could begin their break. The break was confirmed by a couple of unnamed sources, and an internal company notice was seen by Reuters. ...
Hyundai SEVEN Concept to Debut in the Great White North, IONIQ 6 Will Be There Too
22 Dec 2022, 03:47 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / While its kin Kia America will ring out a difficult 2022 in Times Square in the heart of the Big Apple, Hyundai Auto Canada will ring a new year in the Great White North a little later in the month at the Montreal International Auto Show, running f...
Is American Automobile Quality That Bad That Tesla Needs Chinese Staff in the U.S.?
22 Dec 2022, 01:41 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / One W. Edwards Deming would be rolling over in his grave if he were able to read the automotive headlines this morning, and we will get to those in a minute. But first, those of you who did not spend years in manufacturing may not be familiar wi...
BMW Joins Hands With Innovative Battery Tech Company to Build Batteries at Home
22 Dec 2022, 00:09 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / During the development over the years in engineering internal combustion engines, when automotive manufacturers wanted to squeeze more power or better mileage out of their power units, they simply did so through trial and error. However, at the ...
Kia Telluride XPro Arrives in The Big Apple After 3,200-Mile Journey to Bid Adieu to 2022
21 Dec 2022, 15:10 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / Kia America celebrated its arrival at arguably one of the world's greatest venues to ring in a new year, New York City's Times Square, via a tweet earlier. While it will not be the first to celebrate, (that honor falls upon Eastern Austra...
Rivian Teases Testing of Dual-Motor All-Wheel-Drive Variant for Greater Performance
21 Dec 2022, 14:09 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / All-electric truck and SUV manufacturer Rivian has been in the media for a variety of reasons this year, from the good, the bad, to the downright goofy. On the good side, the Irvine, California-based company just last week received an early Chri...
Porsche Is Finding New Ways to Keep ICEs on the Road With Its Synthetic Fuel
21 Dec 2022, 07:06 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / Thank goodness there is a major automotive manufacturer not totally consumed by the electric vehicle movement that has its eyes open wide enough to explore alternative fuels in order to keep ICE-powered cars on the road and safe from extinction. ...
Boss 429 Mustang Helps Set World Record for Number of Cars at Collector Car Auction
21 Dec 2022, 05:25 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / Anyone that has been paying any attention at all to the goings on in the classic collector car world over the last couple of decades should know that the auction business for these relics is booming. Nowhere is that more evident than with Mecum ...
Lotus Reveals 75th Anniversary Branding, It All Started With Building a Car in a Garage
20 Dec 2022, 16:38 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / Lotus will celebrate its 75th year of existence in 2023 and today unveiled the branding to mark the anniversary year, along with some scant information on celebrations, that will detail what the last quarter of their first century as an automobile ...
Boeing Sighs With Relief as Extension for MAX 7 and MAX 10 Airliners Will Happen
20 Dec 2022, 14:45 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / Boeing Commercial Airplanes looks to be getting the long-sought extension of a deadline imposed by the United States Congress on a new safety standard for its MAX 7 and MAX 10 airliners they have been exhaustively lobbying for all year. More spe...
Grab a Piece of Classic Americana With This 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Rag-Top
20 Dec 2022, 05:48 UTC · By: Tim McKenzie / It is hard to imagine that anything good would come from war, but one could argue that World War II was good for America. Entering the 1950s, the hangover from the war had given way to a booming American economy. Factories that were expanded during...