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General Motors’ sales rose 17% in the first quarter of 2025 compared with the same period last year, exceeding analyst expectations and underscoring a pull-ahead in customer demand due to tariff fears despite long-standing affordability hurdles in the market. Electric vehicle sales nearly doubled in the quarter, rising 94% to 31,887, making GM the second-largest seller of electric vehicles in the U.S. behind Tesla. Those sales were driven by sharp sales increases in both the Equinox and Blazer EVs.
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2025/04/01/gm-sales-first-quarter-2025/82742300007/

Dodge Charger Daytona EV’s Fratzonic ‘Exhaust’ Sounds Convincing. The Charger Daytona is taking the iconic muscle car electric, but the EV will preserve the rowdy Dodge spirit with synthetic sounds that mimic a V-8.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a61803674/dodge-charger-daytona-ev-exhaust-sound/

Ford’s patent shows a simulated shifter made to mimic traditional gear-changing motion in EVs. The system uses actuators and motors to recreate the tactile feedback of an H-pattern gearbox. While Ford patented the system, there’s no guarantee it will enter future production models.

Ford Patents Fake Manual Shifter To Make EVs Feel Alive Again

Last week’s show from which questions were answered: Ex-Waymo CEO MOCKS Tesla’s FSD

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