How to maintain, fix and customize your ride, be it a sports car, pickup truck or jalopy.
The service area lights were orange and tired. I parked behind a white SUV with its hazard lights blinking. A man in a blue jacket stood next to a silver sedan, holding a charging cable like a leash. His car showed 1 percent. Two teenagers pushed from behind. The car rolled forward one slow meter at a time. The charging station was fifty meters away. The queue of EVs stretched past the gas station and around the restroom building. A woman in a red coat leaned against her car and ate sunflower seeds. She had been waiting three hours. She said it without anger, the way you say the weather.
By Jinabout 19 hours ago in Wheel
On October 1, BYD reported September sales of 463,600 vehicles. Passenger vehicles accounted for 456,700. Overseas passenger vehicles and pickups hit 179,900, up 153.9% from a year earlier.
By Jin3 days ago in Wheel
We used to say, “It’s easy to buy a car, but hard to maintain it.” Now that sentence needs a rewrite: It’s easy to buy an electric car, but even harder to repair it.
By Jin4 days ago in Wheel
On September 29, GAC Group’s A-shares resumed trading. The stock hit the daily limit at the open. Sealed orders reached 650 million yuan. The night before, GAC released 16 announcements. The company plans to issue shares to buy the 50% stake in FAW Toyota held by FAW. It also plans to raise matching funds. The pre-suspension closing price was 5.08 yuan. The issue price is 5.75 yuan, a premium of about 13%.
By Jin5 days ago in Wheel
A 10°C wind at 60 km/h feels like 0°C. This is not a metaphor. Riders know. At 6:40 in the morning, the red light has ninety-eight seconds left. He has both feet on the ground. His fingers squeeze the brake. The tips go from numb to painful. The visor fogs. He lifts it a crack. Cold air rushes in. His eyes water. The engine throbs below. Heat rises and gets torn apart by the wind. He wears three layers. The outer shell is windproof. The zipper is up to his chin. Wind still finds his cuffs. He puts his hands beside the engine. Two seconds of warmth. The light turns green.
By Jin6 days ago in Wheel
At the 2026 Apsara Conference Automotive Summit, Frost & Sullivan and LeadLeo released a report. The number was simple: Alibaba Cloud held 45.2% of China’s automotive public cloud market. It ranked first in six tracks, including intelligent driving, intelligent cockpits, and industrial efficiency.
At 6:40 p.m. in the underground garage of Bairuijing community in Wuchang District, Wuhan, Ms. Liu parks her Li L7 and kills the engine. Then she does something she could not have imagined three years ago when she bought the car. She pulls out her phone, opens the app, and taps “remote park out.”
By Jin7 days ago in Wheel
Walk into a dealership with bad credit and they'll be thrilled to see you. Not because they like you — because you're about to pay them thousands of dollars extra in interest, and they know it.
By Kody Clegg7 days ago in Wheel
One Post, One Tunnel, One Railway On September 20, 2026, Musk replied on X to an AI-generated science-fiction video. The video showed humanity building a colony on an alien world. Musk quote-posted it with one line: “This is the future we are going to build.”
By Jin12 days ago in Wheel
I. One Earnings Report and $700 Billion Gone In March 2026, CATL released its 2025 annual report. Revenue: RMB 423.7 billion. Net profit: RMB 72.2 billion, up 42.28% year on year. Nearly RMB 200 million in net profit per day. Gross margin: 26.27%, 6.4 times that of the auto industry. By any measure, those are strong numbers. The capital market answered with the opposite. The share price fell from a May high of RMB 467 to RMB 297. That is a cumulative drawdown of more than 36%. Over RMB 700 billion in market value disappeared.
The Lifeline on the Steering Wheel: A Legislative Battle Over AM Radio 1. Asheville at Three in the Morning At three in the morning on September 27, 2024, in Asheville, North Carolina, Tropical Storm Helene tore open the city’s communications lifeline.
By Jin15 days ago in Wheel
De-CATLization: A Systemic Restructuring of Power in the Power Battery Industry I. Two Sets of Numbers, One Imbalanced Industry
By Jin21 days ago in Wheel
