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فراری در گرندپری میامی 2024 به طور موقت از رنگ قرمز رنگی که برای دهه ها مشخصه خودروهای فرمول 1 آن بوده است کنار خواهد گذاشت. این تیم برای مسابقه آتی که برای جشن تولد 70 سالگی بخش آمریکای شمالی این برند ایتالیایی طراحی شده بود، از یک ظاهر منحصر به فرد رونمایی کرد.

با شروع با SF-24، که 95٪ در آماده سازی برای فصل 2024 دوباره طراحی شد، طراحان قسمت آبی رنگ پالت فراری را بررسی کردند و لهجه های Azzurro La Plata و Azzurro Dino را در بال های جلو و عقب، هاله و آینه اضافه کردند. کلاه ها چرخ‌ها نیز به رنگ آبی تکمیل شده‌اند و شماره خودرو دارای طرحی آبی است. ما قبلاً این نشانه‌های ظاهری را دیده‌ایم: ماشین مسابقه‌ای 158 که جان سورتیز در 60 سال پیش عنوان قهرمانی جهان را در آن به دست آورد، روی چرخ‌های آبی رنگ نیز سوار شد. مابقی لیری بدون تغییر باقی می ماند.

فراری توضیح می دهد که این رنگ ها به صورت تصادفی انتخاب نشده اند. به گفته این برند، آزورو لا پلاتا رنگ رسمی مسابقه آرژانتین در دهه 1950 بود. راننده ایتالیایی آلبرتو آسکاری – که با فراری در سال‌های 1952 و 1953 قهرمان جهان شد – برای خوش شانسی یک پیراهن و کلاه ایمنی به این سایه آبی پوشید. فراری بعداً از Azzurro La Plata برای کت و شلوارهای Surtees، Lorenzo Bandini، Ludovico Scarfiotti، Chris Amon و حتی Niki Lauda استفاده کرد. چندین راننده نیز در Azzurro Dino مسابقه دادند، از جمله Clay Regazzoni. با این حال، از سال 1974 استفاده نشده است.

چارلز لکلرک و کارلوس ساینز جونیور، دو راننده فراری در سال 2024، 70 سالگی فراری را در آمریکای شمالی نیز جشن خواهند گرفت. هر دو با پوشیدن کت و شلوار مسابقه یادگاری، کلاه ایمنی، کفش و دستکش با لهجه‌هایی در هر دو سایه آبی، روی توری شروع در میامی صف خواهند کشید.

جایزه بزرگ میامی 2024 برای این یکشنبه، 5 می برنامه ریزی شده است. پس از آن، SF-24 به رنگ 100% قرمز باز خواهد گشت. خوب، بیشتر قرمز. هیولت پاکارد (HP) به تازگی شروع به حمایت مالی از تیم های مسابقه ای مختلف فراری کرده است، بنابراین لوگوی گرد، آبی و سفید آن بر روی SF-24 ظاهر می شود.

Despite the fact Tesla CEO Elon Musk laid off pretty much the entire Supercharger team earlier this week, he says the automaker still plans to grow the network… sort of. Musk’s post on his social media site, X, comes just days after reports that the Austin, Texas-based automaker was cutting 500 jobs from its Supercharger unit as well as the group’s leader, Rebecca Tinucci.

“Tesla still plans to grow the Supercharger network, just at a slower pace for new locations and more focus on 100% uptime and expansions of existing locations,” Musk posted on X.

Basically, what I take this to mean is that if you were hoping for a Supercharger station closer to a specification location that isn’t there yet, you’re shit out of luck. This is an absolutely wild decision based purely on the fact that – honestly – Superchargers are winning the EV charging war by a fairly healthy margin. Now, just about every automaker has signed on to make their vehicles compatible with Superchargers and the NACS connector. I just don’t get it, man.

That being said, there will still be some expansion. In response to a Tesla owner who asked if a specific Supercharger location currently under construction in Montana would actually go online, Musk posted. “It’s definitely going to open,” adding that “sites under construction will be completed and we will add additional Superchargers anywhere there are gaps.”

I don’t know, dude. This all screams of cost-cutting desperation to me. How is Tesla going to both maintain and expand its current Supercharger locations while also expanding somewhat into other places? Keep in mind it’ll have to do all that with 500 fewer employees and no head of the ship.

Along with the 500 Supercharger employees and Rebecca Tinucci, senior director of Tesla’s Supercharger business, Musk also laid off Daniel Ho, head of the new vehicles program. So, I guess new Tesla vehicles are going to take a backseat for a while. Who knows? Maybe he was just pissed about the Cybertruck rollout.

Here’s what Musk said to employees in an email about the layoffs, according to Reuters:

“Hopefully these actions are making it clear that we need to be absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction,” Musk wrote in the email, the report said. “While some on exec staff are taking this seriously, most are not yet doing so.”

All of this comes on the heels of Tesla unveiling a disastrous first-quarter earnings report as sales continue to fall and the EV price war continues. The automaker posted a quarterly revenue decline for the first time since 2020. Oh, and it laid off 10 percent of its entire workforce a couple of weeks ago. Surely cutting 500 jobs from your most successful unit will solve these issues.

Aston Martin today revealed a newly developed V-12 engine that’s destined to power the DBS successor, a car that’s expected to revive the Vanquish nameplate. The engine is rated at 824 hp and was developed by a Ferrari veteran who worked on the LaFerrari and F12 Berlinetta during his time in Maranello.

Ram may have just launched the 1500 RHO to fill in for the 1500 TRX, which disappears after the 2024 model year. However, with just 540 hp, the RHO isn’t considered the true successor to the TRX. That honor will go to another truck that Ram has in the works.

It’s official. Adrian Newey will leave Red Bull Racing early next year, a team where he has served as chief technical officer for almost two decades. He hasn’t ruled out joining another team and there are rumors he’s already received some offers.

You’ll find these stories and more in today’s car news, right here at Motor Authority.

Aston Martin DBS successor confirmed with 800-plus-hp V-12

Ram teases new flagship truck above 1500 RHO

F1 design legend Adrian Newey to leave Red Bull Racing

Jeep Wagoneer vs. Chevrolet Tahoe: Compare Large SUVs

First trailer released for Netflix’s Ayrton Senna mini-series

Toyota “hydrogen headquarters” will develop US fuel-cell products

Opel revives Frontera nameplate for Crossland successor

Nissan Rogue vs. Honda CR-V: Compare Crossover SUVs

Pininfarina reveals Battista and B95 inspired by Bruce Wayne

EV market share sags in California, though EV sales are up

سخنگوی این شرکت روز سه شنبه گفت، شرکت سوئدی خودروهای برقی Polestar Automotive انتشار نتایج مالی سه ماهه چهارم و سال 2023 خود را برای دومین بار به تاخیر می اندازد.

Polestar تاریخ انتشار را اعلام نکرد اما گفت که همچنان قصد دارد نتایج مالی سه ماهه اول را در 23 می منتشر کند.

این تأخیر تا حدودی به این دلیل است که شرکت به زمان بیشتری برای نهایی کردن صورت‌های مالی خود در مورد تحریفات حسابداری در سال‌های 2021 و 2022 نیاز دارد که در گزارش 2023 اصلاح خواهد شد.

در نتیجه تجدید ارائه ها، شرکت انتظار دارد زیان خالص آن برای سال 2021 کمتر از 5 درصد کاهش یابد و برای سال 2022 کمتر از 5 درصد افزایش یابد.

سخنگو گفت که Polestar همچنین به زمان بیشتری برای تکمیل کارهای مربوط به کنترل داخلی گزارشگری مالی خود طبق قانون Sarbanes-Oxley در سال 2002 نیاز دارد.

Sarbanes-Oxley قانونی است که پس از یک سری رسوایی های حسابداری، استانداردهای حسابداری افزایش یافته ای را برای شرکت های تجاری ایالات متحده ایجاد کرد.

Polestar ابتدا قرار بود نتایج سه ماهه چهارم خود را در 29 فوریه گزارش دهد و سپس آن را به 30 آوریل موکول کرد.

این شرکت در اوایل این ماه افت 40 درصدی در تحویل سه ماهه اول را گزارش کرد زیرا کاهش تقاضا به دلیل شرایط نامطمئن اقتصادی باعث کاهش بودجه مصرف‌کنندگان شده و آنها را بر آن داشت تا خریدهای بزرگ را کاهش دهند.

It’s no secret that legislation tends to lag behind technological and social advancements, but as technology advances at higher rates than ever before, legislation needs to react faster. Autonomous vehicles have been on California roads for years, but California law only allows enforcement of traffic violations for drivers. Since autonomous vehicles have no driver, they haven’t been subject to traffic enforcement, but two California bills aimed at changing that have passed the State Assembly’s Transportation Committee earlier this week.

The two bills cover different aspects of autonomous vehicle legislation. Senator Dave Cortese’s bill SB-915 empowers California cities to write their own individual regulations relating to autonomous vehicles, and Representative Phil Ting’s AB-1777 aims to make the driverless car companies liable for moving violations that their cars commit on California roads. The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association which represents most major autonomous vehicle companies, unsurprisingly opposes both bills meant to hold its members accountable for the actions of their products. NBC Bay Area reports,

The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association, which represents major driverless car companies like Waymo and Cruise, opposes both bills, arguing Cortese’s attempts to give cities the ability to write their own laws could create a chaotic hodgepodge of regulations across the state that could stunt innovation.

“Regulatory certainty is crucial to allow for companies to expend the type of resources they need to expend for companies to deploy to scale,” said Renée Gibson, the association’s director of government affairs. “So when you have the potential for hundreds of local jurisdictions to set up their own regulations, that creates a patchwork of (regulations) and that creates an incredible amount of uncertainty.”

Cortese argues that since driverless cars have long argued their tech is superior to even human drivers and can adapt to all sorts of scenarios, he doesn’t understand why the prospect of having to program the cars to adhere to different rules in different cities would be too problematic.

“How are taxis and rideshares doing it with human drivers,” he said. “Supposedly, this wealth of intellect that’s built into the computer chip and the coding is not going to be able to do the same damn thing? You can’t have it both ways.”

Each of these proposed bills still has to get approved by their respective Appropriations Committees in the Assembly and Senate, and if approved they will go to a full vote later this summer. It’s shocking and downright reckless to me that autonomous vehicles have been operating without any real consequences for breaking laws that humans get ticketed for. Examples of violations that driverless cars are currently exempt from include running red lights, making illegal turns, and all other moving violations. If the bills pass, the new laws would take effect by July 1, 2026.

The 2024 model year was the last for the supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 known as the Hellcat, at least in the Ram 1500 TRX.

The 2025 1500 RHO has arrived to fill in for the TRX. The new truck is essentially the TRX with its Hellcat V-8 replaced by Stellantis’ Hurricane 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-6.

But with only 540 hp, the RHO’s power rating is well down on the 702 hp of the TRX. That’s because the RHO isn’t the true successor of the TRX. Ram has another three-letter truck coming, and this one will be a high-horsepower flagship.

Ram teased the truck in a video starring actor Glen Powell, which was released last week as part of the launch for the RHO. At 58 seconds into the clip, a pair of dirt bikes are shown, one clearly displaying the number 540, and the other left without a number.

According to Jeff Summers, Ram’s head of advertising, this was actually a hidden Easter egg. The 540 is a reference to the RHO’s power rating. The bike without a number represents a sort of placeholder for what Summers refers to as Ram’s next “High HP vehicle with three letters.”

Summers didn’t say what’s coming, but former Ram CEO Mike Koval, Jr. in a 2022 interview said the TRX name isn’t going away with the Hellcat. He also said in a 2023 interview that Ram’s future electric trucks will have their own TRX-like variants.

One possibility for a future TRX, or whatever name Ram uses for its next range-topping performance truck, is a more powerful version of the Hurricane. During the 2022 SEMA show, fellow Stellantis brand Dodge said it plans to offer versions of the Hurricane engine in crate form with outputs ranging up to the mid-1,000-hp level. While these are being developed for competition use, a tamer, emissions-compliant version with closer to 700 hp may potentially end up in a production truck.