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If you've owned a car at any point in the last six years, you know the ebb and flow of parts shortages. Starting with COVID-19 — and in some cases the Japan tsunami nearly a decade before that — it's gotten harder and harder to find the right part...

As more and more people experience issues finding replacement and spare parts for their vehicles, we've bene preparing a video for next week explaining what's behind the problem - and how you can help alleviate the pain. But today, we're start...

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Last year, we got a chance to test the standard all-wheel drive variant of the Volvo EX30 — and while Volvo has now officially canceled the model in the U.S. from this fall, we — as we all too often have — got a chance to get behind the wheel befo...

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OnStar is one of the oldest telematics systems still in use today. It allows owners of GM-brand vehicles — including Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and Buick — the ability to remotely monitor important information about their car. It allows them to acti...

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As regulars to the channel will know, our videographer/DP Vi is a Chevrolet Bolt EV owner — and for a long time now, we've been promising to carve out time to install a TorkLift Central tow hitch. The plan was twofold: give Vi a backup chase car f...

Last year, we got a chance to get behind the wheel of the Subaru Solterra, the Subaru-badged version of Toyota's bZ4X crossover SUV. At the time, we proclaimed it the "Best BusyForks That Isn't A Toyota" — and we found its rugged styling and pract...

There's been a pretty constant thread running through many of our videos in 2026 — namely, that in a world of enshittification and politically-motivated pullback from EVs by major automakers, we as owners need to take back control of our vehicles,...

This week, Nikki's been thinking about the old days of EV ownership — when everyone waved at each other on the road. These days, it's less of a thing. But does that mean we should stop? From flashing headlights at a fellow Lightning driver to g...

On this week's episode of TEN Slate pricing, Xiaomi's new Nurburgring record, and the U.S. Federal Government bans Polestar from sales in the U.S. Show notes, links and script at: https://www.transportevolved.com/2026/06/27/ten-588-...

Lawmakers introduced a bipartisan right-to-repair bill to make it easier to fix your own car. By the time it passed committee, the automakers had rewritten it. After years of attempts by right-to-repair advocates — and as the efficacy of the 1...

Back in 2023, we started a new web series built around a simple idea: take your existing EV — in our case, a 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV Premier — and give it some of the features and benefits of a newer model, without actually buying a newer model. ...

Late last Friday, while preparing to publish that week's episode of TEN — Transport Evolved News — the power to the TE Studio flickered. Then the lights went out. We've owned a Ford F-150 Lightning for four years, and the Ford Home Integration ...

The Volkswagen Group — one in every ten cars sold worldwide — has quietly locked down third-party API access to its connected vehicle services, making it exclusively pay-to-play for developers and killing off the open-source tools thousands of own...

EDITORIAL NOTE: Donut Lab has alleged that Ziroth's Dr Ryan Hughes holds a commercial partnership with battery manufacturer CATL. Transport Evolved could find no evidence of any such partnership at the time of publication. Additionally, we would l...

Last month, Progressive Insurance - working with a local accident repair shop - decided it wasn't possible to repair our Ford F-150 Lightning after a small crack developed on the underside of one of its rear bumper mount plates... since the plate ...

On this week's episode of TEN - Transport Evolved News! Tesla stands accused by some customers of retroactively amending their FSD contracts, Volkswagen decides to ban all third-party API access for its telematics systems across all of its bran...

At the tail end of 2016, Nikki sat on a press call with other journalists — and Tesla CEO Elon Musk — after the automaker announced its latest iteration of its semi-autonomous driver assistance system: Tesla Autopilot 2.0. She asked a simple qu...

For many years, Ferrari has done everything in its power to keep making large-displacement, throaty-engined hypercars for the wealthy. It's shunned any notion of environmental responsibility, lobbied countless lawmakers around the world for exempt...

Editorial Note: While Nikki refers to the truck in this video as having been totaled, there's been an 11th hour change: Ortegas will in fact live! - Video incoming next week. The weather has been a mix of warm and blustery this week, but Nikki...

In February, a minor rear-end collision on our way to film at Aptera left Nikki's personal (and therefore Transport Evolved's) 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning — Ortegas — with a small hairline crack in the rear bumper bracket. The truck drove fine, and...

On this week's episode of TEN — Transport Evolved News! The U.S. wants to tax EV owners while setting a new $4 billion record for oil and gas lease sales; Xiaomi's YU7 GT breaks the Nürburgring SUV record; and 55% of Canadians say they'd buy a ...

While Nikki's plants are growing and the weather continues to warm, Nikki is starting to feel the very frustrating absence of her Ford F150 Lightning - which has been at the repair shop now for nearly 1 month. Why? She needs more soil for her pota...