Electronic door handles. On an issue we’ve harped on since 2015, China recently announced a recall of millions of electric vehicles (EVs), from foreign to domestic car makers, to have interior mechanical door handle releases replaced so that they stand out. This is in fact great news, and was reported by InsideEVs. But it forgets …
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New Volvo owners video added to our YouTube channel
Volvo owners video. We’ve just uploaded a video to our YouTube channel that demonstrates opening a starting Volvo XC40, C40, EC40, and EX40 models from 2019 through at least 2026. The process covers gas, mild hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) versions. The models look very, very similar Volvo has run through a series of names …
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Add Walmart to EV charging price downward pressures
EV charging. Just before Memorial Day, we noted that a new player in the Level 3 electric vehicle (EV) charging space was offering a very inexpensive charging opportunity for the holiday weekend. That special was $0.20 kWh, easily beating home charging in my state. At the time, we stated that this would put the pressure …
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Fuel prices dip in July
Fuel prices. While they remain high big time year over year, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported that motor fuel prices dropped in July compared to June. The average price for regular motor gasoline was $3.93 per gallon; down 2.9%, while the average price for diesel no. 2 was $4.96, down 1.4%. Year-over-year changes …
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Jaguar models update leaves us in the dust — it’s an EV future!
Jaguar update. So, we set out to do an update for 2026 Jaguar models and found only an F-Pace. This prompted a search on the web only to discover that all other models — E-Pace, I-Pace, XF, F-Type — have been discontinued and that the F-Pace will follow suit shortly. For the record, while we made …
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Need a mechanical door release? NHTSA says read the manual…
Read the manual. On July 22nd, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) finished a review of a defect petition received on November 24, 2025 . The petition alleged that the controls for the emergency mechanical door release are not accessible and clearly identifiable and thus failed to comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard …
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A Wordpress fault avoidance post
Wordpress fault avoidance. DashboardSymbols.com is built on Wordpress platform and I wanted to share a serious incident that occurred a few weeks ago. For reasons I came to understand only at the incident’s end, the site became pretty much impossible to navigate, from the outside as a user and from the inside as the webmaster. …
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