Roundup: Lucid’s First Canadian Store and a 1,000-hp Chevy V8 Box

Gargantuan 10.35L Big Block Chevrolet ZZ632 V8 to Make SEMA Debut This Year

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Welcome to our roundup of the biggest breaking stories on Driving.ca from last week. Catch up and get ready for the weekend, because it’s hard to keep pace in a digital traffic jam.

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Here’s what you missed while you were away.

Lucid announces its prices at the opening of the Canadian flagship

Luxury electric vehicle maker Lucid opened its first Canadian store – or “studio” – in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia on Saturday, October 16. The Californian brand, which already has nine physical stores in its home country, took the opportunity to announce Canadian prices for its launch vehicle, the Lucid Air.

Prices start at $ 105,000 for the Pure sedan, which develops 480 horsepower and a range of 653 km; and cap at $ 229,000 for the Dream Edition line and the high-end Dream Edition Performance. Read the story here for more details on the four Lucid Air options. A second store is expected to arrive in Toronto in 2022.

Halton Police encourage trucks with trailers to “#CheckYourBalls”

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Halton Police did not issue a health notice to the men when they told Twitter to “#CheckYourBalls” earlier this week . It was actually an attempt to draw public attention to an important road safety issue: the safe coupling of the trailer. Did it work? Yeah, it did. The Tweet includes video footage of a truck and trailer that police have pulled over for a suspicious hitch. “The trailer ball looked like it was moving as it rolled down the road, and of course it was,” the officer said in the video. “The ball of the trailer was completely loose …”

Experience Chevrolet’s Huge New 1,000-Horsepower Crate Engine

Chevrolet unboxed a welcome surprise ahead of SEMA this week. The ZZ632 crate engine is a 10.35L big block V8 engine good for 1,000 horsepower – get this – pump the gas! You can see the power curve here to see where and when the twist kicks in, but Coles notes that this is the brand’s biggest and most powerful crate package. No turbo, just 632 cubic inches of American growl. Look for it (and listen to it) at SEMA Las Vegas in November.

These 10 vehicles have the best interiors of the year, according to Wards Auto

Wards Auto’s 10 Best Interiors is one of the best annual automotive interior design barometers. Its experts evaluate vehicles in various categories, including materials, comfort, aesthetics and usability of controls, to determine which vehicles offer the most premium interiors.

And that’s not all the premium brands either, with modest models like the Honda Civic, Ford F-150, and Hyundai Tucson making the list alongside the Bentley Bentayga and Mercedes-Benz S-Class. Take a look at the images in the link above to get an idea of ​​what “the best” looks like in 2021.

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A group of Canadian tech companies have partnered with a First Nation in the interior of British Columbia and the provincial government to advance plans for a modern facility that would use carbon from the air to generate a hydrocarbon to replace petroleum in combustion vehicles.

Basically, the energy company Huron Clean Energy is able to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide and combine it with hydrogen to produce viable vehicle fuel that can power most regular gasoline engines and emits up to 90% less emissions. The facility is proposed for the Upper Nicola Band area near Merritt, British Columbia, and will leverage $ 2 million from the provincial Innovative Clean Energy fund for construction.