The Volkswagen Group ultra-luxury brand Bentley appears to have cooled even more on EVs. As its CEO Frank-Steffen Walliser recently told Car and Driver “what we see in the luxury market right now (is that) people reject electric cars.” Wealthy consumer…
Month: September 2024
VW CEO pushes for hybrids in the US
Volkswagen Group of America CEO Pablo Di Si wants to bring hybrids back to the VW’s U.S. lineup, Automotive News reports. VW hasn’t sold a hybrid in the U.S. since the Jetta Hybrid was pulled from the lineup in 2017 after a three-year production run, b…
NIO Gets €1.7 Billion New Investment From Strategic Investors
Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO is getting new investment in cash from existing shareholders. A group of strategic investors – including Hefei Jianheng New Energy Automobile Investment Fund Partnership, Anhui Provincial Emerging Industry Inves…
Tesla exec gives AI team credit for meeting Cybertruck FSD release target
Tesla Director of Autopilot Software Ashok Elluswamy gave credit to the electric vehicle maker’s AI team for meeting its ambitious FSD release goals for September 2024. The executive also shared an update for the upcoming rollout of FSD’s end-to-end highway driving for Tesla’s greater fleet. Tesla’s tendency to miss its self-imposed release targets for its […]
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Sony and Honda become first Japanese EV makers to bow to Tesla’s charging standard
Sony Honda Mobility (SHM), the electric vehicle (EV) joint venture eponymously formed by two Japanese multinational giants in 2022 have announced they will adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS)…
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The world’s largest battery electric ferry is being built in Australia: What will power it?
The world’s biggest electric ferry is being built in Australia and will feature battery modules and an energy storage system that will yield 4 times the power of any on today’s electric or hybrid ships.
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Kia Opens Its First Dedicated EV Plant To Build EV3 and EV4 electric cars
Kia Corporation has opened the Kia Gwangmyeong EVO Plant, Hyundai Motor Group’s (the Group) first dedicated EV manufacturing facility. Located at Kia Autoland Gwangmyeong, the new South Korean facility has an annual production capacity of 150,000 units…
Starlink & T-Mobile reportedly start tests for cellular satellite service
SpaceX & T-Mobile reportedly started testing for their upcoming Starlink cellular satellite service. Recently, a few people claimed SpaceX and T-Mobile were testing their Starlink cellular satellite service. The service is commonly called Starlink Cellular or Starlink Direct-to-Cell. The speculations about Starlink Cellular’s tests started after Reddit user u/ommmyyyy posted about a perplexing change in […]
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Tesla rolls out Cybertruck FSD with V12.5.5 update
The long wait is over. After a 10-month wait, Tesla Cybertruck customers have started receiving access to FSD (Supervised). Release notes for the update indicate that the all-electric pickup truck also received Tesla’s highly-anticipated end-to-end highway stack. Initial reports of the Cybertruck receiving an update with FSD were posted online this weekend. These reports were […]
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Argonne researchers crack a key problem with sodium-ion batteries
Lithium-ion batteries have long dominated the market as the go-to power source for electric vehicles. They are also increasingly being considered for storage of renewable energy to be used on the electric grid. However, with the rapid expansion of this…
