Tesla is the automotive company best positioned to take advantage of future vehicle manufacturing disruption in the industry, according to GlobalData analysts. The US based firm comes top of the list in a ranking of overall leadership in the themes that matter most among vehicle manufacturing companies. These themes, which can be defined as any […]
Panasonic is preparing to mass produce large-format 4680 battery cells for Tesla, and facing new manufacturing challenges as part of that process, the head of the company’s new consolidated battery division in a recent interview with Nikkei Asia. “In terms of product development, the technological goals have largely been achieved,” Kazuo Tadanobu, CEO of Panasonic’s
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Alfa Romeo has no plans to abandon its Quadrifoglio performance option when the automaker goes the full-electric route by 2027. That’s according to Alfa Romeo chief Jean-Philippe Imparato who, in an interview with Autocar published on Thursday, said Alfa Romeo’s first electric vehicle will arrive in 2024 and may gain a Quadrifoglio variant. He said
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Toyota in September unveiled a new generation of its Tundra full-size pickup truck, and on Friday we receive the all-important pricing details. Set to go on sale in December as a 2022 model with a starting price of $37,645, including a $1,695 destination charge, the arrival of the new Tundra is a big deal as
Audi is close to revealing an electric crossover sized between the E-Tron and recently launched Q4 E-Tron. It isn’t the Q6 E-Tron that Audi plans to unveil in 2022. Rather, the new crossover has been badged a Q5 E-Tron, and it has been developed exclusively for the Chinese market where it will be built by
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One of the first owners of the Lucid Air Dream Edition – Tesla2Lucid – has recently shared an interesting video with a 360° camera view (an aerial view) of the car on the infotainment system. Manufacturers more and more often add an aerial view to their system to increase safety when maneuvering in tight spaces,
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Several signs indicate that Tesla is heading for record deliveries in the fourth quarter of this year, even though we are only one month into it. The first would be that both of the company’s factories are very busy, with recent drone footage of Giga Shanghai revealing a record number of brand-new cars parked in
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Supermarkets in the UK have installed almost 1,000 new electric car charging points in the past two years, according to new research. The figures from the RAC and electric vehicle (EV) website Zap-Map found there are now 2,059 chargers at supermarket sites, up 85 percent from 1,112 in January 2020. That means supermarkets now account
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When Byton unveiled the M-Byte electric SUV in 2018, it seemed like a very credible EV that looked close to production and we were expecting to see it make its market debut in 2019, with full-scale production planned for 2022. That has not happened according to plan and in the meantime rivals (like XPeng or
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Mazda is close to launching a new safety feature that will help drivers that could suddenly become incapacitated. As part of its Co-Pilot suite of driver-assistance systems, the car will be able to warn other road-goers and safely pull over to the shoulder. Mazda is demonstrating the technology to journalists in Japan in a specially
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