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Month: October 2022

New Tax Credit A “Game Changer” For Ford’s Commercial EVs: CEO

Ford CEO Jim Farley believes the new federal tax credits for electric vehicles created by the Inflation Reduction Act should have a “wide range of positive impacts” for the automaker, especially for its commercial vehicle division. During the company’s third-quarter earnings call last week, Farley said Ford plans to take advantage of credits related to …

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GM Ultium EV ramp, Leaf-powered pickup, fast-food fast-charging: Today’s Car News

Nissan teases a very compact spin on electric trucks. Some Taco Bell locations are adding speedy EV charging. And GM reports that it won’t hit its intended 400,000 EVs by the end of 2023. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.  GM last week gave some indications that it’s facing a slower mass-market production …

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Ferrari 499P revealed, takes Maranello back to top-level endurance racing – Autoblog

This is the international endurance racer picking up the torch Ferrari put down 50 years ago when the factory-backed 312 PB turned off its engine at the end of the 1973 season. After 18 months of preparation, the ladies and gentlemen in Maranello have served up this, the 499P for the World Endurance Championship (WEC) …

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Andrej Karpathy considers coming back to Tesla to work on Optimus and AGI

Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s former head of artificial intelligence, said that he could return to Tesla, especially to work on the Optimus robot and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Karpathy joined Tesla more than five years ago as a neural net and computer vision expert. He joined as Tesla was transitioning from using Mobileye’s technology for driver-assist …

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Formula E racing chips will power future Jaguar Land Rover EVs

Jaguar Land Rover has entered into a new strategic partnership with semiconductor maker Wolfspeed (WOLF) to use its chips to power its next generation of EVs. This is not the first business partnership between Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Wolfspeed. The chip maker has been supplying its silicon carbide semiconductors to the Jaguar TCS Racing …

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