In a new note to his management team, as he is being challenged by his own workforce, VW CEO Herbert Diess explained why the German automaker needs to be more like Tesla. Surprisingly, a lot of it has to do with manufacturing – something that Elon Musk said would become Tesla’s main advantage. As we …
Norwegian wind giant Equinor is not only pulling out of what would be the Atlantic’s first floating offshore wind farm, it’s also pulling out of doing business in Ireland altogether. Equinor leaves Ireland In 2019, Equinor partnered with the Irish utility Electricity Supply Board (ESB). In April, they jointly announced they would build a €2 …
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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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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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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 …
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, …
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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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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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 …
Byton Close To Bankruptcy With Missed Payments, Production Halted Read More »
Tesla confirmed that it quietly acquired Colorado-based battery startup SiILion, Inc., in a new patent for a silicon-based battery anode. Over the last few years, Tesla has been rumored to have acquired SiILion, Inc., a battery technology startup based out of Colorado. The rumors started after a few of the startup’s employees were hired by …
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