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, …
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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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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One thing seems certain these days: If you’re a legacy car sector company wanting to give your stock price a serious goosing, find some way to thrust yourself into the EV news cycle. This week gave the world another reminder that Wall Street is ready to reward pretty much any company offering signs of snuggling …
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Super Soco electric motorcycles are known for being lightweight, affordable and plentiful. But now the company is hoping to add the word “premium” to the list by starting a new brand of higher-end electric motorcycles for the US and European markets. Super Soco is the main brand offered by the Vmoto Soco group, an Australian-based …
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Volkswagen on Wednesday teased a prototype version of its ID.Buzz—the all-electric revival of the classic Microbus—which the automaker plans to fully reveal in 2022. The camouflaged ID.Buzz prototype was shown briefly by Klaus Zellmer, VW board member for global sales, during the livestream of the VW ID.5 crossover reveal. Zellmer didn’t have much to say …
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Tesla bets on a new 4680-type cylindrical cell format, but according to Lucid’s CEO/CTO Peter Rawlinson. it will not be “this huge breakthrough.” In an interesting IEEE Spectrum article, Peter Rawlinson noted that the larger format and new design has some advantages, including reduced internal resistance and higher volumetric energy density, but it’s better packaging rather …
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Lucid celebrates the milestone of delivering first Lucid Air cars to customers on October 30, 2021 with an interesting official video recap of the event. At first, the company delivered a bunch of limited Lucid Air Dream Edition cars (only 520 will be produced and sold and all are reserved). “This weekend, we hosted a California …
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