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03 Oct

Tesla’s fifth Cybertruck recall is due to a rear-view camera glitch

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Tesla issued another recall for more than 27,000 Cybertrucks. This is the fifth time the electric truck has been recalled in the last year. issued the recall due to an image delay from the rear-view camera. The delayed rear-view camera failed to produce an image to the driver of what’s driving behind them within the legally required two seconds, “increasing the risk of a crash,” according to the official recall notice. reports that the camera display is caused by a software glitch in the Cybertruck’s system. Some vehicles failed to complete the shutdown process before booting up again, causing a…

30 Sep

Cybertruck Finally Gets Full Self-Driving (Supervised)

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A select number of all-electric Tesla Cybertrucks now have the ability to drive on US highways hands-free, after the automaker pushed an update to vehicles this morning. Tesla AI head Ashok Elluswamy wrote on X that Cybertrucks will be the first Tesla vehicles to receive the “end-to-end on highway” driving feature, which the company says uses a “neural net” to navigate all parts of highway driving.“Nice work,” Tesla CEO (and X owner) Elon Musk responded to his AI chief.The feature appears to be in “early access,” meaning it’s available only to some Cybertruck owners who purchased the feature. It’s unclear…

23 Sep

Proposed Ban Would Be a ‘Death Sentence’ for Chinese EVs in the US

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After officially hiking tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports earlier this month, the US government is getting even more serious about keeping China-made autos out of the country. On Monday, the US Commerce Department proposed a new rule that would ban some Chinese- and Russian-made automotive hardware and software from the US, with software restrictions starting as early as 2026.The Biden administration says the move is needed for national security reasons, given how central technology is to today’s increasingly sophisticated cars. In announcing the proposed ban, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo cited vehicles’ internet-connected cameras, microphones, and GPS equipment. “It doesn't…

07 Sep

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Polestar?

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The all-electric sibling of Volvo has a new CEO, new models landing, and a new plant in South Carolina—but will this be enough to stop the EV brand's decline? Source link lol

22 Aug

How Much Will It Cost to Charge Your Electric Car? It’s Complicated

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Another weird feature of electricity pricing are demand charges. These are fees that EV charging site hosts pay, and are based on their highest usage, in 15-minute to one-hour intervals, during a pay period. These demand charges help utilities deal with the various costs of building and maintaining an electric grid. But they’re frustrating in the EV charging context, because some chargers get used very rarely—but when they are used demand a lot of electricity in a short amount of time. That leads to demand charges.These demand charges can hit the “hundreds of thousands annually for a specific site,” says…

21 Aug

Ford Steps Back From EVs—and Says Hybrids Are the Future

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Even early adopters and those seeking to reduce their CO2 emissions wilt at some EVs’ first-year depreciation of 50 percent.Automakers, too, are feeling the heat. In a press release Ford said it was to broaden choices for customers as it “adjusts its rollout of pure electric vehicles to deliver a capital-efficient, profitable electric vehicle business.” It also noted that Chinese automakers have “advantaged cost structures including vertical integration, low-cost engineering, multi-energy advanced battery technology and digital experiences.”By killing its three-row SUV and delaying a next-generation pickup, Ford is hoping to stem losses resulting from its previously ambitious all-electric plan.“It's coming…

16 Aug

Elon Musk Is No Climate Hero

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WIRED has been writing about Elon Musk—he of the electric cars, space rockets, tunnel-boring machines, implantable brain interfaces, Mars mission, and internet shitposting—for a long time. He’s always been unpredictable. And yet the most shocking part of his two-hour interview with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, broadcast live on X earlier this week, may just have been what Musk didn’t say.It happened around the 50-minute mark, during a very Trumpian discussion of gas and electricity prices. They were up nationally, Trump said, but “when that comes down and [sic] we’re going to drill, baby, drill.”The siren song of the oil…

16 Aug

EVs Are Losing Up to 50 Percent of Their Value in One Year

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Electric vehicle depreciation is something of a hot topic right now, and for good reason. On one hand, there are some fantastic deals to be had on the secondhand market, but on the other of course, there’s the thorny issue of some EVs losing half of their value in a single year.Cars losing you a chunk of cash the instant they’re driven off the dealer lot is nothing new, especially at the pricier end of the market. And if you intend to keep your shiny new EV for a long time, then its worth after just a year or two…

13 Aug

The Sleepy Czech Town Helping Europe Compete in the Global Chip War

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The Czech town of Roznov pod Radhostem was best known for its rum-drizzled sweet pies and an open-air museum showing off historical wooden houses. Then came an announcement that stirred the sleepy backwater.US chipmaker ON Semiconductor Corp. picked Roznov for a new $2 billion manufacturing hubBloomberg Terminal in June. The past few weeks have seen a flurry of visits by property developers, the head of a local university and government officials followed around by television crews. Source link lol

09 Aug

Europe’s Auto Chipmakers Have a Deepening China Habit

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As advanced semiconductor companies in the US and allied countries pull back from China, a less glamorous sector of the chip market is turning even more to the world’s second-biggest economy. Source link lol