Rivian Automotive on Monday announced production totals for the quarter ending September 30, 2023. The company produced 16,304 vehicles at its manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois and delivered 15,564 vehicles during the same period. This is 23% more than in the Q2 2023, raising the total 2023 deliveries to 36,150 EVs. Analysts estimated that Rivian Q3 2023 deliveries would total…
A California judge has diverted a class action lawsuit brought by a group of Tesla owners to individual arbitration. The Austin-based automaker is the subject of several ongoing trials and investigations over the Autopilot driver assistance feature, however, this particular case will no longer be handled by the court. US District Judge Haywood Gilliam in…
Automakers’ third-quarter financial results are in, with positive signs for Rivian, less so for Tesla. Tesla production and deliveries were down versus the previous quarter. The automaker said it produced over 430,000 vehicles and delivered over 435,000. Despite the lower-performing quarter, Tesla claims that it’s still on track for the 1.8 million vehicles targeted for…
Stockholm — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for studying how electrons zip around atoms in fractions of seconds, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or disease diagnoses. The award went to Pierre Agostini, Hungarian-born Ferenc Krausz and French-born Anne L’Huillier for their work with the tiny part…
These new BharatBenz dealerships are strategically located closer to National and State highways to deliver quick and reliable service to customers. New Delhi: Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV), the wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG (“Daimler Truck”) Tuesday announced the further expansion of the BharatBenz sales and service network in the North, Northeast and…
In September, BYD set its fifth consecutive plug-in electric car sales record, further approaching a level of 300,000 units a month. According to the company’s report, last month, BYD passenger plug-in car sales amounted to 286,903 (including 13,156 Denza premium EVs), which is 43 percent more than a year ago. The overwhelming majority of BYD sales…
Munro Vehicles (Munro), a manufacturer of all-electric 4x4s, and Scotland’s only volume production car company, has announced an equity crowdfunding round and revealed details of design and technical enhancements for its all-electric 4×4 Series-M Pick-Up and Series-M Truck models, driven by extensive field trials of, and customer feedback on, the Munro MK_1 pre-production model. Munro…
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists — Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier — on Tuesday for their experiments that have “have given humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules.” Their work, the committee said, concerns “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light…
OK, it’s not the high-performance variant some of us were hoping for. You can’t win ’em all. But the 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning Flash is a pretty compelling proposition anyway: a “greatest hits” trim level of the Lightning that includes the features Ford says customers coveted most. Ford announced the new trim level today as…
GWM ORA has announced the launch of its new test drive centre initiative, which provides additional coverage and support for the brands existing Retailer network. Strategically located, the new sites will offer the same lively and colourful corporate identity as the main Retailer sites, just on a smaller scale. Each test drive centre will offer…
