Tesla first revealed plans to develop a fully autonomous robotaxi in 2016, but while the project was mentioned several times since, the EV maker never teased its self-driving vehicle. Fortunately, we now get an idea of how the Tesla robotaxi looks like, or at least the concept version of it, from Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk…
The Hyundai Kona electric outshines its gasoline counterpart. Illinois will be the home of a huge LFP battery factory. And the Porsche Taycan is getting recalled for battery issues only affecting one model year. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Based on some brief first driving impressions of the 2024 Hyundai Kona Electric,…
The United States has suffered 23 billion-dollar disasters so far in 2023, a record for this point in the year that highlights the country’s struggle to adapt to the effects of climate change. The list, compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, includes the fire in Maui that killed at least 115 people, the…
The Tesla Model 3 and the BYD Han EV are popular electric sedans in China. The Han secured its place as China’s eighth best-selling car in H1 2023 with roughly 72,000 units sold, while the Model 3 held ground as the tenth best-selling EV, with close to 67,000 sales. A teardown specialist disassembled both their…
Once, there were 29. Now at least one is gone, maybe three. Those that remain are almost half the size they used to be. Mount Rainier is losing its glaciers. That is all the more striking as it is the most glacier-covered mountain in the contiguous United States. The changes reflect a stark global reality:…
The first Tesla Supercharging station in Canada was equipped with built-in CCS1 adapters (also known as the Magic Dock), which allows recharging of non-Tesla EVs. The news was brought to us by Pierre Roberge (@roberge_p / X), who shared photos of the Supercharging stalls in Deep River in Northern Ontario. According to the report, the…
Paleontologists in Egypt found the fossil of one of the smallest extinct whales. The announcement comes just a week after scientists said they had found a species of ancient whale that might be the heaviest animal ever found. The “tiny” fossil, dug up in Wadi el-Hitan, or Whale Valley, belongs to a whale that lived…
In July, global sales of plug-in electric cars exceeded one million units for the third consecutive time, suggesting that it might never go down to six digits again. According to EV-Volumes data, shared by Jose Pontes, 1,104,592 new passenger plug-in electric cars were registered globally in July (41 percent more than a year ago). That’s…
Volvo Car USA and Canada reports regional sales of 11,768 cars in August, up 31.6 per cent compared to the same month last year. So far this year the Volvo Car USA and Canada region sold 89,014 cars, an increase of 22.9 percent compared to the same period last year. The company’s line of Recharge…
Thousands of invasive species introduced to new ecosystems around the world are causing more than $423 billion in estimated losses to the global economy every year by harming nature, damaging food systems and threatening human health, a wide-ranging scientific report published on Monday has found. The costs have at least quadrupled every decade since 1970,…
