Transportation
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk to build an electric car factory in Turkey during a meeting in New York City on September 17. Erdogan and Musk met at Turkish House, a skyscraper near the United Nations, ahead of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly that the Turkish President…
The Tesla Semi is proving to be a workhorse in the real world, as per data released by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency’s (NACFE) Run On Less program. It’s the first independent real-world test of the Semi, and the range and charging figures appear encouraging. We reported last week how the electric trucks covered…
Under the deal announced on Monday, Mobase, a supplier to Korea’s automotive industry, will use UltraSense chips in button bars it supplies to automakers. UltraSense Systems, a Silicon Valley startup that makes a chip that can replace mechanical buttons, said on Monday that it has signed a deal with South Korea’s Mobase Electronics to supply…
A Tesla Cybertruck release candidate (RC) unit made a surprise visit at the company’s 50,000th Supercharger stall yesterday evening, providing some metallic eye candy to the several brand enthusiasts who went to the California location to check out the red stall. Images and videos of the Cybertruck visiting the Ultra Red-colored Supercharger were posted on…
Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography has been the source of several interesting revelations, and the latest one to make headlines is about Tesla’s approach on privacy, more specifically a controversial use for the internal monitoring camera fitted to the brand’s cars. As it turns out, Elon Musk at one point insisted on Tesla using the…
BMW will make Chinese-market-specific EVs riding on the automaker’s Neue Klasse platform. Company CEO Oliver Zipse made the announcement at the World New Energy Vehicle Congress during the IAA show in Munich, Germany. “I cannot reveal too much today, but BMW Design Shanghai is already working on special designs and functions for China-specific models of the New…
When Tesla released the Smart Summon feature in September 2019, it became a feature that instantly gave the owner of a compatible EV bragging rights, but after a couple of months, the number of social media posts showing the parking assistant doing its thing slowly but surely went lower and lower. However, that doesn’t mean…
Convenient urban mobility is at the heart of many electric bicycle manufacturers from Europe. With electric bicycles forecasted to be a major driver of mobility in the coming years (the global e-bike market is estimated to be worth $120 billion by 2030), we can only expect manufacturers to continue ramping up their technology. One of…
While NavIC is as good as other GPS in accuracy, it is more suitable for Indian terrain and has better performance since it’s focused on India and neighbouring areas alone. The story of NavIC, India’s homegrown GPS alternative, is the story of how India changed from a country that depended on others for its crucial…
In August, new passenger car registrations in Germany increased by 37 percent year-over-year to 273,417. During the first eight months of 2023, 1,913,564 new cars were registered (up 16.5 percent year-over-year). Last month was very strong in terms of plug-in electric car sales, which increased to the highest level so far this year. In August,…
