Transportation
In August, plug-in electric car sales in Europe increased quite noticeably, reaching the highest market share so far this year. According to EV Volumes data, shared by Jose Pontes, in August, 270,356 new plug-in electric cars were registered in Europe, about 68 percent more than a year ago. That’s about 30 percent of the total…
LAM Research, a global provider of semiconductor equipment and services, has shown interest in setting up a lab in Karnataka. LAM Research, LeoLabs and Tsecond are among the American companies that have evinced interest in setting up units in Karnataka. Karnataka industries minister MB Patil is in the US to attract investments into the state…
A trailer carrying several Tesla Model Ys became engulfed in flames today at around 02:30 AM in Turkey (11:30 PM GMT), reported Turkish news agency IHA. The fire broke out in one of six Teslas and spread to all the cars that were being transported out of Istanbul. However, the root cause of the flames…
We Americans don’t hear much from Daihatsu these days, but the Japanese brand hasn’t lost its talent for producing microcars, vans and trucks we secretly want. The major difference is that Daihatsu’s going electric at the upcoming Japan Mobility Show in a few weeks. Three of them are utilitarian offerings, but the other is a high-riding, open-roof…
Tesla is rumored to start initial customer deliveries of the Cybertruck this month, and while it’s anyone’s guess whether that will actually happen, there are signs that something big is cooking at Gigafactory Texas. Namely, what does it mean when we see so many Cybertruck front and rear castings just sitting around? Drone operator Joe Tegtmeyer…
Now in its 21st day, the United Auto Workers’ strike on General Motors, Ford and Stellantis has proven to be a bitter, protracted affair. But electric vehicles have been looming large over all of it — namely, the fact that most EV battery plants in the U.S. are not unionized, and future EVs may require…
A bizarre motoring incident appears to have unfolded in the UK this past weekend. 53-year-old Brian Morrison from Glasgow claimed that his MG ZS EV “kidnapped” him while driving home from work on a Sunday night. The BBC reported that the vehicle was stuck at 30 miles per hour, and Morrison had mobility issues that…
Tesla just lowered the prices of some of its electric cars in the United States by a noticeable amount, thus improving affordability and competitiveness. The latest round concerns all versions of the Tesla Model 3, as well as the Long Range AWD and Performance versions of the Tesla Model Y. The entry-level Model Y RWD, which…
With the facelifted Tesla Model 3 already unveiled and the Cybertruck nearing the start of customer deliveries, Tesla could soon free up resources to complete development on what will likely become its most important car, the long-awaited $25,000 mass-market EV. But what will that car look like? Walter Isaacson’s recently released Elon Musk biography might…
“Designing a new drivetrain from scratch can take two years, but the Altigreen team’s usage of Model-Based Design enabled it to complete its last drivetrain redesign in under 13 months,” he added. New Delhi: Altigreen Propulsion Labs, an Indian electric vehicle (EV)company, Friday announced its technology collaboration with MathWorks, a leading developer of mathematical computing…
