Tropical Storm Lidia is anticipated to strengthen to a hurricane and make landfall on the west coast of Mexico by Tuesday, bringing heavy rains that may trigger flooding and mudslides. The storm was about 410 miles south-southwest of Baja California, Mexico, in the Pacific, and had sustained winds of 70 miles per hour, with higher…
“There’s plenty of space at the bottom.” So proclaimed the physicist Richard Feynman in 1959, heralding the new field of nanophysics, the study of the very, very small. Feynman’s dictum kept running through my head last week after the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists who figured out how to produce bursts…
Tesla has reportedly made a technological breakthrough when it comes to the so-called “gigacasting” process that would allow it to die cast nearly all the complex underbody of an electric vehicle in one piece. According to five people familiar with the plans who spoke with Reuters on condition of anonymity, Tesla has combined a series…
Tesla’s so-called Full Self-Driving (FSD) driving assistant system has been at the center of several legal battles and it’s frequently cited by enthusiasts as a feature that sets the maker of the Model Y and its siblings apart from all the other EV manufacturers out there. With this being said, the very costly option (it’s…
The number of electric vehicles Tesla delivered in the third quarter fell short of expectations, as scheduled downtime at some of its plants shifted future production further into the fourth quarter. In the third quarter of 2023, Tesla produced over 430,488 vehicles and delivered over 435,059 vehicles globally. “A sequential decline in volumes was caused…
Two Tesla Cybertruck release candidate (RC) units were spotted several times in the Mexican state of Baja California earlier this week sporting graffiti-like side decals and what appears to be a SpaceX Starlink internet satellite dish mounted on the roof of one of the pickups. The all-electric duo was first spotted in Mexico at a…
Decorated with garlands of flowers and balloons, the last diesel-run double-decker rolled out of BEST’s Marol depot on Friday morning and caught the eyeballs throughout the day. As Mumbaikars bid adieu to the last diesel-run double-decker bus of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking, commuters and staffers reminisced about their journey in the…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was the guest of the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast that went live today, and he finally revealed some interesting things about the still-mysterious Cybertruck that’s due out in just a few weeks. “Half-dressed as the wizard of Australia,” by his own description, and donning a cigar in…
The 51 buses of the Uttar Pradesh Transport Corporation will have women drivers and conductors, officials said. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that the UP State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) is considered to be the lifeline of transportation in the state and bus stations will soon get airport-like facilities. “India became independent on…
In an effort to provide the best possible electric vehicle charging experience for its customers, drivers of BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce Combined Charging System (CCS) battery electric vehicles in the U.S. and Canada will gain access to designated Tesla Supercharger stations in early 2025. “With six fully electric BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce models now available…
