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After Using AI In Its Photos, BMW Now Has Robots That'll Likely End Up Build ingMotorcycles
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (193+ words) Serious question, but has anyone at BMW seen the Terminator movies? Or caught Netflix's Love, Death, and Robots? Because it really seems that the Bavarian company has pushed itself into those worlds without actually worrying about the potential consequences that…...
This Ready-Made EV Chassis Could Be The Perfect Fit For A Classic Truck
1+ hour, 50+ min ago (374+ words) The world's largest EV conversion specialist has come up with a plug-and-play solution for vintage pickups and SUVs. Electric Classic Cars' modular EV chassis offers dual-motor all-wheel drive and up to 530 hp. The Tesla-sourced electric motors are paired with a…...
4 big EV stories you need to know this week
7+ hour, 51+ min ago (471+ words) This week, we're looking at a newly awarded "Best of the Best" EV, the growing adoption of electric first responder vehicles, Ford's next electric truck attempt, and all the other news about clean machines you need to know right now....
Tesla’s Wild New Roadster Seat Could Change How Cars Are Built
15+ hour, 51+ min ago (393+ words) Tesla's Wild New Roadster Seat Could Change How Cars Are Built'Yahoo Autos Autoblog and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. The Tesla Roadster has been coming "soon" for so long that when Elon Musk announced an April…...
Tesla owner shares video of bizarre incident straight out of 'The Office': 'Attempting to swim"
16+ hour, 51+ min ago (401+ words) One Tesla owner is reeling after his car tried to pull a Michael Scott, nearly driving him into a lake. According to Electrek, Daniel Milligan was using his Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" mode when the incident occurred. Much like the episode…...
China puts a sodium-ion battery into an EV for the first time — it can drive 248 miles on a single charge
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (618+ words) A Chinese car manufacturer has unveiled the world's first sodium-ion (Na-ion) electric vehicle (EV), opening the door to safer battery technologies and improved cold-weather performance. The Changan Nevo A06 has been produced jointly by Changan Automobile and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.,…...
Your $60K EV Dashboard Has a Death Timer Built In – Here’s Why It Will Fail
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (438+ words) That gleaming 15-inch touchscreen controlling everything in your luxury EV? It's essentially a $8,000 ticking time bomb, and the automotive industry knows it. Welcome to what engineers quietly call "Silicon Sepsis" " the systematic failure of car dashboards that weren't built for…...
How AI is transforming the dark art of tyre design
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (490+ words) Like so many other things, tyre design is falling under the influence of AI. The tech is being used to predict the effectiveness of different tread patterns and simulate how they might behave in the real world. Tyres have come…...
These Stellantis EVs Share the Same Platform, but They Do Not Drive the Same
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (488+ words) A colleague from Elektroauto News spent early March in R'sselsheim at Opel's headquarters with a simple question that turns out to be harder than it sounds. How many different "personalities" can a single auto group create from one shared technical…...
BYD's New Stations Make EV Charging Basically As Quick As Getting Gas
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (610+ words) BYD's new Flash chargers are capable of delivering 1,500 kilowatts of power. Electric vehicles powered by the company's new Blade 2.0 battery can recharge to nearly full in under 10 minutes using the new tech. The T-shaped charging towers are arranged like traditional…...