Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently revealed through Twitter that the company would be revealing its new semi truck at an event in September (as we reported at the time). That tweet seemed pretty optimistic as regards the quality of the semi truck being developed by Tesla, with Musk stating: “Team has done an amazing job. Seriously next level.”
The Tesla Model X was recently named by the Automobile Association of America (AAA) as the top overall pick in its 2017 Green Car Guide — with the all-electric SUV offering from Tesla besting all of the other EVs, hybrids, and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) offerings out there.
While the Volkswagen ID Crozz concept reveal at the Shanghai Auto Show is not much more than a PR exercise, it would seem wrong to not at least do a basic rundown of the concept electric vehicle.
The promising LiDAR tech startup Luminar will supply 4 unnamed partners in the self-driving vehicle sector with 100 or so units of its new high-resolution system “soon,” going by comments made by the company’s CEO Austin Russell in a recent interview with Engadget.
A great fan-made Chevy Bolt EV ad recently came to my attention, one that seems worth reposting here. After watching it, I have to wonder — why doesn’t GM/Chevy make ads like this itself?
We first covered Protean and its in-wheel motor tech back in 2012, and then interviewed a company exec in 2013 at EVS27 in Barcelona. Apparently, the company is still alive. A 16″ version of the ProteanDRIVE In-Wheel Motor will be developed by Protean Electric in partnership with Zhejiang VIE Science & Technology Company (VIE), according to recent news from the partners.
Tesla has dropped the price on the Model S 75 by $7,500 — to $69,500, from $77,000 — seemingly in anticipation of the end of federal tax credits in the US. What I mean by that is that Tesla is rapidly approaching the 200,000 electric vehicles sold mark, which will start the beginning of the phaseout of the federal tax credit (for the brand).
Despite the hit that many investors in the US shale oil industry have taken in recent years as a result of various producers going bust, a total of around $19.8 billion was invested in the sector by private equity funds during the first quarter of 2017, according to the financial data provider Preqin.
We’ve recently seen a surge in the number of pedestrians and cyclists killed in the US by auto drivers. While most people would probably assume that the reasons for this surge are some of the more obvious possibilities — growing auto use, smartphone addiction, growing levels of drug use (illegal and prescription), increasing senility amongst certain portions of the population, etc. — the Governors Highway Safety Association thinks otherwise.
As part of its settlement with the US government in relation to the diesel emissions cheating scandal, Volkswagen has agreed to invest $1.2 billion into the development of electric vehicle support infrastructure and education over the next 10 years — as we’ve reported previously.
