In the last two weeks, I was wondering what was happening with the Ford F-150 Lightning because in November to January production was temporarily paused. Then, there was a flurry of news activity about the pause, but not so much lately about the resumption of production. Zach may have read … [continued]
The US continues to be a big market for EV sales, and Ford is aiming for an edge with the Super Mustang Mach-E from its Ford Performance branch.
Sells 20,000 cars in 2 months Chinese carmaker Dongfeng Nissan officially launched the N7 EV at the Shanghai Motor Show in April. It was first presented in November 2024 at the Guangzhou Motor Show but not officially released until Auto Shanghai in April. The car is a Nissan, but more … [continued]
EVs are under attack again. Blame it on Akio Toyoda. In April, the scion of the Toyota Motor Company said in an interview with Automotive News and republished by Toyota Times, “When the term carbon neutrality became popular, we said as a company the enemy is carbon. We have to … [continued]
The Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS38) in Gothenburg is all about charging. The biggest and most important scientific conference in the world about everything connected to the transition to electric mobility is completely devoted to charging. Over 400 abstracts were submitted, all covering one aspect or another of the charging technology, … [continued]
The minerals that power lithium-ion batteries—including lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite—are both highly valuable and difficult to come by. As battery storage capacity across the United States continues to grow, constraints on the mining, refining, and processing of key minerals leaves our energy systems vulnerable to the fluctuations of … [continued]
Kia reveals full technical details of the EV4, the brand’s first electric compact sedan Bold, innovative design and advanced technology bring benefits of EV ownership to a new global customer demographic Exceptional performance, ultra-rapid charging times and a WLTP-estimated range of up to 630 km Kia EV4 now on sale … [continued]
Many recent AI breakthroughs have followed a common pattern: bigger models, trained on more data, with more compute, often deliver extraordinary gains. Waymo’s latest study explores whether this trend extends to autonomous driving and establishes new scaling laws in motion planning and forecasting — core autonomous vehicle (AV) capabilities. Our research confirms … [continued]
After 3 years of anticipation, the long-awaited Gravity (or Infinity) locomotive has arrived in the Pilbara in Western Australia to be put to work transporting iron ore to the coast for shipment to China. This is part of Dr Andrew Forrest’s aim of achieving real zero across all the operations … [continued]
Waymo has been testing self-driving cars for a couple of decades, and has had them taxiing paying passengers around for a handful of years. Without a doubt, there are challenges every step of the way, but a really big one must be deciding when robotaxis are genuinely safe and ready … [continued]
