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The electric Boxster looks like it could really be on pace for an arrival next year.

In 2023, Li Auto said it wouldn't go global until 2028, but it now plans to launch an EV before the end of this year.

One congressman is demanding that NHTSA look into continued misuse of Tesla's Full Self-Driving software.

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Elon Musk is once again promoting the misuse of Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” (FSD), this time by amplifying a video of a 98-year-old man who openly admits he has stopped watching the road. The clip is charming. It’s also a textbook example of the exact driver behavior Tesla’s lawyers are fighting in a growing pile of crash lawsuits. more…

Growing global sales of EV and PHEV models have pushed China's export numbers to their highs, despite shrinking sales at home.

A little known Croatian startup backed by Rimac is leading the way for robotaxis in Europe, with help from a Chinese AV company.

Tesla revealed the European specs for its Semi electric truck, and they don’t match the version already in production in the US. The truck will offer up to 550 km (342 miles) of range at 40 tonnes fully loaded. Tesla Europe posted the numbers today, days before the company plans to formally launch the Semi in Europe at the IAA Transportation show in Hannover. more…

The brand’s most efficient car to date is already rolling off the assembly line in Ingolstadt.

The purpose-built robotaxi won't be able to slow charge from a plug like other Teslas.

Who woulda thought that driving slower gets you better range. You might be surprised by how much, though.

The electric pickup’s most delayed feature is now officially available, according to Tesla.

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Geely launched its new TT electric sport sedan in China, starting at 129,900 yuan (about $19,100), with 800V fast charging and LiDAR on every trim. That price puts a 640 km sedan with next-generation charging hardware at roughly half the price of a Tesla. more…

EVgo, one of the largest charging networks in the U.S., hasn’t forgotten about the old Nissan Leaf.

Pressure Over Driver Monitoring Video of a motorist asleep at highway speed used to be a curiosity. There

Elon Musk's tunneling venture is now worth $23 billion, the company said on Wednesday.

Global EV sales barely moved the needle in August, but that number hides two dramatically different markets: Europe surged 36% from a year ago, while North America plunged 33%. more…

Atlas, Golf, and Tiguan models all get VW's new suite of driver assistance tech, too.

The Toyota bZ, C-HR, and bZ Woodland all share the same bones. I drove them all to find the best value.

The very large solar and eight hour battery has 116 near neighbours to contend with in an area dotted with other wind and solar projects and local quarries. The post Large solar and eight-hour battery hybrid seeks green tick, but local mayor says it will be an eyesore appeared first on Renew Economy.

Beijing is weighing plans to send a group of top tech, electric vehicle and aerospace executives to accompany Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington later this month, as the two sides race to finalise details for the closely watched visit. The South China Morning Post first reported on August 28 that Chinese and US officials were negotiating whether business leaders would join Xi’s delegation to the US. However, details about who might be included have not been previously reported. According...

The Swedish brand is leaving the compact luxury EV behind at the same time it supplies a facelift to the identical gas-powered XC40.

A 2024 Tesla Model Y ran off Interstate 35 in rural Missouri, struck a guardrail, and killed its driver, a 64-year-old woman from Raymore. Troopers reported a single-vehicle wreck and said the car “went off the road.” What they didn’t say, and likely didn’t know, is that Tesla’s own report to federal regulators says the car’s driver-assist system was engaged. This is part of an ongoing Electrek investigation matching reported crashes to Tesla’s redacted NHTSA data. more…

Horizon Technology Finance Corp., an affiliate of Monroe Capital, on September 10 said that the RoHo Capital Opportunity Fund LLC, a joint venture formed by Horizon and CR Financial Holdings, Inc., the holding company for Roth Capital Partners, LLC, has provided a $20-million senior credit facility to NeoVolta, Inc., with the ability to increase the facility to $30 million upon mutual agreement. An initial $20 million was funded at closing to support NeoVolta’s continued growth. The post Battery Energy Storage Group Receives Millions in Funding appeared first on POWER Magazine.

I picked up my Tesla Model Y one year ago, on August 30, and for roughly a year, I have had this vehicle prove to me that any other carmaker’s product is ruined for me forever. One year and over 16,000 miles later, the Tesla Model Y is easily the best car I’ve ever had. […] The post Tesla ruined other cars for me: one year Model Y ownership review appeared first on TESLARATI.

One U.S. Senator claims that rumors are swirling around Washington an upcoming meeting with China may open the door to Chinese EVs.

The Boring Co.'s latest $3 billion financing round was led by the United Arab Emirates.

Chinese scientists have developed a way to generate a fourfold increase in power output of hydrogen fuel cells, an advance that could broaden their use from road vehicles to space missions. Hydrogen is widely viewed as a promising clean energy source for a low-carbon future. Fuel cells convert the chemical energy in hydrogen directly into electricity, producing water as their only exhaust. In a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Science on Thursday, researchers at the Beijing Institute...

China has already crossed its record car export number from last year, and we’re only 2/3 of the way through the year. It shows how China’s EV choices are leading the country to dominate manufacturing, while the rest of the world’s automaking nations simply stand by and eagerly enable it. more…

A US congressman is demanding the Department of Transportation explain what it’s doing about Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving after an NBC News investigation surfaced dozens of videos of drivers apparently asleep at the wheel. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi gave Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy until September 30 to answer five questions about the systems, which Tesla itself says “require active driver supervision and are not autonomous driving systems.” more…

Electric car sales continue to rise around the globe, driven to newer heights by a wholly unnecessary oil conflict. Only a few backwards-thinking countries are resisting the rise… and one of those backwards-thinking countries is now seeing the light, but it’s for a unique reason. more…

There are electric scooters, there are fast electric scooters, and then there are machines like the Nanrobot LS7+ that make you wonder whether we’ve stretched the definition of “scooter” about as far as it can possibly go. more…

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Plus, EVs have gotten cheaper to buy, and there are hundreds of new models to choose from.

New parts and training will give independent garages more ways to fix motors in EVs and hybrid cars.

Volvo’s first mass-market EV is being retired stateside, but a revised version lives on in Europe and other markets.

More than 400 additional charging stalls are planned at Regency shopping centers, expanding a partnership that dates back to 2020.

Musk pushed back on NYC Tesla crash coverage, pointing to a pattern of premature blame. The post Elon Musk rips ABC News over fatal NYC Tesla crash report appeared first on TESLARATI.

Environmental and justice groups sue Los Angeles over CEQA review of Scattergood’s $800 million hydrogen-ready retrofit, citing health, NOx and water risks.

arXiv:2609.10031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated GUI testing is a widely adopted technique for ensuring mobile application quality by simulating user interactions to exercise functionalities. Despite the research breakthroughs in the past decades, covering complex functionalities that require multi-step action sequences still remains challenging. Traditional tools lack semantic understanding capability and can rarely synthesize such action sequences. Recent LLM-based tools can generate test intents describing target functionalities and leverage the LLM to fulfill the intents, but suffer from three key limitations: 1) loss of historical context for identifying uncovered functionalities, 2) synchronous intent generation that blocks exploration, and 3) per-step LLM-driven fulfillment incurring high cost and latency. To address these limitations, we propose GraphDroid, an intent-driven GUI testing framework that integrates a cluster-based memory mechanism to effectively identify

Just a few atomic layers at the surface can strongly influence how effectively a material binds pollutants from water or how efficiently a photocatalyst responds to light. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP use X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to investigate the chemical states and interactions at the surfaces and interfaces of bio-based carbon materials and organic-inorganic hybrid materials. Their insights can support the targeted development of functional materials for future industrial applications.

BYD Korea’s Dolphin compact electric hatchback is far more than just a low-cost electric vehicle (EV), positioning itself as a serious contender in the segment with strong practicality and solid driving performance. Dolphin’s greatest strength lies is its pricing. With government subsidies applied, the vehicle can effectively be purchased in the low-20 million won ($13,600) range, placing it in direct competition with key rivals — Hyundai Motor’s Casper Electric and Kia Ray EV. Consumer response has been swift. The company sold 1,202 vehicles in August, ranking fourth in the imported vehicle market here. The combination of affordability and practicality clearly resonates with buyers. The vehicle's popularity becomes easy to understand after spending time behind the wheel, particularly for first-time EV buyers or consumers seeking a practical commuter-focused second car. The base model produces 70 kilowatts, or roughly 95 horsepower. The figures appear modest, but the instant torque

China’s electric vehicle (EV) adoption rate has hit an all-time high, as the Iran war drives motorists to shift away from petrol cars despite a sluggish automotive market. A record 65.2 per cent of the 1.54 million cars sold in mainland China last month were either pure electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles, data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) showed. The figure broke the previous record of 65.1 per cent set a month earlier. “Consumers are convinced of EVs’ advantages now that...

While high gas prices have done their part, it's the expanding charging infrastructure that's mostly pushing Americans toward EVs.

The massive wheels can stay but the fixed rear wing needs to go.

Forget rental cars or Uber credits, Tesla wants to send you home in a robotaxi.

The SkyNomad N90 Studio is meant to be the ultimate camping crossover, or even a live-work space for professionals.

With Uber partnership on shaky ground, Waymo teams up with Lyft in Tennessee.

Hydrogen-powered cars, power stations and portable chargers all rely on fuel cells. At the heart of each fuel cell is a catalyst that speeds up the reaction between hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity and water. These catalysts are typically made of platinum—which costs nearly as much as gold. Researchers from Southern Federal University, together with colleagues from Skoltech (part of the VEB.RF Group), the Institute of Catalysis of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Bauman Moscow State Technical University, have found a way to make this key component both cheaper and better. They developed a catalyst from a five-metal alloy that retains its activity even after 10,000 operating cycles.

Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) says she’s hearing rumors that President Trump is preparing to let Chinese cars be sold in the US as part of a broader deal with China. She raised the claim Wednesday, tying it to Trump’s upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, which she said is coming “in just a few weeks.” There are many reasons to doubt these rumors. more…

A Sydney woman was harassed by her ex-partner using a Tesla app, leading to his conviction for domestic abuse. The app allowed him to control vehicle settings, causing significant distress

Public Superchargers are being used at night right now, where operators manually plug in the electric cabs.

Researchers tackled a durability problem in cheaper LMR batteries by changing how the cells are charged and discharged.

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Beyond Aero and Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur are planning phased hydrogen infrastructure—focusing on compressed gas, fixed dispensers, and mobile refueling—at French Riviera airports, setting the stage for hydrogen-electric business jets in the early 2030s.

By building the two-door EV in modules on parallel lines, Tesla says it can cut the overall line size in half.

One of Toyota's newest EVs launched in the U.S. has a software issue, and a dealership visit is the only way to fix it.

The startup says that anyone can install the $99.99 receiver in as little as 30 minutes with simple tools.

arXiv:2609.07385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organic liquid scintillators are used since several decades, especially in neutrino physics. They excel at the detection of low-energy particles where energy and timing information is required. Organic liquid scintillators have advantages such as high light yield, radio purity, cost effectiveness, and more. However, they also exhibit disadvantages, most prominently a lack of vertex resolution and particle identification. Various novel ideas have emerged over the course of the last decade to improve the performance of organic liquid scintillators. Among them are most prominently hybrid and opaque scintillators. In this proceedings, these novel scintillators are reviewed and their current applications in the research fields of neutrino and dark matter physics are illustrated.

Australia's most powerful battery injects a massive and unprecedented amount of power into the grid as it tests its capacity to act as giant shock absorber. The post Massive and unprecedented injection of power as Super Battery tests its full shock-absorber capacity appeared first on Renew Economy.

The Recon is far more happy on the road than any Wrangler. But it’s still a Jeep EV, and that’s a big caveat.

As Chinese electric car sales slow and share prices tumble, several of the automakers are ramping up humanoid robotics development.

As Chinese electric car sales slow and share prices tumble, several of the automakers are ramping up humanoid robotics development.

Quick and trail-rated, the Recon offers a Wrangler-adjacent lifestyle with some EV benefits—and some EV baggage.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pressed Ford CEO Jim Farley to stop working with Chinese companies in a letter on Tuesday.

Audi must really want its EV lessees to hold onto their cars after their leases are up.

A political group for the world’s richest man, who is ramping up a midterm spending blitz, began running attack ads against Democrats in Texas, Ohio and Iowa.

Kia gave three of its new electric vehicles, the EV3, EV4, and EV5, the GT treatment. more…

Is it possible to make it roadworthy? I don't know, but now's the chance to find out.

The Geely EX2 Track and EX2 Street concepts are meant to show off the potential of EV enthusiast customization.

After launching in Austin, Texas, last week, Tesla is looking to expand the Cybercab to new parts of the United States in an effort that will see the driverless, steering wheel-less, and pedal-less vehicle chauffeur people around as part of the Robotaxi ride-hailing service. However, the expansion will go far beyond the United States, and […] The post Elon Musk hints at Tesla Cybercab’s next market appeared first on TESLARATI.

China has posted another month of increased sales for pure battery electric vehicles, while every powertrain that has an engine is down compared to last year. But despite the increase in BEV sales, Tesla sales are down for a third-straight month. more…

Tesla hid a virtual steering wheel inside of the Cybercab's giant infotainment screen.

Narrow cobbled streets, cyclists and cafe crowds make driving an impressive test of FSD’s capability, as well as its occupants’ nerves.

General Motors first announced that it was ditching CarPlay in all future EVs back in 2023, subsequently issuing a series of ridiculous justifications – and at one point even implying it’s what Steve Jobs would have done. But it seems there is now one exception. Since that U-turn was reportedly based on customer feedback, perhaps GM is now rethinking its life decisions … more…

Tesla Cybertruck Lead Engineer Wes Morrill revealed the company has made several changes to the all-electric pickup, which he calls a “living thing, constantly evolving and improving.” Cybertruck is manufactured at Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas just outside of Austin, and over the past few years, Tesla has continued to make small changes to the pickup to […] The post Tesla Cybertruck engineer reveals new changes in ‘constantly evolving’ pickup appeared first on TESLARATI.

Its cousins, the Skoda Epiq and Cupra Raval, have also seen massive interest from customers.

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The new Bolt starts at less than $30,000 and promises over 250 miles of range on a full charge.

The EU says PHEVs emit six times more CO2 than official claims on average, yet automakers are fine with it.

The Formula 2030 design study evolves Polestar’s familiar design language and previews features coming to the next Polestar 2 and 7.

Taiwan’s ProLogium seems to have cracked the code, with the first mass-produced solid-state cells promising impressive energy density.

Dacia has revealed a second-generation Spring built at Renault’s Novo Mesto plant in Slovenia, and the entire range is priced below €20,000 before government subsidies. The first-generation car, which sold more than 210,000 units across forty countries since 2021, was built in China. That relocation is the story, and the press materials do not mention […] This story continues at The Next Web

Built in Slovenia, the all-new Dacia Spring gets a roomier body and up to 155 miles of range, starting at €17,900 in Italy.

An Amazon cargo plane crash near Miami's airport stopped feet from dozens of Tesla Cybercabs. The post Tesla Cybercabs narrowly miss deadly Amazon cargo plane crash appeared first on TESLARATI.

Bosch has unveiled a multi-fuel injector platform in Hamburg that supports hydrogen, methanol, ethanol and ammonia, accelerating marine decarbonization and hydrogen infrastructure growth.