Month: March 2023

DETROIT — Traditionally, automakers didn’t install anything on a vehicle that they couldn’t charge for. While it might simplify manufacturing somewhat to build each vehicle with the same set of parts, it costs money to install buttons, switches, knobs, sensors, computers and wiring for optional or nonfunctioning equipment. When you build hundreds of thousands of
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The high-performance GT sits at the top of the Kia EV6 line in 2023, boasting a significant power bump over its sister models and costing just a few thousand dollars more than the other cars in the lineup. On paper, at least, the EV6 GT has it all – groundbreaking EV tech, great styling, a
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Lidar maker Luminar Technologies used its first investor day as an opportunity to position itself as more than a company supplying autonomous driving technology to clients such as Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Polestar and Daimler Truck Group. At its Orlando, Fla., headquarters last week, Luminar executives explained their rebranded semiconductor business; unveiled a new line of automotive
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Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by SAE International: Join the global mobility community in Detroit from April 18-20 for WCX, the largest technical mobility event in North America. Register now. New episodes of Quick
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Volkswagen Group has raised its electric car sales goal for Europe for its core VW passenger cars brand. The brand’s new target is for at least 80 percent of its sales in Europe to be full-electric models in 2030, said Thomas Ulbrich, who heads VW brand’s New Mobility business. Under VW’s Accelerate electrification strategy unveiled
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9:04 AM ET In the hours after Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix some of Max Verstappen’s rivals seemed ready to hand him this year’s title with 22 races still to run. The Red Bull driver won the opening race of the season by 11 seconds from his teammate Sergio Perez and by a massive 38 seconds
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WASHINGTON — The top U.S. auto safety regulator on Monday said it is investigating Zoox Inc.’s self-certification in 2022 that its robotaxi met all applicable federal safety standards. NHTSA said in a filing made public Monday that it will examine the process and technical data that Amazon-owned Zoox relied on when certifying that its robotaxi
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In this article RIDE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Signage outside Lordstown Motors Corp. headquarters in Lordstown, Ohio, on Saturday, May 15, 2021. Dustin Franz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lordstown Motors said Monday that it still had more than $220 million in cash at the end of 2022, despite ongoing challenges that halted
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