London is the latest UK city to trial electric kick scooters. However, there is an unexpected dark side to the technology: In 9 months, the London police say electric scooters were involved 574 recorded crimes in London.
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Deliveries of Ford’s flagship electric car Mustang Mach-E are on hold in the UK after the company discovered a nominal safety risk. The incident follows a similar scenario Ford had recently experienced in the US.
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Tesla has announced three recalls in the US in recent days. Two of them affect a total of up to 7,696 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles because the seat belts may not have been fastened properly.
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Urban Utilities has launched Australia’s first poo-powered SUV, their second vehicle powered by electricity generated from sewage. Aptly named ‘Number 2’, the new SUV – a Hyundai Kona Electric – is the second vehicle to join the Urban Utilities poo car lineup.
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NASA has contracted General Motors and Lockheed Martin to develop the next generation of e-vehicles for future lunar missions. This will allow astronauts on the Artemis mission, scheduled for 2024, to explore the lunar surface over further distances than ever before.
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Greenpeace has again taken Volkswagen to task in a new campaign. The environmental organisation says Volkswagen is not getting off fossil fuels fast enough.
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Following a case of environmentally motivated vandalism at the Gigafactory construction site in Germany, Elon Musk took to twitter to drum up sympathy from the locals. And what better way to impress the young people than through art!?
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Fisker Inc. founders Henrik Fisker and Geeta Gupta-Fisker have been commissioned to design a Popemobile for the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis. The vehicle will be based on the Fisker Ocean electric SUV.
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Ford targets Fordwich in rural England: In the 380-strong community of Fordwich, Ford has installed charging facilities with British Gas and allowed residents to try out a Ford Mustang Mach-E. The measure is designed to increase trust in electric vehicles.
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Tesla has to pay some owners of older Model S in Norway the equivalent of around 13,300 euros each because a software update led to lower battery capacity and reduced charging performance.
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The GMC Hummer EV, unveiled in early April, will apparently be the heaviest electric car yet. GMC has already confirmed the reports that the electric SUV weighs in at a whopping 9,046 pounds or 4,103 kilograms.
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Numerous posts on Facebook have been claiming that hundreds of discarded electric cars from Paris have been left abandoned on a meadow where they are poisoning the soil because they were faulty and could not be recycled because the cars still contain batteries (?!).
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National bans on sales of cars with internal combustion engines may not be implementable under European law and would instead have to be introduced at the European level. This is at least the view of a legal opinion commissioned by the Climate Neutrality Foundation in Germany.
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The number of charging stations for electric cars in Japan actually declined last year for the first time since 2010. The number of public and semi-public charging stations in Japan fell by 1,087 from the previous fiscal year.
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Despite Australian oil refineries struggling to keep up with cheaper production from neighboring countries, Australia’s government is announcing a $2.3 billion subsidy package to support the country’s oil refineries. The funding would subsidize the oil industry when profits fall too low.
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The Italian competition authority slapped a fine on Google for 102 million euros. The reason given was that Google did not allow the provider Enel X Italia to develop a version of its JuicePass app that is compatible with Android Auto.
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To encourage people to get vaccinated against Covid-19, Dr Raul Vazquez from Buffalo in the US state of New York has come up with a special incentive: Everyone who is vaccinated is entered into a raffle and the winner receives a new Tesla Model 3.
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Elon Musk appeared on the US comedy show Saturday Night Live last weekend and also brought the Tesla Cybertruck to New York. Meanwhile, Tesla’s competitors tried to capitalise on the attention via the advertising slots.
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Opel had recently delivered the first ten Corsa-e Rally for the ADAC Opel e-Rally Cup to customer teams. From now on, every owner of the production model can also give their electric car a rally look.
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Israel’s battery developer StoreDot wants to improve its fast-charging batteries in space. To do so, the company struck an agreement with NASA, StoreDot and the Israeli Electric Company for the first space-based battery research initiative.
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Volkswagen has taken the VW ID.4 through its paces as the company entered a heavily modified version into the Mexican 1000 race. The race pitted contestants against each other across the Baja Peninsula, with around 70% making it to the finish line at all.
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In a somewhat unnecessary move, the smartphone refiner Caviar has now taken on the Tesla Model S Plaid+ and is offering the electric car with a series of gold-plated applications.
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In a time when most governments are attempting to get more EVs on their roads, twenty-five organisations and businesses are banding together to fight the Australian Victoria state government’s proposed electric vehicle tax.
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Opel reminds us that 50 years ago there was a prototype of the Opel GT with an all-electric drive that never went into series production. The ‘Elektro GT’ set a total of six electric car world records on 17 and 18 May 1971 on the Formula 1 circuit in Hockenheim.
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Evergrande New Energy Vehicle, the electric car offshoot from the Chinese Evergrande Group, is now worth 87 billion US dollars on the stock market meaning it is valued higher than Ford or GM. The valuation is odd, as the company has yet to sell a single car.
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The Hyundai Pony marked the beginning of the Korean automotive industry more than 45 years ago and provided inspiration for several of Hyundai’s vehicle models. Now an update has been released for the classic vehicle.
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The US startup Lordstown Motors wanted to demonstrate the capabilities of its future all-electric Endurance pickup truck at a desert race in Mexico, but the plan went awry due to energy management issues.
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An electric car in the style of the VW Beetle has now been presented at the Shanghai Motor Show. The Beetle-like vehicle does not come from VW, but from Ora, a brand from the Chinese manufacturer Great Wall Motors.
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The classic toy car brand is launching miniature versions of some electric cars. The first model is a Tesla Roadster made of 99 per cent recycled materials that will be available from 2022. Other models include the Nissan Leaf and the BMW i3 and i8 models.
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The German publication Business Insider claims that before Herbert Diess moved from BMW to Volkswagen in summer 2015, Elon Musk is said to have offered him the CEO job at Tesla.
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