Toyota is now working on a manual transmission simulation for electric cars, according to patents that have surfaced. Yes, you read that right. This involves a gearstick lever and a clutch pedal to pseudo-realise manual gear changes.
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Tesla is facing serious allegations of systematic racial discrimination. A racist work environment prevails at the Tesla factory in Fremont, according to the California Fair Employment and Housing Authority (DEFH), which has now filed a lawsuit against the carmaker.
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The world’s most expensive commercials were shown during the Super Bowl in the USA. This occasion is now being used by several car manufacturers to promote electric cars.
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BMW will air a 60-second commercial during the Super Bowl next Sunday for its electric iX, slated to launch in the US next month. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as the Greek god Zeus and Salma Hayek Pinault as his consort, the goddess Hera. The spot is already available online.
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After being accused of ignoring Tesla for months in his speeches about electric vehicles, while praising General Motors and Ford, US President Joe Biden has now mentioned the Californian EV manufacturer by name for the first time in a public speech as “the largest electric car manufacturer in our country”.
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The Porsche Taycan has set a new official Guinness World Record in the USA for the shortest charging time of an EV during a coast-to-coast drive. Wayne Gerdes completed the 2,834.5-mile trip from L.A. to New York in a 2021 Taycan with a cumulative charge time of 2 hours, 26 minutes and 48 seconds.
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Tesla is apparently looking for helpers to organise possible on-site queues at Superchargers on the four consecutive weekends starting on 11 February. Tesla expects particularly high demand in western Europe on these weekends due to the holiday season in the Netherlands and Denmark.
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Tesla has to repair over 800,000 cars because of a fault in the seat belt function. The reason is that the acoustic reminder to fasten the seat belt fails under certain circumstances. As with most Tesla recalls, the problem will be taken care of via a software update.
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California-based electric car startup Faraday Future has admitted in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that earlier statements that it had received more than 14,000 reservations for its debut model FF 91 “may have been misleading”.
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Tesla has to repair more than 50,000 of its electric cars in the USA that are equipped with the beta version of the software ‘Full Self-Driving’. The reason is that the software enables rolling stops at intersections and does not completely stop the car before a stop sign.
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Just a few months after BMW started delivering the i4, there is already a recall. An entry in the EU Commission’s Safety Gate shows that BMW i4 vehicles produced between 15 September and 30 November 2021 may not have any battery crash pads fitted.
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Tesla has bought an existing train track from the German regional railway company DRE to better connect to its plant in Grünheide. Tesla plans to run a shuttle train to Giga Berlin at shift change times until the new station is commissioned.
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US President Joe Biden has praised General Motors and Ford on Twitter for producing electric vehicles – ignoring Tesla once again, even though the Californian company builds the most electric cars in the USA by far. Elon Musk’s response did not take long.
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New research released by British Gas reveals there is a postcode lottery when it comes to electric vehicle charging costs. There are 21 councils across England and Wales, where it is completely free to charge EVs using council-owned public chargers.
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Norway subjects micromobility to traffic rules: Norway’s government is tightening the rules for the use of electric kick scooters and other electric micromobility vehicles.
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After Ford’s example, General Motors is now also threatening dealers who charge customers a premium over the list price for the new electric models. The company says it will take action against such dealers and, if necessary, cut the electric car quotas.
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In a remote area of Australia, a roadside restaurant now has a fast charger for electric cars that gets its power from a generator powered by old cooking fat.
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Frontiers North Adventures offers polar bear watching tours in Churchill in the Canadian province of Manitoba, which used to be done in diesel vehicles. But exploring such a sensitive environment requires a lighter touch than diesel can provide.
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The Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo has set an official Guinness World Record with around 5,000 metres of altitude covered. A team drove the electric car from the lowest point they could reach with a vehicle in the USA to one of the highest in just over 24 hours.
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Even though burning electric cars often get a lot of attention in the media, the fire of an electric car is significantly less likely than that of a vehicle with an internal combustion engine. This not-so-new finding was confirmed by a recent analysis of car fires in the US.
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In Taiwan, there will soon be more battery exchange stations than petrol stations. Electric scooter manufacturer Gogoro built a total of 2,215 of its battery exchange stations in Taiwan by the end of 2021.
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After false claims that dead electric cars caused a traffic jam after a snowstorm in California, a fact check showed that the traffic jam was due to other reasons, including regular congestion and a blocked road.
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General Motors has very ambitious plans for electric vehicles. In the present, however, things look extremely meagre: The US car company has delivered just 26 electric cars in Q4 2021.
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Bugatti has presented its first electric vehicle at the CES. It is not a super sports car, but an electric kick scooter developed with the US company Bytech.
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Mercedes must recall 1,788 plug-in hybrid cars, namely versions of the Mercedes C-Class, the S-Class, the GLC and the EQS electric model. This is because faulty charging cables could lead to electric shock or vehicle fire in the affected cars produced in 2020 and 2021. The German KBA will notify owners individually, and Mercedes will […]
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High demand for the all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning is leading some dealers in the US to charge customers thousands of dollars more than the list price for early delivery dates. In isolated cases, there is talk of a premium of up to $30,000.
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At the CES in Las Vegas, BMW shows how a car can take on different colouring by the press of a button. Behind the chameleon properties is a technology, the so-called ‘e-ink’, an electrophoretic technology that holds a bouquet of opportunities for the German company.
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There have been a number of reports of problems with the 246 BYD electric buses operated by Keolis in the Netherlands since December 2020. As a result, operator Keolis wants to check all 246 electric buses for the second time to solve problems.
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Transitioning off fossil fuels in transport takes more than just switching from a combustion engine to an electric car. France is now taking a new approach to make sure that citizens are informed of their options as well as their environmental impact.
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Hyundai has to recall 2,679 units of the all-electric Ioniq EV in the US. The reason is an electronic fault in the CAN bus system that can put the car into a “fail-safe” mode.
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