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Faraday's Future bumpy; Nevada nervous, first car 'no Tesla'

Green Car Reports

Toss in a Chinese billionaire or two, a new business model for selling transportation services rather than cars, and the brutal competition in the global auto industry, and you have the recipe for frequent and disruptive change. Company startups are, by their nature, secretive and turbulent places.

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Audi receives first autonomous driving permit issued by the State of California

Green Car Congress

Audi, ERL and Stanford University engineers collaborated on the development of the Autonomous Audi TTS Pikes Peak car, which successfully completed the challenging 12.42-mile mile route of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb race in Colorado in 27 minutes without a human in the car. In July, with Florida Gov.

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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

Green Car Congress

Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. Twenty percent of the food consumed in America is eaten in cars. Approximately 1.5 —Anthony Levandowski.

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LIVE BLOG: Tesla Q4 and Full Year 2022 earnings call

Teslarati

The analyst asked about the Giga Nevada’s batteries, and how the 4680 cells from Nevada would be allocated in the future. However, not all of the 100 GWh from the 4680 plant in Giga Nevada will be used for the Tesla Semi. Take rates are also high after customers take delivery of their cars.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. . and Chrysler. .’s

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