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GM’s Cruise to resume testing its robotaxi service in Phoenix – ET Auto

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Phoenix is a natural place to start as Cruise already has vehicles in the area and city officials were open to the idea of its return, said one of the people, who asked not to be named as the plan isn’t public. Cruise spokesman Pat Morrissey said in an email that the company “had not set a timeline for deployment.

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GM’s Cruise faces long road back to city streets in wake of safety review – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Following the accident, California officials pulled Cruise’s permit to operate in the state and NHTSA issued a recall of Cruise vehicles. “The idea that we don’t plan to have supervised driving operations before the fourth quarter is misinformed,” Moser said.

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Tesla Model Y with 4680 batteries loses access to $2k Acceleration Boost

Teslarati

seconds with the update, which is downloaded via a Software Update and provides the vehicle with an additional pep in its step. Tesla has continued installing 2170 battery cells in Model Ys manufactured at the Fremont facility in Northern California. A previous 4.8 0-60 was revised to 4.3

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Japanese officials raid a Toyota group plant after the company admitted cheating on engine testing – ET Auto

Baua Electric

He apologized, bowing deeply, and stressed the group vision was rooted in the Toyoda founding family’s ideas of empowering the “genba,” or the workers on the plant floor, “to make good cars that lead to people’s happiness.”

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Flash Drive: 2023 VinFast VF 8

Clean Fleet Report

In a short five years VinFast has gone from an idea to entering the North American market with the first-ever cars built in Vietnam by a Vietnamese company. VinFast invited Canadian and American automotive journalists to California to drive the 2023 VF 8, an all-electric midsize two-row SUV. Beginning by downloading the VinFast app.

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Battle of the (Anti-Nausea) Bands

Cars That Think

The idea is to continue to evolve, to continue to make the device more user-friendly. More than 50 percent of people who download it continue to use it. I can kind of assume if they downloaded a free app and use it more than once or twice they are probably getting some benefit out of it."

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Time to shake-up EV outreach?

Electric Auto Association

It is downloadable on the chapter’s website and is available for $3 in hard copy form. “I Bruce has studied this subject forwards and backwards, and he’s had some awesome ideas. Launched by EV hobbyists The idea to establish SOHEVA grew out of EV shows organized as Ashland Lions Club fundraisers.

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