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At CES, legacy automakers scramble to keep up in AI arms race – ET Auto

Baua Electric

ChatGPT and other new AI systems are error-prone, and changing at a far more rapid pace than automakers’ traditional product cycles. Mercedes will have to develop software and push it into vehicles on much faster schedules than the two-to-four-year product cycles normal in the auto sector. General Motors on Dec.

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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Unless the United States boosts its own production, the country’s manufacturers will find themselves reliant on China and others for supply as the end of the decade approaches, analysts warn. “We’re taking a measured approach to Texas,” said Robert Mintak, Standard’s CEO.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans.

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Battery metal price plunge is closing mines and stalling deals – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Nickel and cobalt have also tumbled, weighed down by an influx of new production amid concerns that the shift to EVs may not be as smooth and quick as predicted. Investors should wait to see evidence of this type of re-balancing among the world’s lithium and cobalt miners, before they think about buying exposure.”

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