August, 2024

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EV battery costs dropped 90% in last 15 years

Green Car Reports

The average price of a lithium-ion battery pack for a light-duty EV has decreased 90% over the past 15 years, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) estimates. In 2023, the DOE estimates pack prices averaged $139/kwh on a usable-energy basis for production at scale, meaning at least 100,000 units per year. That's still not quite at the magical.

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Hyundai confirms three-row IONIQ 9 SUV, EREVs with +550-mi range are coming to the US

Electrek

After unveiling its new “Hyundai Way” strategy on Wednesday, Hyundai confirmed its highly anticipated three-row electric SUV, the IONIQ 9, will be built in the US. Hyundai also revealed plans to launch EREVs with over 550 miles (900 km) range. Here’s what else you can expect from Hyundai over the next few years.

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Tesla chooses interesting location for Robotaxi unveiling event

Teslarati

Tesla has reportedly chosen its location for the Robotaxi unveiling event on October 10, and it is quite interesting. According to a new report from Bloomberg , citing people familiar with the matter, Tesla is planning to show off its new Robotaxi platform, along with “a few other things,” at the Warner Brothers Studio in Burbank, California.

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The Top Programming Languages 2024

Cars That Think

Welcome to IEEE Spectrum ’s 11th annual rankings of the most popular programming languages. As always, we combine multiple metrics from different sources to create three meta rankings. The Spectrum ranking is weighted towards the profile of the typical IEEE member, the Trending ranking seeks to spot languages that are in the zeitgeist, and the Jobs ranking measures what employers are looking for.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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Just 45 petrol cars sold in Norway in July as EVs hit 92 per cent of sales

The Driven EV News

Norway sold just 45 fossil-fuelled cars in the month of July as the share of full battery electric vehicles hit a record 92 per cent. The post Just 45 petrol cars sold in Norway in July as EVs hit 92 per cent of sales appeared first on The Driven.

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China Now Doing “Extensive” Vehicle-to-Grid Trials

CleanTechnica EVs

Vehicle-to-grid discussions have been around for as long as I’ve been reading about electric vehicles. The concept is simple: electric vehicles have big batteries, cars are parked most of the day (about 95% of the time), and those batteries could be used to help the grid deal with fluctuations in. [continued] The post China Now Doing “Extensive” Vehicle-to-Grid Trials appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Tesla’s self-driving is still not working in Boring Company’s one-way tunnels

Electrek

Tesla’s self-driving system is still not working in The Boring Company’s one-way tunnels under Las Vegas despite reportedly working on it for years. But self-driving in Tesla vehicles on public roads is around the corner?

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SpaceX bails out Boeing and employees are reportedly ‘humiliated’

Teslarati

SpaceX will rescue the NASA astronauts that are stuck aboard the International Space Station (ISS) bringing them back on the Crew-9 vehicle in February. NASA’s decision to rely on SpaceX and not Boeing is reportedly bringing down morale at the company, and employees are reportedly “humiliated,” according to a report from the New York Post.

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AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling

Cars That Think

Most people assume that generative AI will keep getting better and better; after all, that’s been the trend so far. And it may do so. But what some people don’t realize is that generative AI models are only as good as the ginormous data sets they’re trained on, and those data sets aren’t constructed from proprietary data owned by leading AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Top-selling utes and hybrids are thirstier and dirtier than claimed, study finds

The Driven EV News

Three of Australia's top-selling utes use more diesel than estimated and produce more nitrogen oxide than allowed in lab tests, a new real-world test has found. The post Top-selling utes and hybrids are thirstier and dirtier than claimed, study finds appeared first on The Driven.

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

Brief

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Texas EV Battery Startup Aims To Break Texas Oil Industry

CleanTechnica EVs

The Texas startup Group1 is banking that the EV battery of the future will deploy potassium to cut costs and improve performance. The post Texas EV Battery Startup Aims To Break Texas Oil Industry appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Driving Dystopia: Ford Patents Automated Speed Violation Detection System for Vehicles

The Truth About Cars

Ford Motor Co. has filed a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a system that would effectively convert modern police vehicles into mobile surveillance platforms designed to autonomously track and tattle on speeders. However, the tech doesn't look as though it would have to be limited to the vehicles driven by law enforcement.

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Nissan’s Electric GT-R will be its first with solid-state batteries for over 1,000 kW of power

Electrek

The legendary GT-R is going electric and will likely be Nissan’s first to use solid-state batteries. As the new tech develops, Nissan hinted that solid-state batteries could give the electric GT-R even more power.

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Tesla gets its first negative review from a police force standpoint

Teslarati

Tesla vehicles have been adopted by several police forces across the United States, and they have widely been met with positive reviews, mainly driven by cost savings and performance advantages. However, one department has found the Tesla fleet to be less than ideal, even going as far as saying “(they) do not appear to the be the ‘patrol cars of the future.'” In 2019, the Menlo Park, California City Council voted 3-2 to adopt a Sustainable Fleet Policy in 2020.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

Oil

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Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center

Cars That Think

When Amazon Web Services paid US $650 million in March for another data center to add to its armada, the tech giant thought it was buying a steady supply of nuclear energy to power it, too. The Susquehanna Steam Electric Station outside of Berick, Pennsylvania, which generates 2.5 gigawatts of nuclear energy, sits adjacent to the humming data center and had been directly powering it since the center opened in 2023.

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BYD, Tesla and MG resume price war as EV prices fall below $35,000 for first time

The Driven EV News

Price war resumes as BYD, Tesla and MG all offer deals on their electric cars, and the MG ZS becomes the first EV priced below $35,000. The post BYD, Tesla and MG resume price war as EV prices fall below $35,000 for first time appeared first on The Driven.

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No Special Treatment When It Comes To ICE Ban, Ethiopia Tells Diplomats — They Can Only Buy EVs, Just Like Everybody Else!

CleanTechnica EVs

Diplomats get a lot of special privileges all over the world, which must be nice, but there are no special privileges when it comes to allowing imports of new ICE vehicles in Ethiopia, it seems. When Ethiopia implemented an immediate ban on new internal combustion engine vehicle imports earlier this. [continued] The post No Special Treatment When It Comes To ICE Ban, Ethiopia Tells Diplomats — They Can Only Buy EVs, Just Like Everybody Else!

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LFP Battery Health Degrades At Full Charge, Study Finds

InsideEVs

A new study contradicts common LFP battery charging notions, stating that frequently charging to a 100% can damage the cells. But there’s a twist.

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US Armor Group unveils armored Lucid Air Sapphire with pepper spray and electric-shock door handles

Electrek

If you thought Lucid Motors’ 1,234 tri-motor Air Sapphire was elite, threat mitigation specialist US Armor Group has taken the luxury sedan to an entirely new echelon. Today, the company unveiled an armored version of the Lucid Air Sapphire, described as being indestructible. Designed for heads of state and high-ranking executives, it can be equipped with features like bulletproof glass, poison gas protection.

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Tesla Giga Texas update shows several Cybertrucks ready to ship

Teslarati

A video update from Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas this week shows tons of Cybertrucks ready to be shipped out to customers, highlighting the company’s production ramping efforts over the last several months. In footage posted on Monday, Tesla Giga Texas observer and drone operator Joe Tegtmeyer showed some great shots of a fairly large volume of Cybertrucks in one of the company’s outbound lots.

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NIST Announces Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards

Cars That Think

Today, almost all data on the Internet, including bank transactions, medical records, and secure chats, is protected with an encryption scheme called RSA (named after its creators Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman ). This scheme is based on a simple fact—it is virtually impossible to calculate the prime factors of a large number in a reasonable amount of time, even on the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

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Ampol gets another $100 million to roll out 200 EV fast charging bays and renewables fuels

The Driven EV News

Ampol lands another $100 million to help with its rollout of another 200 EV fast charging bays. Its rollout was stalled last year due to delays getting deals for power connections and landowners. The post Ampol gets another $100 million to roll out 200 EV fast charging bays and renewables fuels appeared first on The Driven.

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A Small Electric SUV Produces 52% Fewer Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions than a Comparable Gasoline Vehicle

CleanTechnica EVs

In 2024, a small electric SUV with a range of 300 miles produces 52% fewer life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than a comparable gasoline vehicle. Electric vehicles (EVs) have no tailpipe emissions, but nearly three quarters of the GHG emissions for a gasoline vehicle come from the tailpipe (vehicle. [continued] The post A Small Electric SUV Produces 52% Fewer Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions than a Comparable Gasoline Vehicle appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Tesla Is One Of The Least Reliable Used Car Brands: Consumer Reports

InsideEVs

Several owners of older Model S EVs reported battery and drive unit replacements. Meanwhile, Lexus and Toyota are at the top.

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Tesla deletes its blog post stating all cars have self-driving hardware

Electrek

Tesla has cleaned up its website’s blog section, deleting all posts prior to 2019. This includes the post titled “All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware,” which was originally published October 19, 2016.

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Tesla hires for Optimus Bot data collection

Teslarati

Tesla is hiring for a new role that will help it accumulate data for its Optimus humanoid robot — essentially paying you for acting like its upcoming bot that will eliminate monotonous tasks from day-to-day life. The job, labeled as a “Data Collection Operator, Tesla Bot,” helps support Tesla’s data collection team. The job is simple: wear a motion capture suit and a Virtual Reality (VR) headset while performing designated movements and actions, all to help the engineers

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A New Type of Neural Network Is More Interpretable

Cars That Think

Artificial neural networks —algorithms inspired by biological brains—are at the center of modern artificial intelligence, behind both chatbots and image generators. But with their many neurons, they can be black boxes , their inner workings uninterpretable to users. Researchers have now created a fundamentally new way to make neural networks that some ways surpasses traditional systems.

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BYD says it is on track to sell 100,000 “new energy” cars in Australia

The Driven EV News

BYD shares key milestone as it sets ambitious target to sell 100,000 cars in Australia by 2027. The post BYD says it is on track to sell 100,000 “new energy” cars in Australia appeared first on The Driven.

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UK Speeds Up ICE Vehicle Ban (Again)

CleanTechnica EVs

While some auto industry folks, some oil-soaked investors, and some tech-adoption laggards would love to believe the EV revolution is over and EV market share will stop growing, the fact is: the future is electric. EV sales continue to grow in most places (Germany’s policy chaos and EV market excluded), [continued] The post UK Speeds Up ICE Vehicle Ban (Again) appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Xpeng's Tesla Model 3-Fighter Is Under $17,000. It's Going Big Outside China

InsideEVs

China's Xpeng says it wants half of its global sales to come from outside China. So does BYD, and they're making big moves to do it.

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BYD surges past Honda and Nissan’s sales for the first time, targets Ford with low-cost EVs

Electrek

China’s leading EV maker, BYD , sold more vehicles than Honda and Nissan for the first time in the second quarter. BYD is now the world’s seventh-largest automaker. With low-cost EVs hitting key global markets, BYD is quickly catching up to Ford.

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Boring Company to start using Tesla’s FSD in Las Vegas tunnels

Teslarati

The Boring Company continues to develop its Las Vegas Loop with underground tunnels, and one person from a local tourism organization says that the Teslas in them will soon be using driver assistance technology. In a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal this month, President and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Steve Hill said that The Boring Company was hoping to start using Tesla’s driver-assistance technology in the city’s tunnels before the end of 2024.

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Meet Boardwalk Robotics' Addition to the Humanoid Workforce

Cars That Think

Boardwalk Robotics is announcing its entry into the increasingly crowded commercial humanoid(ish) space with Alex, a “workforce transformation” humanoid upper torso designed to work in manufacturing, logistics, and maintenance. Before we get into Alex, let me take just a minute here to straighten out how Boardwalk Robotics is related to IHMC , the Institute for Human Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida.

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Nullarbor EV charging site to be upgraded to fill in electric vehicle black spot

The Driven EV News

A planned EV charging site will be upgraded to 50kW to help fill a charging black spot across the Nullarbor route linking South Australia and Western Australia. The post Nullarbor EV charging site to be upgraded to fill in electric vehicle black spot appeared first on The Driven.