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EU’s anti-subsidy EV probe prompts retaliation from China

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The Chinese government’s EU liquor probe starts several months after Brussels started investigating cheap EV imports from China, including BYD. The volume of Chinese EVs at the event caught the eye of the European Commission.

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The $10,000 BYD Seagull EV is scaring the U.S. auto industry

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Former General Motors (GM) executive Terry Woychowski, who is now President of engineering consultancy Caresoft Global, called the arrival of the Seagull a “clarion call for the rest of the auto industry,” adding that it’s a “significant event” (via CNBC ). auto sector,” the organization writes. BYD last year sold 1.57

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Tesla China to launch Powerwall batteries and residential solar for domestic market

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If recent teasers from Tesla are any indication, however, it appears that the company is now preparing to launch its residential energy products to the domestic market as well. . Interestingly enough, the products’ launch would be held at a project in Lhasa, Tibet , an area that receives a generous amount of sunshine every year.

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Teslas are susceptible to hacking due to bluetooth locks, cybersecurity firm says

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“This proves that any product relying on a trusted BLE connection is vulnerable to attacks even from the other side of the world,” NCC said in a statement. NCC Group researcher Sultan Qasim Khan was shown in a video opening, then driving a Tesla using a small relay device attached to a laptop. I’d love to hear from you!

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part V)

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It was a timely turn of events for General Motors after the Orlando area TravTek experiment of 1992 proved either too costly to scale, or alternatively not valuable enough in the eyes of consumers. By the Eighties EDS was even larger, and didn’t come cheap. An instant success, EDS became a very valuable company. Smith forked over $2.5

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Lucid CEO teases a mid-size Tesla Model 3, Model Y competitor in development

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During a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of Phase 2 at its AMP-1 production facility in Arizona, Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson briefly teased the automaker’s third model in the works – a mid-size EV that will arrive as a direct competitor to the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y. million sq.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

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From Elon Musk’s Master Plan Part 3, details on the company’s third-generation platform, and discussions on how Tesla could each extreme scale, Investor Day promises to be an event that is one for the books. In past comments, the CEO noted that the “investors” Tesla is referring to in the event are pretty much all life on Earth.

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