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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

About a year ago, Boston Dynamics released a research version of its Spot quadruped robot , which comes with a low-level application programming interface (API) that allows direct control of Spots joints. Even back then, the rumor was that this API unlocked some significant performance improvements on Spot, including a much faster running speed. That rumor came from the Robotics and AI (RAI) Institute , formerly The AI Institute, formerly the Boston Dynamics AI Institute , and if you were at Mar

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Tesla has emerged as the leader in vehicle lifespan and mileage among various car brands and fuel types, as per a recent study. The research, which was published in Nature , was based on vehicle inspection data from the UK. Key Highlights on Tesla: As per the study, Tesla’s electric vehicles are expected to cover an average of 204,000 miles over their lifetime, surpassing all other brands regardless of powertrain, as noted in a report from Allt Om Elbil.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Last week, I reported on BYD’s climb up the ranks of the top selling automakers or auto groups in the world. That is a bit of a tricky business because of the non-100% partnerships between different companies to create “groups” and “alliances” and joint ventures. However, one clear ranking that. [continued] The post BYD Becomes 3rd Best Selling Auto Brand in World!

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Stellantis is allegedly shifting gears to better cater to the needs of the American market following the departure of Carlos Tavares as its executive officer. The company is signaling it might pull back on all-electric vehicles and may even begin to offer V8 engines again. But there is some conflicting information being presented as the company does what it can to improve public relations.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The worlds largest automaker wants to catch up in the global EV race after falling behind rivals like Tesla and BYD. On Wednesday, Toyota announced that its $14 billion EV battery plant in North Carolina is open for business. The new facility will begin shipping batteries for Toyotas electric vehicles in April. Meanwhile, Toyota revealed separate plans to challenge BYD and other EV leaders in China.

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The BMW Group has acquired two zero-emission fuel cell trucks, as it launches a pilot operation as part of the European H2Haul project, which is aimed at promoting hydrogen mobility in freight transport. The post BMW Testing Two Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Trucks in Leipzig appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Elon Musk set the record straight about rumors of Tesla investing in Nissan. While the billionaire CEO did not outright deny the rumor or even reject the alleged Nissan proposal, Musk did hint at the inherent flaw of the rumored investment. The Rumor & Elon’s Reply According to Fortune , a few influential people in Japan prepared a proposal for Tesla, suggesting an investment in Nissan.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

January saw plugin EVs take 96.9% share in Norway, up from 93.9% year on year. BEVs alone took almost 96% of the market. Overall auto volume was strongly up on seasonal norms, at 9,343 units, up 82% YoY. The Toyota BZ4X was the best-seller. Januarys auto sales saw combined EVs. [continued] The post EVs Take 96.9% Share In Norway – Toyota BZ4X Best-Seller appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Rivian vehicles continue having issues with their headlights. You may recall that the company has to issue an over-the-air update to resolve a software issue that was causing some vehicles exterior illumination to fail. But there have likewise been some mechanical problems pertaining to cold weather, with the latest issue forcing a recall of roughly 17,000 examples of the Rivian R1S and R1T.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Can Lucid (LCID) make 1 million EVs a year? CEO Peter Rawlinson said this is his vision, and Lucid has ambitious plans to achieve it. After launching its first electric SUV, the Gravity, Lucid will enter the mass market with its midsize platform starting at around $50,000. Rawlinson said this is finally when we compete directly with Tesla, but the EV maker has even bigger plans to drive growth.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The reports of the death of the Nissan-Honda merger have been grossly exaggerated, says a new report, with both car-makers still fighting behind the scenes to save their marriage proposal. According to the Financial Times , insiders are saying the merger to form the world’s fourth-biggest car-maker worth $US60 billion ($A95b) could still go ahead.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Imagine its the year 2040, and a 12-year-old kid with diabetes pops a piece of chewing gum into his mouth. A temporary tattoo on his forearm registers the uptick in sugar in his blood stream and sends that information to his phone. Data from this health-monitoring tattoo is also uploaded to the cloud so his mom can keep tabs on him. She has her own temporary tattoosone for measuring the lactic acid in her sweat as she exercises and another for continuously tracking her blood pressure and heart r

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Tesla Cybertruck has earned the highest overall safety rating possible from the top automotive regulator in the U.S., following the agency’s crash testing procedure with the pickup. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has awarded the Tesla Cybertruck with a five-star safety rating following its crash tests of the electric vehicle (EV), as detailed in a report from the agency released this week.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

When it comes to the demographics of EV ownership, most people have a pretty narrow subset of the population in mind. Upper middle and wealthy people, living in or near larger cities, with a nice house with a garage, is basically what most people would see in their minds eye. [continued] The post Anti-EV Policies Will Hit Rural Areas Hardest appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

It will likely come as no surprise that the Honda-Nissan merger talks didnt go as smoothly as the two automakers had hoped. After weeks of negotiations, the pair decided to walk away from the merger discussions, as Hondas conditions for the deal were too much for Nissan to swallow. Describing the situation, Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe said his companys final proposal involved it taking full control of Nissan, noting that it would have made management moves easier and faster.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Kia recently held its annual EV Day event overseas, and we were one of the select outlets invited to attend in person. During that time, Kia executives outlined the Korean brands global EV strategy, which reiterated its unwavering approach to going all-electric, bolstered by several new models that made global debuts, including the Concept EV2, PV5 lineup, and the Kia EV4, which we learned will officially be sold in the US.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Renault Group has announced that pioneering fire safety tech it has developed to put out EV fires faster and easier will be available to the global car industry for free in a bid to boost electric car safety. Renaults patented Fireman Access tech, which will be available as part of a free licence to other brands, is claimed to allow emergency service to put out a fire in an electric vehicle in around the same time as a combustion vehicle.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Quantum sensors take the biggest roadblock for quantum computersunwanted interference, or noise and turn it into a strength. Noise wrecks quantum computers because the quantum states they use for computation are affected by the slightest disturbances from the environment. But quantum sensors use those disturbances to detect minuscule changes in magnetic and electric fields.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

An initial version of what is effectively Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) has started going live in China this week, and some early users are commenting on how well it’s performing in the countrydespite only being available in North America previously. In response to some of these reports, Elon Musk has revealed how the system has so quickly adapted to China’s road signs and traffic laws, noting that the company’s emphasis on video-based training makes the FSD-based syste

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

We reported during most of 2024 that Tesla seemed to be facing a consumer demand problem. Tesla superfans did not like that and claimed we were wrong and irrationally hating on Tesla. As it turned out, Tesla’s sales dropped in 2024 year over year far off of the company’s. [continued] The post Tesla Already Dropping Prices on Model 3 & Cybertruck in 2025 appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Lucid Motors is about to have a busy 2025. Yesterday, the automaker announced that CEO Peter Rawlinson would step down , and in the same breath, it announced plans to double production to 20,000 units. Marc Winterhoff, Lucids current chief operating officer, will fill the CEO chair while a replacement is found by the board. Rawlinson will step away from CEO duties into a role as a strategic technical advisor to the chairman of the board.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

OEM alliance and EV charging juggernaut IONNA has announced a key milestone today, transitioning from public beta testing in the US to a full-scale national release. The EV charging joint venture intends to deploy over 1,000 bays in the US this year en route to tens of thousands more this decade and has teased some exciting tech to make the overall experience more familiar for American drivers.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

When you think EVs in Australia, youre really thinking two brands, at least at the moment Tesla, which started the movement here and maintains a healthy sales lead. And BYD, the massive global player from China that has Musks mob firmly in its sights. So with Tesla confirming the long-awaited refresh of its Model Y (Australias best-selling EV, by the way), it was only a matter of time before BYD returned serve, with the brand now launching an all-electric vehicle into our most popular vehicle s

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Extreme weather events are increasingly impacting eastern and southern Africa, with Mozambique among the worst affected. In response, the country is overhauling its early warning system in collaboration with the Savona, Italy-based International Center for Environmental Monitoring Research Foundation (CIMA). Together, they aim to enhance the capacity for forecasting and responding to floods, droughts, and cyclones.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Tesla may attract a lot of hate and controversy today due to Elon Musk’s political behavior, but in Sweden, the electric car maker’s vehicles seem to be doing fine. This is, at least, as per comments from Swedish used car titan Riddermark Bil. Tesla’s resilience Jonas Bjrkman, head of business development at Riddermark Bil, shared in an interview with CarUp that Tesla’s “sales have increased.” The company, which raked in SEK 9.6 billion last year, is among th

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The European passenger plugin vehicle market scored 244,000 registrations in January, a progression of 18% YoY. Positively, BEVs (168,000 units, +37% YoY) continued to grow despite the drop in EV incentives in certain markets. On the other hand, plugin hybrids (PHEVs) were down, dropping by 5% year over year (YoY). [continued] The post 100% Electric Vehicles = 17% Of New Car Sales In Europe In January appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Volvo currently offers four EVs in the U.S., but its lineup is expanding in other countries, previewing future models for our market. The automaker will show the new ES90 electric sedan on March 9, and were getting an early look at some of the cars forward-looking tech ahead of the launch. The ES90 rides on the same SPA2 platform that underpins the also-new EX90 SUV and will feature the same tech, dubbed the Volvo Cars Superset tech stack.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

As we enter the second month of 2025, Honda is inching closer to commencing BEV production at its long-standing US plant in Marysville, Ohio, later this year. That $1 billion transition will begin with the assembly of the recently confirmed Acura RSX EV, followed by the first two models in Hondas 0 Series lineup. Before that happened, however, Honda gave an exclusive tour of its new EV Hub in Ohio, which included an innovative new approach to modular vehicle assembly, massive mega press machines

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Hybrid Power To Make On- and Off-Road Driving More Fun Subaru introduced the new 2025 Forester Hybrid today to North America. Clean Fleet Report was invited to look, but not drive, the car. Well be back to drive it sometime later in 2025. Until then, here is what we know. 2025 Forester Hybrid The first hybrid powertrain in a Forester is a big deal. The 2.5-liter Subaru Boxer engine, running on 87 octane, is mated to a series-parallel hybrid system with two electric motors.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Remote sensing a category broad enough to include both personal medical monitors and space weather forecasting is poised for a quantum upgrade, much like computing and cryptography before it. A new type of quantum sensor that promises both higher sensitivity and greater security has been proposed and tested in proof-of-concept form. What remains to be seen is how broadly it will be adopted, and whether such quantum enhancements might ultimately make for better medical and space weather tech.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A Tesla Cybertruck owner from Austin, Texas recently shared a number of insights following a demo drive of the new Model Y. Tesla recently started offering demo drives of the revamped all-electric crossover. Based on posters that have been shared on social media media, it appears that test drives of the new Model Y were offered in Austin and Dallas, Texas.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

January saw plugin EVs at 25.1% share in Germany, up from 17.3% year-on-year. BEV volume shot up over 53% YoY, though from an anomalously low baseline, while PHEVs grew 23%. Overall auto volume was 207,640 units, down 2.8% YoY. Januarys best-selling BEV was the Volkswagen ID.7. Januarys sales saw combined. [continued] The post EVs At 25.1% Share In Germany – Volkswagen ID.7 Best-Seller appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

New chargers and longer-range EVs have put range anxiety to bed for many people, but it now appears that EV owners need to be wary of cyberattacks at charging stations. A recent study from Upstream found more than 400 cyberattack incidents last year, an increasing share of which landed at EV chargers. While the number of charger attacks is small compared to the overall figures, they are increasing in frequency and potential impact.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The NIO Group has chimed in Chinese New Year by performing an incredible 136,748 battery swaps over a 24-hour period, setting a new record for the brand. Set on February 3, the new six-figure record was set by NIO’s 3106 battery swap stations dotted throughout China, with the car-maker averaging an astonishing 5698 batteries-per-hour. On average, that means each battery swap station is responsible for 44 swaps.

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