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After two weeks away from the Spanish Grand Prix, Formula 1 will return to the Canadian Grand Prix for the eighth round of the 2023 F1 Championship. The F1 race weekend starts on Friday, June 16 and runs until Sunday, June 18. In addition to the main race, the competition also includes weekend warm-up, three…
ChatGPT is coming soon. Mercedes-Benz said Thursday that U.S. drivers can use ChatGPT to power some of their luxury cars in a test program that begins June 16. Compatible with approximately 900,000 vehicles equipped with the automaker’s “MBUX” system, ChatGPT will be downloaded over-the-air after the driver opts in via the Mercedes app or voice…
Honda has launched some very cool and feature-rich cars in the past, but we haven’t seen a new model in India in many years. The Japanese automaker has now announced its latest SUV, the Elevate, at an event in New Delhi and we got a chance to take a look at it. In this article,…
Tesla is close to having fully self-driving cars, Chief Executive Elon Musk said during a visit to Paris on Friday, adding that self-driving was a “major driver” of the brand’s market value. The company’s shares rose 3% to their highest level in more than eight months. Tesla, the world’s most valuable automaker with a market…
Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with SkyDrive to produce “flying cars.” The two companies will use the Suzuki Group’s factory in central Japan to produce electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and plan to start production around spring next year, Suzuki said in a statement. SkyDrive will…
Electric vehicle company Ola on Wednesday said it has started construction of a 100GWh gigafactory at its manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu. The company today installed the first pillar of its battery plant in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu. Gigafactories are facilities that manufacture equipment and components related to electrification and decarbonization technologies. In February this year,…
The Karnataka government has invited business magnate Elon Musk to set up businesses in the state. Karnataka Commerce and Industry and Infrastructure Minister MB Patil wrote in a Twitter post that Karnataka is an “ideal destination” for Tesla to expand into India. He added: “If Tesla considers building a factory in Karnataka, India, where there…
As the auto industry scrambles to produce more affordable electric vehicles, whose most expensive component is the battery, lithium iron phosphate is gaining traction as the material of choice for EV batteries. The popularity of LFP compounds is partly due to environmental and geopolitical concerns. But technological advances have also narrowed the performance gap with…
Washington state plans to require electric vehicle charging companies to use Tesla plugs if they want to be part of a state plan to use federal funds to electrify highways, an official told Reuters on Thursday. Washington follows Texas in moving to mandate the North American Charging Standard (NACS) for Tesla’s technology, adding fuel to…
Global automakers have touted plans to reuse batteries when electric vehicles (EVs) lose power, but competition for battery packs and cell materials and demand for affordable cars have cast doubt on this part of the circular economy. A series of startups are providing secondary energy storage using old electric car batteries. But creating the viable…