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Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here

Volkswagen’s ID.4 is no more. The midsize crossover debuted in 2021, one of VW’s first new electric vehicles designed in the wake of dieselgate. A year later, the company began local production in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and a couple of years ago facelifted the model, adding a much-improved rear drive unit in the process. But Chattanooga...

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Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has insisted investors think of his electric automaker as a robotics and autonomous vehicle company now. He’s targeted a $20 trillion valuation—nearly four times the value of market leader Nvidia—on that premise. But his Tesla team was in Sparks, Nevada, on Thursday to focus on, well, an electric vehicle: the long-awaited...

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EV batteries last longer than drivers feared

Electric vehicle batteries are lasting longer than previously feared by drivers, with most used EVs able to retain about 90 percent of their original usable battery capacity after 150,000 kilometers, a new study has shown. Despite a surge in global EV sales on the back of rising fuel prices, long-term battery durability continues to be...

VC Firm Lays Out Plan for Ceding Freeways to Self-Driving Cars

wired3 years ago2 years ago06 mins

By now, you’ve seen the renderings and heard the promises. Someday, robocars will dominate American roadways, each racing along just inches from its neighbors, safely under the control of a…

San Francisco group placing traffic cones on self-driving cars to disable them

abc7news3 years ago3 years ago04 mins

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A group in San Francisco is going around placing cones on Waymo and Cruise autonomous cars. Placing cones on them disables the car and forces it…