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Here Comes the Flood of Plug-In Hybrids
Last week, the Biden administration made it official: American cars are really going electric. The US Environmental Protection Agency finalized…
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BMW’s Vision Neue Klasse X Has a Car-Wide Screen and a ‘Joy’ Brain
“The ‘heart of joy’ effectively takes 30 years of experience and blends it into a single control unit,” BMW chief…
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EVs With Built-In Camera Drones Have Already Landed in China
Chinese automakers are starting to equip electric cars with camera drones. For now, this drone integration is aimed at content…
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China’s Best Self-Driving Car Platforms, Tested and Compared
I experienced the City NGP function under XNGP in a P7i in Shanghai, and later in a G6 in Guangzhou.…
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Tesla’s Charging Network Is Now Open to Other EVs—and Ford Is First in Line
Every six months, the automotive research company JD Power surveys some 5,000 US electric vehicle owners about their experiences driving…
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RIP Apple Car. This Is Why It Died
All these firms seek to capitalize on what Apple recognized a decade ago: The software and connectivity now built into…
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How China’s EV Boom Caught Western Car Companies Asleep at the Wheel
David Tyfield, a professor of political economy at Lancaster University and author of the 2019 book Liberalism 2.0 and the…
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How Elon Musk and Tesla Helped Spark the UAW Auto Strikes
Elon Musk hasn’t been sighted at the picket lines in Missouri, Ohio, or Michigan, where autoworkers are striking against the…
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Autoworkers Prepare to Strike for a Place in the EV Future
Like GM, Ford and Stellantis have launched their own joint EV battery ventures with South Korean electronics companies. The UAW…
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EV Mania Hasn’t Killed Hunger for Hybrid Trucks
This may not be great news for the climate. A person who swaps a gas truck for a hybrid one…
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