Tag: electric car
Rimac Automobili founder Mate Rimac shares lessons from bootstrapping an EV company
‘We had situations where I can’t even start to explain what we survived’ Kirsten Korosec 7 hours Mate Rimac’s founder story has the makings of automotive folklore. He started Rimac Automobili in his garage in 2009 as a literal one-person operation that has grown to a company with more than…
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Tesla mulls cars tailored to China amid mounting criticisms
Tesla is working on vehicles tailored to Chinese consumers as complaints about the quality of its electric vehicles send shock waves through the internet in the country. The American EV giant is mulling new products that will be designed from the ground up for China, Grace Tao, a vice president…
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Tesla will dramatically expand its Full Self-Driving beta
Now might be your chance to join Tesla's Full Self-Driving beta. Elon Musk has revealed that Tesla's new 8.2 software is "doubling" the size of the beta test program, and 8.3 will "probably" expand the size of the program… Source
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VW ‘Project Trinity’ teases cars that unlock features on-demand
Volkswagen claims it's "not afraid" of the threat posed by any Apple Car and released this shadowy teaser image that may represent why. The image is a teaser for Project Trinity, an electric sedan that CEO Ralf Brandstätter called "… Source
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Lordstown Motors’ electric race truck is (mostly) ready for off-roading
Lordstown Motors wants to prove its Endurance electric truck is ready for the wilderness through a familiar strategy: it's entering a prominent race. Autoblog reports that Lordstown has unveiled a race-ready version of its Endurance Beta truck th… Source
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Lucid Motors is going public before it starts selling EVs
The Lucid Air electric luxury sedan is scheduled to go on sale later this year, but first the EV startup will merge with an already-NYSE listed special purpose acquisition company so it can go public. The deal with Churchill Capital Corp IV (CCIV) wi… Source
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