Tag: Vehicle Tech
Chinese EVs are winning – here’s how Ford, Nissan, Honda and more are fighting back
According to a recent report by the Financial Times, a quarter of electric vehicles sold in the EU this year will be made in China. In addition to this, BYD, the largest EV maker in China, exported 19 per cent of its output overseas in February, its highest ratio ever.…
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Polestar 4 manages to split the Internet with one innovative and possibly very iffy idea
The attractive, white, all-electric 4-door coupe sat hidden under shimmering gold fabric for most of Wednesday morning at the New York International Auto Show before Polestar revealed its new 4-door EV, the Polestar 4, and presented an innovation conundrum: does a car need a rear window? This was Polestar’s big…
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Tesla finally rolls out new Autopark feature for cars that lack ultrasonic sensors
A number of Tesla customers have started receiving revised Autopark functionality via a software update, which improves the self-parking abilities of those Tesla models that no longer come fitted with ultrasonic sensors (USS). Tesla decided to remove ultrasonic sensors and radar from the new Model 3 back in 2022, citing…
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The Xiaomi SU7 gives us our best look at what the Apple Car could have been
Apple is rumored to have laid to rest its long-running Project Titan, the initiative to build its first ever EV (electric vehicle). With that, any sense of what happens when a smartphone maker turns its hand to a car died, or at least it would have if it weren’t for…
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Apple is done with building an Apple car according to a report – and everything I’ve been telling you for the last nine years
“Apple is not building a car. Not today, not tomorrow, not this year. Not ever. It’s not building a gas one or a diesel one. It’s not building an electric one or nuclear-powered one. It’s not.” I wrote this in 2015 and it’s just as true today as it was…
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Tesla issues recall for almost two million of its cars due to faulty self-driving tech
Self-driving vehicles will remain in the world of science fiction as Tesla is recalling two million of its cars to prevent drivers from misusing the Autopilot function. This move, which does not remove cars from the road but insists on an update, comes after the US National Highway Traffic Safety…
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