Mar 25, 2021 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles
In the summer of 2018, when Tesla needed to quickly ramp up production at its Fremont, Calif., factory, the company erected a big top the size of two football fields in the parking lot. The strategy brought into stark relief the difficulty of taking a...
Mar 11, 2021 | Batteries, Detroit, Electric Vehicles
General Motors has signed a deal with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinout for joint development of next-generation electric vehicle batteries that are expected to cut the cost of the technology by 60%. The tie-up with Singapore-based SolidEnergy Systems,...
Mar 11, 2021 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
During that whole trip, Sergio Rodriguez spent 586 minutes charging at a cost of $159.85. He charged exclusively at DC fast chargers en route, with no overnight charging. “None of the hotels outside California had any” chargers. A...
Mar 4, 2021 | Detroit, Manufacturing
General Motors will keep two of its assembly plants shuttered until at least mid-April, another until the end of March and will idle a fourth, all due to a severe shortage of semiconductor chips used in various vehicle parts. But the automaker is doing everything...
Feb 25, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Featured, Robots
Researchers at Wayne State University have released a new version of the HydraOne Autonomous Mobile Robot. Developed as a research and education platform for connected and autonomous driving, the robot facilitates the work of researchers focused on such projects as...
Feb 18, 2021 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Uncategorized
ord Motor Co on Wednesday said its car lineup in Europe will be all-electric by 2030 as the US automaker races to get ahead of CO2 emissions targets and looming bans in some countries on fossil fuel vehicles. The carmaker said it would invest $1 billion over the next...
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