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#techcrunch.com. #Mar.28.2025 Lucid to ramp customer deliveries for Gravity SUV by end of April | TechCrunch. Lucid Motors plans to resume customer deliveries for its new all-electric Gravity SUV at the end of April. Getting the Gravity into customer hands is a

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#wired.com. #Mar.25.2025 ‘Over 1 Million’ People Wanted a Cybertruck. Where Are They?. “Demand is off the charts!” Elon Musk crowed at the end of 2023, citing more than a million reservations for Tesla's polarizing polygonic pickup—so why has it still sold less than 50,000?

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#wired.com. #Mar.20.2025 Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue. Tesla says it will fix the sticky issue—which could cause panels to detach from trucks while driving—with a new adhesive “not prone to environmental embrittlement.”

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#wired.com. #Mar.20.2025 Ford Bronco Fans Can Now Tool Around on a Bronco Electric Bike. For the motocross-minded, the Bronco eBike is equal parts blast-from-the-past and harbinger of the future.

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#wired.com. #Mar.18.2025 Tesla Got a Permit to Operate a Taxi Service in California—but There’s a Catch. The taxi service will initially operate with Tesla employee drivers only, use current-model vehicles, and won’t allow for driverless rides.

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#huffingtonpost.co.uk. #Mar.15.2025 Bill Burr Slams Elon Musk For Giving 'Shoutout To Hitler'. The standup comedian, who has repeatedly attacked the tech billionaire in recent weeks, also had a scathing review of Tesla vehicles.

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#huffingtonpost.co.uk. #Mar.14.2025 Sen. Mark Kelly Says He's Ditching His Tesla Over 'A**hole' Elon Musk. The former U.S. Navy combat pilot and astronaut said he doesn't want to drive a car that reminds him of the damage Musk and Trump are doing to the country.

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#huffingtonpost.co.uk. #Mar.12.2025 Republicans Aren’t Taking Up Trump On Buying A Tesla. “I prefer vehicles with internal combustion engines that burn fuels that we have in the United States," Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said.

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#washingtonpost.com. #Mar.03.2025 How China pulled ahead to become the world leader in electric vehicles. Chinese EV makers have opened up a vast and, some experts say, unassailable lead in the global market despite American and European efforts to level the field.

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#theguardian.com. #Mar.02.2025 ‘I’m selling the Nazi mobile’: Tesla owners offload cars after Musk’s fascist-style salutes. Tesla once appeared the future of vehicles. Then Musk’s salutes and support at Trump’s inauguration left owners feeling ‘saddled with a symbol of hate’

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#wired.com. #Feb.25.2025 Ads Popped Up on Drivers' Screens. There May Be More on the Way. When Jeep owners complained ads were appearing while driving, the carmaker said it was a glitch. But as auto makers consider connected car opportunities, in-vehicle selling might be too tempting to ign

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#wired.com. #Feb.04.2025 Trump's Plan to Make European Cars More Expensive Has a Fatal Flaw. President Trump's threat of 25 percent tariffs on EU car imports could spark an automotive trade war—one that will result in higher prices for all and never end in European consumers buying more Americ

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#techcrunch.com. #Jan.28.2025 Lucid Gravity SUV owners will gain access to Tesla Superchargers on Jan 31 | TechCrunch. Owners of the electric Lucid Gravity SUV will gain access to Tesla’s Supercharging network starting January 31. The Gravity is Lucid’s second vehicle

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#techcrunch.com. #Jan.23.2025 Coval evaluates AI voice and chat agents like self-driving cars | TechCrunch. Former tech lead at Waymo, Brooke Hopkins, built Coval to bring the same approach to evaluation self-driving cars to AI agents.

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#wired.com. #Jan.22.2025 Trump Says He Ended the ‘EV Mandate.’ What Does That Mean?. Policy experts say the implications of Donald Trump’s executive order for EV owners—and the EV-curious—won’t be clear for a while.

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#wired.com. #Jan.17.2025 Polestar Has a Bold Plan—Get Better at Selling Cars. The China-controled EV brand has been losing tens of thousands of dollars on every car sold. With a US ban on Chinese car sales looming, the company needs to quickly turn things around.

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#wired.com. #Jan.15.2025 Los Angeles Needs to Fireproof Communities, Not Just Houses. After the devastation of the Los Angeles fires, officials are ready to rebuild. But defending against future fires requires thinking about more than buildings.

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#techcrunch.com. #Jan.07.2025 May Mobility reveals electric autonomous minibus at CES 2025 | TechCrunch. May Mobility, an autonomous vehicle technology startup, unveiled at CES 2025 the next vehicle in its portfolio: an electric, autonomous minibus made in

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#wired.com. #Jan.01.2025 The 17 Best EVs Coming in 2025. After Jaguar’s chaotic relaunch and the pomp and theater of Tesla’s Cybercab reveal party, it’s hard to imagine the coming year will top 2024—until you see our picks for the best EVs of 2025.

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#motorsport.com. #Dec.31.2024 Gallery: How F1 tech evolved during the 2024 season. Join us as we take a look through some of the fantastic technical details captured by Giorgio Piola and Sutton Images during the course of the 2024 Formula 1 season.

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#wired.com. #Dec.21.2024 The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVs. Plagued by delays, tied to a rival’s electric platform, yet somehow still being clever and innovative, Ford’s European EV experiment embodies the automaker’s failure to commit to electric cars.

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