To celebrate this year’s solstice, Ford CEO James Farley said, “Ford makes trucks for real people who do real work.” Farley expects that Ford’s EV pickup Ford Lightning F-150 will be more popular than Tesla’s EV pickup Cybertruck, which is expected to be popular only among “Silicon Valley people.” It is interesting that both trucks …
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Tesla Pays Penalty for Violating the Clean Air Act
This week Tesla admitted that it violated the federal Clean Air Act while mixing the car coating chemicals and managing the storage tanks in its Fremont, CA facility. The EPA announced that Tesla will pay $ 275,000 in penalties. To avoid future penalties, Tesla will follow EPA standards that minimize hazardous pollutants leaking from its …
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2022 Tesla, Mercedes Benz Start Marketing Level 2 Self-Driving Cars
In the United States, only Level 2 semi-automated cars are approved so far. Tesla and Mercedes now offer full Level 2 semi-automated cars with driver assist. Tesla’s price does not include the Level 2 option; however, if customers want cars with semi-automated features, Tesla offers the option to add full level-2 driver-assist software for an …
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Electric Cars are Revolutionizing the Automobile Industry
Although there has been some form of electric cars for several decades, recently the quest for lower-cost transportation and—for environmentalists—the pursuit of alternatives to fossil fuel has led to the growing popularity of electric cars. The leader today is Tesla, and its founder Elon Musk, who has just campaigned using the medium of “Battery Day”. He …
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Self-Driving Cars Need More Development
There have been enough crashes, including ones that killed people (sometimes the drivers and passengers), that there needs to be improvements in the technology. For example, a woman driving a Tesla on May 11, 2018, was using its “Autopilot” feature crashed into the back of a fire truck in Utah. Unfortunately, autonomous vehicles won’t make …