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The YouTube channel The Fast Lane Truck is known for pushing trucks to their limit. Based in the Denver, CO area, the team frequently hauls large loads across difficult terrain. They subject multiple vehicles to the same tests in order to see where each truck excels and where each truck fails. This recent comparison between the Tesla Cybertruck and Ford F-150 Tremor showcases some of the clear benefits of electrification when towing large loads at slow speeds and high elevations. Both trucks will be towing a very un-aerodynamic 10,500-lb load, maxing out the F-150 Tremor and nearly reaching the Cybertruck’s…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! School buses, intended to provide safe and secure rides for all children, are largely failing kids with disabilities, prompting urgent calls for improvements. “I experienced accessibility problems at least three times a week,” one youth reflected in a student discussion. Either there was not enough space to secure a wheelchair, or “the wheelchair securements were set up in a really awkward configuration that required me to contour myself like a pretzel.” They added that “the lift breaks all the time or it’s so slow…
The Tesla Cybertruck’s being turned into a police car The Irvine Police Department said it’s taking delivery of its police-spec Cybertruck soon The conversion to police spec is being handled by UP.FIT The world hasn’t gotten quite bad enough for the emergence of RoboCop, but the first police Cybertruck will soon report for duty in California. First spotted by Electrek, the Irvine Police Department announced on X (formerly Twitter) this week that it would soon take delivery of a Cybertruck. No further details were given, but Electrek notes that the accompanying photo indicates the truck looks like one used in…
So far this month, Nio had 13,300 insurance registrations in China, Tesla 28,400, Xiaomi 7,500, Xpeng 5,400, Li Auto 30,200 and BYD 187,300. Major electric vehicle (EV) makers continued to see mixed sales performance in China last week. For the week of July 15-21, Nio (NYSE: NIO) vehicles saw 4,600 insurance registrations in China, up 35.29 percent from 3,400 in the previous week, according to data shared today by Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI). Li Auto stopped sharing weekly insurance registration numbers earlier this year, after doing so for about 1 year. It resumed sharing those numbers in early May. So…
On today’s episode of Quick Charge, the Cybertruck gets homolgated in Canada, Elon delays the Optimus robot for up to a full year, Hyundai’s feeling skittish about a possible victory for Donald Trump this November, and a Club Car shows off a real MAN’s truck – finally! Now that the Tesla Cybertruck has become the best-selling electric pickup in the US and is on its way to dominating Canada, I think it’s high time that we begin to ask ourselves what makes a truck a truck … because the slab-sided, low-poly, post-apocalyptic wedge thing ain’t it for me. Source Links…
Porsche is scaling back its all-electric ambitions. The company previously announced plans for EVs to make up 80% of its sales by 2030. Now it’s not so sure about that. It told Reuters in a statement that it was prepared to meet that goal if and only if customer demand for EVs grew. “The transition to electric cars is taking longer than we thought five years ago,” Porsche said in the statement to Reuters. “Our product strategy is set up such that we could deliver over 80% of our vehicles as all electric in 2030 – dependent on customer demand and…
Donald Trump hates electric cars—particularly Chinese electric cars—but his administration’s sanctions against China’s Xiaomi in early 2021 sparked the company’s decision to build an EV, CEO Lei Jun told Reuters at a company event Friday. Best known for its smartphones, Xiaomi launched its first EV earlier this year. It’s the product of a move Lei said only happened after he learned that the Trump administration had placed the company on a U.S. sanction list. “I received a phone call from a friend saying that we had been sanctioned,” Lei said, adding that Xiaomi convened an emergency board meeting that day…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The plan was simple — embark on a wild adventure travelling 4,500 miles across Europe to reach Nazare in Portugal. As we have two cars, a gas SUV and a Tesla Model 3 Performance, my wife’s choice was to go in the SUV — safe, comfortable, and “good range.” I was also leaning towards that safe option, but then got a little ashamed of burning fossil fuels against everything I believe in. I suddenly remembered meeting a famous CleanTechnica journalist and EV enthusiast (whose…
Li Auto recently set up an end-to-end large model autonomous driving team of slightly over 200 people, according to local media. (A Li Mega on display at the Beijing auto show in April 2024. Image credit: CnEVPost) Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI) has reportedly set up a dedicated team to bet on end-to-end AI (artificial intelligence) technology, becoming the latest to do so after Nio (NYSE: NIO). Li Auto recently set up an end-to-end large-model autonomous driving team of just over 200 people, with some members of other teams providing flexible support, local media outlet 36kr reported today. The car company…
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Altilium, a UK-based clean technology group focused on supporting the transition to net zero, and Connected Energy, a leading developer of second-life battery energy storage systems, have today announced a new strategic relationship that will see the two companies working together to extend the lifecycle of EV batteries. The collaboration brings together two of the UK’s leading innovators in the fast-growing EV battery eco-system and underlines both companies’ commitment to sustainability and reducing the environmental impact of EV batteries. Connected Energy designs and develops…