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Latest Chinese Electric Vehicles Can Charge In Just 5 Minutes

BEIJING - Filling an empty gas tank in an SUV might take five or six minutes. A new electric SUV from China’s BYD can charge its battery in roughly the same amount of time, using one of the company’s new EV chargers. That’s a major step forward. “It is certainly a feat of engineering to

By |2025-03-24T10:16:17-04:00March 24th, 2025|Auto Tech, Industry 4.0|

Former Tesla, Lucid Executives Create EV Sports Car

LONDON - A new niche EV brand, Longbow, has emerged into the public eye, hailing itself as ” the first-ever British electric sports car manufacturer. ” It has unveiled its first two featherweight models, inspired by British automotive icons and designed with real-road performance and the overall driver experience in mind. Despite debuting today, the limited

By |2025-03-14T09:58:59-04:00March 14th, 2025|Auto Tech, New Products, New Products / Contracts|

General Motors Patent Reveals How The Automaker Could Make Future EVs Better

DETROIT - The future of electric vehicle technology may be just around the corner — and it's not necessarily what you might be envisioning. A General Motors patent recently surfaced revealing some interesting ideas the company has regarding a burgeoning EV concept: bidirectional charging. Using this technology, EVs can become a power source of their own, providing charge to a

By |2025-03-08T18:06:45-05:00March 8th, 2025|Auto Tech, Clean Update|

Elon Musk Admits He Was Wrong About Fully Autonomous Driving

TEXAS - Tesla owners who expected to enjoy fully autonomous driving in their vehicles might be in for a disappointment. After years of promises, Elon Musk has finally admitted that models equipped with Hardware 3, which were sold as being ready for full self-driving, will need an upgrade. This announcement is not going over well—especially

By |2025-03-07T09:57:51-05:00March 6th, 2025|Auto Tech, ESD, Featured|

GM, Honda Join Forces To Create Hydrogen Engine

DETROIT - Commercial trucks, heavy machinery, generators, and, to a lesser extent, passenger cars will be powered by hydrogen fuel cells that GM and Honda have begun producing. The hydrogen-powered Honda CR-V, which will debut in March 2024 and eventually be offered for sale in limited quantities in California, will employ the fuel-cell modules that

By |2025-03-03T16:37:38-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Auto Tech, Clean Update, Featured|

Hydrogen-Powered Car Developed By BMW And Toyota To Hit Road In 2028

DETROIT - The future is and must be sustainable. The major automotive brands know this, but they also know that it cannot rely solely on electricity, or at least not yet, given the problems that these vehicles bring. But, you have to be smarter than the market and BMW and Toyota have wanted to go

By |2025-03-02T18:24:19-05:00March 2nd, 2025|Auto Tech, Science|

Ford’s CEO Says He Knows How To Beat Chinese On EVs

DEARBORN - Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley sees the automaker as in a race against Chinese manufacturers to make affordable, yet profitable, electric vehicles. Farley says that the key to winning is to downsize the vehicles and the price. That might sound obvious, but it is also counterintuitive, given that the automaker's first all-electric

By |2025-03-02T18:24:20-05:00March 2nd, 2025|Auto Tech, Clean Update, Clean, green, hybrid|

Patrick Anderson: Tariffs Could Cause More Harm To Auto Industry Than UAW Strike

LANSING - Tariffs would be worse for the U.S. auto industry than a UAW strike, a notable Michigan economic group is predicting, and would harm the industry for a much longer period. Patrick Anderson, CEO of Michigan-based Anderson Economic Group, said Friday on an Automotive Press Association webcast that tariffs would add punishing costs for

By |2025-02-24T19:03:45-05:00February 24th, 2025|Auto Tech, ESD|

180-Mile EVs Are ‘The Future’ Says Lucid CEO

NEWARK, Calif. - If you want an electric vehicle with the longest range possible, you buy a Lucid Air. Specifically, you buy a Lucid Air Grand Touring with 19-inch wheels and an EPA range of 512 miles. Even Tesla can’t match that. Range anxiety? What range anxiety? And yet, in a recent interview, Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson told