Chinese EV colossus BYD has announced plans to speed up its conquest of the European auto market with the rollout of superfast Flash Chargers across the continent. BYD has already installed the first new chargers in Germany and the UK, and plans to roll out 3,000 across Europe by the end of next year. At […]
Waymo created a new computer model to help it better understand how humans behave in crash scenarios that its robotaxis encounter.
Waymo has a lot of experience building virtual systems to help its autonomous vehicles better understand the real world. It built realistic 3D worlds to better anticipate natural disasters and unpredictable edge cases. It created a virtual representation of a hyperattentive driver to test against its own autonomous vehicles in a series of simulated scenarios […]
The exec, Emad Dlala, has left just a few months after being promoted to SVP of engineering and digital, TechCrunch has learned.
The carmaker scaled back electric vehicle plans, but is going all in on advanced batteries, including a new sodium-ion chemistry designed for large-scale power storage.
At an event in San Francisco today, General Motors made a series of announcements around EV batteries, energy storage, and grid resiliency in the face of growing electricity demand from AI data centers. The automaker announced that it would be activating new vehicle-to-grid capabilities for its current EV and home energy customers. It’s releasing a […]
GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.
Magna International CEO urges the auto industry to become more flexible and more quickly.
As automakers make quick pivots to product plans as consumer tastes and policies change, the Magna CEO has firm requests for manufacturers and investors.
Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has called it “maybe the most important thing we’ve launched to date.”