Electric Vehicles

The study also estimated that gas-powered vehicles cause at least twice as much environmental damage over their lifetimes as EVs, and said the benefits of EVs can be expected to increase in coming decades as clean sources of power, such as solar and wind, are brought onto the grid.

Rivian’s CEO praised the Xiaomi EV’s design after a teardown.

RJ Scaringe said he’d buy the SU7 himself if he lived in China.

He called it a well-integrated, nicely executed technology platform.

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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico hailed a decision by China’s Gotion High-Tech Co. to build a €1.2 billion electric-car battery plant in his country.

“Our relationship with China is built on mutual respect for international law and the principle of non-interference in internal affairs,” Fico said at the ground-breaking ceremony in the southern town of Surany on Tuesday.

The new GIB EnergyX Slovakia battery factory will be the second-largest foreign direct investment in the history of the EU and euro-area member state and aims to start full-scale production in 2027.

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Companies led by BYD, Saic Motor’s MG and Chery Automobile captured a record 7.4 per cent of all passenger-car sales across Europe, according to researcher Dataforce, and surpassed South Korean carmakers such as Kia for the first time.

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Norway: Chinese-made electric buses have major security flaw, can be remotely stopped and disabled by their manufacturer in China, Oslo operator says

The public transport operator in Norway's capital said Tuesday that some electric buses from China have a serious flaw -- software that could allow the manufacturer, or nefarious actors, to take control of the vehicle.

Oslo's transport operator Ruter said they had tested two electric buses this summer -- one built by China's Yutong and the other by Dutch firm VDL.

The Chinese model featured a SIM card that allowed the manufacturer to remotely install software updates that made it vulnerable, whereas the Dutch model did not.

"We've found that everything that is connected poses a risk -- and that includes buses," Ruter director Bernt Reitan Jenssen told public broadcaster NRK.

"There is a risk that for example suppliers could take control, but also that other players could break into this value chain and influence the buses."

Ruter said it was now developing a digital firewall to guard against the issue.

According to other reports, the Chinese manufacturer has access to each bus’s software updates, diagnostics, and battery control systems. “In theory, the bus could therefore be stopped or rendered unusable by the manufacturer,” the company said.

Ruter has reported its findings to Norway’s Ministry of Transport and Communications.

Arild Tjomsland, a special advisor at the University of South-Eastern Norway who helped conduct the tests, said: “The Chinese bus can be stopped, turned off, or receive updates that can destroy the technology that the bus needs to operate normally.”

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Dubbed Ao-Solar Extender, the roof-mounted vehicle integrated PV (VIPV) concept has a fixed 300 W component and a 200 W component that stows away for driving to generate in the extended position a total of 500 W, according to the company.

Who will protect the juice?

Copper wire thefts have increased in Los Angeles and other cities, but with thieves looking outside of street lights for cables to cut, drivers expecting to use EV chargers are sometimes caught off-guard.

With a significant number of the cut cables and smashed charging units being harvested for copper wire now, companies, governments and EV advocates are proposing everything from greater enforcement and penalties to cables that cover a vandal with ink—similar to the measures employed against bank robbers. Such a system has also been discussed in the UK, according to a BBC story from April.

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Executives and analysts said the rolling back of support in the US had the potential to define the industry in coming years, strengthening China’s hand in the EV race and sowing doubts in the EU over its ban on sales of internal combustion engines from 2035.

For context, the owner is from Egypt and the Seagull is a Chinese domestic market car.

The reason for this is delivery problems with aluminium caused by a fire at the factory of key supplier Novelis.

It is currently unclear whether production of the Lightning will resume at all.

The combustion engine division ‘Ford Blue’ showed decent growth, while the EV division ‘Model e’ posted a loss of $1.4 billion, or approximately €1.2 billion, for the third quarter, which was $200 million more than in the same period last year. From January to September, the electric division’s loss amounted to $3.6 billion.

Opel may rebadge the Leapmotor B10 for Europe by 2026

Production could begin at Stellantis’ Zaragoza plant in Spain

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