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GM’s Future is Electric
After watching today's web presentation of the General Motors Electric Vehicle Day, here's what's significant to me. The company wants to put everyone in an EVThe company is unambiguous. "Climate change is real"GM sees a path using their technology and partnership...
Colorado Approves Factory Direct Electric Vehicle Sales
On Friday state senators in Colorado passed a bill allowing electric vehicle makers like Rivian to sell directly to consumers. For auto dealers, the most controversial part of the bill was removed. This provision would have allowed automakers with franchised...
Polestar CEO is All-In on Electric
It seems as though Polestar CEO, Thomas Ingenlath, has gotten frustrated with the pace of transformation to electric vehicles. In an Automotive News article this week (subscription required), Ingenlath does not believe in the risk of automotive companies moving too...
Tesla is Tops in Battery Technology
Inside EVs is reporting that Tesla might be moving to a "next level" in vehicle battery development. The company already has gotten the price per kilowatt-hour of their batteries down to $158 today from $258 four years ago. There's speculation that Tesla is close to...
Volkswagen, “This Sh*t is Hard”
There are reports that VW is having software code issues with the new all-electric ID3 vehicle according to Automotive News (subscription required). The software problems are so challenging that 10,000 technicians are supposedly working to fix the software glitches....
GM Cruise in California
Automotive News is reporting (subscription required) that GM's Cruise autonomous vehicle subsidiary can begin testing in California with passengers. It seems as though GM is getting close to launching a robotaxi service after last year's delay announcement by Cruise's...
VW Will Fight Back
Automotive News is reporting (subscription required) that VW's CEO, Herbert Diess, is sending a not-so-subtle message to Elon Musk that the Volkswagen Group is coming after Tesla. Diess believes that his company will "keep pace with Tesla" and eventually overtake it....
Congress Thinks Autopilot Should Change
In a prior post, I discussed the irresponsibility of Tesla calling their advanced level 2 plus adaptive cruise control system, Autopilot. It seems that Senator Markey (D-Mass.) agrees. Senator Markey's announcement today called Autopilot a "flawed system" and...
The Ramifications of Tesla’s Michigan Victory
Tesla's legal victory in Michigan would seem to open the door for other electric vehicle companies without established dealers to sell their upcoming EVs in the state direct to the consumer. University of Michigan law professor, Daniel Crane, wrote in a blog post that...
Cruise Origin
The follow-up to this week's earlier post culminates in the announcement of the GM Cruise driverless, electric vehicle called Origin. Cruise CEO, Dan Ammann, describes Origin as being autonomous, electric, shared and a production vehicle. When actual production of...