VENTRA Student EV Is Built to Catch Up to 42% of Its Tire Dust
TU Eindhoven's VENTRA concept EV charges tire particles so they stick to plates at the wheels, and uses a 298-pound chassis to make fewer of them.
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TU Eindhoven's VENTRA concept EV charges tire particles so they stick to plates at the wheels, and uses a 298-pound chassis to make fewer of them.
After losing his license for a year following a blackout crash, Dutch entrepreneur Wilco de Kreij says a new Tesla Model Y with FSD Supervised is his answer to the fear of another medical emergency at the wheel.
Tesla says European customers have now logged more than 50 million kilometers on FSD Supervised, a figure that is roughly 28 times larger than the 1.8 million kilometer dataset used to help win the system's first type approval in the Netherlands.

Two U.S. senators want federal regulators to pull apart the statistics Tesla uses to claim its driver-assistance software is far safer than a human behind the wheel. Senators Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent a letter on June 16, 2026 to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator Jonathan Morrison, calling…

Dutch transport minister Vincent Karremans told parliament on Tuesday, June 16, that the RDW did not lean on Tesla’s own safety figures when it approved Full Self-Driving (Supervised) for Dutch roads. The denial answers a Reuters investigation published the day before, which reported that Tesla handed regulators in the Netherlands and Sweden self-published statistics that…

Tesla gave Dutch and Swedish regulators self-published FSD safety stats that 10 of 11 researchers call misleading marketing.

Belgium approved Tesla‘s FSD Supervised on June 10, 2026, one day after Denmark cleared the same software. That makes Belgium the fifth European country and Denmark the fourth to authorize the driver assistance system. When EVXL covered the Dutch approval on April 10, the open question was whether other member states would recognize it quickly…

Slovenian firm Elaphe says hybrids will get in-wheel motors before pure EVs, claiming 15% more grip and 9% shorter stops. Tested on a Hyundai Ioniq 5.
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