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Volkswagen is considering cutting as many as 100,000 jobs and closing four German factories, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, June 26, in what would be the largest restructuring in the company’s 89-year history. The plants on the list are Volkswagen‘s sites in Hanover, Zwickau and Emden, plus Audi‘s factory in…
A headline making the rounds this week promises that supercapacitors could let electric cars charge in 15 seconds. The number is real. The application is not the one the framing implies. That 15-second figure comes from electric transit buses in Switzerland that sip small amounts of energy at fixed stops, not from any passenger EV…
A Xiaomi YU7 GT circled the Nürburgring Nordschleife with an empty driver’s seat and logged 10 minutes, 29.483 seconds, the first officially timed autonomous lap of the German circuit. Xiaomi set the run on June 8 and announced it on June 22, releasing onboard video that shows the steering wheel turning itself through the corners…
Porsche has given the 2027 Taycan simulated gear shifting, a feature its own development driver publicly dismissed less than two years ago. The system, called E-Shift, lets drivers row through eight virtual gears using paddles on the GT Sport steering wheel, with a virtual rev limiter and gear-specific drag torque tuned to mimic engine braking.…
BYD will cover every dollar of an at-fault crash when its urban driver-assist system is steering, with no cap on the payout. The Chinese automaker pledged that guarantee on May 28 at its Intelligence Strategy Launch Event in Shenzhen, the same showcase where it revealed the XUANJI A3, which it calls China’s first homegrown 4-nanometer…
Tesla gave Dutch and Swedish regulators self-published FSD safety stats that 10 of 11 researchers call misleading marketing.
A Chinese vacuum-cleaner company now wants to build the most powerful electric car on the planet. Kosmera, the high-performance brand spun off from smart-home giant Dreame, has detailed a quad-motor powertrain targeting 2,320 kW, or 3,156 horsepower, for its upcoming Star Matrix and Star Razer grand tourers. The figure would put a first-year automaker above…
New research published in The China Journal dismantles the story Washington tells itself about China’s electric vehicle rise. Political scientists Fengming Lu and Xiao Ma argue the boom was never engineered by a Beijing master plan. It grew from alliances between ambitious second-tier city governments and private carmakers that central regulators had locked out of…
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