The story of embattled electric-car startup Faraday Future has taken another turn. Carsten Breitfeld, who previously ran BMW i, will take over as CEO from Jia Yueting, the company said in a statement. The Chinese entrepreneur will become Faraday’s “chief prod…
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Month: September 2019
NTSB faults Tesla Autopilot design in crash into parked fire truck
WASHINGTON The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Wednesday cited driver errors and the design of Tesla’s Autopilot as the probable cause of a January 2018 crash of a Model S into a parked fire truck on a highway in California. The safety board, …
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Jeff Reeves’s Strength in Numbers: Here’s how to capitalize on the electric car revolution — without buying Tesla
The shift toward electric vehicles is often positioned as a slow crawl, with projections typically estimating that battery-powered cars wont outsell conventional combustion engines until 2025 or 2030 at the earliest. But analysts who currently consider EVs a…
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Tim Mullaney: Fixing the climate will be easier and cheaper than Democrats think
Democrats are responding to public pressure to act on climate change, but they exaggerate the money and the changes that will be needed. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. But maybe it doesnt have to if you look closer. Thats the si…
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Tesla Autopilot crash driver may have been eating a bagel at the time, was lucky not to get schmeared on road
The Tesla driver who crashed into a stationary fire truck may have had his hands off the wheel, and Autopilot engaged, as he ate a bagel and drank coffee, according the US National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday. Robin Geoulla was cruising along the …
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