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BMW electric cars hit 100,000 sales target
BMW reaches its electric car sales target BMW have announced that it has hit its target of selling 100,000 electric cars this year around the world. The German car giant is benefiting from a strong demand in western Europe and the United States for models such as the i3 and the 2-series plug-in hybrid Active Tourer. The sales of these...
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Tesla Delivery Centres Ready to Deliver 100s of Cars Calming Production Fears
Tesla’s share price rose over 4 percent after reports circulated that hundreds of its production-plagued Model 3 cars are waiting at their delivery centres and will soon be delivered to customers. Hundreds of the highly anticipated Model 3 EV’s were spotted across the company’s delivery centres in California in the United States. These cars are obviously not being set aside...
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Apple Reveals More of its Self-Driving Technology
Apple has released results from several of the companies artificial intelligence AI projects. Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Apple’s director of artificial intelligence research addressed roughly 200 AI experts who had signed up for a free lunch and peek at how Apple uses machine learning, a technique for analyzing large stockpiles of data. Each of the projects involved giving software capabilities needed for...
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Tesla discourages commercial cars from using Superchargers
Tesla is discouraging commercial cars from using its Supercharger infrastructure in the United States as it is trying to get drivers to stick to the charging stations' original purposes. The Tesla Supercharger network was originally designed to enable their electric vehicles long-range trips and offer a viable charging option for people who can't usually top up at home or the...
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Sole traders could save €12k tax on cars
Tax savings for Sole Traders A new measure which came into force after the budget has escaped widespread attention. The new and cost-saving measure could mean that sole traders would save around €12,000 on income tax if they buy an electric vehicle (EV). The Accelerated Capital Allowances deal means that self employed sole traders who buy an EV can front-load...
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China Blocks Foreign Companies from Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars
As one can imagine, self-driving cars need high-quality digital maps to function properly. They not only utilise digital mapping to find their general location, but also in some cases to locate landmarks that aid maneuvering in low-viability situations, or when a GPS link isn't available. Digital map data has become a major priority for car manufacturers around the world, especially...
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Ford Executive claims that for now, Hybrids beat EVs as self-driving cars
Ford Executive claims that for now, Hybrids beat EVs as self-driving cars07 Thanks to the Chevrolet Bolt EV (Electric Vehicle) General Motors has been fairly successful in the development of their self-driving technologies. But Ford Motors thinks there a better solution than EVs, at least for the moment. They are developing autonomous technology using petrol-electric hybrids and not pure electric...
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BMW i3 designated as not having zero emissions by Advertising Standards Authority
It has been suggested that BMW, petrol-engined cars do not give anything back to the environment in the way they claim and it doesn't matter if you call the engine a 'range extender' or not. BMW claims that its electric i3 car has “zero emissions” and is a “really clean car that helps to give back to the environment”. The...
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California axes self-driving car rule limiting liability for crashes
California axes self-driving car rule limiting liability for crashes Sub-par maintenance is not going to let car manufacturers off the hook and as such, California is happy to tweak the rules just a bit to get more self-driving cars on the road. Even with some of the rules regarding self-driving cars being relaxed, there will still be limits. The state's...
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Scottish Government cracks down of diesel fuel
It looks like the end of the road for diesel cars as Scottish Government cracks down on air-polluting motors. Hundreds of thousands of drivers will be forced to avoid low emissions zones in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee from 2020. Dirty diesel and air-polluting petrol cars will no longer be allowed to go into city centres, towns and villages under...