Embattled China property giant sparks economy fears
Evergrande is currently building a new stadium for its football team, Guangzhou FC Chinese company Evergrande has started to repay investors in its wealth management business with property, as the world’s most indebted real estate developer faces a…
Nutson’s Weekly Auto News Wrap-Up September 12-18, 2021
AUTO CENTRAL CHICAGO – September 19, 2021: Every Sunday Larry Nutson, The Chicago Car Guy and Executive Producer, with able assistance from senior editor Thom Cannell from The Auto Channel Michigan Bureau, compile The Auto Channel’s…
‘Range anxiety’ makes electric car drivers less likely to be involved in road accidents
Chris Chandler, the principal consultant at Lex, told The Sunday Times: “If you look at the reduction in accidents from internal combustion engine, through hybrid to electric, almost the cleaner the car, the lower the incident rate. “There’s a high…
Safety Concerns Dog Tesla, But at Least Its EV’s Aren’t On Fire
Electric cars may be our bright and shining future, but for the moment they’re having a decidedly less utopian present. Tesla, the world’s preeminent electric vehicle maker, is readying a significant upgrade of its driver-assistance software,…
Richard B. Kolbas, 75, helped develop electric vehicles with Ford Motor Co. | Featured Obituaries
KOLBAS, Richard Dec. 25, 1945 – Sept. 14, 2021 Richard B. Kolbas was in the forefront of Ford Motor Co.’s modern efforts to put electric vehicles on the road. He had joined Ford in 1976 as an electrical engineer in Dearborn, Mich., designed high-voltage…
Carriage Museum hosts fundraiser Sept. 24
Sep. 19—AMESBURY — A Bailey electric car, a Stanley Steemer and a 1907 Cadillac will be all be on display when the Amesbury Carriage Museum hosts a “Driving Through History” fundraiser at Amesbury Chevrolet on Friday, Sept. 24 from 6-8:30…
Men Need Not Apply to World’s Largest E-Scooter Factory
(Bloomberg) — Ola Electric Mobility Pvt’s new electric-scooter factory aims to build 10 million two-wheelers annually, or 15% of the world’s e-scooters by 2022, in an operation run and managed entirely by women. Led by Bhavish Aggarwal, the…
California Tesla driver using autopilot arrested on charges of DUI
A woman suspected of driving under the influence was handcuffed and taken into custody after her self-driving Tesla was purportedly set on Autopilot, eventually stopping on a California freeway overpass. The vehicle hit a roadside wall shortly after 11…
After Years of Waiting, We Have a Real Electric Truck, And Maybe a New Elon Musk
Rivian founder and CEO R.J. Scaringe sitting in a blue electric pickup truck, called the R1T, the first produced in the EV factory in September 2021 A real electric pickup truck has been a long time coming. Sure, we’ve had a couple in the past, made in…
Elon Musk upset over proposed Democratic subsidies for unionized electric car companies
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is criticizing House Democrats and the Biden administration for providing tax incentives for union-made electric cars that won’t help his company or others that are not unionized. Musk and other automakers say the tax benefit…