US offers $15 billion to upgrade old gas car factories for the EV future
The US Department of Energy is making $15 billion in grants and loans available to convert American automobile plants from making gas cars to electric ones.
The US Department of Energy is making $15 billion in grants and loans available to convert American automobile plants from making gas cars to electric ones.
Automobile manufacturing giant General Motors partnered with Google to run basic OnStar help questions, cutting down on wait times for a human assistant.
While there's reasonable debate about the safety and reliability of driverless cars roaming the roads today, that ignores the debate over cars vs. public transit β and some advocates are getting devious.
If you were looking to save some money on a new Tesla Model S sedan or Model X crossover, you're in luck β the "Standard Range" models are back with a battery that you cannot charge all the way. But it's $10,000 less, so there's that.
There's a new electric Cadillac coming next year, and it's kind of a big deal. It's also kind of big, as you would expect from an Escalade.
A coalition of American car manufacturers has formed an alliance to build a charging network to rival Tesla's Superchargers, and that's good news for everyone.
It hasn't been long since the first domino fell in the switch away from the CCS1 plug, but in relatively short order the plug that used to be proprietary to Tesla is the new standard for American electric cars.
EV truck maker Rivian will start building vehicles with the NACS connector in 2025, adding another company to Tesla's Supercharger-compatible network. Meanwhile, practically every company that builds EV chargers is also adopting the connector.
There's a time and place for artificial intelligence, and in these early years that line is blurry. Sometimes we need to try implementing it somewhere to see if it's a good idea. Other times⦠it's really obvious.
Rivals GM and Ford have elected to switch their future electric cars over to Tesla's charging standard in North America, effectively signaling the death of the competing CCS1 standard.
Some of the biggest oil companies in the world have acknowledged that the future of surface transportation will largely be electric, and they don't want to miss out on that rapidly expanding pie.
Yes, hello, and welcome to the CrackBerry Podcast. We know, it's hard to believe this is happening. But this is happening. Our topic for the day: CES 2023.
It was easy to mock the idea of Elon Musk's tunnels project β this was a problem we solved long ago with subways, right? Well, after actually experiencing it in a real-world situation, I'm not so sure it's a dumb idea.
CES is back, baby! The show's changed a lot over the years, but there was still a lot of exciting new tech to be found in Las Vegas β enough that we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge all the cool stuff with our own Best of CES 2023 awards!
Next time Officer Murphy visits Paris, he'll have an appropriate car waiting for him: the electric Peugeot Inception concept.
Ring is diving into the dashcam market with a connected dual-camera system that checks boxes I didn't even know I had.
The joint venture between Sony and Honda has been teased for a few years now, but it finally has a name and a release date: AFEELA, and 2026.
Plus.Ai have now announced they will be the first automated truck developer to make use of BlackBerry QNX for their next-generation self-driving systems.
BlackBerry has recently announced the BlackBerry QNX Hypervisor will power the ARCFOX Ξ±T digital cockpit system.
Adding another name to their ever-growing list of partners, BlackBerry has recently announced that StradVision has chosen to utilize BlackBerry QNX software.
In a join announcement, BlackBerry and Canoo let it be known that Canoo's next-gen Electric Vehicles autonomous features will be powered by the BlackBerry QNX operating system.
For the past year, BlackBerry has been reporting an install base of more than 150 million vehicles for BlackBerry QNX, but today, it announced they have now moved into more than 175 million vehicles.
Expanding its embedded software portfolio, BlackBerry today announced a software solution called QNX Black Channel Communications Technology for OEMs and embedded software developers.
The integrated solution takes BlackBerry Cylance artificial intelligence and combines it with BlackBerry QNX technologies.
. As part of the announcement, they will be demonstrating a connected vehicle software platform that makes use of BlackBerry QNX and AWS' Internet of Things (IoT) Services in the cloud and in vehicle.