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Electric vehicles have long come at a premium. But as cheaper models arrive, outer suburban residents are taking to EVs to save on petrol
A UAW supporter in 2017 outside a Nissan plant in Canton, Miss., ahead of a vote the union lost.
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Despite intermittent efforts over the past three decades, the UAW union has been unable to organize employees of foreign-based automakers in states such as Alabama and Tennessee.
Everything old is new again.
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This seemingly cutting-edge technology isn’t entirely new to our century.
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Different management styles are available.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, left, testifies before Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, right, in a courtroom sketch.
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Musk can’t dodge this ruling by moving Tesla’s incorporation to Texas.
The Peregrine lunar lander.
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Sending human ashes and personal mementoes to the Moon is now possible, but it opens up a maze of legal and ethical conundrums.
Tesla has temporarily suspended most of its production at its factory near Berlin.
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EV manufacturers pause production in Europe as the Red Sea shipping crisis deepens.
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Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Tesla and Nvidia have driven a bull market rally in US stocks in 2023. But will they dominate in 2024?
Drivers often believe that semi-autonomous systems are more autonomous than they are designed to be.
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Tesla’s recall of over two million vehicles in the U.S. and Canada is meant to address driver overreliance on the semi-autonomous Autopilot feature.
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Autonomous driving technology needs to be able to think and behave more like a human.
The Tesla Cybertruck.
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The angular shape, flat surfaces and triangular roof line look like nothing else currently on sale.
Will Tesla’s workers be the next to approve a UAW contract?
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Wooing those workers will be expensive and require a lot of creativity, since many of them are employed in ‘right-to-work’ states.
Is this the future?
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Tesla’s long-delayed entry to the pick-up trucks market starts shipping on November 30.
South Australia’s big battery.
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If big money is going to invest in clean energy and technology, the rules have to be clear. Australia’s launch of a green finance strategy last week was a good start but there is further to go.
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Lithium-ion battery fires are rare, but they can cause a lot of damage – and they’re challenging to put out.
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One new battery plant is unlikely to save the UK auto industry, but it’s a step in the right direction.
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The autonomous vehicle revolution was, according to its proponents, meant to have transformed daily travel by now. But they underestimated the task of developing a safe, truly driverless vehicle.
Tesla recalled hundreds of thousands of its vehicles because of issues with their self-driving features.
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Consumers need to be aware that none of the vehicles on the market today are actually self-driving — vehicles still require active supervision from a human driver.
At the dawn of the car era, carmakers needed to allay fears that pedestrian lives were at risk.
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Today it’s smart technology that will defend drivers and pedestrians. Over a century ago, it was the Klaxon horn.
Renault and Nissan forged a business alliance in 1999.
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After years of turmoil, Renault and Nissan hope to rebalance their partnership to take on Europe’s booming electric car market.