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From The Autopian: You know what’s a nice treat for a cranky-ass writer like myself? It’s when some major media outlet publishes something so delightfully, irredeemably stupid and smug and ill-informed that it’s just begging for a nice, cathartic take-down. Thankfully, our pals across the pond...

Electric Water Heaters Are Better at Storing Energy Than a Tesla Powerwall (msn.com) Heating up water in residential and commercial homes produces a lot of greenhouse gasses. A new study from researchers in Australia suggests that electric water heaters could not only lower that number by...

The IRS Is Making It Way Too Confusing To Buy An EV With Tax Credits - The Autopian If you’re an electric car or plug-in hybrid buyer, you’ve probably had a hard 2022. EV buyers have had to contend with seemingly volatile pricing changes, long waits from manufacturers, and now, a...

Does anyone have experience with Bluedot (thebluedot.co) ?

I noticed this last night at one of my three EA charge stops with my Lightning that it showed a new value, "Charge speed requested by your vehicle": The other two stops didn't show this, so it's something mid-rollout apparently. (the reason I mention the vehicle is to explain the higher rate...

Ford’s EVs, BlueCruise combine for better road trips | Ars Technica Until a long-promised future replete with driverless cars arrives, we're stuck behind the wheels of our own vehicles. Autonomous driving is slowly getting more… autonomous in places, but for passenger cars that still feature...

Tenet Just saw this mentioned at a Jalopnik story .... Seems like it's a customizable Ford Options type balloon loan with the pay, walk away, or refinance options, for the EV market specifically. Very interesting.

from the sister Lightning site there's a "ding" sound at the start of the videos and I was like, "wait I know that sound, what the heck is it?" and then I realized it's the backup warning sound. 🤣 note that the Lightning is really the star, and the Mach-E doesn't appear in the third video at...

Somehow, I have little white spots, like 4 of them, on the inside of the passenger door, on the black door panel material at the top of the door, beneath the window. I tried to take a picture, but it didn't come out, and to be honest all you'd see is ... white dots on the door. The car didn't...

The Auto Disruptors Making the Cars of the Future Today (newsweek.com) Technological innovation in the industry isn't reserved for family vehicles. Work trucks no longer have just the bare minimum that consumers require either. Disruptors in that space are collecting information from connected...

Hackers Display Porn At Isle Of Wight EV Charge Points (jalopnik.com) Some hackers over on the Isle of Wight came up with an ingenious way for folks to pass the time at the charge station while filling up their electric car: They took over the chargers to start displaying porn. How kind of...

Nissan, NASA aim to ditch rare, pricey metals in solid-state batteries | Ars Technica Nissan is partnering with NASA on a computational approach to developing all-solid-state batteries that don’t rely on rare or expensive metals, the AP has reported. The automaker, which was the first to...

On Tuesday, General Motors and Honda announced that the two companies are working together on a new range of affordable electric vehicles. The two OEMs will develop a new architecture that uses GM's new Ultium battery platform for North America, South America, and China. Production of the first...

https://www.theautopian.com/level-3-autonomy-is-confusing-garbage/ The Society of Automotive Engineers has done many wonderful things in its 117 years of existence, like making everybody’s horsepower drop when they went from SAE gross to SAE net power ratings in the early 1970s, or forming the...

DETROIT - April 1: In a surprising move, Ford announced today that Sync 4W, the next generation of infotainment, is available immediately to all Ford Mustang (TM) Mach-E (R) owners through a convenient Over-the-Air update process or through an easy 155 GB download to USB. But what is Sync 4W...

Infoseccers abort DC charging via wireless hack • The Register Researchers from the University of Oxford published details of a vulnerability in the Combined Charging System that has the potential to abort charging. The Combined Charging System (CCS) is one of the plethora of standards in the...

How to buy and install an EV home charger - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) Gas prices? Pah! A few months ago, my family bought an electric car, used. A little 2018 BMW i3s. It looks weird but it drives great. Every time I pass long lines of cars and trucks waiting to fill up on $6-a-gallon...

Polestar’s stunning O2 concept is an electric roadster | Ars Technica For all the talk about the maturity of the electric car, it still has a ways to go before it can cover all the bases in the automotive ecosystem. While you can buy a few electric sedans, a handful of electric crossovers...

passing this along... The SAE Foundation, which supports STEM education from pre-K through college, is auctioning off the last Polestar 1 built to US specs. This was a donation from Polestar to the foundation. This is a collectors item, and it isn’t cheap. Bidding starts at the Polestar 1 MSRP...

EV6 does not come with a charger... like, at all: I haven't watched every review video or anything but I have yet to see anyone mention this. Seems like a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very stupid decision on Kia's part to not even include a...