Cars
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EV Battery Manufacturers Pollute to Keep Up With Demand
Electric vehicle demand is booming, and nowhere else in the world is getting hit quite like Indonesia. The country is the number one exporter of nickel in the world — a dear commodity in battery manufacturing. But the workers who live in the shadow of the newly arrived factories in this company town are reporting astonishing…
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UK Commission Says Remote Driving Shouldn’t Be Legal Just Yet
Remote driving isn’t exactly a new idea. It’s been around for a while in certain formats. If you’re not already familiar with the concept, it’s also not hard to grasp. Since it’s going to be really hard to get true self-driving cars on the road, one solution could be to have a bunch of remote…
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Apple Desperately Wants You to Use Your Phone as a Car Key
The phonemaker has been trying to make digital keys happen for years. Now it’s trying another strategy.
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Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Has Convinced Audi to Rethink ‘Aggressive’ Design
Audi has never exactly been a purveyor of edgy, obnoxious-looking automobiles, but if you’ve been paying attention to its concepts as of late — particularly the Grandsphere and Activesphere, a little less so the Skysphere — you could pretty much count all the creases on them on one hand. This is intentional, according to Marc…