evs
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Stellantis CEO: Earth Doesn’t Have Enough Raw Material to Meet EV Demand
At a Stellantis-hosted event, CEO Carlos Tavares remarked that there might not be enough lithium to replace every internal-combustion engine vehicle with an EV.
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It Took Under Two Minutes For These Hackers to Hack a Tesla Model 3
Pwn2Own is a twice-a-year hacking conference that includes various contests for hackers to hack things and win the thing that got hacked, which, at this month’s Pwn2Own conference in Vancouver, included a Tesla Model 3, which a French company was able to exploit in less than two minutes. Of course, a lot more work went…
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Hyundai Is Sticking with Physical Buttons as the Industry Goes Digital
The last few years have seen automotive screens explode in size. It seems like there is a screen-size arms race. Data from the IHS Markit shows the average size of a vehicle screen was 7.7 inches in 2018, and it’s now expected to average 8.4 inches by next year. With those bigger screens come fewer…
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Tesla Engineer Explains What a Model S Plaid Does When You Activate ‘Drag Strip Mode’
Up until a few days ago, when Dodge unveiled the 1,025-hp Challenger SRT Demon 170, the Tesla Model S Plaid claimed to be the fastest-accelerating mass-production vehicle on earth. Tesla says the top-dog Plaid can do 0-60 in 1.99 seconds and rip a 9.23-second quarter-mile. To do that, you’re going to have to engage Drag…