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“Australian design student Alexander Burton has developed a prototype kit for cheaply converting petrol or diesel cars to hybrid electric,” reports Dezeen magazine, “winning the country’s national James Dyson Award in the process.”
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Tesla has officially released its API documentation to support third-party apps — after years of operating in a gray zone with an unofficial API. For now, it is geared toward fleet management, but dev…
Waymo is significantly expanding its robotaxi service in San Francisco. According to The Verge, the company’s driverless ridehail operations will now be available to tens of thousands of people across 47 square miles of the city. From the report: To be…
The CEO of Iran’s national flagship Iran Air says an unknown person sent an email to the German police, claiming that a bomb had been planted on a flight heading to Hambrug from Tehran.
The Treasury Department released new guidance Friday outlining how car dealers can give customers instant access to the electric vehicle rebate starting in January 2024. It’s the latest move by the Biden administration to bring down the cost of EVs in …
Long-time Slashdot reader RockDoctor writes: Regardless of their other potential benefits, modern cars, and modern electric cars in particular, involve complex networks of computer code, hardware, and servo systems cooperating (?) to deliver services t…
The annual update for the Cisco Portfolio Explorer for Transportation has just been released, and features five industry themes and sixteen associated use cases. Covering the transportation sub-verticals of roadways and intersections, rail, airports, and ports, the refreshed version of the tool provides an extensive look into how Cisco is driving a more connected and secure transportation environment.
Aaron Gordon writes via Motherboard: Kia and Hyundai say it is not their fault that their cars are being stolen in an unprecedented theft surge made possible by the vehicles lacking a basic anti-theft technology virtually every other car has, according…
“Nissan will make the switch to full electric by 2030 in Europe. We believe it is the right thing to do for our business, our customers and for the planet,” said Nissan’s chief executive Makoto Uchida. The announcement comes despite the UK postponing i…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fast Company: The Lockheed Martin X-59 is probably the strangest airplane ever designed. Its razor-sharp nose takes half of the airplane’s length; there’s no cockpit in sight; the wings are tiny compared to the …