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The International Council of Transportation has published recently a very interesting analysis of the California electric market. It provided a great overview of the effects of different policies and promotional activities in effect there through 2015, as well as lessons for other locations.This analysis was based around city-level data on electric vehicles for 30 different cities, including adoption rates, public charging infrastructure availability, model availability, promotional efforts, incentives, etc. Electric vehicle adoption rates in many Californian cities are much higher than elsewh...
Several models of the Tesla S cars were hacked by researchers who were able to abruptly stop the car in its tracks, pop open the trunk while the car was being driven, and remotely turn on and off the windshield wipers. Tesla Motors Inc. announced that it released a software update to fix bugs that allowed Chinese "white-hat hackers" to remotely break into the Model S' control system and disrupt actions including turn signals, seat positions, displays and the door lock system. Cyber-security researchers from Keen Security Lab, a unit of China’s Tencent Holdings Lt...
This is not the first time when Tesla Motors is blocked from selling its electric cars directly to customers in Michigan. Over the past couple of years, Tesla has been engaged in a battle with Michigan's franchised car dealers who – like dealers in several other states – view Tesla's direct-sales model as a threat. Most recently, Tesla submitted an application for a Michigan dealership license. That application was denied by the Michigan government after a hearing earlier this month. This indicates that the home state of Ford, General Motors, and Fiat Chrysler Au...
After GM finally admitted that 3.64 million vehicles in the U.S. are equipped with airbags, which could possibly not deploy, a large recall of it has started. People are afraid of crashes which might happen with anyone, and in a critical moment the airbags which need to deploy, won't. General Motors was forced to announce a recall of numerous 2014-17 models, on which the issue needs to get fixed, because it could also disable seatbelt pretensioners. Of course, there are still some circumstances which remain as a mystery to us, for example why they have found out about the proble...
General Motors has taken a beating in the headlines this year as falling U.S. sales have cost it nearly a full point of market share. U.S. vice president of sales, Kurt McNeil, says GM's deliberate move to cut low-profit sales to rental car companies and focus on more lucrative retail sales to individual customers is behind the drop. But the auto industry's focus on top-line sales numbers has made GM look bad compared with competitors. Kurt McNeil claims he has a strategy that can help GM to increase its sales numbers, despite the fact that GM's market share has fallen ...
