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- Lordstown Motors is now being investigated by the Justice Department
- Porsche recalls Taycans over sudden power loss problem
- A Tesla Model S Plaid caught fire in Pennsylvania, briefly trapping the driver inside
- Tesla delivered over 200,000 cars in the second quarter of 2021
- Electric vehicles are the future for everyone — except disabled people
- General Motors strikes a deal to source lithium in the US for its electric car batteries
| Lordstown Motors is now being investigated by the Justice Department Posted: 02 Jul 2021 10:45 AM PDT  The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into troubled electric vehicle startup Lordstown Motors, which is backed by General Motors and went public late last year but has yet to get its pickup — the Endurance — into production, according to The Wall Street Journal. It's the second official probe into the startup, as the Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation earlier this year into Lordstown Motors executives' misleading claims about how many preorders it had logged for the Endurance. The new investigation, which is being run by the US Attorney's office in the Southern District of New York, comes just weeks after Lordstown Motors' CEO and founder was pushed out following a law firm's probe into those...  |
| Porsche recalls Taycans over sudden power loss problem Posted: 02 Jul 2021 08:57 AM PDT  Porsche is recalling its first EV, the Taycan, to fix an issue where some cars suddenly lose power while in motion. The automaker has already sold around 43,000 Taycans globally to date, though it claims (without further clarification) that only a small number are affected. Owners will have to bring their electric Porsches to a dealer for the software fix, which the company says will take between 60 and 90 minutes. The fix is being applied to new Taycans coming off the production line. The same issue is also affecting the new Audi E-Tron GT, as it is built on the Taycan's electric powertrain. That recall involves far fewer vehicles, though, as Audi only just started shipping the electric sports car. At least a dozen Taycan owners have...  |
| A Tesla Model S Plaid caught fire in Pennsylvania, briefly trapping the driver inside Posted: 02 Jul 2021 07:55 AM PDT  A high-end Tesla Model S Plaid caught fire Tuesday night in Haverford, Pennsylvania, briefly trapping the driver inside, according to the local fire department. A lawyer for the owner said the vehicle "spontaneously combusted." Firefighters from both the Gladwyne and Lower Merion Fire Departments arrived on the scene shortly before 9PM ET on Tuesday. The firefighters, who had been trained on how to respond to battery fires involving Tesla vehicles, "laid a 5 inch supply line into the scene so that we could keep a continual water stream on the fire to extinguish the fire and cool the batteries down to ensure complete extinguishment," according to a statement from the Gladwyne Fire Department. The driver managed to escape and there were no...  |
| Tesla delivered over 200,000 cars in the second quarter of 2021 Posted: 02 Jul 2021 06:26 AM PDT  Tesla delivered 201,250 vehicles in the second quarter of 2021, a record for the company but still falling slightly short of Wall Street expectations. Elon Musk's company also produced 206,421 vehicles during the same period. Of all the cars that Tesla produced during the quarter, the vast majority — 204,081 — were Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. On top of that, Tesla also produced 2,340 Model S and Model X vehicles — though the company did not break out how many Model S sedans were the high-end Plaid variant that just started reaching customers. Earlier last month, Tesla held a delivery event for the redesigned Model S, featuring a new powertrain, more...  |
| Electric vehicles are the future for everyone — except disabled people Posted: 02 Jul 2021 06:00 AM PDT  By locating the battery in the floor of the vehicle, auto companies are making it difficult to convert EVs for wheelchair users  |
| General Motors strikes a deal to source lithium in the US for its electric car batteries Posted: 02 Jul 2021 05:00 AM PDT  General Motors has struck a deal with a mining company to source lithium, a key ingredient in electric-car batteries, from geothermal deposits in the US. The automaker is making a "multi-million dollar" investment in Australia's Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) to bolster the mining firm's efforts to extract lithium from California's Salton Sea Geothermal Field. It's a risky bet by GM, given that there is no full-scale lithium production in the US from geothermal wells. Most of the world's lithium comes from two places: lithium brine deposits in South America's "lithium triangle" of Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia; and hard-rock deposits in Australia. But its a sign that GM is trying to think holistically about the challenge of becoming...  |
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