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- Toyota to reduce production in Japan and North America due to chip shortage
- How to watch Tesla’s AI day event
- Bird’s new electric bike looks like a VanMoof, and you can buy it
- GM and AT&T are teaming up to bring 5G to Chevy, Cadillac, and GMC cars by 2024
- Senators ask FTC to investigate Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ promises
| Toyota to reduce production in Japan and North America due to chip shortage Posted: 19 Aug 2021 09:55 AM PDT  Toyota said Thursday that it would reduce production in Japan and North America due to a shortage of semiconductor chips, a sign that even the best-run supply chains are being affected by the shortage. In Japan, the automaker will reduce production by 40 percent later this month and into September, which will affect most of its production lines, the The Wall Street Journal reported; planned reductions in North America will be between 40 and 60 percent in August. The reductions mean Toyota will produce between 60,000 and 90,000 fewer vehicles. "Due to COVID-19 and unexpected events with our supply chain, Toyota is experiencing additional shortages that will affect production at most of our North American plants," the company said in a...  |
| How to watch Tesla’s AI day event Posted: 19 Aug 2021 08:39 AM PDT  Today is Tesla's AI Day, a sequel of sorts to the company's Autonomy Day event held in 2019. The event, which will be held at Tesla's headquarters in Palo Alto, CA, will be livestreamed for the public starting at 5PM PT / 8PM ET (though the event may not actually begin until closer to 5:30PM PT). We don't have a lot of details about what will be announced, but based on the invitation, we'll get a keynote address by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, hardware and software demos from Tesla engineers, test rides in the Model S Plaid, and "more." Musk has also tweeted that the "sole goal" of the event is to lure experts in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence to come work at Tesla.  |
| Bird’s new electric bike looks like a VanMoof, and you can buy it Posted: 19 Aug 2021 07:46 AM PDT  Shared electric scooter company Bird is branching out into new two-wheeled vehicles, namely electric bikes. A few months after it introduced its first shared e-bike, the company announced that it would also offer its own e-bike for sale. The bike, dubbed Bird Bike of course, has a 500W rear hub motor, a Gates carbon belt drive, pedal- and throttle-assisted power, and the relatively modest sticker price of $2,299. Design-wise, the bike looks very similar to VanMoof's popular e-bikes, with a slightly elongated top tube and embedded front and rear lights. Bird, which was the first company to introduce shared electric scooters in a US city, has always flirted with the idea of e-bikes. The company first rolled out its Scoot-branded electric...  |
| GM and AT&T are teaming up to bring 5G to Chevy, Cadillac, and GMC cars by 2024 Posted: 19 Aug 2021 06:00 AM PDT  General Motors and AT&T are partnering to bring 5G connectivity to "millions" of vehicles over the next decade. The improved connectivity will mean better software performance, enhanced navigation, and faster music and video streaming capabilities, company officials said. Starting with model year 2024, all Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, and GMC vehicles will come equipped with 5G. In addition, all of GM's current model year 2019 and newer vehicles, which are equipped with 4G LTE, will experience "faster connectivity speeds and many of the same performance benefits of future 5G-equipped vehicles" thanks to GM's fifth-generation cellular network architecture. In other words, cars made in 2019 and beyond will have improved data speeds and...  |
| Senators ask FTC to investigate Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ promises Posted: 18 Aug 2021 11:47 AM PDT  Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have asked new Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to investigate Tesla's marketing of its advanced driver assistance system, Autopilot. The Senators are particularly concerned with how Tesla has been charging customers thousands of dollars for what it refers to as "Full Self-Driving capability," despite the fact that buying that package does not make the company's cars fully autonomous. "Tesla's marketing has repeatedly overstated the capabilities of its vehicles, and these statements increasingly pose a threat to motorists and other users of the road," the senators wrote in a letter published Wednesday. "Accordingly, we urge you to open an investigation into potentially...  |
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