- Exclusive: Tesla flies in new battery production line for Gigafactory – Reuters: Tesla Inc has flown six planes full of robots and equipment from Europe to California in an unusual, high-stakes effort to speed up battery production for its Model 3 electric sedan, people familiar with the matter told Reuters this week.
- Tesla hires new chief financial officer for China – Reuters: Tesla Inc on Friday announced a number of key executive hires including former GE and General Motors executive James Zhou as its China CFO and Neeraj Manrao, a former Apple executive, as director of energy manufacturing.
- Dealers Hampering Sales of Electric Vehicles, Study Shows – Detroit Bureau: According to a study by Nature Energy, salespeople are reticent to sell people who specifically ask about electric vehicles an EV. The publication sent …
- VW to reinstate lobbyist after suspension over diesel fume tests – Bild – Reuters: Volkswagen plans to reinstate its chief lobbyist, Thomas Steg, who was suspended while the company investigated his role in tests that exposed monkeys and humans to toxic diesel fumes, a German newspaper reported on Friday.
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- Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck, Killed Pedestrian Wasn’t Set to Stop in an Emergency – WSJ: The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report on Uber Technologies Inc.”s deadly vehicle crash in Arizona, saying the company”s self-driving car wasn”t designed to automatically brake in case of an emergency.
- Tesla’s Musk bashes media, proposes credibility check – Reuters: Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk gained the support on Thursday of more than half a million people on Twitter for plans to create a …
- NTSB: Uber self-driving car failed to recognize pedestrian, brake – Reuters: An Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona in March failed to identify the pedestrian or brake, raising serious questions about the performance of the vehicle, the U.S. National…
- Feds: Uber autonomous SUV saw pedestrian, didn”t brake – Detroitnews: The autonomous Uber SUV that struck and killed a pedestrian didn”t stop because emergency braking was disabled
