July saw plugin EVs take 33.8% share of the UK auto market, up from 27.4% year-on-year. BEVs grew in volume by 9% YoY, while PHEVs grew 33%. Overall auto volume was 140,154 units, down some 5% YoY. Volkswagen was the UK’s leading BEV brand for the month. July’s sales totals saw combined plugin EVs take… Continue reading Clean Technica: EVs Take 33.8% Share Of The UK – Government Bungles Incentives004145
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Clean Technica: Chinese Car Brands Grew 91% in Europe in 1st Half of 2025004144
Last Updated on: 6th August 2025, 08:32 pm For a thorough look at European EV sales, I recommend José Pontes’ monthly Europe EV sales reports — here’s the one for June. However, JATO Dynamics also has a report out on auto sales in 28 European markets (Europe-28), and there are a number of interesting findings… Continue reading Clean Technica: Chinese Car Brands Grew 91% in Europe in 1st Half of 2025004144
Clean Technica: Musk Pounds Another Nail Into The Tesla Sales Coffin, Taylor Swift Deepfake Edition004143
Last Updated on: 6th August 2025, 11:24 am There he goes again. Earlier this week Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a $29 billion payout from the Tesla board to stick around, just as word dropped that his Grok AI chatbot is happy to produce suggestive deepfakes of Taylor Swift on command and shoot them out… Continue reading Clean Technica: Musk Pounds Another Nail Into The Tesla Sales Coffin, Taylor Swift Deepfake Edition004143
Clean Technica: Tesla Shareholders Sue Elon Musk Over Autopilot & FSD Failures004142
The $329 million verdict against Tesla by a jury in Miami last week was the last straw for several Tesla shareholders. Coupled with the widely reported misadventures of Tesla Robotaxis in Austin, Texas, recently, they have decided “Enough is enough!” and sued Tesla and Elon Musk personally for repeatedly overstating the effectiveness of and prospects… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla Shareholders Sue Elon Musk Over Autopilot & FSD Failures004142
Scientists Find Evidence That Aging Is Contagious
Image by Getty / Futurism Eventually, aging comes for us all — but new evidence suggests that in key ways, it may be a contagious condition. In a provocative new study published in the journal Metabolism, scientists from South Korea and the United States found, while doing studies on human cells and with mice, that injecting… Continue reading Scientists Find Evidence That Aging Is Contagious
Mathematicians Startled by 17-Year-Old With Uncanny Abilities
A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math’s most mysterious problems — and in doing so, become a rising star. As Quanta magazine reports, fledgling mathematician Hannah Cairo was just 17 when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a decades-old proposition — in higher math, it’s common for the suggestion that… Continue reading Mathematicians Startled by 17-Year-Old With Uncanny Abilities
Federal regulators give Zoox an exemption for its custom-built robotaxis
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has given Zoox an exemption to demonstrate its custom-built robotaxis on public roads and closed a related investigation into whether the Amazon-owned company had sidestepped federal regulations. The decision, which was announced Wednesday, clears up a long-standing debate over whether Zoox’s custom-built autonomous vehicles complied with federal motor vehicle… Continue reading Federal regulators give Zoox an exemption for its custom-built robotaxis
Elon Musk teases new Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving Supervised’, but manage your expectations
Elon Musk is teasing a new Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving Supervised’ (FSD) update with “10x improvements”, but historical performance compared to Musk’s announcements suggests that it’s safer to manage your expectations. In a new X post last night, Musk is teasing an upcoming new FSD update that will include a “10x increase in parameters”: Tesla is… Continue reading Elon Musk teases new Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving Supervised’, but manage your expectations
The Money OpenAI Is Making by Betraying Its Nonprofit Roots Is Obscene
OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit research institute, dedicated to realizing an “artificial general intelligence” that benefits all of humanity. In a December 2015 blog post introducing the company, its founders, including current CEO Sam Altman and his now bitterly-departed rival Elon Musk, said that to accomplish its goal, it would have to be “unconstrained… Continue reading The Money OpenAI Is Making by Betraying Its Nonprofit Roots Is Obscene
New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin
The mysterious Shroud of Turin, which is believed by many Christians to have laid atop Jesus Christ’s body after his crucifixion, may be even stranger than we previously thought. In a new study published in the journal Archaeometry, Brazilian 3D designer Cicero Moraes lends credence to the theory that the shroud was a work of… Continue reading New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin