With one daughter and another on the way, the Bentvelsens were in the market for a roomier car. Jerry, 34, grows cucumbers in Rotterdam and was familiar with China’s largest electric-vehicle maker from the family business using its commercial trucks. Next week, he and his wife Jessica, 33, take delivery of a black BYD Tang,… Continue reading BYD’s welcome in Europe worries local automakers – Automotive News Europe
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Cleantechnica: The EV Market Is Entering An Exciting Phase 002381
One of the first real mass production EVs, the Nissan Leaf, took about 10 years to produce and sell 500,000 units. Just the other day, VW announced that it has sold 500 000 of its ID series, one year ahead of schedule. It took VW just 2 years to sell half a million units of… Continue reading Cleantechnica: The EV Market Is Entering An Exciting Phase 002381
Cleantechnica: It’s Not About Tesla Vs BYD — They Are Both Playing A Key Role In The Transition 002380
The transition to electric mobility is well underway. There has been a lot of progress in the passenger vehicle segment over the last 12 years or so since the early days of the Nissan Leaf, the Tesla Roadster, and the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. The market share of new EV sales in China is close to 30%… Continue reading Cleantechnica: It’s Not About Tesla Vs BYD — They Are Both Playing A Key Role In The Transition 002380
Clean Technica: Global Electric Vehicle Sales Up 62% (Overall Auto Sales Down 8%)002379
Electric vehicle sales were up 62% globally in the first half of 2022 compared to the first half of 2021. That includes fully electric vehicles and plugin hybrids. These plugin vehicles reached 4.3 million sales in the first half of 2022, according to global EV analysis leaders at EV-Volumes. Looking at growth in core regions,… Continue reading Clean Technica: Global Electric Vehicle Sales Up 62% (Overall Auto Sales Down 8%)002379
Panicked Elon Musk Reportedly Begging Engineers Not to Leave
Elon Musk’s Twitter operations are still in free fall. Earlier this week, the billionaire CEO sent an email to staff telling them that they “need to be extremely hardcore” and work long hours at the office, or quit and get three months severance, as The Washington Post reports. Employees had until 5 pm on Thursday… Continue reading Panicked Elon Musk Reportedly Begging Engineers Not to Leave
“Elon” Plummets in Popularity as a Baby Name for Some Reason
We can’t imagine why. Big Baby Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s name has clearly lost its luster among the parents of newborns. According to BabyCenter‘s review of the data the name “Elon” has cratered in popularity over the last year, dropping from 120 babies per million in 2021 to just 90 babies per million,… Continue reading “Elon” Plummets in Popularity as a Baby Name for Some Reason
Here’s How Bad a Twitter Mega-Breach Would Be
“Twitter has seemingly neglected security for a very long time, and with all the changes, there is risk for sure,” says David Kennedy, CEO of the incident response firm TrustedSec, who formerly worked at the NSA and with the United States Marine Corps signal intelligence unit. “There’s a lot of work to be done to… Continue reading Here’s How Bad a Twitter Mega-Breach Would Be
Twitter hit with mass resignations after Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ ultimatum
Elon Musk is now facing a new crisis at Twitter as a wave of employees seemed to reject his ultimatum of an “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0 or leave the company. Hours after a deadline for workers to check “yes” on a Google form accepting “long hours at high intensity, it seems a large number of… Continue reading Twitter hit with mass resignations after Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ ultimatum
Elon Musk changes Twitter’s remote work rules, again
Elon Musk is changing Twitter’s remote work rules yet again amid deadline for employees to commit to his vision for a “hardcore” company. Musk, who previously banned remote work at Twitter, has now indicated that some remote work is possible, Bloomberg and The Verge report. “Regarding remote work, all that is required for approval is that your… Continue reading Elon Musk changes Twitter’s remote work rules, again
Democratic senators ask FTC to investigate Elon Musk over his handling of Twitter
A group of Democratic senators have asked the FTC to investigate Elon Musk over his handling of users’ privacy and security in the wake of his takeover of Twitter. In a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan, the senators cite Musk’s botched rollout of Twitter Blue’s paid verifications, as well as the departures of Twitter’s… Continue reading Democratic senators ask FTC to investigate Elon Musk over his handling of Twitter