Cleantech & EV’s

A Tesla hacker has unlocked “Autopilot Augmented Vision,” a new mode in Tesla’s autonomous driving suite, that enables to see what Autopilot can detect in real time. It’s awesome to watch. More than two years ago, we shared pictures on Electrek of leaked images from inside a Tesla engineering vehicle testing Autopilot. The leak showed that Tesla was already testing its “Full…

Herbert Diess, the head of the Volkswagen group, forced a vote of confidence over his leadership at Volkswagen after facing some pushbacks due to his more aggressive stance on electric vehicles. Now Volkswagen’s board confirmed that it is backing him and his team over the aggressive electrification plan. Diess came to Volkswagen from BMW in 2015 amid the Dieselgate scandal and started a…

The Lion Electric Company, a Quebec-based manufacturer of electric school buses, has successfully completed a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) pilot deployment of five school buses in White Plains, New York. New York’s V2G school buses The project began in 2018 among partners Lion, V2G technology company Nuvve, White Plains School District, and British multinational public transport company National…

Tesla (TSLA) is putting all its effort into increasing Model 3 and Model Y production and quickly delivering the new cars locally as an insane record quarter for deliveries is achievable. Friday night, we reported on Elon Musk telling Tesla employees that it “really mattered” to increase production by the end of the quarter. With only three weeks left in the quarter, it didn’t seem like…