A Tesla hacker has revealed what Tesla’s driver-facing camera in Model 3 and Model Y is looking for – hinting at driver monitoring feature.
When Tesla launched the Model 3, it equipped the vehicle with a standard cabin-facing camera located in the rearview mirror.
At the time, the automaker said that the camera wasn’t active and it would be used in the future.
CEO Elon Musk said that it…
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the Arc Vector electric motorcycle’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
The Arc Vector has ridden some proverbial twisty roads over the last few years, even before ever reaching it to production.
The high-tech and high-dollar electric…
Ford has electric pickup range-extender design that drops into bed, could be option for F150
October 4, 2020
Ford has a design for removable range-extender that can drop into an electric pickup’s bed, which could possibly become an option for the upcoming F150 electric.
Range-extenders, which are basically generators, haven’t become popular with electric vehicles buyers.
It’s…
The United States National Parks Service (NPS) has just updated their regulations to codify electric bicycles up to 750W as legal in all national parks where bicycles are already permitted.
The new regulations, posted yesterday on the National Parks Service website, move to support the decree issued by the US Secretary of the Interior last year, stating that all e-bikes should be allowed in all US…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 3, 2020
October 4, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
According to Polaris CEO Scott Wine, the company may be returning to the electric motorcycle space.
And the new Polaris/Zero Motorcycles partnership announced earlier this week would be the way they do it.
The exclusive partnership between Zero Motorcycles and Polaris…
Elon Musk confirmed that a new “vector-space bird’s eye view” is coming to Tesla vehicles under the FSD package.
Bird’s eye view, a vision monitoring system that renders a view of a vehicle from the top to help park and navigate tight spaces, has become a popular feature in premium vehicles and it has even moved down market over the last few years.
It is generally made possible due to…
Greenland’s ice is melting faster than at any time in the past 12,000 years, according to a new study.
Sir David Attenborough’s A Life on Our Planet debuts on Sunday to help us better understand climate change.
The Environmental Defense Fund launches the Climate…
GM unveils Buick Electra electric crossover concept, claims over 400 miles of range with Ultium battery
October 3, 2020
GM has unveiled a new Buick Electra electric vehicle concept and claims a range of over 400 miles with GM’s Ultium battery.
The Buick Electra was a flagship luxury vehicle for the Buick brand for decades and now GM might bring it back as an electric car.
In Shanghai this…
Honda has announced that it will withdraw from Formula One as an engine supplier, stating that it wants to focus more of its R&D towards fuel cells and battery electric vehicles instead of combustion engines. They will continue supplying Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Alpha Tauri until the end of the 2021 season.
Honda says that this change in focus is intended to facilitate their…
