Cleantech & EV’s

Tesla is now launching a second Model Y wheel and tire winter package — giving owners more options before the winter starts. As we reported last week, as a California-based company, Tesla has often been criticized for addressing concerns from owners living in colder climates as a second thought. That has often materialized itself through a lack of or last-minute availability of winter tires…

Waymo is throwing shade at Tesla and Elon Musk over comments that the latter has made about the usefulness of the former’s self-driving technology. There are dozens of high-profile companies working on solving self-driving and just as many different approaches, but there are two main differences: those who rely mainly if not entirely on computer vision, and those who rely on HD mapping. Tesla…

The Rivian R1S has been somewhat of a sleeper model living in the shadows of the R1T pickup truck, but the electric SUV’s production version is now being unveiled starting at $70,000 and could be coming for the luxury market. While Rivian has been distancing itself from a luxury branding and instead focusing on “adventure”, the R1S electric SUV seems to fit right in with vehicles like the…