Ford’s plans for the F-150 electric pickup and and Volkswagen’s plans for the VW ID.4 are in jeopardy as their battery supplier is facing an import ban over intellectual property issues.
LG versus SK innovation
In 2019, LG Chem, one of the top battery suppliers for electric vehicles, filed federal lawsuits against SK Innovation (SKI), another top battery supplier for electric vehicles, over…
Poland’s largest utility will jointly develop two offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea with Orsted.
Why is Wood Mackenzie shutting down Greentech Media, a valuable source of green energy news?
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EVgo announced today that it is expanding its integration of Tesla connectors at charging stations in the US.
It will give more charging options to Tesla owners.
Tesla Connector
In the US, unlike most other electric automakers using the CCS or CHAdeMO standards, Tesla is…
Rivian reportedly scouting sites for a factory in Europe
February 12, 2021
Rivian continues its recent run of occupying headlines and social feeds. This comes as the automaker inches closer to the debut of its first two consumer EVs this summer. Most recently, the Amazon and Ford backed manufacturer has been reportedly exploring locations for a Rivian factory in Europe.
Rivian’s delivery vans for Amazon will pave the way
Back in 2019, Electrek reported that Rivian…
Samsung reportedly bringing high refresh rate displays to Galaxy A52, A72 this year
February 12, 2021
The most popular phones Samsung sells each year are not the high-end Galaxy S or Fold devices you’ll hear in the media all of the time. Rather, it’s the Galaxy A series for their affordable price points and mass appeal. This year, the Galaxy A52 and Galaxy A72 will…
Google Search turns on passage ranking to help find buried answers
February 12, 2021
Google Search has historically evaluated “all content on a web page to determine if it is relevant to a query.” Back in October, alongside the launch of Hum to Search, Google announced passage ranking, and it’s now starting to roll out.
The company wants to address…
Tesla has released a new software update in China that includes the integration of the TikTok app integration, as well as a few more features.
Tesla New Year Update
Tesla has a tradition to release new software updates for the holidays, which the automaker did again in December in most markets.
Now, it is following up with a holiday update in China for the New Year of the Ox.
Tesla wrote on its…
While Chrome for iOS hasn’t seen a stable release since November amid an ongoing pause in updates, Google continues work on the beta channel and is currently testing a way to lock Incognito tabs with Face or Touch ID.
Chrome will let you “Lock Incognito tabs” so that…
Looks like 2021 is the year of comebacks for strategy-RPG franchises. King’s Bounty II is coming sometime soon, and now we know that Disciples is going to join it.
Publisher Kalypso Media and the Frima development studio announced Disciples: Liberation. This is the first…
Canon’s New App Culls Photos with Artificial Intelligence
February 11, 2021
Canon has announced the Photo Culling app, the company’s new software for iOS that is built on a newly-announced proprietary artificial intelligence. Canon advertises its new app as a “digital photo assistant” to help select your best images based on four key parameters.
Starting with the core of its new app, Canon announced that it has built a Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence…
