Will the souped-up Shelby GT500’s horsepower and weight advantage be enough to defeat the Tesla Model S Plaid?
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A Tesla vehicle on Autopilot has crashed into a police car stopped on the highway just as the automaker is being investigated for similar crashes.

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Customer deliveries to start in the fourth quarter.
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The unidentified person unplugged the Model 3 because “overcharging in this heat will blow up this battery.”
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The Faraday Battery Challenge, a project initiated by the UK government to promote advanced battery technologies, has announced a new £10-million round of funding, which will be shared across 17 projects being undertaken by businesses and research institutions across the UK.

The funded projects cover a wide range of topics, including a new sodium nickel chloride battery system, a solid-state battery manufacturing system, graphene composite materials, a second-life battery solution, and battery recycling.

Several of the Faraday Battery Challenge-funded projects will be based at the recently-opened UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC), a battery manufacturing development facility that’s designed to provide a link between battery technology development and mass production. UKBIC is open to any organization with existing or new battery technology.

“Since 2017 the Faraday Battery Challenge has been supporting the UK’s battery companies to produce batteries that are more cost-effective, more efficient, charge faster and can easily be recycled,” said Tony Harper, Director of the Faraday Battery Challenge. “This new round of funding enables us to support companies across the battery supply chain.”

Tesla has started pushing a new software update to its fleet of Model S electric sedans in order to improve suspension, Autopark, and more.

Some of the improvements are expected to make it to other vehicles too.

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How much of an impact does weather have on the real-world range of the Model 3? This test finds out.
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The kei car is being planned and developed by the joint venture with Mitsubishi.
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Already close to 900 units were registered within two weeks, which is more than any other EV.
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The automaker is reportedly targeting an $80 billion valuation, which would make it the world’s sixth-most valuable car company.
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