Back in the days the BMW i4 was announced in 2021 with 31min 10-80% charging duration. Via OTA updates my 2y old car is now at 24min. press.bmwgroup.com/usa/article/de… That is a really great improvement!

The message from Lei Jun: Huge day for Xiaomi Auto — an important milestone in its history. 🎉 Today, the 500,000th Xiaomi car rolled off the production line. From car No.1 to No.500,000, it took just 1 year and a bit over 7 months. For industry giants, 500k might be nothing

Relief washes over Europe: Bosch just won the German Future Prize for developing hydrogen trucks. So glad Germany pays out €250k to back a complex, infrastructure-heavy, no-future solution instead of those simple, proven batteries. True innovation achieved.

"how horrible can you make parking meter UXs?" France: oui

Nice how we undermine our industrial & social resilience, competitiveness, living standards, defensibility, for 🇨🇳 to rise, thrive, heat up 🌍. Well done, Europe leaders - our double standards already add up to net 0 & emissions of common & strategic sense are impressively low 👍

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Production as a Service: How the Foxconn's MIH Platform Just Might Make Car Manufacturing a White-Label Business The shift from combustion engines to EVs is more than a power train change; it is an industrial revolution reducing vehicle production complexity and democratizing

"Scared of Becoming Detroit" Full page in FAZ about Southern Germany's "Spätzle Connection", the short line of sight and communication between suppliers and carmakers that is now broken. In light of components that cost 500€ here, but can be had for 220€ from China, the tone is

the uncalled-for AI auto-dubbing by YouTube is so bad it's comedic. Note how interviewer and interviewee are the same 'voice' and it's just ridiculous lmao. make it stop already

note to European governments and bureaucracies: the markets move faster than you do

an overview of some excellent integrated, high-performance engineering of the new electric Porsche Cayenne by the always excellent Buchan Motorsport: reduced module count, structural battery, fine thermal management and more youtu.be/Yxc-U4_PwcU?si…

The surest way leads to stagnation is to tax the makers with the heavy burden of documentations that even bureaucrats have no time to read — instead of letting makers quickly iterate on their products. If makers spend less time on making things, then there is nothing to make.

⚡️ Mercedes CLA Review ⚡️ by Moritz Leicht Bottom Line: The Mercedes CLA is Mercedes' best EV yet, with impressive 800V charging, good range, and great driving dynamics. However, it is significantly overpriced compared to rivals like the Tesla Model 3 and smart #5, offering less

the simplest tell for whether an account on here is worth your bandwidth: does it analyze or just announce? most ppl regurgitate like they’re stenographers for the void. the rare ones actually interpret, map incentives, & surface deeper dynamics. whether it’s culture, tech,

sorry but this is game set match for uber. the clock is already ticking. we’re now likely just arguing over how fast the sand drains. not going all in on autonomy might genuinely go down as one of the most catastrophic strategic blunders in tech history. they bet the company on

compuficial very very very soon. think of technology like dominos, once one falls, they will fall very quickly.

Foxconn (Hon Hai) is aiming to become the auto industry‘s TSMC and it just might work „This is the exact moment Hon Hai’s CDMS (Contract Design and Manufacturing Service) business model is designed to intercept. Hon Hai’s goal is to be the receiver of the EV industry's "Compaq