An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The billionaire behind six-month-old Vietnamese auto startup VinFast plans a feat even Toyota and Hyundai couldn’t pull off during their early days: sell a car in the U.S. Pham Nhat Vuong, the Southeast Asian country’s richest man and now in charge of the new automaker, is so intent on exporting electric vehicles to…
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Analysts, Gamers, and Blade Runner’s Artistic Director React To The Look of Tesla’s Cybertruck
Syd Mead, the artistic director on Blade Runner says Tesla’s new Cybertruck “has completely changed the vocabulary of the personal truck market design.” Or, for another perspective, “Tesla’s Cybertruck looks weird… like, really weird,” wrote Toni Sacconaghi, a senior equity research analyst at the global asset management firm AllianceBernstein. “Add a little bit of dirt, and you could even say it…
A Real-Life Tesla Study Shows Durability of EV Batteries
Slashdot reader Rutabaga8 is the CEO of a web site conducting in-depth research on personal finance topics. They recently contacted Slashdot to share “some surprising results” from their analysis of a nonprofit advocacy group’s seven years of data on Tesla batteries: By seven years of age, the typical car could still deliver around 93% of the original range on a full…
New Linux/Windows Malware Allows Arbitrary Execution of Shell Commands
“Researchers have discovered a new multi-platform backdoor that infects Windows and Linux systems allowing the attackers to run malicious code and binaries on the compromised machines,” reports Bleeping Computer: The malware dubbed ACBackdoor is developed by a threat group with experience in developing malicious tools for the Linux platform based on the higher complexity of the Linux variant as Intezer security…
Why the Electric-Car Revolution May Take a Lot Longer Than Expected
New submitter magzteel shares a report from MIT Technology Review: A new report from the MIT Energy Initiative warns that EVs may never reach the same sticker price so long as they rely on lithium-ion batteries, the energy storage technology that powers most of today’s consumer electronics. In fact, it’s likely to take another decade just to eliminate the difference in…
Will Electric Cars Last Longer Than Combustion-Engine Cars?
Long-time Slashdot reader jimminy_cricket shared Qz’s report on some of “the highest-mileage Teslas in the world”: Few have driven a Tesla to the point at which the vehicle really starts to show its age. But Tesloop, a shuttle service in Southern California composed of Teslas, was ticking the odometers of its cars well past 300,000 miles with no signs of slowing……
UCLA Now Has the First Zero-Emission, All-Electric Mobile Surgical Instrument Lab
UCLA’s new mobile surgical lab is a zero-emission, all-electric vehicle that will move back and forth between two UCLA campuses, collecting, sterilizing and repairing surgical instruments for the medical staff there. TechCrunch reports: Why is that even needed? The usual process is sending out surgical instruments for this kind of service by a third-party, and it’s handled in a dedicated facility…
Honda Works On Second EV, Quits Diesel, and Puts Hydrogen On Hold
Socguy writes: In late October, at Honda’s “Electric Vision” event in Amsterdam, the company said it was “electrifying” its entire product line, which mostly means hybrids. “We will bring further battery-electric products to the market,” they said. At the same time it would seem, diesel and hydrogen are on the way out. Katsushi Inoue, Honda Europe’s president, said: “Maybe hydrogen fuel…
New Electric Battery Design Can Charge an Electric Vehicle In 10 Minutes
ted_pikul writes: Penn State University researchers report in the journal Joule that they’ve designed an electric battery that can charge an EV for 200 miles in about 10 minutes. The key to their approach is quickly heating the nickel foil-covered battery to a high temperature and more slowly cooling it to ambient temperatures. The researchers report that in addition to the…