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Humanoid robots aren’t ready to juice up the massive, 240-tonne electric haul trucks Fortescue is putting to work in Australia’s punishing Pilbara. Instead, the company is using specially modified and massively powerful automotive assembly-line robots from KUKA to wrangle the massive cables needed to deliver a mind-bending 6 MW of power to its trucks’ batteries. While Chinese car brands capable of 2 MW “flash charging” are making headlines these days, Fortescue and Liebherr have been quietly working together to develop a 6MW charging system for their massive, ultra heavy-duty mining rigs since 2024 – but details about how the process actually…
Winning over a skeptical test driver takes more than horsepower. Source link
Redwood Materials and Rivian are expanding their existing EV battery partnership, adding a fresh battery material recycling effort to the EV startup’s Normal, Illinois, vehicle factory and, potentially, other Rivian-owned sites. As Tesla co-founder JB Straubel’s second act, Redwood Materials had a lot to live up to. Its plan to give used EV batteries a second life as energy storage for public- and private-sector buildings, construction sites, micro-grids, and (sigh) data centers makes plenty of sense, though. Enough sense, anyway, that Rivian decided to put the idea to work as it built out its R2 production line at the former…
Residents will decide where the Level 2 chargers will be installed, and the city will prioritize areas with apartment buildings. Source link
Dubai Police have issued 7,735 traffic fines and impounded 1,630 vehicles during the first nine months of this year as part of a crackdown on excessive noise and unauthorised vehicle modifications. Of the total offences, 2,045 involved excessive vehicle noise, resulting in 333 vehicles being impounded. Another 5,690 violations concerned illegal engine or chassis modifications, leading to 1,297 vehicles being taken off the road. According to Dubai Police, modified exhausts and engines on cars and motorcycles can create significant disturbance for residents. Authorities are therefore increasing inspections and traffic monitoring to identify offenders. The penalties are not insignificant. Excessive vehicle…
Buried in a press release titled, “Even more colours and even greater convenience for the Cayenne Electric” was news that Porsche, for the first time, would be offering electrically wireless inductive charging on its impressively powerful Cayenne Electric SUV. UPDATE 21OCT2026: now, there’s a video. In a new explainer video released today, Porsche explains how its engineers developed inductive charging for the Cayenne Electric, from the transfer of power across an air gap to detecting foreign objects, guiding the car into position, and testing the system in real-world conditions without microwaving the family pet. You can click the “play” button,…
GM’s new OnStar Connected Cameras sound like a page out of Tesla’s tech-focused playbook. Source link
Tesla now says unsupervised “Full Self-Driving” in customer-owned cars will arrive in Q2 2027. It’s the latest date on a promise Elon Musk has been making to FSD buyers for the better part of a decade. But there’s a catch. On Tesla’s Q3 2026 earnings call today, AI chief Ashok Elluswamy described it as owners adding their own vehicles to Tesla’s managed Robotaxi fleet, not owners getting a car that drives them anywhere they want to go. The question shareholders actually asked “When can we anticipate FSD unsupervised in customer cars?” was one of the top retail shareholder questions submitted…
But the vast majority of Cybercabs will be owned by Tesla, CEO Elon Musk says. Source link
Logan K. Carter/ Jalopnik The Mercedes-Benz GLS is the brand’s largest SUV, charged with the dubious honor of being the S-Class of SUVs, and to keep up with the W223 S-Class’s recent refresh that brought new styling, powertrains and tech, it’s now the GLS’s turn for its second facelift. You’ve been seeing a series of Mercedes SUV reviews hit the site over the past few weeks, starting with the also reworked 2027 Mercedes-Benz GLE, then the 2027 Mercedes-AMG GLE53, and now it’s finally time for the big daddy Mercedes-AMG GLS63. I didn’t get the chance to drive the non-AMG GLS…