Thousands of members of the United Auto Workers went on strike at three U.S. assembly plants of General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis, after the union and the automakers failed to reach a deal on a new labor contract Thursday night. The facilities are GM’s midsize truck and full-size van plant in Wentzville, Missouri; Ford’s …
There is the possibility of a UAW (United Auto Workers) strike starting this Friday. If the strike lasted ten days it would cause $5.6 billion in losses to US GDP and would send Michigan into a recession. A strike could also help non-union carmakers like Tesla and foreign car makers. Shawn Fain, the combative president …
The California Department of Motor Vehicles today requested that Cruise cut in half its fleet of driverless cars in San Francisco after a crash with an emergency vehicle and traffic jams. GM Cruise will have no more than 50 driverless vehicles in operation during the day and 150 driverless vehicles in operation at night. DMV …
Sandy Munro takes apart all of the leading cars in the world and analyzes costs and technological from the materials and components. He describes in this interview how Tesla achieved dominance in all drivetrain and electrical efficiency in all aspects of electric cars that matter since the Model 3 six years ago. This lead in …
Cruise is expanding its self-driving car operation to Los Angeles. CNBC reports Cruise has 400 robotaxi’s and most are in San Francisco. There are over 2000 robotaxi vehicles in California. Cruise is increasing autonomous rides by 49% per month and are doing more than 10,000 rides per week. Cruise CEO said they were operating tens …
Tesla has converted the last piece of Tesla FSD to AI neural networks. The last piece was vehicle control. The 300,000+ lines of C++ control code is now about 3000 lines of code to activate AI neural networks. Elon Musk says Tesla AI/FSD progress is only compute constrained now and not engineer constrained. Tesla is …
The Japan Times reports, Mitsubishi Motors has suspended its China business indefinitely and will lay off staff after years of poor sales in a market rapidly turning to electric vehicles. China is at about 35% EV today and will head to 50% EV in 2024 and 70% EV in 2025. Car makers without EVs or …
Members of the Safe Street Rebels is placing traffic cones on Cruise and Waymo vehicles to disable the self-driving robotaxis. The cones on the hoods of the cars confuse the driving software. On Thurs 7/13, the CPUC (California Public Utility Commission) will vote to expand AVs in San Francisco. Cruise and Waymo promise they’ll reduce …
Randy Kirk and Larry Goldberg reviewed my analysis of Tesla margin impacts from almost double Model S and Model X deliveries in Q2 2023 versus Q1 2023. Larry and Randy agree that Tesla will be in the range of 20% margin for Q2 2023. They also estimate the earnings per share will be about 96 …
Santa Clara, California-based Alef Aeronautics has been certified for test flights be able to take off into the air vertically and fly like a helicopter up to 110 miles on a single charge. The whole car becomes a wing, a circular wing. Alef is taking pre-orders for a $150 deposit. The company is backed by …
Elon Musk has said that Tesla will move FSD (Full Self Driving) out of beta with Version 12. Version 12 won’t be beta — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 27, 2023 They are actually much more than point releases, but the team is reserving 11.420 for the big one — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2023 …