Daily Archive: March 30, 2023

Weichai’s Electric Trucks Will Use BYD’s Blade Battery

BYD’s revolutionary LFP Blade Battery has been instrumental in boosting production and sales of BYD’s battery-electric vehicles as well as its “Super Hybrid” DM-i and DM-p plug-in hybrids. Last year, BYD sold over 1.8 million vehicles and is looking to produce and sell a whole lot more of its own vehicles this year. But that’s […]

Open Letter From AI Leaders: Let’s Take A Break For Safety

The danger of artificial intelligence is a common theme in science fiction because it allows authors and filmmakers to explore ethical and societal questions that arise when humans develop entities that can rival or surpass their own intelligence. There are various reasons why this keeps popping up. The biggest one is probably loss of control. […]

New Company Promises To Speed Up Mini-EV Manufacturing

EVs are great, but one very common criticism of them is that they’re expensive. This problem has gotten a lot better over the last few years, but the cheapest new EVs are still around $25,000. In wealthy countries, that’s cheap enough to be considered affordable in 2023, but we have to remember that not all […]