Audi’s A6 e-tron series, Q6 e-tron series, and A5 series vehicles in Europe will get the feature this month before it rolls out globally based on the “launch timeline of Audi vehicles.” Samsung Wallet already supports various Genesis, Kia, Hyundai, and BMW vehicles.
Unsurprisingly, President-elect Donald Trump plans to end the federal incentive, which encouraged Americans to buy EVs like Teslas for years. Now, Reuters is reporting Tesla is for it:
representatives of Tesla - by far the nation’s largest EV seller - have told a Trump-transition committee they support ending the subsidy
Meanwhile, Trump has tasked Tesla CEO Elon Musk with cutting “wasteful expenditures” in the new administration.
What Elon Musk really wants from a Trump presidency.
To celebrate its recent coupling, Volkswagen and Rivian brought a few journalists to its new Palo Alto-based office to see an example of the type of EVs they plan on building together. (Handelsblatt’s Felix Holtermann posted the first pic to his LinkedIn.) The unmarked VW test vehicles are running on Rivian’s software and electrical architecture, which the company boasts uses fewer electronic control units and less wiring than most other EVs.
Volkivian? RivWagen? I’ll leave the portmanteaus to more creative minds.
Rivian released a short film today in which the company’s CEO RJ Scaringe issues a call to action on climate change, arguing the time is now to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy solutions.
The scale of the challenge means we need to be making these changes now, and we need to begin working toward every increasing renewable content on our grid. We need to replace the roughly one-and-a-half billion combustion powered vehicles on our planet with electric vehicles, but also know that on the path to the end state, we’re going to have solutions that are imperfect, but we need to start.
The latest version of the app now includes support for CarPlay and Siri, alongside “stability and performance enhancements” according to Apple.
It’s more surprising that this wasn’t already available. MacRumors notes that CarPlay support also briefly appeared in January before mysteriously vanishing just hours later. I’m glad they brought it Bach.
In a Mazda Insider Blog interview, design chief Masashi Nakayama said:
This concept is not just one of those empty show cars. It has been designed with real intent to turn it into a production model in the not-so-distant future.
Mazda debuted the rotary engine hybrid electric coupe last year. However, as Road & Track notes, Mazda has reneged on promises it made in the past.
Donald Trump’s second term means significant changes for AI, crypto, and EV policy.
