As noted by Oversharing’s Alison Griswold, the scooter sharing company is so strapped for cash that its hounding current and former customers for literal pennies. People are understandably pissed off. Bird, which admitted last month to overstating its revenue for two-plus years, is rapidly running out of cash and may not have enough money to stay in business. Has anyone checked the couch cushions?
The South Korean automaker is the latest to reveal plans to develop a virtual manual transmission for EVs. The head of Hyundai’s N performance brand tells Car Experts:
The idea is to come pretty close to the feel and sound of the DCT [dual-clutch transmission] in the i30 N hatch... This is what we want to deliver, complete with the same some jolt and downshift vibrations you experience in our ICE N cars. Sound-wise, though, it’s very challenging, especially those pops and crackles you get in the i30 N, but we’re still working on this technology to bring the DCT in-car experience of a combustion engine car to similar emotional levels in our Ioniq 5 N EV.
The United Auto Workers scored a big win this week when workers at the joint GM-LG battery plant in northeast Ohio voted to unionize.
Around 1:30 Friday morning, the UAW released the results of a two-day vote that started Wednesday and ended at 11 p.m. Thursday. The workers at the plant, located near GM’s former Lordstown Assembly plant in Ohio, voted in favor of joining the UAW by a vote of 710 to 16, the UAW said.
[Detroit Free Press]
Elon Musk says it did, but Gustavo Henrique Ruffo at autoevolution has some questions:
In the Semi delivery event, Musk did not answer how much the Semi costs, when other customers will receive their vehicles, how much it weighs, how many trucks Pepsico received, how big the battery pack is, and several other reasonable questions any other truck maker would be willing to solve. In the video, all we see is an accelerated trip. Elon Musk said it had “no jump cuts” and that the entire video would be posted on YouTube. It is not available yet.
