Technology

Sameer Contractor

Mar 24, 2018, 8:39 PM

Elon Musk Deletes Official Facebook Pages Of Tesla And SpaceX Companies

The massive data breach at Facebook recently prompted the hashtag #deletefacebook across social media with users deleting their Facebook accounts and pages. Tesla CEO Elon Musk did the same when a follower dared him on Twitter.

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  Cyrus Dhabhar | Mar 15, 2018

  Audi e-tron GT Concept Teased

  Audi has teased the future of it's electric mobility plans at its annual press conference. The new concept car is a look into the future of Audi's sportier car range and has been christened Audi e-tron GT. The Audi e-tron GT will make it to production by 2021 or 2022 and will have the same underpinnings as the Porsche Mission E. This will be the third fully electric vehicle in the e-tron range after the Audi e-tron SUV and the Audi e-tron sportback that is due to be launched by the end of the decade along with a range of other hybrid vehicles.

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  Cyrus Dhabhar | Mar 15, 2018

  Polestar 1 Preorder Begins For Selected Markets

  Polestar has started accepting bookings for its first new car - the Polestar 1. The Polestar 1 is now available as a pre order by paying a deposit of "2,500 or $2,500 (20,000 Yen if you are in China) since there has been a huge demand for the hybrid coupe since its launch a few months ago. The Polestar 1 is currently only available in 18 countries - The United States, United Kingdon, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The final price of the Polestar 1 will be about $150,000 to $170,000.

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  car&bike Team | Mar 15, 2018

  Jaguar Launches XE And XF With Ingenium Petrol Engine In India

  Jaguar Land Rover has launched the Jaguar XE and XF in India with the lightweight and efficient all-aluminium Ingenium petrol powertrain. The new 2.0-litre Ingenium petrol motor is offered in both 197 bhp and 247 bhp options.

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  Pratik Rakshit | Mar 15, 2018

  US-Based Cycling Brand Trek Bikes Enters India, Launches Premium And Super Premium Bicycles Range

  Trek Bikes has forayed into the India market with 34 bicycle models across its road, mountain and hybrid categories in the premium and super premium segment.

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  car&bike Team | Mar 15, 2018

  Magna Announces Partnership With Lyft For Self-Driving Cars

  Lyft will lead the co-development of the self-driving system at its Palo Alto-based self-driving engineering centre and Magna will lead manufacturing and join Lyft's development team onsite, contributing their vehicle systems knowledge, safety and ADAS expertise, and manufacturing capabilities.

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  Cyrus Dhabhar | Mar 14, 2018

  Maruti Suzuki Swift Could Get 6-Speed Gearbox Soon

  The third generation Maruti Suzuki Swift was launched last month at the 2018 Auto Expo and has already been a runaway success with a long waiting period. The new Swift is a great package with a new and updated exterior design, a new interior packed full with gadgets and an option of both petrol and diesel engines along with a 5-speed manual or a 5-speed AMT on both engines. And now, it ha been reported that the Swift and other Maruti Suzuki models will soon get a 6-speed manual gearbox replacing the 5-speed one that has been used for quite a while.

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  Cyrus Dhabhar | Mar 12, 2018

  Renault-Nissan Alliance To Move To Solid-State Batteries By 2025

  Almost every electric car today is powered by a conventional Lithium-Ion battery pack. However, conventional Li-On batteries do have their limitation. These include charge times, weight, size and of course, the amount of charge that they can actually hold (depending on the size of the battery). The next step in the evolution of batteries will be the solid-state Lithium-Ion battery pack which in turn charges quicker, is much lighter and most importantly, is much safer than the current crop of battery packs. Manufacturers like Toyota have been wokring on solid-state battery packs for years now on prototype stage and now, the Renault-Nissan Alliance, of which automaker Mitsubishi is also a part of, has announced that it will move towards solid-state batteries by 2025. Toyota has also announced production versions of the solid state battery in their cars - both hybrid and fully electric by the year 2022.

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  Cyrus Dhabhar | Mar 12, 2018

  Hyundai Trolls Tesla With New Kona Compact Electric SUV Billboard

  While in India we see automakers and advertisers never take names of its competition in their campaigns, this practice is quite the norm internationally. We all remember the famous billboard wars between Mercedes-Benz, Audi and BMW a few years ago and now Hyundai seems to have taken a page out of the same playbook with a new billboard that popped up in Geneva during the 2018 Geneva Auto Show. The billboard that reads 'Your turn, Elon.' with the tagline 'the first electric compact SUV is here', which in turn takes a dig at the upcoming Tesla Model Y that will be unveiled sometime later this year with production slated to begin next year.

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