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The first availability of BYD’s city pilot assisted driving feature will be March 30, and the Denza N7 will be the first model to be able to use it, according to local media. (Image credit: CnEVPost) BYD (OTCMKTS: BYDDF) is focusing on smart driving features like never before, and will start making its in-house developed ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System) feature available on urban roads by the end of next month, according to a new report. The first availability of BYD’s city pilot assisted driving feature will be March 30, and the Denza-branded N7 SUV will be the first of…

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! In a new twist on the energy-water nexus, the US startup Avnos has just nailed down $36 million in Series A funding to jump its new carbon capture and water recovery system from the pilot stage to market. Some of the usual suspects from the oil and gas industry are lining up behind the venture, but the CleanTechnica ears pricked up when we learned that the US Office of Naval Research initially helped Avnos get its technology in shape to draw the attention of…

The first new EV charging site in Tennessee funded through the Biden administration’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program bucks the trend of co-locating chargers with gas pumps. Installed by Atlanta-based charging infrastructure firm EnviroSpark, the new chargers are being hosted by a Waffle House restaurant in Lakeland, Tennessee. Of the NEVI-funded sites in the state, this is the only restaurant project and one of only two not located at a gas station or convenience store, according to an EnviroSpark press release. Porsche Taycan charging Tennessee documents show this location as costing $889,144, with $702,423 of it covered by the…

Li Auto CEO said the company is learning from Huawei’s management process and benefit sharing system. (Image credit: CnEVPost) Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI) rewarded employees with large year-end bonuses as the company reached its originally planned sales target for 2023. Li Auto employees will receive year-end bonuses of between 4 and 8 months’ salary in 2023, an amount that is significantly higher than the industry’s traditional year-end bonus of 2 months’ salary, local media outlet Jiemian reported today. Rumors circulating on a Chinese career social media platform yesterday claimed that Li Auto will pay out large 2023 year-end bonuses. Li…

The F57’s smart driving system will remove LiDAR in favor of a pure vision solution and use 3D millimeter-wave radars, according to local media. (A spy shot of what is allegedly Xpeng’s model codenamed F57 shared by the auto blogger @小志说车.) When Xpeng (NYSE: XPEV) launched the P5 sedan in September 2021, one of its key selling points was that it was the world’s first production model to feature LiDAR. Now, the company is reportedly ditching the component on a new premium model. Xpeng will launch a sedan, codenamed F57, in the second half of this year, and it will…

Most of the major EV makers saw insurance registrations fall last week, as the beginning of the month is usually a low point for deliveries. Most major electric vehicle (EV) makers saw insurance registrations decline last week, as the beginning of the month is usually a low point for deliveries. For the week of January 29 to February 4, Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI) had weekly sales of 7,200 units, the second-highest among China’s new car makers, the company said today on Weibo. As before, Li Auto didn’t explain the basis for calculating those weekly sales, but apparently, they were insurance…

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The Earth is getting warmer, there’s no doubt about that and those rising temperatures are not due to cow farts or sunspots but rather human activity. A report by Berkeley Earth in January, 2024 said, 2023 was the warmest year on Earth since 1850, exceeding the previous record set in 2016 by a clear and definitive margin. The global annual average for 2023 in our dataset was estimated as 1.54 ± 0.06 °C (2.77 ± 0.11 °F) above the average during the period 1850…

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Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB) headlight systems are one of the coolest features found on modern cars. And, no, I’m not talking about simply flicking the high beams on and off when your vehicle detects an oncoming car. These adaptive headlights can change the trajectory of your headlight’s beam to avoid blinding oncoming drivers—well, if you’re not in the U.S., that is. Polestar in particular has a very cool way of doing this. Polestar’s Pixel LED headlights are found in models like the Polestar 2, and while its hardware and vehicle software capabilities remain fairly modular around the world, its U.S.…

When Ford announced last spring that EV customers would soon have access to Tesla Superchargers, it kicked off what would become 2023’s hottest EV trend. Just about everyone opted into the Supercharger network, with promises of adapters ahead of full-scale integration. A full picture of how it’ll work, though, hasn’t come into focus. We know Ford EV owners will start getting adapters this spring, and now we know that they won’t need to install any new apps. Get Fully Charged Using Tesla Superchargers won’t require the use of the Tesla app for Ford EV owners. Ford says owners can use their…