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Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda went on a rant about battery-electric vehicles at an annual meeting of the automaker. He spread misinformation about electric vehicles and claimed that it wasn’t a good idea to push for a massive electrification. This small-mindedness could spell the end for the automaker if they don’t quickly let go of such ideas. Toyota has yet to launch an all-electric vehicle outside…

Today GM had a lot of new EVs on display at a Barclays investor event but far away, a realtor doing YouTube videos happened to catch the first public glimpse of the 2022 Bolt EV out in the wild. This is the same pre-COVID 2021 Bolt EV that we saw at GM’s EV Day in Detroit in February. YouTuber MooseOBX (Via GMAuthority, via Reddit) caught the 2022 Bolt without any camouflage. It is the first…

Tesla is apparently starting to deliver cars with its own TeslaCam/Sentry Mode storage device. Sentry Mode is Tesla’s integrated surveillance system inside its vehicles using the Autopilot cameras around the car to record potential vandalism or other incidents. Tesla owners have to plug a storage device in one of the USB ports in the center console, and footage recorded by Sentry Mode and…

Consumer Reports released a report based on a test of 17 driver-assist system and Tesla Autopilot came in second to GM’s Super Cruise due to the lack of driver monitoring in the former. The result is similar to their 2018 driver assist rankings. The publication started its driver-assist system tests in 2018 with only a handful of systems. Now two years later, the test has grown to 17…