Today, Tesla in China has reduced the prices for the Model 3 and Model Y, for all variants in the model lineups. This means that now, the base version Model Y is now eligible for any government subsidies, due to its costing less than 300,000 yuan (£36,500). This price reduction is only taking place in China, with prices in the UK and the rest of Europe remaining the same. In […]
Later today, alongside iPadOS 16 and macOS 13 Apple is also planning on releasing iOS 16.1 for iPhone models. This new update will bring a lot of additions that were otherwise missed out from the original release of iOS 16. For starters, Live Activities will be coming in iOS 16.1 as well as the Live Activities API for developers. Apps will be able to take advantage of these new tools […]
In Nottingham UK, the ‘Wireless Charging of Electric Taxis’ (WiCET) project has finally gone live, after almost three years in the making. Back in January 2020, the UK government announced funding for the project and it was awarded £3.4 million to install a testing base for wireless charging taxis and earlier this month, it started working. A taxi rank in Nottingham has been converted to be able to charge electric […]
Tesla has launched a new public website where both Tesla and non Tesla owners can vote on where new locations for Supercharger charging stations will be. Earlier this year, the 35,000th Supercharger bay was installed and the company isn’t planning on slowing down anytime soon it seems. At this rate, this shows a 35% year-over-year increase in new locations over the past few years. Supercharger Voting coming soon. Reply with […]
Ford has recently provided more information about the upcoming E-Transit Custom. Ford announced the all new electric van earlier this year in May and it shares a platform with the Volkswagen ID. Buzz. Ford will also be updating the diesel, mild hybrid and plug-in hybrid models to share the same design as the electric version, with updated front end, interior and more. Ford showed off the new Transit Custom last […]
STIR/SHAKEN is a new rule in the US, brought it in by the FCC to help combat the rampant increase in robocalls and caller ID spoofing. Here in the UK, the term robocalling isn’t commonly used and is referred to as spam calls. We also don’t get anywhere as near as many calls as people do in the US, hence why it is such a huge issue. STIR/SHAKEN aims to […]
Another week has gone by and its time, once again to go over the best stories we covered here on the interface. This week, Volkswagen and Pod Point are ending its free charging at Tesco in the UK, Top Gear turned 20 and Mercedes has seen strong EV growth in the most recent quarter. Free EV charging at Tesco supermarket is stopping next month Pod Point has offered free EV charging at […]
Here in the UK, one of the country’s major breakdown services, the RAC has recently ran a survey which looked at the state of motoring in 2022. The RAC spoke to 3102 UK drivers and looked at how many people are willing to switch to EVs and how many are planning to have an EV as their next car. The numbers showed that an all time high number of drivers […]
Ubiquiti has been producing and developing UniFi Protect for around four years now. Back when the platform was launched, the only device capable of running the software was the Cloud Key Gen2+. The decision to stop allowing end users to host the software themselves was met with a lot of negativity, but as Ubiquiti released more and more hardware devices it did become less of an issue. The question is […]
Mercedes has revealed that in Q3 2022, it has had rising sales of its all electric vehicles, which includes the vans it makes too. In Q3 2022, Mercedes has seen around 30,000 sales of its pure electric vehicle range, which is expanding all the time, with the company launching many new SUV models. Compared to Q3 2022, the sales have practically doubled, with Mercedes-Benz Vans seeing 3,000 sales of electric vans […]
