What did you miss? #WDYM Week 45 2022

?? Foxconn to invest $170 million in Ohio's electric pick-up truck manufacturer Lordstown Motors. Foxconn and Lordstown Motors to jointly develop their first electric vehicle together.

???? Tesla produced 87,706 Model 3s and Model Ys in Shanghai but delivered 71,704 vehicles, leaving a gap of 16,002 China-made cars in inventory.

?? Tesla US registrations rose 50% in the year's first nine months to 346,827. The competition surged 71% to 183,750. Hyundai Motor Group (46,597) took the No. 2 spot in the U.S. EV horse race, followed by Ford (38,056). Overall, US EV registrations climbed 57% year-over-year to 530,577.?EVs accounted for a record 5.2% share of U.S. light-vehicle total registrations, compared with 2.8% a year ago.

?? Zoom is officially coming to Tesla vehicles. The Zoom app will use the vehicle's cabin camera located above the rear-view mirror.

?? Tesla is preparing to offer a new Model Y trim for 2023 with a Standard Range All-Wheel Drive configuration and 4680 batteries that just landed approval from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

???? Tesla has suspended orders for Model 3 in all configurations in Taiwan. Previously, the cars were delivered from Fremont, USA. The ability to order Model Ys, which are delivered from Germany, is still active.

?? Tesla is building a new “unique EV research, testing, repair, and maintenance facility” in Southfield, a town in the suburbs of Detroit.

?????? Tesla to soon open their non-Tesla Supercharger network in Australia to all electric vehicles.

?? Tesla to allow salvaged vehicles back on Supercharger network.

???? Tesla has applied to offer telecommunication services in Canada, including “machine-to-machine cellular data service” in its electric cars.

?? Tesla earned eight times as much profit per vehicle as Toyota Motor in the July-September quarter despite being outsold more than 7 to 1, putting the American electric-vehicle maker ahead in quarterly net profit for the first time since going public in 2010. Toyota's decline stemmed in part from increased material and electricity costs for its suppliers.

?? Volvo unveiled the EX90, the brand's all-electric successor to the XC90 SUV with 107kWh battery and 300 mile of range. The EX90 is capable of bi-directional charging. Expected to arrive early 2024 in the U.S. with a pricetag starting under $80,000.

?? Volvo Cars CEO sees electric vehicles reaching price parity with their fossil fuel-burning counterparts by 2025.

?? Audi e-tron will officially be renamed Q8 e-tron. The new 2024 version will have 114kWh battery (up from 95kWh) and over 300 miles of range.

?? Porsche produced its 100,000th Taycan EV.

?? Lucid Air owners are dealing with worrying glitches that cause the cars to suddenly stop in the middle of the road or even drive in the wrong direction — some reported to the NHTSA that their cars are driving forward when in reverse.

?? Lucid is officially suing the State of Texas. In a suit filed in Austin this week, Lucid accuses the State of acting anti-competitively by forcing vehicle sales through dealerships.

???? In France, solar just got a huge boost from new legislation approved through the Senate this week that requires all parking lots with spaces for at least 80 vehicles – both existing and new – be covered by solar panels.

???? Sweden’s new government has abolished state subsidies for electric cars and plug-in hybrids. Vehicles ordered after 8 November 2022 will no longer be eligible for the so-called climate bonus.

?? Uber drivers in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Portugal and Belgium are now able to buy home chargers from Wallbox at discounted rates.

?? Meta is laying off 13% of its staff, or more than 11,000 employees, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees Wednesday.

?? Apple is expected to launch the Emergency SOS via Satellite feature for iPhone 14 later this month. The new feature will allow users to text emergency services over satellite. The service will launch in the US and Canada and will be free for two years.

?? Starlink is now available across all of Australia serve additional communities across Alaska, Canada, and the polar region that previously didn't have access to reliable high speed internet.

?? A significant reorganization is underway at SpaceX’s Texas launch facility. SpaceX rolled out an offer to salaried employees at its HQ in Hawthorne, CA of a 10%-25% pay bump to relocate to Starbase, as the company pushes to add more hands to support the Starship program.

?? California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is building a huge satellite that can harvest solar energy and then wirelessly transmit it back to Earth.

???? James Webb Space Telescope's supercold camera bounces back from glitch.