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Over the past year, Tesla, amid a company-wide restructuring, experienced multiple executive departures and thousands of job cuts [File] | Photo Credit: AP Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered to shut down its Dojo supercomputer team, with team leader Peter Bannon departing the company, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.The Dojo supercomputer was designed to process vast amounts of data and video from Tesla EVs to train the automaker's autonomous-driving software.The team recently lost about 20 workers to newly formed DensityAI, and the remaining Dojo workers are being reassigned to other data center and compute…

As India puts more of the emissions-cutting biofuel ethanol in its petrol, consumers complain it damages their engines.The government's fast-expanding ethanol programme aims to cut costly oil imports by blending petrol with ethanol, a biofuel derived from agricultural produce or organic waste that burns more cleanly than traditional gasoline.India last month hit its target of reaching a 20% ethanol mix in petrol, known as E20 petrol, five years ahead of schedule.But car reviewer Amit Khare, who reaches 15 million people every month across social media platforms, including YouTube, Meta and Instagram, criticised the fuel."Ethanol is a dry and corrosive fuel,"…

Tesla for years had more repeat U.S. customers than any other major automotive brand but its loyalty has plunged since CEO Elon Musk endorsed U.S. President Donald Trump last summer, according to data from research firm S&P Global Mobility shared exclusively with Reuters.The data, which has not been previously reported, shows Tesla’s customer loyalty peaked in June 2024, when 73% of Tesla-owning households in the market for a new car bought another Tesla, according to an S&P analysis of vehicle-registration data in all 50 states.That industry-leading brand loyalty rate started to nosedive in July, that data showed, when Musk endorsed…

The Tesla Supercharging Stalls offer a peak charging speed of 250 kW starting at ₹24/kW and destination chargers providing 11kW at ₹14/kW [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Global EV giant Tesla on Monday launched its first charging facility in the country weeks after entering the Indian market with an Experience Centre in the financial capital.The Tesla charging station set up at One BKC in the Bandra-Kurla Complex, features four V4 supercharging stalls (DC charging) and four destination charging stalls (AC charging), the company said.The company said it plans to set up three more such facilities, one each at Lower Parel,…

Waymo is still testing the possibility of bringing its robotaxis to at least two other Texas cities — Houston and San Antonio [File] | Photo Credit: AP Robotaxi pioneer Waymo has added Dallas to its expanding list of cities where people will be able to request a driverless ride beginning sometime next year in an attempt to further distance itself from rivals still scrambling to catch up in the autonomous race.Dallas will become the second major Texas city where Waymo's robotaxis will operate, following the company's move into Austin earlier this year as part of a partnership with ride-hailing leader…

The first driverless cars are expected on the roads this year, the statement said [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Chinese internet giant Baidu plans to launch its driverless cars on ride-hailing app Uber in Asia and the Middle East this year, the two companies said on Tuesday.The multi-year partnership will see "thousands of Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicles on the Uber platform across multiple global markets", the companies said in a joint statement.The first driverless cars are expected on the roads this year, the statement said, adding the robotaxis would launch "outside the United States" but without specifying in which…