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Tesla made a profit of $143 million in Q3 2019 on record deliveries

Enlarge / Workers on cranes install the Tesla logo at the new Gigafactory in Shanghai, China. (credit: VCG | Getty Images)
Between June and September 2019, Tesla delivered 97,000 electric vehicles to customers. That’s a new record for the
Coast-to-coast in under 33 hours? Apex: The Secret Race Across America
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Roy and Maher used a BMW M5 as their continent-crusher. [credit: Apex ]
There’s a joke that the first motor race was held shortly after the second automobile was built. Humans (some of us, at least) are like that; we
Should all connected cars have a physical network kill switch?

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Connected cars should come with a kill switch. That’s the take-home message—and the title—of a report by the group Consumer Watchdog. Software increasingly defines the vehicles we drive, and software can be
Volvo’s XC40 crossover goes fully battery electric for “under $48,000”
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This is the XC40 Recharge, Volvo’s new battery electric crossover. It goes on sale next year at about $55,000 before you take any tax incentives into account. [credit: Brian Won ]
Volvo was one of the first automakers to declare
On the road with Audi’s new Q5 and A8 TFSI e plug-in hybrids
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This is Audi’s new lineup of TFSI e plug-in hybrid EVs. We’ll be getting the A7, A8, and Q5 PHEVs in the United States, but probably not that Q7. [credit: Audi ]
MUNICH—That we need to do something about the
Uber lays off another 350 workers amid ongoing losses

Enlarge / Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. (credit: George Grinsted)
Uber is laying off another 350 workers, the company announced on Monday. Uber Eats and Uber’s self-driving car team are among the divisions hit by job losses. TechCrunch obtained a