Airbus has to turn planes off and on again
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Cannot be bothered with a patch

While Boeing has an issue with planes dropping out of the sky due to safety features being optional, its rival Airbus has a daft issue which means that its owners have to turn the plane off and on again after 149 hours.

Buying a BMW with CarPlay will saddle you with a yearly bill
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Each BMW owner saddled with a software cow

It is starting to look like BMW's insistance that its owners have Apple CarPlay will saddle them with an annual debt.

European Union snubs VW's  wireless standard
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Wants 5G instead 

European Union states opened the way to competing technologies for internet-connected cars after rejecting a European Commission push for a wifi-based standard backed by Volkswagen.

Car industry abandons climate change deniers
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Will have to look to the oil industry

For decades, the car industry has been funding and assisting climate change deniers on the sound basis that if they convince the world that they are not killing polar bears when they drive their four-wheel drives to Waitrose, they will not have to change their business model.

Lightyear One manages 724km on a single charge
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Using Solar cells as a back up

A Dutch start-up has designed a car which claims it’ll manage a range of 450 miles (74km) on a single charge and back itself up with solar cells.