The Morning After: Hyundai may be giving up on the combustion engine
Welcome back to The Morning After. Hope you had a great weekend and are ready for 2021 to be over and done with.
Today, we’ve drawn together the latest tech news from the last few days and several end-of-year pieces on the biggest stories of the year. But first, Hyundai might be giving up on newThe company only just made and released its first electric car, but it's apparently ready to move fast, and leave the engines of old behind. Korea Economic Daily sources claim Hyundai shut down its research center's combustion engine design unit sometime this month.
Electrification is"inevitable," new research chief Chung-kook Park reportedly said in an email, and the transition will help produce cars that"dominate the future market." Park is probably right. In Hyundai's native South Korea, combustion-only car sales will be banned by 2030.The reveal is now scheduled for spring of 2022.
Final Fantasy fans were promised more information about the next installment of the role-playing series before the end of 2021. Sadly, that announcement and the game have been postponed."When we last spoke, I promised I would have more information onsometime later in 2021," producer Naoki Yoshida wrote on Twitter.
The biggest change – and one we won’t quite see the significance of until next year – is product repairs. Apple will sell repair parts and instructions to customers who want to fix their iPhones themselves.
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