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Ferrari: How to do a 180° Turn
5 years ago, Ferrari said NEVER! when will Ferrari build a 100% EV? No chance - zip - zilch - nada - no way -
Ferrari Chairman Says Italian Automaker "Will Never Manufacture an Electric Car" | Inside EVs
NEVER - apparently, means 5 years
Ferrari plans to build an electric supercar after all
Note to self; remember to keep words soft & sweet ... so they're easier to to eat.
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VW orders batteries
Source: Tesla: VW Just Ordered $48 Billion in Electric Car Batteries | Fortune
VW (VLKAY, -1.20%) has awarded battery-purchasing contracts worth 40 billion euros ($48 billion), double from just a few weeks ago. The deals take the German manufacturer within striking distance of a sought-for 50 billion-euro total. By 2025, VW plans to sell as many as 3 million all-electric cars per year, Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess told investors Thursday at the annual shareholder meeting in Berlin.
Most of the article read like something written by a Tesla stock shorter with a lot of gratuitous comments about Tesla.
Thanks to: Volkswagen Battery Order To Nearly Match Tesla's Entire Market Value
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Hey, Saab lovers! The 9-3 is back, and it's electric
It looks the same, but is being built in China with an electric powertrain, and sold under the NEVS brand.
NEVS is developing second- and third-generation electric powertrains with its partners in China, one of which is Chinese ridesharing service DiDi.
DiDi hopes to have more than 1 million electric cars on its platform by 2020. NEVS and DiDi are also working together on fully autonomous cars.
NEVS starts production of electric 9-3s in China
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What Drives Us Podcast - #375 Gouged In The iX3
00:00 Intros 02:40 Nissan Announces the Ariya EV and Abandons CHADeMo 17:00 Dealers Mark up RAV4 Prime up to $10,000 25:30 SCE Spending $350M on Infrastructure 29:30 New BMW iX3 EV 46:00 Polestar 2 Review: It’s Nice! 52:55 VW’s Top Software Guy is Out 57:50 Shout outs and Go Home
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What Drives Us Podcast - #390 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Tiny Costly Red Machinie
Expanding Equity In Electric Mobility The Kandi is ready to sell. This Week In Tesla Chicago’s MetraRail introduces dedicated Bike Cars Convert an original Mini to EV Mustang Falls short with EPA Ratings Allegedly Ford Invests in Kansas City Plant They can’t ditch the proprietary InfoTainment systems fast enough The doesn’t have a battery. The […]
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electric car window stickers
Source: Making sense of electric car window stickers: What it all means | Autoweek
Making sense of electric car window stickers: What it all means
Trying to compare EVs with gasoline or diesel vehicles isn't easy, and the current window sticker doesn't help
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While in principle MPGe is a good way of conveying relative efficiency, I'm not sure that it's actually meaningful to consumers, nor is energy efficiency in general for plug-in vehicles," said Sam Abuelsamid, senior analyst at Navigant Research. "Much as most consumers focus on what their monthly payment is going to be, for EVs, I think they are mostly just interested in the electric range and, in the case of PHEVs, the gas/diesel efficiency."
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Tesla building factory in Shanghai
Wall Street Journal sources claim that Tesla has a deal to build a factory in Shanghai's free trade zone. Tesla would still have to pay the 25 percent import duty, but it would retain full control and could likely offset the tariff with lower production and shipping costs.
Tesla reportedly lands deal to build an EV factory in Shanghai
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What Drives Us Podcast - #163 Pre-Death Systems - What Drives Us
This week we tackle the really big themes… VW offer owners a band-aid for arterial bleeding http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1100852_vw-gives-owners-of-2009-2015-2-0-liter-diesel-cars-debit-cards-roadside-assistance Audi says yes to H2 http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/audi/a7/93409/audi-on-the-brink-of-showing-a-fuel-cell-vehicle Chasing the will o’wisp that is Faraday Future http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1100860_more-faraday-info-chinese-billionaire-backer-ex-tesla-staff-for-electric-car-startup Luxury Toyotas recalled for “auto braking” http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1100862_2013-2015-toyota-avalon-avalon-hybrid-lexus-es300h-es350-recalled-to-fix-auto-braking-problem
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What Drives Us Podcast - #159 Crowdsourcing the Panel - What Drives Us
First and foremost, big thanks to Tom Stangl and Bruce Nowrocki for being on the show this week, our first ever, crowdsourced panelists. As usual, thanks as well to all our regular, hard working panelists, Patrick, Paul, Mark and our special panelists tackle… Porsche picks Apple CarPlay over Android Auto http://www.ibtimes.com/porsche-picks-apple-carplay-over-android-auto-due-privacy-concerns-google-data-2128769 Toyota wants the Thai […]
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What Drives Us Podcast - #186 Musical Chairs - What Drives Us
California adjusts some incentives, when the music stops, who will be left standing? Mitsubishi confirms 100k outlander PHEV sales Exodus at Tesla or just growing up? Saving pedestrian lives via old school technology Is the EPA rating now a guarantee? Another story of interest with the outlander, 20,000 Bees chase the Mitsubishi for 2 days! New Colorado green car instant rebate
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Canada-China EVs
This is great news for me:
It means I can test drive alternatives to my expected 2024 Model 3 by visiting Canada. Probably Mexico too.
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What Drives Us Podcast - #393 Cow Farts And Zambonis
Kacey’s StoryPaul’s StoryThe history of a vehicle we can all believe inThis Week In TeslaEspecially this dumbassRussell’s StoryLet’s talk briefly about survivabilityMumbai taxi ceilings
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Seminal paper on optically mapped, 3d space
The success of autonomous driving is limited by the sensors, typically optically based, that map what is seen in front of the car. Both distance, direction, and the calculated relative velocities are critical to guiding a car to avoid other moving and stationary objects. So this paper describes an improved approach:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~achoo/beat/Kadambi_beat_lowres.pdf
Radar works by timing a reflected signal but the problem is sensor time resolution, they are too slow to achieve more than centimeter resolution. This paper outlines how to 'heterodyne' the transmitted and reflected light to achieve millimeter resolution. Better still, it appears to mitigate the fog problem.
There is a big gap between lab and product but the math and physics laid out here is the roadmap to improved, autonomous driving sensors (and others.) Ones that may not require mechanical sweeping of the field.
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Jaguar i-Pace
A bit long, the YouTube review shows a lot of things engineers love:
The reviewer definitely likes seeing a non-Tesla performance car.
Bob Wilson
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