Jaguar’s first all-electric car, the I-Pace, will go on sale a little later this year. But thanks to Roadshow, which is among the press currently attending a “first drive” junket for the I-Pace in Portugal, we now know what the I-Pace sounds like. Picture this. You’re cruising up the Pacific Coast Highway in your shiny… Continue reading Here’s the fake noise the Jaguar I-Pace makes when you hit the throttle
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Cobalt Hunt Takes Aussie Explorer to Forest on BMW’s Doorstep
LISTEN TO ARTICLE SHARE THIS ARTICLE The search for cobalt, a key component of the battery-powered auto fleets of the future, has arrived on BMW AG’s doorstep with a discovery of an ore deposit not far from the plant where the German manufacturer makes its i3 electric city car. The cobalt find in a forested… Continue reading Cobalt Hunt Takes Aussie Explorer to Forest on BMW’s Doorstep
Elon Musk announces 9 percent job cut at Tesla in ‘difficult’ drive for profitability
Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces the Tesla Semi truck and an updated version of the Tesla Roadster in November 2017. (Tesla via YouTube) Just days after promising he’d make Tesla profitable within months, CEO Elon Musk announced today that 9 percent of the company’s workforce is being laid off as part of the effort to… Continue reading Elon Musk announces 9 percent job cut at Tesla in ‘difficult’ drive for profitability
Tesla to slash thousands of jobs in profitability drive
Tesla said it plans to cut 9% of its workforce as part of a restructuring intended to reduce costs and boost profitability. The layoffs at Elon Musk’s electric car company come as it tries to increase production of its Model 3 sedan and turn a quarterly profit this year. Tesla said the more than 3,000… Continue reading Tesla to slash thousands of jobs in profitability drive
‘Competition is really fierce right now’: General Motors sets sights on electrified, autonomous future
Chevrolet Bolt EV autonomous test vehicles being assembled in Michigan | Credit: Jeffrey Sauger for GM David Tulauskas, GM’s sustainability director, talks to BusinessGreen about the US car giant’s drive towards ‘zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion’ It is little more than a year since all-electric upstart Tesla briefly sped past the long-established General… Continue reading ‘Competition is really fierce right now’: General Motors sets sights on electrified, autonomous future
BMW Trails Mercedes, Audi in China With Sales Drop in May
LISTEN TO ARTICLE SHARE THIS ARTICLE BMW sales in China, the carmaker’s biggest national market, dropped for the first time in over two years in May after buyers delayed purchases, hoping for better deals following a cut in import duties. Deliveries of BMW-brand and Mini city cars in China fell 10 percent in May compared… Continue reading BMW Trails Mercedes, Audi in China With Sales Drop in May
Billions investment planned in Thuringia: Chinese are duping German industry with battery project
All articles and backgrounds 06/12/2018 Billions invested in Thuringia planned Chinese are duping German industry with battery project ford The Chinese battery giant CATL apparently wants to build a large production facility in Germany and invest up to one billion euros for it. News Agency reports “Bloomberg” and the “Thuringian General” According to the announcement… Continue reading Billions investment planned in Thuringia: Chinese are duping German industry with battery project
Tesla: Update 9.0 with more autonomous driving
Elon Musk announced a new update for the autopilot: 9.0 with more autonomous driving features. In recent times, it has been increasingly bleak for the e-car manufacturer Tesla – especially if the function of the autopilot. There was deadly accidents and complain against the system of partial autonomy (Level 2): the autopilot. Well, and maybe… Continue reading Tesla: Update 9.0 with more autonomous driving
Tesla’s AI director gives insights into Autopilot’s computer vision and neural net development
Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s director of AI and computer vision, is currently hard at work trying to improve Autopilot by training Tesla’s neural net with incredible amounts of data from Tesla’s fleet. He took a break from it to give some interesting insights into the development at a conference last month. Home Solar Power At Train AI… Continue reading Tesla’s AI director gives insights into Autopilot’s computer vision and neural net development
Musk Challengers Turn Into Billionaires as China Battery Giant Soars
LISTEN TO ARTICLE SHARE THIS ARTICLE The Chinese founder of the world’s biggest maker of electric-vehicle batteries and his top lieutenant became billionaires Monday after their company’s shares soared during the first day of trading in Shenzhen. Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. jumped by the maximum 44 percent allowed by the exchange, valuing the company… Continue reading Musk Challengers Turn Into Billionaires as China Battery Giant Soars