If you had any doubt that the competition is shitting their pants over Tesla’s Cybertruck unveil tonight, look no further than this story from Reuters: General Motors Co’s (GM.N) first electric pickup truck model will go on sale in the fall of 2021, the company’s top executive said on Thursday, around the same time as […]
Tesla will unveil it’s all electric Cybertruck tomorrow at 8 PM Pacific Elon Time (Slightly after 8 PM) Boomkark this page for a link to the livestream once it’s posted. Comment if you’re excited. Cybertruck Unveil starts at 8 Stay tuned for livestream pic.twitter.com/zrbsoKKLd7 — Tesla (@Tesla) November 21, 2019 Tune in at livestream.tesla.com Cybertruck […]
Democratic U.S. Senator Ed Markey asked Tesla Inc on Wednesday to disable its “Autopilot” driver-assistance system until it installs new safeguards to prevent drivers from evading system limits that could let them fall asleep. Reuters This pointless action would result in aditional injuries and deaths, and would not stop anyone from falling asleep. Anyone who […]
Interesting story at Fortune from a few days ago from David Meyer, titled “Why Mercedes’s Self-Driving Trucks Are Set to Overtake Its Robotaxis” (nice spin). Don’t hold your breath for a self-driving Mercedes car anytime soon. Fortune Don’t worry, I wasn’t 😂 But everyone who was can now exhale! Anybody? At Daimler’s capital market day […]
Limited because they need a 100 kWh battery pack. If Ford sells every Mach-E they make, Tesla will still sell 10 times more EVs than Ford did. Sooooo… Tesla killer?
Friday evening, groups of three journalists were able to ride in prototype Mach-Es over a 10-minute route that included the streets of Hawthorne, California—right past Tesla’s Southern California design studio, where we rode along in a Tesla Model Y earlier in the year—and both an acceleration run and a short slalom course. Green Car Reports One […]
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Last night was another turning point in the electrification revolution: Ford unveiled it’s first fully-electric vehicle, the Mustang Mach-E. There’s a lot of details to dig into, so let’s get started reviewing what was announced. New Mustang? or Tesla clone? Ford started off the event by talking about the history of the Mustang brand. For […]
Patrick Collison rounds up a handful of different studies documenting the fact that air pollution makes people stupider: Air pollution is a very big deal. Its adverse effects on numerous health outcomes and general mortality are widely documented. However, our understanding of its cognitivecosts is more recent and those costs are almost certainly still significantly under-emphasized. For […]
