At this point, you would think that most drag racers are aware of just how quickly the higher tiers of Tesla’s offerings accelerate, and that if you want to beat one, you should make the race longer rather than shorter … but apparently most people are no longer capable of understanding even such basic things. Maybe it’s all the drugs people are on nowadays.
Another electric pickup truck was recently unveiled, this time at the EVVE Conference in Ontario. It’s an electric pickup that certainly sounds enticing, even though it isn’t completely clear at this point if the intent is commercial production.
Audi of America’s self-driving vehicle testing application has been approved by the relevant authorities in New York State. That means that Audi will actually be the first company to test its self-driving vehicle tech in New York.
The Canadian government is now working to create an advisory group that will recommend policies that can be pursued to increase adoption rates for electric vehicles, according to recent reports.
The new advisory group will reportedly contain members from a variety of environmental groups and auto industry firms and organizations. The goal is to create and implement a new EV policy plan by 2018.
Uber has fired the former Waymo/Google engineer at the center of the company’s current legal battle with the the tech giant, Anthony Levandowski, according to recent reports.
The urban heat island effect — effectively, the reality that dark roads and buildings in urban areas absorb and radiate far more heat than vegetation in rural areas does, which makes cities notably hotter than surrounding areas — is going to more than double the city-level costs of dealing with rising temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change over the coming century, according to a new study.
While some political partisans may like to argue that the decline of coal-fired power plants seen over recent times in the US has been the result of cronyism in support of the renewables industry, the fact is that coal-fired power plants simply can’t compete with renewable or gas-fired ones. Also important, particularly with this story, is that coal-fired power plants are responsible for a significant portion of total air pollution in many regions.
Nissan may be planning to sell its majority stake (51%) in the lithium-ion automotive battery manufacturer AESC — which was established originally as a joint venture between Nissan and the Japanese information technology company NEC — according to a recent report from Bloomberg.
BMW will be unveiling a new, higher-performance version of the all-electric i3 (or, alternately, range-extended i3) at the upcoming Frankfurt Auto Show in September, according to recent reports.
The LiDAR development firm Innoviz will begin offering an aftermarket LiDAR unit at “budget friendly” prices next year to be used by organizations and firms looking to perform research — a year or so ahead of the firm’s launch of its InnovizOne LiDAR solution in early 2019.
