Baidu is doing what Apple should have done but didn’t — build a Level 4 autonomous driving platform to sell to vehicle manufacturers. The Chinese company has been developing its self-driving platform called Apollo for the past several years but has no desire to manufacture vehicles. So far, it has 116 clients for Apollo, including Jaguar Land Rover, Valeo, Byton, Leopard Imaging, and Suning Logistcs.
Jaguar Land Rover says it will invest $18 billion in electrified powertrain technologies in the next 3 years. Ford says it will invest $11 billion in 7 years. Which company will still be around in 2025?
The heir apparent, Prince Charles, is reportedly considering adding a new electric car to his stable of alternative fuel vehicles and has narrowed the choices down to just two: a Tesla or Jaguar’s new I-PACE.
Welcome to today’s “Cleantech Talk Today” discussion of fresh electric vehicle (EV) news. In this daily podcast and video series, we talk about anything electric that moves, crawls, flies, rides, drives, swims, swings, or skips. In this episode, #5 of Cleantech Talk Today, we cover CleanTechnica’s fresh review of the Jaguar i-PACE, Elon Musk’s recent comms regarding Tesla and other matters, and Denmark squeezing cargo space!
While driving the Jaguar I-PACE in Portugal last week, I was curious about the company’s plans for electrified automobiles in the future. Here is what I found out.
The Jaguar I-Pace offers extraordinary power and decent range at an affordable price. In the premium SUV segment, it is truly a compelling electric car.
Road trips are the final frontier for electric cars to totally outshine combustion-engine vehicles (gas/diesel cars). Already clearly a better technology than combustion vehicles in every other respect, of all the electric cars currently on the market, only Tesla so far provides truly compelling road trip ready offerings. This is an area that other carmakers need to pay much more attention to if they have a hope of ever competing with Tesla’s stratospheric demand and world-leading EV sales volume.
Waymo has announced it will purchase 62,000 self driving Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid vans to go along with the 20,000 autonomous electric I-Pace SUVs it is buying from Jaguar. What does it plan to do with all those self driving cars? We are about to find out.
Alejandro Agag will introduce the Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY this Saturday, May 19, on the Berlin Tempelhof Circuit for the start of the 2018/19 season of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship. Get ready for another season of electric racing!
An all-new luxury chauffeur service by WeKnowGroup running to and from London’s Heathrow Airport is purchasing as many as 200 Jaguar I-PACE vehicles for the route, Jaguar has revealed.
