Two EVs, One EV Charging Port: No Problem, Says GM
GM aims to make EV charging easier than ever before, and “daisy-chain” charging might be in the works.
San Francisco
EFF: Don’t Let Police Turn Our Cars Into Surveillance Platforms
Update: Ring reached out to me to offer some important corrections to some of what I wrote below. The company wants us all to know that they don’t give footage or images to police departments without some form of permission from the camera’s owner (and have never done this in … [continued]
LYT CEO & Former Tesla Engineer Talks Using AI To Solve Traffic Flow
LYT is a cloud-based software platform using vehicle and machine learning technologies to solve the problem of traffic flow. You may remember my recent article on Elon Musk’s thoughts regarding the use of artificial intelligence to make traffic lights smarter. The problem is that massive amounts of time are wasted … [continued]
California Could See More EV Chargers In Fast Food Parking Lots Thanks To ChargeNet
ChargeNet has raised $6.2 million from local investors to expand its network of EV charging stations at fast food restaurants across California, dot.LA reports. Aligned Climate Capital led the funding, and another investor included the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), which incubates startups that are focused on cleantech and climate … [continued]
This San Francisco Housing Development Comes With Its Own Farm
Some things just scream “San Francisco.” The Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, cable cars — they’re all associated with San Francisco as the city is with them, but a new housing development from Agrihood may take the “peak California” crown by including something you might not expect in its plans: its … [continued]
Electrifying Trucking from Delhi to Shenzhen & San Francisco
How Lessons Learned Around the Globe Can Accelerate the Electrification of Road Freight
Waymo Enters San Francisco
There are other big players in the autonomous driving world, and we’ve covered several of them quite a bit, but there are really two names that stand out above the rest — and they’re taking very different approaches. I’m talking about Waymo and Tesla, of course. Whether it’s planned or … [continued]
Cruise Rolling Out Fully Driverless Vehicles In San Francisco — Other Cities Soon-ish
The news this month is that Cruise is beginning to roll out fully self-driving vehicles — with no drivers at all — on the streets of San Francisco.
Tesla Battery Day: A Travel Diary — Day #3: A Bunch Of Crazy Engineers *Update*…
To hold an event with a large number of people in the time of the most severe pandemic the world has seen may not sound like a good idea, and some have been asking why do it at all. But it was a great idea.
Tesla Battery Day — A Travel Diary, Day #1: Travelling In The Time Of Corona
My week involves business travel from Germany to Tesla’s headquarters in Fremont, California, during the worst pandemic the world has seen for century.
