Because of the nature of baseload power plants, only supplying enough to cover the base load, other plants have to be put online to cover any demand above the base load. These include load-following plants, which are more costly to run. In the old days, many of these ran on oil. … | Continue reading
In his "Artificial Intelligence Podcast" series, Lex Fridman interviewed George Hotz, the founder of Comm.ai (among many other things), in the middle of 2019. Comma.ai focuses on machine learning–based vehicle automation. In the almost 2 hour podcast, Hotz shared his thoughts on … | Continue reading
Tesla has released its quarterly "Tesla Vehicle Safety Report." One of the top reasons — if not the #1 reason — I bought a Tesla Model 3 last was because of its record-setting safety rating, so I'm always interested in seeing new stats on this topic | Continue reading
Researchers at Harvard plan a geoengineering experiment injecting calcium carbonate dust high over the Southwestern US to see if it can help lower the temperature of the air below. | Continue reading
I write this article full of anger as a German about the German auto industry. The Octopus is one of the most fascinating and intelligent animals in our seas. Scientists predict that if they didn't die that early after the new generation is born, because of their ability to learn … | Continue reading
It is no secret that Volkswagen Group has been struggling with what is truly an enormous challenge. Now rumor is that the company is dropping its head honcho on software and is replacing him with | Continue reading
FERC expects the net growth of renewable capacity to be a large multiple of that of fossil fuels. It says we could see renewables to grow 50 times as fast. | Continue reading
The City is Estimated to See a $9.3 Million Reduction in its Annual Electricity Bill and an Estimated Total Savings of $65 Million Over 7 Years | Continue reading
With 422 Starlink satellites in orbit and 120 more due to launch soon, Elon Musk says private beta testing of the network will begin in about 3 months. | Continue reading
Tesla's progress with artificial intelligence and neural nets has propelled its Autopilot and Full Self Driving solutions to the front of the pack | Continue reading
Hardt Hyperloop and North Holland are exploring a hyperloop system to connect Amsterdam with Belgium, France, and Germany. They foresee enormous economic opportunities, but is their plan realistic? | Continue reading
Auto expert Sandy Munro has published another daily video about the Tesla Model Y teardown he and his crew are doing. According to Munro, the Model Y’s front impact structure “is very different than what we saw on the Model 3. The Model 3 didn’t have anything quite the same as th … | Continue reading
Science: do it.Iceland has decided to jump right into proper scientific methodology in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, rather than "panic now and evaluate later." The country, which has followed similar social distancing strategies as other European nations, has been conductin … | Continue reading
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel said on MSNBC on Friday, March 20, that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told him it would probably take 8–10 weeks to get ventilator production started at his factories (he's working on this at Tesla and SpaceX). I reached out to Musk for clarification on that … | Continue reading
Danish company UVD Robotics makes germ, virus and mold killing ultraviolet robots for hospitals. | Continue reading
The European passenger plug-in vehicle (PEV) market scored a near-record 75,000 registrations in December (+121%!), this being the first time since 2015 that the European PEV market scored a three-digit growth rate, with plug-in hybrids/PHEVs growing faster (+174% year over year, … | Continue reading
70% of Americans would support a nationwide solar mandate on new homes according to a survey by CITE Research for Vivint Solar. | Continue reading
New perovskite solar cell research is ready to hit the market and when it does, solar energy will bury coal and natural gas in an avalanche of clean power. | Continue reading
The Tesla Semi is going to have a substantial advantage once it’s on the roads and for a decade after that. | Continue reading
Epic fail. That's what first crossed my mind as I watched the window break (twice!) during Tesla's Cybertruck launch. Instead, the unfortunate incident brought immediate worldwide attention to Tesla's new truck — mainstream press, social media, and (of course) meme makers all gob … | Continue reading
Ralph Nader, former presidential candidate for several election cycles, takes on Tesla and its stock. He claims its challenged by the competition. | Continue reading
Hyundai Motor Company and Uber Elevate showed us a fairly complete urban air mobility (UAM) electric vertical takeoff & landing (eVTOL) concept vehicle, autonomous pods, and a hub ecosystem that fits with Uber Elevate’s air taxi model at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) | Continue reading
There have been rumors or expectations for years about Apple electric cars, Google electric cars, and Samsung electric cars outside of the Samsung–Renault partnership in South Korea. Though, I don't recall any rumors about a Sony electric car. I guess Sony is good at keeping a se … | Continue reading
100% renewables for 143 countries covering 99.7% of global energy carbon emissions is very inexpensive compared to business as usual in Jacobson's latest. | Continue reading
Cobalt is emerging as an energy storage villain, but IBM hits back with a next-gen, cobalt-free battery for electric vehicles and stationary uses, too. | Continue reading
Audi and Daimler are planning to lay off almost 20,000 workers over the next several years. The savings will be used to fund the transition to electric cars. | Continue reading
Researchers at the University of Houston say they have developed a new catalyst composed of inexpensive non-noble metal nitrides that makes it possible to split seawater at low voltages | Continue reading
The latest Gigafactory Shanghai drone video shows 15 Made-in-China Tesla Model 3 cars parked in the facility's parking lot, this looks like the first batch of trial production that started at the Gigafactory 3 earlier this month | Continue reading
In an experiment that may have implications for humans, researchers at the University of Richmond say lab rats are happier driving electric cars than being ferried around in autonomous vehicles. Imagine that. | Continue reading
Trevor Jackson of the UK says he has invented an aluminum air battery that could power an electric car for up to 1500 miles. And Austin Electric says it will pay him millions of dollars to manufacture it. What's going on here? | Continue reading
This information is going to cause some controversy, because everything we knew, or thought we knew, about Tesla’s Model Y timeline is about to change. Originally, the Model Y was supposed to start shipping in Q1 2021. This is also what is currently written on Tesla's website. Ho … | Continue reading
Lex Friedman just released a report on Tesla vehicle deliveries and Autopilot mileage statistics that show how many miles have been driven on Autopilot. | Continue reading
The Tesla Model 3 has taken the US luxury car market by storm. When sales soared through the roof in the second half of 2018, making the Model 3 far and away the best selling luxury car in the country and the best selling car car of any type in terms of revenue, fans were excited … | Continue reading
Tesla will cut off orders of the Model 3 Standard Range after October 13th in anticipation of the start of production at Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai, China. The news comes from Tesla China's official social media account and is sure to cause commotion in an already excited market f … | Continue reading
Normally Norway is the biggest Tesla market in Europe. When the Dutch market absorbs nearly three times the Norwegian number of Model 3s, that is crazy | Continue reading
EVs are expected to be the best choice for nearly all consumer automotive use cases by 2023. They will cost less than gas upfront and per mile, have plenty of range and have more refueling options than gas. Any company not already selling EVs will be playing catch-up in the 2020s … | Continue reading
California is investing $95M into Clean Transportation with goals of helping disadvantage communites have acess to clean and reliable transportation. | Continue reading
Whilst seemingly irrelevant to everyday driving, the ongoing competition between Tesla and Porsche over EV performance supremacy is quickly demonstrating that fossil sports cars are becoming obsolete - an important symbolic milestone for the EV revolution which will have repercus … | Continue reading
Climate change is one of the defining events of our time. We have time to defeat it but the window is closing. What will it take to change minds today? | Continue reading
Yes, Tesla cars are cool. They're the quickest cars on the market, the safest cars on the market, and the highest tech cars on the market. It's hard to overstate or even properly explain why they stand out and are genuinely in a class of their own. However, it's not just that the … | Continue reading
While North American fingers are pointed at China by people committed to inaction and action, the actual climate story in China is much different. | Continue reading
The owner of a 7 year old Tesla Model S says their batteyr is at 98% battery capacity today while always charging it up to 90% | Continue reading
Yesterday, Elon announced California customers can now order commercial sizes of solar power in 5 minutes at Tesla.com/bigsolar. Instead of starting the process with a site survey or a roof inspection, Tesla just publishes this sizing guide and assumes the commercial customer kno … | Continue reading
The first confirmed upgrade to Tesla's new Full Self Driving hardware version 3 took place today after a customer took his 2018 Tesla Model S P100DL into the Santa Barbara service center to get a new HEPA filter. After the service, Twitterer and longtime Tesla supporter Sofiaan F … | Continue reading
Mercedes brought its EQS Concept electric sedan to the Frankfurt auto show and it's a stunner. Will it ever see production? | Continue reading
California's a huge market for Tesla, the Netherlands loves Tesla, Switzerland loves Tesla, but no state or country is as Tesla obsessed as Norway | Continue reading
The Nissan LEAF certainly doesn't have a reputation as a serious performance car. With far less power than any Tesla, "semi-independent" rear suspension like you'd find under a Chevy Cavalier, and many similarities with the Versa, the LEAF is widely regarded as an economy car, no … | Continue reading
The European passenger plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market had some 36,000 registrations in July, +32% year over year (YoY). That means the PEV market has grown 34% in 2019, a great performance considering this is an off-peak month for Tesla | Continue reading