Tag: Elon Musk
Podcast: Don’t believe Elon Musk’s hype about autonomous driving EVs
Mobility as a Service won’t really arrive until 2030 and become a mature business model until 2050 The hype around autonomous electric vehicles (AEV) is out of control, much of it led by Elon Musk, the visionary CEO of Tesla Motors, who has claimed that existing EVs will become fully autonomous with just a software […]
Electric semi-truck may finally turn me into a Tesla fan-boi
Tesla electric semi-truck lowers operating costs by 20%, has superior torque for hauling loads up steep grades While I respect Elon Musk, I’ve never been a fan-boi. Why? Because of the hype. The man has enough giddy middle-aged tech nerds who swoon at his every Tweet. And don’t get me started on all the Bloomberg […]
$250,000 Tesla Roadster upstages Tesla Semi unveiling
Tesla Roadster has 620 mile range On Tuesday evening just as Elon Musk wrapped up the Tesla Semi reveal, the Tesla Roadster wowed the crowd when it drove out of the big truck’s trailer, into the spotlight. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said the second-generation $250,000 EV would be the fastest production car ever. The […]
(Video) Richard Branson takes another bet on the future with Hyperloop One
Hyperloop One is also working on a project in Canada, according to Virgin British billionaire Richard Branson on Thursday placed another bet on the future with an investment in Hyperloop One, which is developing super high-speed transportation systems. Hyperloop One said Branson’s Virgin Group would take the company global and rebrand itself as Virgin Hyperloop […]
Tesla stocks jump as Wall Street bets on Model 3
Tesla stock up 63 per cent in 2017 Tesla stock got a bump of 6 per cent on Thursday after its quarterly report beat average analyst estimates and boosted bets that the Model 3 will shift the California-based electric automaker into the mainstream. Since the beginning of 2017, Tesla stock has jumped 63 per cent. […]
Tesla shares down after Musk’s ‘manufacturing hell’ warning
Tesla shares down 3.5 per cent Monday Tesla shares were down by 3.5 per cent on Monday after the company’s CEO Elon Musk warned that the EV maker is facing “manufacturing hell” as it begins to ramp up production of its $35,000 Model 3 sedan. The California-based automaker is counting on the Model 3 to […]
Musk tweets photos as first Model 3 rolls off the assembly line – is this Tesla a game changer?
EV analyst Chris Robinson cautions that Tesla Model 3 not yet a tipping point for EV market, industry The long awaited first Tesla Model 3 – a sleek black four door gifted to CEO Elon Musk by a board member – hit the streets of California Monday and immediately became a social media sensation. The $35,000USD […]
Electric vehicle news brief July 9: Self-driving long-haul E-truck unveiled by Swedish company
Also in this brief: Tesla to build world’s largest utility-scale battery system for Australia in 100 days or it’s free Swedish tech company Einride has unveiled the first full-scale prototype freight freight truck that is remotely controlled by drivers. The innovate vehicle, called the T-pod, is significantly smaller than today’s heavy trucks and the company hopes to […]
Elon Musk, Tony Seba hyping fully self-driving cars, but they’re still 1-2 decades away – analyst
Technical problems, state and national regulations, and insurance companies are all serious constraints to adoption of self-driving cars The world is abuzz with the prospect of fully autonomous vehicles, abandoning private car ownership for “Transportation as a Service,” and cheap transportation costing 10 per cent of current rates – all backstopped by the futuristic predictions […]
New Tesla Model 3 orders not likely to ship until end of 2018
Tesla Model 3 sales optimism helped drive up company stock price Anyone ordering a Tesla Model 3 now should not expect to actually own the electric car this year, possibly not even next year either. “This will be a long wait,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said when he spoke at the company’s annual shareholder conference last […]
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