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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 […]

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(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

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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

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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

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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

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