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Sales of Electric Vehicles Set To Accelerate
Electric Vehicle Sales To Accelerate Sales of electric vehicles are set to accelerate as costs fall and production of electric vehicles ramp up. The latest industry opinions are that electrification of the transport system is set to accelerate in the late 2020s, with electric buses leading the way. Battery costs are continuing to drop and increasing scale in manufacturing will...
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Elon Musk declares dual-motor Tesla Model 3 a BMW M3 rival
Elon Musk has detailed plans to build a new dual-motor all-wheel-drive version of the Tesla Model 3. He made the announcement in a string of Tweets revealing the most powerful of the two twin-motor Model 3s would be capable of hitting 60mph (97km/h) in just 3.5 seconds and topping out at 155mph (250km/h), while offering a driving range of up...
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Hyundai looks to Insects for Design Concepts of the Future
Car Design Concepts of the Future Chung Eui-sun, the 47-year-old vice chairman and heir to the South Korean motor empire Hyundai has revealed how his company is developing new technologies by observing insects and in particular, the study of spider eyes to keep the carmaker competitive. Chung Eui-sun, is counting on bugs and holograms to help the South Korean car...
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Volkswagen Just Ordered €40 Billion in Electric Car Batteries!
VW orders €40 Billion in Electric Car Batteries Volkswagen Just Ordered $48 Billion in Electric Car Batteries. That's About What Tesla Is Worth Right Now A few hours after Elon Musk berated analysts for what he perceived as unimaginative questions, Volkswagen said they were writing a check for batteries that almost match Tesla’s entire market value. Volkswagen’s Chief Executive Officer,...
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Irish Billionaire focused on Electric cars
Dubliner Sir David McMurtry, co-founder and CEO of the €2.5bn precision manufacturing equipment maker Renishaw, is Ireland’s greatest living inventor and our most successful engineer. His company, Renishaw is a manufacturer whose metrology skills are today crucial to every car on the road and plane in the skies, as well as other applications, spanning medical to nuclear power. He has...
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Germany's Electric Cars Are Coming for Elon Musk and Tesla
Germany Electric Cars to Challenge Tesla The big German car manufacturers are rapidly catching up on Tesla Motors. Starting with Jaguar’s I-Pace crossover and later this year Audi’s e-tron, virtually every major carmaker is rolling out stylish, sporty electric vehicles in the mold of the Tesla Models S, X and 3. Unlike Tesla, though, these giant car manufacturers have roughly...
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World's first electrified road opens in Sweden
The world’s first electrified road, known as eRoadArlanda, has opened for the first time in Sweden. The eRoad recharges the batteries of cars and trucks driving on it. The Swedish government has already drafted a national map for future expansion of eRoads, but for the moment they have laid bout 2km of electric rail embedded in a public road near...
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Could Millions Of Electric Cars Power Your Home in the Future?
Electric cars could power your home Could Millions Of Electric Cars Power Your Home in the Future by using electric car batteries to add power to the electric grid? Just imagine it - millions of EVs (Electric Vehicles) charging the grid from their power excess and releasing back to society the unused electric power at peak hours. It is believed...
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What is the future of Self-driving cars in the wake of the fatal Uber collision?
What is the future of Self-driving cars in the wake of the fatal Uber collision? Video of the first self-driving car crash that killed a pedestrian suggests a “catastrophic failure” by Uber’s technology, according to experts in the field, who said the footage showed the autonomous system erring on one of its most basic functions. The death of a Elaine Herzberg who...
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Swiss police to get Tesla Model X police cars for active duty
Swiss police from the Basel-Stadt police force are ordering Tesla Model X vehicles for active duty. The first of these will be delivered later on this year with seven included in the initial order. The new Swiss police cars will be cleaner, cheaper, and way faster than the patrol cars they are currently using. The decision to replace current diesel-powered vehicles...