Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 04:57:17 +0000
Several times in the past year, I’ve pointed out concerns with Tesla consumer demand and sales. That’s not to say Tesla isn’t an excellent company that produces superb electric cars and sells very large volumes of them. The height Tesla has risen to is amazing. I said for more than … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:43:35 +0000
With all of the crazy new year’s news (electric truck terrorism is a thing now apparently), a news story from just a couple of weeks ago feels like ancient news. It’s almost like that Pecos, Texas train derailment happened last year or something! (oh, wait…) Some online commenters were saying … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 19:47:43 +0000
The “robotaxi revolution” has been hyped for about a decade. Many see it as never coming. Many see it as just around the next corner. The fact of the matter is: robotaxis are already in operation. However, that’s still at a rather small scale. The “revolution” part would be when … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:20:01 +0000
New regulations and big regulatory changes take a long time to develop and roll out in the US government. They need to be super carefully developed and every single punctuation mark needs to be examined by the lawyers to make sure the regulations will hold up if challenged in the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 04:02:19 +0000
Waymo has been on a roll this year. Without a doubt, in my humble opinion, this has been the company’s best year. I don’t just mean that every year is better than the last, and so this is its best year. I mean that the company seems to have leapt … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:45:23 +0000
December has been absolutely packed with big cleantech stories. The solar power and electric vehicle markets keep growing fast, evolving, and even surprising. To be honest, when I write these weekly and bi-weekly news highlights, there are ends up being far more big and noteworthy news than I expect. It … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 04:13:03 +0000
Autonomous vehicles are still a dream, although Elon Musk swears Tesla will crack the AV code sooner than later. Last week, Cruise, the autonomous ride hailing service owned by General Motors, went out of existence after the the parent company invested more than $10 billion into the self driving startup. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 04:53:45 +0000
How robotaxis interact with first responders and how first responders are expected to handle robotaxis that have been in an accident are important matters, and Waymo has taken these matters seriously. As evidence of that, Waymo has partnered with TÜV SÜD for an independent, third-party evaluation of Waymo’s practices. The … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:59:10 +0000
When it comes to developing driver assist systems, autonomous vehicles, or even aiming for self-driving cars, it’s never easy. Even corporate behemoths like GM have been struggling to stay in the game when the challenges got to be too much and incidents on the road led to a loss of … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 04:57:31 +0000
After writing about WeRide’s robotaxi deployment in Abu Dhabi, I went looking at recent WeRide announcements, and I noticed one especially interesting ones I had missed. Just a couple weeks ago, autonomous robotaxis from WeRide, the Robosweeper S6 and Robosweeper S1, were commercially deployed in Singapore, at Marina Coastal Drive … [continued]
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