Cheap EV Leases … Visions Of A Cybertruck Future … Model 3 vs. Model Y Visual Comparison — CleanTechnica Top 20 in November

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 04:10:09 +0000

The most popular CleanTechnica stories of November involved romance, murder, secrecy, drama, and the most shocking finale in the history of entertainment. Oh, wait, no, they mostly just involved a bunch of cleantech news updates and analyses

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Xpeng Motors Unveils The New Smart P7 At Guangzhou With A Bang

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:30:21 +0000

Xpeng Motors P7, Photo Nicolas ZartCleanTechnica was invited to the Guangzhou Auto Show by Xpeng Motors to see the official unveiling of its sleek P7. If you haven’t heard about the P7 yet, see our previous article on it. The electric vehicle (EV) is Xpeng’s second car and resoundingly focuses on an intelligent, smart platform. The car is chock full of goodies, and the interior feels spacious, roomy, and very comfortable

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Tesla’s Andrej Karpathy Talks PyTorch, Autopilot (Video)

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 20:00:11 +0000

Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s Director of Artificial Intelligence and Autopilot Vision, is one of the chief architects of Tesla’s self-driving vision. In July, he hosted a workshop on Neural Network Multi-Task Learning, where he offered some detailed insights on Tesla’s use of AI in developing its Autopilot features. Now Karpathy is featured in a new video in which he describes how Tesla is using PyTorch, an open-source machine learning library, to develop full self-driving capabilities for its vehicles, including Navigate on Autopilot and Smart Summon

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Tesla’s START Program Trains Service Center Techs At Colleges Across The Nation

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 21:02:48 +0000

The first class of students at the Tesla START program at Miami Dade College in Southern Florida are officially graduating this week after 12 weeks of intense study. The program was designed to give students the unique skills needed to work at one of Tesla’s Service Centers while learning about Tesla’s customer-centric approach to servicing its electric vehicles from the source

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Tesla’s START Program Trains Up Service Center Techs At Colleges Across The Nation

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 21:02:48 +0000

The first class of students at the Tesla START program at Miami Dade College in Southern Florida are officially graduating this week after 12 weeks of intense study. The program was designed to give students the unique skills needed to work at one of Tesla’s Service Centers while learning about Tesla’s customer-centric approach to servicing its electric vehicles from the source

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Conversations From Tesla Cybertruck Test Rides (2 Videos)

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 04:35:04 +0000

This interior video from one of the original test drives of the dramatic Cybertruck revealed the answer to my one pressing question about the Cybertruck — whether it has a glass roof. It has a large one. “Wow, it’s all glass up top,” a rider notes

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$79–$178 EV Lease … Tesla Cybertruck’s Enormous Implications … Potential $108/kWh Tesla Battery Pack — CleanTechnica Top 20

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 04:20:52 +0000

A whopping 14 top 20 articles last week were about the Tesla Cybertruck! I think that’s a new record for a single product. Nonetheless, quite humorously, the #1 article was about low leases for the Hyundai Ioniq Electric rather than anything about the Cybertruck. The #2 article is an epic article about why the Cybertruck is much more than it seems on the surface, and the #3 piece delves into implications regarding the low battery price Tesla seems to be showing with the Cybertruck pricing and specs

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Tesla Raj Debunks Common Electric Vehicle Misconceptions Head On

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 23:30:54 +0000

Anyone who has driven an electric vehicle like a Tesla knows about the barrage of incoming questions from uninformed members of the public. YouTuber and friend of CleanTechnica Tesla Raj took to the ‘Tube to address a few common misconceptions about electric vehicles and, more specifically, Teslas

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Tesla Cybertruck: “Society can kiss my behind!”

Credit to Author: Court Nederveld| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 04:30:32 +0000

A few days have passed since the reveal of Tesla’s Cybertruck. I’ll admit to being one of those who thought Musk was playing a joke when the Cybertruck first rolled onto the stage. But in a few minutes I realized this was really it. It wasn’t  a movie prop, this was the newest addition to the Tesla lineup of electric vehicles. The sledgehammer stunt was pretty cool, and then the window break fail (first iteration) made me wonder again if this was just a setup for the real vehicle. When the show was over, I truly didn’t know what to think

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Bond In California? No, It’s A Tesla Cybertruck In The Wild (1st Video Spy Shot)

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 04:41:11 +0000

Do you wonder how you might feel to catch this in your rearview mirror or camera as it smoothly and quickly bolts by? Am I dreaming about Bond, or is this a first spotting in the wild of the hyper-popular, hyper-controversial Cybertruck? Driving near Tesla’s HQ in California, how could it be anything else

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