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Tesla Patent Shows Clear Robotaxi Solutions

July 9, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, patents, robotaxis, tesla, tesla patents, tesla robotaxis

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2024 12:39:51 +0000

Not that anyone needs it, but we’ve got more proof that Tesla is thinking seriously about robotaxi service and trying to prepare its table for that. Tesla has been awarded a patent for automatic cleaning — well, sanitizing — of enclosed spaces (i.e., vehicle interiors) shared by multiple people (i.e., … [continued]

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Rimac Unveils Verne Robotaxi Concept

June 29, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Croatia, electric cars, Electric vehicles, mate rimac, mobileye, rimac, rimac verne, robotaxis, zagreb

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:15:45 +0000

Will a robotaxi from Rimac have what it takes to make self driving vehicles on demand a reality? The answer may actually be yes.

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Former Uber Boss: Robotaxis Too Expensive, Not Replacing Human Drivers Anytime Soon — Is That True?

June 29, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, robotaxis, Uber, waymo

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:50:53 +0000

To be fair, this is not a new take on the potential “robotaxi revolution.” Robotaxi tech has been expensive for as long as robotaxis have been in development. That is one of the reasons robotaxis aren’t all over the place already. But I was curious to run some numbers after … [continued]

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Waymo Goes Big In San Francisco

June 28, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, California, clean transport, Electric vehicles, robotaxis, san francisco, waymo

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 13:31:15 +0000

Waymo’s progress may go under the radar a bit compared to Tesla’s Full Self Driving (FSD) progress, but let’s remember that Waymo is actually offering fully self-driving robotaxi service in some areas. Now, in San Francisco, the company is making a big step forward and “going big” by opening up … [continued]

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Huge Solar Power Boom, Tariffs on Chinese Electric Cars — Top Cleantech Stories

June 27, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, batteries, byd, chevy bolt, chevy bolt euv, china tariffs, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, electric cars, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, eu tariffs, lithium-ion batteries, market research, research, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar power plants, tariffs, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model y, tesla robotaxis, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:13:37 +0000

I’ve been traveling for summer vacation with the family and skipped a week or two, but here’s another roundup of some top CleanTechnica articles from the past two weeks. Enjoy! And let us know if there are any favorites I missed here. The European Union (EU) announced tariffs on Chinese … [continued]

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Critique of ARK Analysts’ Tesla Robotaxi Projections Misses Some Key Points, But ARK Might Too

June 26, 2024 admin alphabet, Amazon, autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Cruise, electric cars, Electric vehicles, green economy, investment, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla fsd (full self driving), waymo, zoox

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 14:31:30 +0000

Checking out the Friday critique of “Tesla’s $9 Trillion Robotaxi Dreams” on Seeking Alpha that Carolyn Fortuna just covered, a few things jumped out to me. A few things seem to be missed, misunderstood, or even misleading from the analysts. But, then again, that doesn’t mean the ARK analysis is … [continued]

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Financial Analysts Question The Merit Of Tesla’s Robotaxis

June 26, 2024 admin Amazon, ark invest, autonomous vehicles, cathie wood, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, green economy, investment, robotaxis, tesla, tesla robotaxi, zoox

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:19:48 +0000

Following discussions with the Tesla investor relations team, JPMorgan analysts earlier this month said they soon expected Tesla to reveal a robotaxi prototype. The investment firm also offered the caveat that Tesla’s robotaxis and their associated revenues could be years away. That’s the kind of speculation that has been occurring … [continued]

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Teens Design Robotic Cars

June 25, 2024 admin argonne national laboratory, autonomous vehicles, clean transport, research, robotics, robots, Schools, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 20:01:33 +0000

Argonne High School Autonomous Vehicle Competition teaches participants about teamwork, engineering, planning and problem-solving skills. Conner Schroeder, a senior at Guilford High School in Rockford was prepared for minor fog. But he and his teammates were unprepared for a “torrential rain” on the obstacle course. Knowing there wasn’t much they could … [continued]

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Are Advanced Driver Assist Systems Safer? And What’s Next?

June 22, 2024 admin adas, autonomous vehicles, clean transport, research, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla fsd (full self driving)

Credit to Author: Letters to the Editor| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:11:39 +0000

For some time, I have been met with pitchforks over declaring the safety of advanced driver assist systems (ADAS). The shortest articulation for this measure is to not crash, or to not perform maneuvers that could cause you or others to crash. But is there any data to back up … [continued]

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Elon Musk Says Tesla FSD AI Having Exactly The Problem I Thought 2 Years Ago It Was Having

June 21, 2024 admin AI, autonomous vehicles, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, Electric vehicles, elon musk, tesla, tesla ai, tesla fsd (full self driving)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:15:11 +0000

During the Q&A session of the 2024 Tesla annual shareholder meeting, in response to one of the questions about Full Self Driving (FSD), CEO Elon Musk explained something about Tesla’s FSD development that completely affirms a suspicion I had two years ago. Also, this is one of the key challenges … [continued]

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