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WIRED
The Incredible Shrinking Car Dealership
WIRED
3 min read · May 18th · The way people buy automobiles is changing—so Honda and other manufacturers are adapting in kind.
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Electrek.co
Most electric cars are cheaper to own from day one
Electrek.co
5 min read · May 12th · Electric cars aren’t just cheaper over the long term but have cheaper total monthly cost from day one for most buyers in the United States, according to a new report from Energy Innovation. A common…
Autoblog
Volkswagen is resurrecting the Scout as an EV. But what was the Scout?
Autoblog
4 min read · May 13th · Volkswagen will bring back the Scout, but what's a Scout? It was an innovative off-roader built by International-Harvester from 1961 to 1980.
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9to5Mac
Apple poaches 31-year Ford veteran as it aims for self-driving EV launch by 2025
9to5Mac
2 min read · May 3rd · Apple is continuing to press ahead with its efforts to build a fully self-driving electric car, despite a number of personnel changes and strategy shifts over the years. Now, a new report from…
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TechCrunch
Lucid is raising prices on its luxury Air EV by as much as 13%
TechCrunch
4 min read · May 5th · Lucid Group is the latest automaker to up the price of its electric vehicles. The company announced Thursday alongside its first-quarter earnings report that it was raising prices of the variants of…
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Singularity Hub
The UK's First Autonomous Passenger Bus Started Road Tests This Week
Singularity Hub
3 min read · Apr 29th · Each bus can carry 36 passengers, and the number of trips per day mean the autonomous buses could move up to 10,000 passengers a week.
Axios
Self-driving cars will need smarter roadways
Axios
2 min read · May 5th · Cavnue is designing dedicated roadways for connected and automated vehicles, starting in Michigan.
Reader View · Shared by 118, including Steve Tunstall
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WIRED
The Incredible Shrinking Car Dealership
WIRED
3 min read · May 18th · The way people buy automobiles is changing—so Honda and other manufacturers are adapting in kind.
Shared by 186, including Backchannel
Axios
Self-driving cars will need smarter roadways
Axios
2 min read · May 5th · Cavnue is designing dedicated roadways for connected and automated vehicles, starting in Michigan.
Reader View · Shared by 118, including Steve Tunstall
grist
Batteries are getting cheap. So why aren't electric vehicles?
grist
5 min read · Apr 27th · In 2015, the average price paid for an EV was around $36,000. Now, it's over $63,000.
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The Dark Side of Electric Cars
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Apr 20th · China is snatching up the key ingredient for EV batteries. Follow this link to get an exclusive deal with NordVPN: https://nordvpn.com/johnnyharrisCar batter...
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Visual Capitalist
Visualizing All Electric Car Models Available in the U.S.
Visual Capitalist
10 min read · Apr 19th · America’s electric vehicle (EV) market has surged over the last decade, and it’s only expected to grow further. The Biden administration has
Reader View · Shared by 34, including Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, David Papandrew, Colin Wright, George J Huba PhD
Singularity Hub
The UK's First Autonomous Passenger Bus Started Road Tests This Week
Singularity Hub
3 min read · Apr 29th · Each bus can carry 36 passengers, and the number of trips per day mean the autonomous buses could move up to 10,000 passengers a week.
MIT Technology Review
It will soon be easy for self-driving cars to hide in plain sight. We shouldn’t let them.
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · May 14th · If they ever hit our roads for real, other drivers need to know exactly what they are.
Reader View · Shared by 14, including Allison Arieff
9to5Mac
Apple poaches 31-year Ford veteran as it aims for self-driving EV launch by 2025
9to5Mac
2 min read · May 3rd · Apple is continuing to press ahead with its efforts to build a fully self-driving electric car, despite a number of personnel changes and strategy shifts over the years. Now, a new report from…
Reader View · Shared by 13
CNET
How an Electric Car Works
CNET
4 min read · May 14th · You know an EV uses electricity to get around, but here's how.
Electrek.co
Most electric cars are cheaper to own from day one
Electrek.co
5 min read · May 12th · Electric cars aren’t just cheaper over the long term but have cheaper total monthly cost from day one for most buyers in the United States, according to a new report from Energy Innovation. A common…
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Harvard Business Review
Lessons from Tesla’s Approach to Innovation
Harvard Business Review
5 min read · From 2020 · There is a method to the madness.
Reader View · Shared by 366, including Tom Connor, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Johannes Dornisch, Oliver Raduner, Niklaus Gerber, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Vala Afshar, Konrad Weber, Abel Caballero Díaz, Katja Evertz, Carla Johnson - Keynote Speaker, Dion Hinchcliffe, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, @wef @davos #wef22 R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A Metaverse, Charles Duhigg, Christian P. Stobbe, Discovery Dojo, Merkstatt
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Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW
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2 min read · From 2020 · TOKYO -- Toyota Motor and Volkswagen each sell 10 million cars, give or take, every year. Tesla delivered about 367,500 in 2019. But when it comes to electronics technology, Elon Musk's scrappy…
Reader View · Shared by 362, including Katja Evertz, Christian Fauteux, Merkstatt, Ian M Calvert, Oliver Reichenstein, Matthias Lampe, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Steven Sinofsky, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Azeem Azhar, hardmaru, Brian Roemmele, Oliver Raduner, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Florian Graillot, Oliver Pitsch, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺🇦🇺, Hendrik Dietrich, Bilal Zuberi, sircharlsxavier
The Verge
32 moments that made the decade
The Verge
~16 min read · From 2019 · From Tinder swipes to self-driving cars, these were the moments that shaped the decade.
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AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
a16z
1 min read · From 2016 · watch time: 45 minutes “One person, in a literal garage, building a self-driving car.” That happened in 2015. Now to put that fact in context, compare this to 2004, when DARPA sponsored the very first…
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VANITY FAIR
How the Next Decade’s Technological Tsunami Will Change Life as We Know It
VANITY FAIR
3 min read · From 2019 · Self-driving cars, iPads, Uber: The technological advances of this decade have happened so quickly that their breadth is difficult to comprehend. The next decade? That, times ten.
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Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020
Gartner
7 min read · From 2019 · Hyperautomation, blockchain, AI security, distributed cloud and autonomous things drive disruption and create opportunities in this year's strategic technology trends.
Reader View · Shared by 195, including Kirk Borne, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Thomas Telandro, Damir Kusar, Scott Williams, Katja Evertz, Jelan Ong, Paolo Sinelli, Vala Afshar, Francesco Forconi, Massimiliano Aroffo, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Merkstatt, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Johannes Lenz, Jonathan Kogan
Bloomberg
The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage.
Bloomberg
~19 min read · From 2015 · George Hotz is taking on Google and Tesla by himself
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The Third Transportation Revolution
medium.com
~16 min read · From 2016 · Lyft’s Vision for the Next Ten Years and Beyond
Introduction: A Country Built for Cars
I remember when I first fell in love with cars.
Reader View · Shared by 188, including Sachin Rekhi, Merkstatt, John Battelle, Mathias Böhm, Chris Messina, Alex Barrera, Mathew Ingram, Thomas Telandro, Stephanie A Kowalski, Stéphane Renault, Ryan Hoover, Justin Cranshaw, Dominik Grolimund, Rodrigo Prior, Stowe Boyd, Moritz Meenen, NewCo, Helmi, Matthieu de Luze, Thomas Power
WIRED
The Incredible Shrinking Car Dealership
WIRED
3 min read · May 18th · The way people buy automobiles is changing—so Honda and other manufacturers are adapting in kind.
Shared by 186, including Backchannel
