Month: November 2017

The EPA Confirms The Expensive Tesla Model 3 Has A Range Of 310 Miles

The Tesla Model 3 debuted with two different models-the standard car with a 50 kWh battery pack and the “Long Range” spec with a 75 kWh battery pack, and the EPA has just confirmed Tesla’s claimed 310-mile range for the latter.

GM’s Self-Driving Bolt Gets Publicly Stumped By Taco Truck

Ahead of a big meeting with Wall Street investors this week to lay out its “vision for an autonomous future,” General Motors showed off its self-driving cars in San Francisco, offering the first public test rides for non-employees. The rides didn’t exactly go as planned.

Apple might test self-driving cars at this track

Apple’s self-driving car project might have a new test site. The company is leasing an Arizona proving ground to experiment with its nascent autonomous platform, according to a Jalopnik report citing a source familiar with the project.

DHL orders 10 Tesla Semi electric trucks, mainly for shorter routes

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Deutsche Post AG’s () DHL and Fortigo Freight Services Inc, one of Canada’s largest fleet management companies, said on Tuesday they have pre-ordered Tesla Inc’s () electric truck unveiled earlier this month to test on limited routes. High-profile logistics and transportation customers like fleet operator J.B.

Waymo officially clocks 4 million self-driven miles on the road

Self-driving technology has come a long way in the last several years – 4 four million miles, to be exact, if we’re talking about Waymo. The Alphabet-owned technology company has been one of many firms responsible for moving autonomous vehicles from nothing but a pipe dream to the next big thing in the automotive pipeline.

Lidar just got way better-but it’s still too expensive for your car

Velodyne The iconic spinning laser sensors atop autonomous cars may be making their final turns. Velodyne, the world’s market-leading lidar manufacturer, has built a new device that sees further and in more detail than any lidar sensor currently on sale, in a package a fifth the size of its previous high-resolution device.

Tesla’s semi-truck is priced surprisingly competitive

Looking at the $180,000 model, it’s still around $60,000 more than a diesel-powered semi truck. However, the Semi could cost around 20 percent less to run, Tesla estimates, putting savings over a million miles at around $250,000.

The driverless car revolution will open up all sorts of dilemmas | Coffee House

Philip Hammond wants fully autonomous driverless cars on our roads by 2021. That’s not too far away, is it? I know it sounds like a science fiction year, but it’s only about fifty months off. Technologically, it’s plausible. Earlier this year I travelled over 100 miles in a driverless truck across Florida with the BBC.

Tesla’s all-electric semi truck will start at $150,000

The entry model will have a 300 mile range, or for $180,000 you can get a version with a 500 mile range.