Self driving cars will make electric cars more practicable, and mechanics less populous When it comes to the auto industry the future is coming on at full speed. Although I think its optimistic to think we will have self driving cars in 5 years, because of both technology and legal reasons, but in 10 I think we will see a large percentage of cars that can drive themselves… Read More
How Tesla caught the New York Times faking a test drive and why this is more then just a bad reporter story I’m already in the market to buy an electric or extended hybrid so I tend to pay attention to these story more then most people. Now, I do not exactly consider the New York Times the go to publication for news on electric cars, however, like most people, I normally accept anything I read in… Read More
No, your Telsa will NOT brick if you leave it uncharged A story broke a few days back from a blogger named Michael DeGusta saying that if you let your Telsa’s car battery full drain that you have effectively bricked your car. He gave 5 examples of cars that were fully drained and thus ‘bricked’. He reports one example of a user who took his car… Read More
Random pics and random thoughts for the SF 2011 AutoShow Walking through San Francisco on Sunday and decided at the last minuet to stop in at the car show. I wanted to have a look at the latest series of electric car offerings. The usual suspects were there, but no edge players. Shame. Heck, Tesla was not even there. But BMW was with their newest… Read More
Electric Networked Vehicle shown at CES 2011 I am back from the holidays and am catching up on CES 2011 news. A great amount of gadgets where shown but this ‘car’ caught my eye initially. Shown at last year’s World Expo Shanghai, General Motors brought their EN-V (Electric Networked Vehicle) concept to CES this year. Sure the design is odd, but when and… Read More