A good day with a new breed of “supercar.”
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It’s not that electric cars won’t struggle (see my long investigative piece on Fisker), but that many people just don’t get how the ecosystem, technology, and marketplace work and are so quick to make declarations about electric cars for the sole purpose of getting attention and — if you’re a blogger — page views. Tesla has actually emerged as a success story, not in the last week, but gradually over a decade by overcoming hurdles every day.
After loving to hate Tesla, many scramble to show their love - Katie Fehrenbacher
And if this keeps up, we’ll see yet another 180 that will begin with a few dissenting voices trying to stand out from the pack. Just ask Apple.
TAG Heuer Formula E
Berlin
The Bosses Don't Love It, but You Will
Dan Neil on the Fiat 500e.
A 500-hp, V6-powered GTI coming to Wörthersee. But rather than simply stripping the interior and throwing in a cage, they went full-on concept car, canting everything towards the driver and:
Of note in the cabin are an onboard camera and a facility to allow the driver to network with a social community from the car. A large display to the right of the main instruments shows the circuit being driven as well as times achieved. The display also communicates with other vehicles on the course and calculates details about the current status of the race in real time.
Only Volkswagen pulls this kind of thing off for an enthusiast event.
Musk + Google ≠ Autonomous Car
An off-hand comment about a technology that’s destined to infiltrate the entire automotive industry misconstrued then re-reported by dozens of outlets. And then Musk responds.
Creating an autopilot for cars at Tesla is an important, but not yet top priority. Still a few years from production.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
Tesla priority is electrification of cars, so priority is Model S, Model X, then mass market third gen vehicle & truck
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
Am a fan of Larry, Sergey & Google in general, but self-driving cars comments to Bloomberg were just off-the-cuff. No big announcement here
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
Musk talks to the Google Guys all the time. So using Bloomberg’s logic, since I’ve talked to Lamborghini, Winkelmann is hiring me to develop the next Gallardo.
This Electric Bicycle Hits 27 MPH ... For the Price of a Motorcycle
Very smitten. But for this kind of cash, Specialized is appealing to a niche within a niche. And based on what an engineer told me, this is just their first model. More to come, with a full suspension and lighter weight. That’s what I’m waiting for… unless I buy a proper motorcycle.
