Cleantech & EV’s

Tesla has started pushing a new software update enabling Autopilot to stay in the passing lane instead of moving back to the right lane like you normally should. Self-driving vehicles have the potential to greatly alleviate traffic by simply driving in better and more appropriate ways than the average human driver. Two things that make a big difference are simply keeping a more reasonable…

The latest drone flyover of Tesla Gigafactory Berlin shows some impressive progress, as the novel construction technique is already producing large buildings. It has been a month since we shared a Tesla Gigafactory Berlin construction update, and a lot of progress has been made in the last month. Tesla’s factory under construction is subject to constant drone flyovers from people in the Tesla…

A year and a half ago German startup NOVUS unveiled the first prototype of their new carbon fiber electric motorcycle. The design has since been updated into a more robust bike, yet the sky-high price has remained just as lofty. I’m not going to bury the lede here. The NOVUS electric motorcycle is priced at €39,900 without VAT or €46,284 with VAT. That’s US$47,000 or US$54,500, for…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has updated the timeline for the release of the automaker’s highly-anticipated Autopilot core rewrite — delaying it by about several weeks to a month. As we previously reported, Tesla is going through “a significant foundational rewrite in the Tesla Autopilot.” CEO Elon Musk says that the “neural net is absorbing more and more of the problem” as part of the…