Cleantech & EV’s

Believe it or not, a cash-for-clunkers plan helped get old and polluting cars off the road, replacing them with efficient and traffic-reducing personal electric vehicles like e-bikes and e-scooters. Shocking, right? Trading in old cars for new electric bikes Perhaps it’s not so shocking for Lithuanians, who jumped at the opportunity to swap their old cars for new e-bikes. The program was…

Tesla has started pushing a new software update under its Full Self-Driving Beta program and CEO Elon Musk says it could already cut driver interventions by a third. It has been less than two weeks since Tesla has started pushing the first version of its “Full Self-Driving” feature in beta to some users. As we previously reported, Tesla has already been collecting a large amount of data…

We are now roughly 100 days into the Tesla Gigafactory Texas construction project, and it is progressing on pace, but the hard part is still to come as Tesla tries to rapidly deploy production capacity at the new facility. Electrek exclusively reported that Tesla’s next factory is going to be in Austin back in May 2020. At the time, a source said that Tesla planned to move fast with hopes to…

What would happen if you set up a Skydio 2 drone to follow a Tesla Model 3 in Full Self-Driving (Beta) mode? Would it perform as well as the automobile? Better? Buckle up; we’re about to find out. We already know that the brains inside the Skydio 2 are pretty impressive. The AI and obstacle avoidance are so good on the drone, it really freaked out Casey Neistat – who couldn’t run away fast…