February 20, 2017
Tech War: Prius Prime vs. Hyundai Ioniq
By a lucky coincidence, I had a chance to drive both the 2017 Prius Prime and the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq in the same week. The Prius lineup and…
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February 18, 2017
Ornithologists are using drones to eavesdrop on songbirds
When conservationists put drones to work in field research, they typically function as flying eyes that gather imagery of the habitat and wildlife below. Now, ornithologists from Gettysburg College…
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TesLab is the companion app Tesla owners have been waiting for
Tesla actually makes a lot of data available to vehicle owners via APIs and other endpoints, but it’s not always easy to find and make use of that…
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Daimler’s Smart will focus on electric vehicles exclusively in North America
The adorable little Smart cars you see on North American roads from here on out will likely be primarily electric, as the company has decided to cease sales…
Read articleFebruary 10, 2017
Uncorking innovation with Treasury Wine Estates in Napa
What wine makers are going after with applied technology and science is a more profitable piece of an already sizable market. Consumers spent $38 billion on U.S.-made wines alone in…
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This Lucid Air electric car winter test video reminds us snow can be good
Lucid’s Air is a 1,000 HP electric dream car, which is still in the early stages of real-world testing, but which already has more than a few EV…
Read articleFebruary 9, 2017
Tesla answers claims of poor factory working conditions and unionization efforts
Jose Moran, who claims to be a Tesla employee working at the company’s Fremont, California assembly facility, took to Medium on Thursday to detail working conditions at the company, and…
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Tesla said to be aiming to start test production of Model 3 on February 20
Tesla is pausing production at its California assembly plant in Fremont in order to prepare for Model 3 production, the company announced on Wednesday, and Reuters reports via…
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Ford plug-in hybrid sales rose 38% in 2016
Ford saw some significant year-over-year growth in its plug-in hybrid sales in 2016, despite gas prices that on average saw historic lows throughout the year. The total number of…
Read articleFebruary 2, 2017
Faraday Future said to be scaling back its electric car model lineup
Faraday Future is scaling back some of its ambitions, according to Reuters, taking its planed product portfolio from seven electric vehicles to just two, and also reducing the…
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