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Elon Musk’s Answer To Stephen Colbert’s Vision Of Ambient Wireless Charging: “We’ll Do It”
Last night Tesla’s Elon Musk appeared on The Colbert Report, and he discussed some of SpaceX‘s recent successes, the upcoming update for Tesla vehicles that let you name your car, as well as his general path towards supervillainy. Aside from the usual comedic hijinks, the segment also touched on some of Musk’s concepts for the future, and also on what Colbert himself wants to… Read More
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Lyft Will Not Launch In New York Today, Company Says It Will Work With Taxi Commission
New Yorkers hoping to catch a ride with Lyft today are out of luck. The company said via email and on its blog that it’s putting off its NYC launch. Lyft had announced launch plans for Brooklyn and Queens earlier this week, and it said yesterday that it would move forward with those plans despite the fact that the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission said the service did not… Read More
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Fuel-Cell Cars Are Going To Get A Big Boost In California Next Year
We may not have hoverboards by October 2015, but thanks to investments from the California Energy Commission and Toyota, we’ll have something just as futuristic: the makings of a functioning hydrogen economy in California. A Weekend With The All-Electric BMW i3
I’ve never driven a BMW, or an electric car, so I might have been an odd choice to test drive the new BMW i3, the German car maker’s all-electric hatchback, which packs the equivalent of 170 HP into its electric engine. But an unexpected reviewer might be the perfect candidate for an unexpected car. Read More
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Social Parking Startup ParkTag Pulls In $680K To Drive Its Tech Into Urban Planning
We first came across Berlin-based startup ParkTag pitching their parking space swapping community at Disrupt New York’s Startup Alley, back in 2013. Today they’re announcing a seed investment of €500,000 from German’s High-Tech Gründerfonds, and plans to grow into a technology provider helping to power smart cities. Read More
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The Tesla Model X SUV Is Coming In Early 2015 With Gull-Wing Doors
Reservation holders for the Tesla Model X received notice today that the electric SUV will hit the production lines early next year. Best of all, Tesla confirms in this email that the gull-wing doors will make the production model and all models will feature all-wheel drive and there will be an option for a third row of seating. These are big updates, but they shouldn’t come as a surprise. Read More
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Taking BMW’s Electric Car Sharing Program DriveNow For A Spin Around SF
When you think of car sharing, you probably think of names such as ZipCar, City CarShare, Relay Rides and Getaround. What may not come to mind is BMW. The German luxury car company is typically known for selling cars for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars — not renting them out by the minute. Read More
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Tesla Promises To Not Sue Anyone Using Its Technology
Tesla has open-sourced its patents on electric vehicle technology, according to a post on the company’s blog by CEO Elon Musk who said that one of the company’s biggest goals is to move the entire electric vehicle market forward. Tesla Wants To Open Its Supercharger Standard To Other Electric Car Makers
Elon Musk is willing to share the technology behind his Tesla Superchargers, the fast-charging plug-in stations for his company’s electric cars, the CEO revealed at the UK launch of the Model S this past weekend (via Engadget). Musk said he’d be willing to open up the designs in order to build a standard that can be used interchangeably across the industry – which would… Read More
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Tesla Wins Back The Right To Sell Direct To Consumers In New Jersey
Electric car company Tesla can now once again sell cars direct to consumers in New Jersey (via Engadget), after a ban earlier this year based on an old (and mostly irrelevant in this case) law enabled Governor Chris Christie to bow to pressure from local auto dealers to get sales of Elon Musk’s magical future cars put on hold. Read More
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