by Randall McAdory | Jan 9, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Elon Musk, Intel, Tesla
In a previous post, I discussed Elon Musk’s view that the usage of lidar in autonomous vehicle applications is a “fools errand.” Musk believes that radar, cameras, ultrasonic sensors and neural networks are all that’s needed to make self-driving vehicles function...
by Randall McAdory | Dec 1, 2019 | TaaS, Tesla, Transportation as a Service
Friday, Tesla’s stock price ended the day at $329.94 per share. On June 3, 2019 Tesla’s stock was $178.97. Friday’s price represents an 84% stock price gain since June 3. In October of this year, Ark Investment founder and CEO, Katherine Wood, predicted a rise in...
by Randall McAdory | Nov 25, 2019 | Electric Vehicles, General Motors
In a recent opinion piece on CNN Business, GM’s president (Mark Reuss) describes the three barriers to consumer acceptance of electric vehicle adoption: range, charging infrastructure, and cost. According to GM, range is the most significant barrier to EV...
by Randall McAdory | Nov 7, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Ecosystem
An interesting article on Medium by Charles Nave describes the collection of technology and automotive companies directly engineering or partnering with entities developing autonomous vehicles. Some companies like Tesla are attempting to own the entire technology...
by Randall McAdory | Oct 30, 2019 | Batteries, China, Electric Vehicles
A few weeks ago, I posted about the three winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on lithium-ion batteries. In this week’s Automotive News (subscription required), one of those laureates (M. Stanley Whittingham) provides a very interesting...
