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- Ventje VW campervan review: ‘work from home’ from anywhere
- Twitter aims its most powerful weapon at Elon Musk: his own tweets
- Hyundai imagines a grim future where metaverse ‘artists’ live in their cars
- Nissan Leaf, EV pioneer and sales dud, is reportedly on the chopping block
- Alphabet’s Wing is working on larger drones that can handle heavier deliveries
- GM announces plans to build ‘coast-to-coast’ network of 2,000 EV chargers at truck stops
- Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 could be your next home away from home office
- Tesla’s head of AI is out
| Ventje VW campervan review: ‘work from home’ from anywhere Posted: 15 Jul 2022 06:02 AM PDT |
| Twitter aims its most powerful weapon at Elon Musk: his own tweets Posted: 15 Jul 2022 05:00 AM PDT  Look, I was willing to believe I'd called it wrong after the merger agreement went through. Maybe Elon Musk was serious for a change! Maybe he really did want to own an also-ran social network! Maybe Musk was really looking forward to giving himself ulcers dealing with content moderation issues! People have done weirder shit for power, and I think we can all agree that Elon Musk is deeply interested in power. Why else would he be busy testing how well Americans enforce their laws? A quick recap: Musk is attempting to do a runner on the Twitter acquisition, and Twitter isn't having it. Twitter lawyered up in the rudest possible fashion: with the firm that came up with the poison pill. That firm then filed a... |
| Hyundai imagines a grim future where metaverse ‘artists’ live in their cars Posted: 14 Jul 2022 04:00 PM PDT  New car events are usually pretty cringe, full of pointless pyrotechnics, emotionless futurescapes, shameless pandering to "the youth," or hapless CEO antics. (Remember Elon Musk's Cybertruck window smash fail? Simpler times.) So it is with some degree of hesitation that I must point you to this video from Hyundai as the latest exhibit in this ongoing series of "car companies present depressing visions of the future." The video, which was released yesterday, was intended to reveal the sleek-looking Ioniq 6, Hyundai's latest electric vehicle with a 77.4kWh battery and 379 miles of range. Instead we got a smorgasbord of buzzwords — "trashion," metaverse, NFTs — ideally aimed at appealing to a youthful demographic, but going about it in the... |
| Nissan Leaf, EV pioneer and sales dud, is reportedly on the chopping block Posted: 14 Jul 2022 12:30 PM PDT  The Nissan Leaf, a pioneer electric vehicle and one of the cheapest EVs currently on the market, is nearing the end of its life span. According to a report in Automotive News, Nissan does not plan on introducing a next-generation version of the Leaf and may even discontinue the nameplate altogether. Production of the current version of the Leaf is set to wind down by mid-decade, the outlet reports, citing three anonymous sources. A spokesperson for Nissan declined to speculate on the Leaf's future but did say that the company has noted a "renewed" interest in the Leaf amid high demand for EVs. "We are seeing renewed interest in LEAF with the increased demand for EVs and its overall value proposition," Nissan spokesperson Stephen Oldham... |
| Alphabet’s Wing is working on larger drones that can handle heavier deliveries Posted: 14 Jul 2022 10:00 AM PDT  Wing, the drone delivery company operated by Google parent Alphabet, unveiled a series of new prototype aircraft designed to handle a variety of payloads. The company said the new drones will share the same underlying components with the aircraft currently in use delivering pharmaceuticals and other small packages in the suburbs outside of Dallas-Fort Worth. According to Wing CEO Adam Woodworth, the aim is to right-size the delivery industry in order to match the appropriate package with a similar sized vehicle. "Just as the ideal vehicle for carrying a ton of gravel would be a dump truck rather than a sedan, the ideal aircraft to carry a bottle of medication is not the same as the best one to deliver a gallon of milk, and neither is... |
| GM announces plans to build ‘coast-to-coast’ network of 2,000 EV chargers at truck stops Posted: 14 Jul 2022 05:30 AM PDT  General Motors announced a "coast-to-coast" network of fast electric vehicle chargers installed at Pilot and Flying J truck stops and managed by EV charging company EVgo. The announcement is the latest sign that legacy automakers will need to spend their own money to shore up the US' fractured EV charging infrastructure in order to build customer demand for new plug-in vehicles. GM and Pilot Company say the new network will include 2,000 DC fast chargers installed at up to 500 truck stops and travel centers, capable of offering speeds of up to 350kW. The charging stalls will be built along US highways with the expressed purpose of meeting the needs of long-haul trucking and road-trippers. The chargers will be in addition to the 3,250... |
| Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 could be your next home away from home office Posted: 13 Jul 2022 06:51 PM PDT  After serving up a potential camping companion in the Ioniq 5 electric crossover, Hyundai EVP and head of design SangYup Lee pitched the recently-revealed Ioniq 6 as a "personal mobile studio" where you can not only work but also relax and revitalize. During a press briefing this week, the car was described as "a cocoon-like personal space." If you're burning out working in a home office, how about switching to a movable one? It has 64 different interior colors and six pre-selected themes to match your mood. They can also brighten as you accelerate — a top-of-the-line model with two motors and AWD can do 0-100km/h (62.14 mph) in 5.1 seconds — to keep you aware of your driving speed. The automaker emphasizes remote work features such... |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2022 04:13 PM PDT  Andrej Karpathy, Tesla's head of AI and a key leader in the development of Autopilot, its driver assist feature which requires supervision by a human, announced on Twitter Wednesday that he's leaving the company. "It's been a great pleasure to help Tesla towards its goals over the last 5 years and a difficult decision to part ways," Karpathy wrote. "In that time, Autopilot graduated from lane keeping to city streets and I look forward to seeing the exceptionally strong Autopilot team continue that momentum." In a follow-up tweet, Karpathy said he has "no concrete plans for what's next" but wants to revisit "my long-term passions around technical work in AI, open source and education."
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