Tech companies are ready for self-driving cars, but the world may not be

By Seth Fiegerman. Which scares you more: Human error, or faceless robots? You’ll eventually have to pick a side. Eliminating error-prone human agency from the control of two-ton vehicles is the obsession of Google, Tesla and the world’s biggest automakers. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has even gone so far as to suggest human drivers may […]

Tesla vehicle deliveries rise 55% in the first quarter

By Myles Udland. Tesla’s holiday news dump is out. On Friday morning, Tesla announced that in the first quarter of the year, vehicle deliveries rose 55% to 10,030, a new record for the company. Tesla had forecast that it would sell 9,500 vehicles in the quarter. In a release, Tesla said: Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) […]

New cars all electric by 2030 – professor

By Brian Fallow.   Fossil-fuel vehicles to go the way of the horse and cart as costs come down. What people want from transport is to get from A to B as quickly, safely and cheaply as possible. For city-dwellers at least – and that is most of us these days – meeting that demand […]

Victoria Carter: City needs to think outside the square

By Victoria Carter. Auckland is desperately in need of some bold new ideas, and those ideas need the council’s support. How many good ideas has Auckland lost because of council’s lack of enthusiasm? How many good ideas drown in environments that are too bureaucratic or process bound? Auckland desperately needs ideas to be a more […]

Spark needed for electric vehicles, says Mighty River Power boss

By Brian Fallow. Mighty River Power chief discusses plan to convert 70% of firm’s vehicles to all-electric or hybrids. Fleets, public and private, are the key to the uptake of electric vehicles in this country, Mighty River Power chief executive Fraser Whineray says. An evangelical fan of the technology, Whineray says New Zealand is one […]