Electric charging station opens in Newmarket
Electric vehicle charging station ready to go in Newmarket Via Driven Electric vehicle drivers can now charge up – for free – at a new charging station power company Vector has installed at its Newmarket office in Auckland. Vector CEO Simon Mackenzie said his company was supporting growth in the number of electric vehicles on […]
Watch out Tesla! Aston Martin is building a 1,000-horsepower electric sedan
By Benjamin Zhang. Aston Martin is getting into the all-electric luxury sedan game — big time. According to Car and Driver, Aston Martin CEO Dr. Andy Palmer said that the company’s future electric super-sedan will: 1) Be based on the Rapide S 2) Arrive in about 2 years 3) Have as much as 1,000 horsepower […]
Tesla just announced a new entry-level car – and some cool new colours!
By Matthew Debord. Tesla is replacing its lowest-priced Model S sedan with a new version, called the 70D. In a statement, the car maker said that the new car will start “at $US67,500 after Federal Tax Credit, Model S 70D includes dual motor all-wheel drive technology, an EPA-rated 240 miles of range, and a 0-60 […]
NZ’s greenhouse gas emissions soar
By Brian Fallow. Rise raises doubts about Govt target of 5% reduction from 1990 levels by 2020. New Zealand’s net emissions of greenhouse gases climbed 42 per cent between 1990 and 2013. Gross emissions, which exclude carbon flows relating to forestry and land use change, rose 21 per cent between 1990 (year zero for carbon […]
ELON MUSK: This is the biggest problem we need to solve on Earth in this century
By Kelly Dickerson. It’s safe to say eccentric tech innovator and billionaire Elon Musk has a finger to the pulse of the future, and when he appeared on astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk Radio show in March, he came with a warning about it: “From a terrestrial standpoint, the biggest problem we need to solve […]
In the future, the car business is going to look very different
By John McDuling. “Telling the story of this chart will occupy the remainder my professional life. It’s sort of sad that my life can be boiled down to one chart… but it’s so true.” So begins a note this morning from the ever provocative Morgan Stanley auto analyst, Adam Jonas (first spotted by Bloomberg). Jonas […]
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 […]