It’s electric, US to cover 25,000 miles of roads with charging stations
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Vehicles are the world’s second largest producers of toxic gases and carbon dioxide, the new EV corridors will help people make the switch to electric vehicles sooner. Civilisation finally looks like it’s getting serious about moving away from powering homes and cars with energy millions...
The machine making the machines, Tesla’s giant Gigafactory to go live in 2017
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By building a vertically integrated company that has control of it’s supply chain and product R&D Musk can realise efficiencies of scale, disrupt industries and use it to catalyse the growth of his companies, namely OpenAI, SolarCity, SpaceX and Tesla. Twenty miles east of Sparks,...
SolarCity’s solar Gigafactory to produce 10GW, or three large power stations, a year
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The new SolarCity Gigafactory will boost supply of solar products, helping to reduce their cost, which in turn should accelerate the adoption of solar power technologies. While discussing potential improvements in manufacturing efficiency with Tesla investor Ron Baron at his conference in New York...
Tesla’s first fully autonomous car makes its first appearance
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s arrived. Elon Musk and Tesla have been dropping hints about their fully autonomous self-driving cars for some time now, and yesterday they made an appearance. In the video they released we can see the car driving around town, complete with the...
Exploit allowed hackers to take remote control of a Tesla Model S
Tesla has now fixed the exploit but this isn’t the first time, or the last time that hackers will take control of individual cars, or entire fleets of autonomous vehicles, and that raises concerns It’s not the first time that we’ve heard this kind of news and it certainly won’t...
Regulators scrutinise the death of another Tesla S driver in the Netherlands
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While the cause of the crash hasn’t been determined yet investigators are turning their attentions to the cars safety systems. Driverless cars have gone from the realms of science fiction to the streets of major US states and cities – from Pittsburg to Singapore – within just...
Drivers death highlights the risks of new technology
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF With new technologies come new risks but the rate at which they’re being developed and deployed leaves culture and training struggling to keep up. The first reported death involving Tesla’s Autopilot feature raises troubling questions about how much more progress proponents of self-driving cars must achieve before they can...
The death of consumer car insurance
Driverless cars signal the end of consumer car insurance You and I probably agree that spending thousands of pounds every year to buy insurance is one of life’s great pleasures, there’s no noise as exciting as a bill hitting the mat – then again maybe it’s just me. At this...
Pt. 2 of 2. The rules of business have changed, adapt or die
In Part 1 we looked at how Entrepreneurs are catching many business leaders off guard and changing the rules of business. In this article we look at how they’re managing it and what legacy multi nationals can do to transform their businesses in mid flight to compete. Whichever continent, whichever industry and whichever...
The Internet of Everything is creating new empires
Today few people realise that our society is on the cusp of creating a new Epoch, one where in 400 years’ time our descendants will look back on our Age and compare it in the same way that we compare our Age to the Stone Age. The Internet of Everything...
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