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Tesla Roadster 2025 to make 0-60 mph in less than a second with SpaceX tech, says Elon Musk – ET Auto

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.” Musk first unveiled a second-generation Roadster prototype in late 2017 and said then the car would arrive three years later. Back in June 2018, when Musk alluded to offering a SpaceX rocket thruster option package, he wrote that he had to choose between buying a house or a McLaren after selling his first company.

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Austin study teases out changes in behavior in wake of suspension of Uber and Lyft service

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The researchers found a correlation between the level of inconvenience reported and the likelihood that a survey participant would buy a car. Inconvenienced residents were more than five times more likely to buy a car. On May 29, 2017, Uber and Lyft relaunched their services in Austin. —a 68% drop. 2977969.

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ABB brings TOSA e-bus and flash charging to Davos; first use in Alpine region

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The idea is to run the system under extreme winter weather conditions; ABB and its project partners expect to gain valuable insights from this pilot project. As well as being ecologically responsible, they’re becoming less expensive to buy and maintain. This is the first time TOSA technology is being used in an Alpine region.

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Redwood Materials Will Recycle Hawaiian Grid Batteries

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“The thing to keep in mind is that the large-scale lithium-battery sector is relatively young,” noted Sam Abuelsamid, the principal analyst for transportation and mobility at the market intelligence firm Guidehouse Insights. So the idea is, buy it once and keep it here.” The vast majority of batteries are nowhere near end of life yet.

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ASU research finds that Cash for Clunkers rebates were too high to prompt car upgrades

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It was a great opportunity to get some insights from this natural experiment about trade-in promotions and the effect of trade-in rebates that nobody had looked at before. Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2017. —Michael Wiles, an associate professor of marketing.

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Who Actually Owns Tesla’s Data?

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For Teslas built since mid-2017, “every time you drive, it records the whole track of where you drive, the GPS coordinates and certain other metrics for every mile driven,” says Green , a Tesla owner who has reverse engineered the company’s Autopilot data collection.

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Can small car segment bounce back by 2026? Trends suggest otherwise

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Consider this – the share of small cars in terms of sales had a market share of more than 47 per cent in Financial Year of 2017-18. In the past, there were not so many choices available and the buying power of people was also limited. According to Statista Market Insights, it is projected to grow by a mere 1.4

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