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Tesla makes its newest cut: Interns

Teslarati

Tesla’s broad layoff scope has impacted everyone from executives to lower-level associates to Service techs as it trims its workforce by roughly 14,000 workers. They woke up to see their offers revoked: “At 8:46am, I opened a Tesla email for flight info. By 11:25am, my internship offer was gone.”

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Comment on Full text: Nio CEO William Li's 1st letter to employees in 2024 by John Hanna

CN EV Post

."); "There is not a CEO in the (tech hub) Silicon Vally that has not wondered if he ought to unleash his inner 'Elon Musk'." Tesla draws the best leading-edge tech engineers in the world. Info re Li on the NIO' wikipedia site: education - sociology degree at Peking U. Just not "How".

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New AMG C63 S is a four-cylinder PHEV

EV Central

But Hermann points out that the company’s European customers “love the idea of being more efficient” The hybrid technology of the new C63 S E Performance borrows from Formula 1 and this will attract younger and more tech-savvy customers, he also believes. PHEV battery pack takes up some boot space… Drivetrain tech.

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$90M UR:BAN research initiative presenting results on ADAS and traffic management for cities; intelligent vehicles

Green Car Congress

.; Fraunhofer Institute for Labor Economy and Organization (IAO); GEVAS Software GmbH; Heusch/Boesefeldt GmbH; University of Applied Sciences Technology and Business of the State of Saarland; ifak Magdeburg e.V.; University of Braunschweig; Tech. University of Chemnitz; Tech. Volkswagen Group Research.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

Electric Auto Association Silicon Valley (EAASV), established in 1967 as the original Electric Auto (now Vehicle) Association, has a long history of attracting members and presenting speakers who have gone on to become tech and transportation luminaries. More recently, Gage became the CEO of EVGrid , working on Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech.

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Are You Still Using Real Data to Train Your AI?

Cars That Think

I might have sensors on Mars that ingest the real world and send over a copy of that info to Earth in real time—or eight minutes later or whatever it takes for the speed of light to travel from Mars. And it seems like the big tech companies that collect data have a natural advantage. That’s why people say data is the new oil.

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AI and self driving

EV Info

He walked through the technicalities of the chip, explaining that Tesla wanted to own as much of its tech stack as possible to avoid any bottlenecks. Musk said Dojo is expected to be operational next year, at which point we can expect talk about how this tech can be applied to many other use cases. Computer Vision.

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