While there’s quite the number of legacy car manufacturers releasing hybrid or fully electric cars these days it’s not too often you see one as well executed as what Volvo’s just done. The new Volvo CX40 Recharge marks the start of their “Recharge” brand roll out which will be for full BEV (and hybrids too) which is sure to take over in the years to come.
Join me as I get out of my usual Tesla mode and take a more in depth look at what a major legacy car maker is up to. To see what they have planned for the future by diving into their past at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany.
In this weeks Tipping Point we see 3D printing at the nanoscale accelerate 1000 fold, Encryption comes under government threat world wide, Google finally starts to roll out their colorizing AI, the DJI Mavic Mini leaks, even US energy giants are talking up renewables and more!
A new AutoPilot Game overlay feature on the main Tesla map could not only help Tesla develop their AutoPilot system faster, but reward owners for helping to gather the data and make AutoPilot handle their local suburbs better in the process.
There’s a growing swell of talk about 5G this and 5G that but 4G data speeds are pretty good, especially here in Australia. So why do we need 5G LTE? Plus how is 5G LTE better than 4G?
This past week has been an explosion of tech with the new Surface Duo and Neo, Tesla’s huge V10 software update, Skydio finally launching their second generation drone and more. We’ve also got great news with China shutting down huge amounts of coal plants, the OnePlus 7T going official and trials confirming that senolytics really works in humans.
What good is amazingly new and awesome technology like drones if you don’t have anywhere to use it? That’s exactly why we took to Germany’s famed Black Forest region to drive, explore and most importantly fly!
This evening at a private event SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed their not-so-secret Starship Mark 1 design. On display behind him dwarfing their very first Falcon 1 rocket, the 50 metre high rocket looks like an absolute beast. If things run to schedule, Musk wants to have it fly to orbit in the next 6 months!
Some great future tech released this past week with a gorgeous, fully wrap around screen phone by Xiaomi, Impossible Foods meat is now on sale in stores, AI takes on Earthquakes, Boston Dynamics officially releases their Spot robot and a landmark change in transport with Daimler announcing they’re stopping development of combustion engines.
Yes that’s right. Taking delivery of one of the first Tesla Model 3’s in Australia we drove away from our delivery appointment last Thursday in our own Batmobile. After a week of driving, playing, poking and learning I thought I’d give a few quick first impressions.