Despite SUV Craze, Tesla Model 3 Dominates US Luxury Vehicle Market

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:10:03 +0000

If there’s anything Elon Musk loves, it’s bringing a gadget out of a sci-fi novel to life. In December 2014, he said Tesla was working on “a charger that automatically moves out from the wall & connects like a solid metal snake.” Shades of Doctor Octopus’s robot arms, and the human-hunting robotic snakes from the Terminator universe! Surely Elon knows better than to hook up an AI to this monstrosity

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Bolt EV: Drive Unit Deep Dive

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 19:40:50 +0000

While batteries get a lot of attention, drive units in electric vehicles don’t get as much love. Why? Because many think they’re simple and all the same. An electric motor turns a reduction gear of some kind, which turns the CV axles, which turn the wheels and makes us go. It’s just a few moving parts, right

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