08 Apr 2019 | Replacing Gas Power Plants With Your Solar, London Launches Low Emission Zone and EVs Hold Their Value Better Than Diesel
Tesla Adds More Atari Games To Its Dashboard | Elon Musk Explains Why There Is A Camera Inside Of The Tesla Model 3 | Elon Musk Makes Private Visit To Buffalo Tesla Plant | L.A. Could Replace Traditional Power Plants With Home Solar | London Prepares For Launch Of Ultra-Low Emissions Zone | BMW Board Member Outlines Mini's Long-Term Electrification Plan | Electrified Models Named As Best For Holding Their Value | 2019 Hyundai Kona Ev Is An Electric Car For Everyone
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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Monday 8th April 2019. It’s Martyn Lee here and I’ve been through every EV story I could find today, and picked out the best ones to save you time.
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TESLA ADDS MORE ATARI GAMES TO ITS DASHBOARD
- "Tesla [has] added a pair of new old Atari games to the lineup you can play on its cars' dashboard display. When Model S, X and 3 owners update their software, they'll be able to play 2048 and Super Breakout." says Sean Keane for CNET Roadshow: "The company added the initial batch of TeslAtari games last August, and ...later removed racer Pole Position because it "couldn't resolve all the rights issues," CEO Elon Musk tweeted last month. So now the list of games, as noted by Mashable, consists of: 2048, Super Breakout, Missile Command, Asteroids, Lunar Lander and Centipede."
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-adds-more-atari-games-to-its-dashboard/
ELON MUSK EXPLAINS WHY THERE IS A CAMERA INSIDE OF THE TESLA MODEL 3
- "Back in 2017 we learned that the Tesla Model 3 has an inactive camera above the rearview mirror looking into the car. Seems ... creepy. Well, recently on Twitter, CEO Elon Musk revealed what that camera is doing there." reports Mashable.
- Elon said on Twitter: "It’s there for when we start competing with Uber/Lyft & people allow their car to earn money for them as part of the Tesla shared autonomy fleet. In case someone messes up your car, you can check the video."
- @MarcelFeldkamp "It's hard to wrap my head around a future where my car might be earning me money through autonomous driving while I'm asleep in my bed or play video games but here we are."
- @elonmusk "That’s exactly the idea. What’s not well understood is that Tesla cars being made *today* will be able to do that for you. Just a matter of finishing the software & going through regulatory approval. Will be explained in depth via live webcast on April 22."
https://mashable.com/shopping/april-6-barisieur-coffee-maker-alarm-clock/?europe=true#P7Voci11xOqJ
ELON MUSK MAKES PRIVATE VISIT TO BUFFALO TESLA PLANT
- "That really was Elon Musk who stopped by the Tesla Inc. solar panel factory in Buffalo on Friday. Musk, Tesla's chairman and CEO, visited the South Park Avenue factory Friday, a Tesla spokeswoman confirmed. She did not elaborate on what Musk did here or offer any other details of the visit. She said Musk, who has never made a public visit to Buffalo, would not be speaking to local media while he is here." reports one of those local media The Buffalo Times: "The Buffalo solar panel factory, built and partially equipped by the state with $750 million in taxpayer money as part of the Buffalo Billion economic development program, has taken far longer than expected to develop as Tesla's solar energy business has shrunk and the company has focused most of its resources on its electric vehicle business. The plant, which Tesla has pledged will employ 1,460 people by April 2020, currently has fewer than 800 workers after a companywide round of job cuts earlier this year."
https://buffalonews.com/2019/04/05/there-was-an-elon-musk-sighting-in-buffalo-today/
L.A. COULD REPLACE TRADITIONAL POWER PLANTS WITH HOME SOLAR
- "Renewable energy experts and a new report from the solar industry say Los Angeles could generate a larger portion of its electricity with wider use of residential solar panels backed up by battery storage." says Dennis Romero: "The concept of a "virtual power plant" that could replace one of three natural gas plants being phased out by the city has already been deployed successfully in Orange County and Waltham, Vermont. But Los Angeles, where officials want to rely entirely on renewable energy by 2050, would be the largest U.S. city to go virtual."
- Sunrun CEO Lynn Jurich: ""What we can do is if we can put a battery with each one of those solar systems, we can link them with software and when the utility needs that power, it can be dispatched from 75,000 homes. They can replace the energy of one of those gas-power plants and be more cost effective."
LONDON PREPARES FOR LAUNCH OF ULTRA-LOW EMISSIONS ZONE
- "London is preparing to enforce “world-leading” vehicle pollution restrictions from Monday as the capital attempts to clean up the toxic air blamed for thousands of premature deaths. The ultra-low emission zone, or Ulez, will launch at one minute past midnight on April 8, imposing a £12.50-a-day charge to drive into central London in all but the cleanest cars and vans." reports The UK Guardian newspaper: "The move is expected to reduce road transport emissions by around 45%. The mayor, Sadiq Khan, unveiled research showing that almost 1,000 people a year in the city were hospitalised with asthma caused by pollution. The charge will be levied inside London’s congestion charge zone around the clock, and motorists driving polluting cars during the daytime will have to pay both charges, meaning it will cost £24 to take such vehicles into central London between 7am and 6pm. Currently more than 2 million people in London – including more than 400,000 children – live in areas where the air quality breaks legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. At present, air quality breaches legal limits at 451 schools."
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/check-your-vehicle-35896
BMW BOARD MEMBER OUTLINES MINI'S LONG-TERM ELECTRIFICATION PLAN
- Peter Schwarzenbauer has led the Mini and Rolls-Royce brands to record sales during his six years as the BMW Group board member in charge of the brands. Starting this month, he takes on a new role within the automaker as the board member whose primary focus is to continue the group's electrification shift.
- He talked about the new Mini Electric with Automotive News Europe Correspondent Christiaan Hetzner: "We haven't revealed any details yet. We want to save that for when we get ready to debut the series production version, which will be before the Frankfurt auto show [in September]. Assembly in Oxford begins in the second half of this year and the market rollout is slated for early 2020."
ELECTRIFIED MODELS NAMED AS BEST FOR HOLDING THEIR VALUE
- "Electric and hybrid vehicles are now the best vehicles on the road for holding their value, according to new research. Figures from What Car? showed that out of the top 10 vehicles that hold their value the best, five were electrified in one way or another." reports AOL: "Measuring a vehicle's potential worth over three years and 30,000 miles, electrified models retained 47 per cent of their value on average – compared with 43 and 40 per cent for petrol and diesel options respectively.All bar two of the worst-performing vehicles were diesel, showing just how far the fuel type has fallen out of favour with UK car buyers."
https://www.aol.co.uk/living/2019/04/05/electrified-models-named-as-best-for-holding-their-value/
2019 HYUNDAI KONA EV IS AN ELECTRIC CAR FOR EVERYONE
- Consumer Reports are having a love-in with the Kona Electric: "It doesn’t have a gimmick, it doesn’t feel tinny or look goofy, and it has a range long enough that it should allow you to travel to work and back—and then some. It’s just a practical car that happens to be electric."
https://www.consumerreports.org/hybrids-evs/2019-hyundai-kona-ev-first-drive-review/
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