Hyperloop is coming to Europe as Slovakia plans to reduce travel from Bratislava to Vienna and Budapest to less than 10 minutes March 10, 2016 The most exciting transport innovation in the world right now – Elon Musk's ambitious Hyperloop – is coming to Europe and could create the fastest ever cross-border travel. A Hyperloop company has inked a deal with the government of Slovakia to explore bringing the super-fast transport to this side of the pond, potentially connecting Bratislava with Vienna in Austria and Budapest in Hungary [...]
Tesla is the latest car maker to tap the kid market with a scale model version of its electronic sedan February 16, 2016 What do you buy for the child who has everything? A kids' size version of the Tesla Model S built to scale of course. For the pocket-money price of £346, the Tesla Model S for Kids has working headlights, a sound system and a rechargeable battery. Available from May, the electric sedan drives at a [...]
Human drivers will be obsolete by 2050 as driverless technology takes over, say researchers Moshe Vardi and Bart Selman February 14, 2016 Cars driven by humans will become obsolete with the rise of driverless car technology, leading researchers have predicted, and it could happen as soon as 2050. "You cannot ride a horse in downtown Houston anymore. If you like horse riding, you have to go to horse ranches. The same is likely to happen with cars," said Moshe Vardi, [...]
Tesla shares jump on increased revenue as losses widen February 10, 2016 Tesla Motors reported revenue of $1.2bn (£825m) for the three months to 31 December 2015, up from $956m in the same period of 2014. The electric car company's results fell short of analysts' expectations of $1.85bn in revenue. Meanwhile, losses for the quarter widened to $320m from $108m. Shares in the company were up by over four [...]
Elon Musk’s “next great idea” is to develop a vertical takeoff and landing electric plane after Tesla, SpaceX and Hyperloop February 5, 2016 Elon Musk has new big plans: After out-there projects like SpaceX’s reusable rocket and Hyperloop, the billionaire tech titan wants to turn his attention to electric aeroplanes. The technology is basically non-existent commercially today, but that could all be about to change. Speaking at a Hyperloop event in Texas, the Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur was [...]
How the Jaguar F-Type bagged us an invite to party with Kendall Jenner February 3, 2016 There are four bungalows situated behind the high walls of the notorious Chateau Marmont, each one the location of countless rock n’ roll parties. Mine has a particularly macabre claim to fame; the master bedroom was where comedy icon John Belushi checked out permanently. It’s a modernist LA pad, with floor-to-ceiling windows, whitewashed brick walls, [...]
Firefighters battle blaze at Tesla factory in Fremont, California January 26, 2016 Firefighters have extinguished a blaze at the Tesla Motors factory in Fremont, California, today. There were no injuries and no damage was done to Tesla's production line as a result of the fire. A spokesperson for the tech company said: "There was a small fire this morning in an air handling unit in the ceiling of [...]
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk win 2015 Luddite Award for their “alarmist” warnings about artificial intelligence January 20, 2016 Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have just “won” the 2015 Luddite Award for their warnings about artificial intelligence. A world-renowned physicist and the entrepreneur behind ventures like Tesla and SpaceX, neither of the two are exactly what you might call afraid of technology. But the worries the two have expressed on the future of AI [...]
Elon Musk: Apple car is an “open secret” reveals Tesla entrepreneur as he talks rivals and driverless cars January 12, 2016 Entrepreneur Elon Musk has said it's an open secret that Apple is working on making an electric car which would rival his own company Tesla. Speaking to the BBC in an exclusive interview, Musk said that Apple and another new rival Faraday Future had been hiring Tesla engineers over recent months. "It's pretty hard to [...]
New Tesla update allows drivers to summon their cars from their smartphones – putting them one step closer to being January 11, 2016 Tesla owners can be a little more like James Bond this morning, after the company launched a software update which allows them to summon their cars using a smartphone app. In a blog post yesterday, the electric car giant said Vesion 7.1 of its Autopilot software will include a Summon feature, allowing it to "open your garage [...]