Editor Blogs

September 2020

The commuter lot off New York State's Thruway Exit 18 (New Paltz).

NY to Install EV Charging Stations at Major Commuter Lots

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

We’ve mentioned “range anxiety” a ton on this site, and for good reason – taken as a whole, it’s probably the single biggest reason electric vehicles aren’t more mainstream. New York State just chipped away a small, but significant chunk, of our collective agita. The New York State Thruway Authority and Ne

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09/30/2020

Tesla's Elon Musk, the "real life Tony Stark," headlined his company's "Battery Day."

Tesla's New Battery Cell Could Reduce Costs by 56%

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

Tesla’s long-awaited “Battery Day” was a lot like its mercurial founder, Elon Musk – hyperbolic and possibly revolutionary. The company’s latest extravaganza shed light on a new type of battery cell that could tip the automotive scale in favor of electric vehicles. Their new battery cell will supp

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09/22/2020

A Volvo self-driving SUV, similar to the one that struck and killed a pedestrian in 2018.

Driver in Self-Driving Uber Crash Charged with Homicide

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

Remember way back when an Uber autonomous vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian? That was 2018, and on Tuesday, the driver was finally charged. To refresh – a couple years back, an Uber “self-driving” Volvo SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The “safety driver,” Rafaela Vasquez, initially claimed that her personal and business

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09/16/2020

The SD-03 flying car prototype from Skydrive.

Flying Car Completes Successful Test Flight

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

Hollywood is a house of lies. Back to the Future – and other films and TV shows – showed us flying cars that seamlessly transition between vehicle and aircraft. The flying Delorean was a car, first and foremost, and it looked like one. But real “flying cars” are planes that happen to be road-worthy. Great Sco

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09/07/2020

The implant is about the size of a large coin

Elon Musk Reveals Computer Chip Brain Implant

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

This…might not turn out well. Popular conspiracy theories often warn about brain chips (or surreptitious chips in everyday objects). They’re silly. They’re comical. They’re extremely unlikely. Until a celebrity industrialist outright calls for a brain-machine interface and inserting “threads” of

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09/01/2020