EV Trip Planner
If you’re trying to plan a road trip in your electric vehicle, here’s another tool that might help you plan your trip, it’s a website called EV Trip Planner.
Electric Vehicles
Tesla Advanced Summon
Elon Musk tweeted yesterday that in about 6 weeks Tesla owners an over-the-air software update which will have an advanced summon feature. This update will apply to vehicles with the AutoPilot 2.0 and up hardware.
Bolt, LEAF, and Model 3 Comparison
The Chevy Bolt and Nissan LEAF have seen a decline in US sales during 2018 while the Tesla Model 3 continues to ramp up. If you’re considering one of these electric cars, take a look at this side by side comparison Edmonds did earlier in the year.
Jaguar I-Pace – Full Review
The first US destined Jaguar I-Pace was recently delivered to a family in Florida. Here’s an older video from Driven Car Reviews who got an early look at the new, all-electric powered offering from Jaguar. For more our the Jaguar I-Pace, check out their official home page. https://www.jaguarusa.com/all-models/i-pace/index.html
LEGO Bugatti
Quite simply, a full scale LEGO Bugatti. LEGO decided to back up their statement for their LEGO Technic series about “Build for Real”. The vision? They had a team build a 1:1 scale of the Bugatti Chiron. The LEGO built car can even drive and is powered by LEGO Technic Power Function motors. This makes your typical LEGO set build look extremely elementary.
Porsche Mission E Concept Test Drive
Driven Car Reviews takes the Porsche Mission E Taycan Cross Turismo Concept Electric vehicle on a test drive!
New Tesla Model S/X Interiors Coming Soon?
Electrek has an article which includes concept renderings of the direction the interior of the Tesla Model S and Model X may be headed. It’s a direction towards a more minimalistic interior which takes similar queues from the Tesla Model 3 and may also reduce production cost. What are your thoughts on this new interior design? Comment below. Exclusive first look at Tesla Model S and Model X interior refresh: going spartan like Model 3
Tesla Games! Tesla + Atari = TeslAtari? (No console required)
Elon Musk had tweeted back in August about Atari games coming as “Easter Eggs” in the Tesla v9.0 update. The over-the-air update started rolling out on October 5th, our vehicle was queued up on October 13th. The games that are part of this update are Asteroids, Centipede, Lunar Lander, and Missile Command.
Converting a Truck to Electric – LEAF battery in an S-10
https://insideevs.com/putting-nissan-leaf-battery-modules-chevrolet-s-10-truck-video/ Inside EV’s featured an article on an S-10 built by Jay Summet who retrofitted his S-10 which was previously converted to an electric vehicle and upgraded the previous 20 lead-acid batteries with 48 lithium-ion modules from a wrecked Nissan LEAF.
Tesla Model 3 – Motor and Gear Box High Endurance Test
Elon Must recently tweeted about a 1 million mile test conducted on the Tesla Model 3 motor and gear box. I assume this was a fatigue test done in a lab, but the limited details seem impressive… Model 3 motor & gearbox still in good condition after driving 1M miles. Designed for ultra high endurance. https://t.co/LVO2clQZ3V — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 15, 2018