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Without humans to cause accidents, 90% of risk is removed. Insurers are scrambling to prepare.
Dan Peate, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur in Southern California, was thinking of buying a Tesla Model X a few years ago—until he called his insurance company and found out how much his premiums would rise.
“They quoted me $10,000 a year,” Peate recalled.
Continue reading… “Self-driving cars might kill auto insurance as we know it”
Range is all the rage when it comes to electric cars, but often range comes at a cost.
So, which plug-in cars offer the most miles of electric range for your hard-earned buck? For starters, no plug-in hybrid even came close to making the cut. The Chevy Volt was the front-runner among PHEVs at $626 per electric mile of range, but as you’ll see below, that’s not even in the same ballpark as the Top 7 listed.
Continue reading… “Top 7 plug-in cars listed by price per mile of electric range”
“Electric cars are vastly better than internal combustion devices,” said James Anderson, a Harvard scientist.
Continue reading… “Electric vehicles cost less than half to drive”
Betting that technical breakthroughs by big battery suppliers such as LG Chem Ltd will jump-start demand and pull them abreast of Tesla Motors Inc, global automakers are readying a new generation of mass-market electric cars with more than double the driving range of today’s Nissan Leaf. Continue reading… “Automakers rushing to double electric car milage”
Me standing next to the all-electric Nissan Leaf in La Jolla, CA
Futurist Thomas Frey: I looked over at my clock and saw that it was 3:19 am, a time when most people would normally just roll over and fall back to sleep, but I was wide awake. And from past experience, I wouldn’t get tired again for 2-3 hours, so this was one of those crazy middle-of-the-night periods of free time where I could get something done, and my body didn’t really know I was awake. (Pics)
Continue reading… “My Weekend with the new All-Electric Nissan Leaf”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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