Over the last 20 years, the cost and complexity of electronics across the automotive industry has doubled.* Today a single vehicle typically requires over 200 connections—and the number of electrical connectors and types across new vehicles is only increasing.
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Over the last 20 years, the cost and complexity of electronics across the automotive industry has doubled.* Today a single vehicle typically requires over 200 connections—and the number of electrical connectors and types across new vehicles is only increasing.
EV Stupidity Checklist
Automobiles have been around for well over a century. During that time, we’ve gotten pretty good at designing and building their basic components and controls: seats, doors, pedals, steering wheels, mirrors, etc. But when today’s automakers decide to make an electric vehicle (EV), they seemingly forget much of what they once knew, creating new versions of features that are objectively, obviously worse than the time-tested designs they replace.
Is Tesla disruptive? — Benedict Evans
Car people often look at Tesla the way Nokia looked at the iPhone. “Nice ideas, but we can easily do all of that, and they don’t understand our industry.” Nokia was wrong - but will the car industry look the same? Maybe not.
Inside Tesla's gigantic Gigafactory
Tesla’s groundbreaking new factory could make or break Elon Musk, the company’s charismatic but under-pressure chief executive.
We don’t just need electric cars, we need fewer cars - Greenpeace International
Ever since the first production car rolled off the assembly line more than 100 years ago, our love affair with automobiles has grown and grown.
Tesla stock suffers double-digit drop on carmaker’s worst day in years
Elon Musk’s EV company lost a quarter of its value this year amid weak profits and high spending on AI and robotics
USB hardware
The initial versions of the USB standard specified connectors that were easy to use and that would have high life spans; revisions of the standard added smaller connectors useful for compact portable devices. Higher-speed development of the USB standard gave rise to another family of connectors to permit additional data links. All versions of USB specify cable properties. Version 3.x cables, marketed as SuperSpeed, added a data link; namely, in 2008, USB 3.0 added a full-duplex lane (two twisted pairs of wires for one differential signal of serial data per direction), and in 2014, the USB-C specification added a second full-duplex lane.
Why do they love electric cars in the Arctic Circle?
Why is Norway - population five million - embracing electric cars with such enthusiasm?
First Drive in Fully Autonomous Tesla!
“Just” a hard drive
Robotaxi Tracker — Tesla Robotaxi, Waymo & Zoox Fleet Data
Community-tracked statistics for Tesla Robotaxi, Waymo, and Zoox autonomous vehicle fleets: live wait times, fleet directories, service-area maps, pricing, and government safety data.
This ex-Tesla employee just launched a cheap electric motorcycle - Fast Company
Zeno, a startup aimed at markets in Africa and India, makes an electric bike that outperforms gas motorcycles and costs less—so customers don’t need a green incentive to buy them.
100 years of whatever this will be
What if all these weird tech trends actually add up to something? Last time, we explored why various bits of trendy technology are, in my o...
Benchmarking Tesla GPUs - esologic
Decommissioned enterprise tesla GPUs are widely available and extremely cheap. In this post, I benchmark tesla GPUs to see if they are useful
Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence. That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received. The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
Drew Harwell
Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/e…
