Why You Should Know if Your Vehicle Has Tempered or Laminated Glass Windows
Every window in your car doesn't necessarily have tempered glass, the kind that turns into a pile of small harmless chunks in case of breakage. Some of your windows, nearly always at the side and occasionally at the rear, may be made of laminated glass.
Laminated windows could prove unbreakable and could trap you inside. A new AAA report lists 21 pages' worth of cars and trucks that have laminated side or rear glass that, during tests, were impenetrable by consumer glass-breaking tools.
Read the article at Car and Driver.
Home EV Charging May Persuade Car Buyers to Go Electric
The availability of convenient home charging equipment and high-tech roadside charging facilities will make electric driving more practical.
Over 80 percent of electric vehicle owners charge at home, taking advantage of low, stable residential electricity rates. Since most electric vehicle owners don’t drive over 200 miles on a normal day, the battery isn’t fully drained by evening. Refilling it on a Level 2 charger can take just a few hours.
Read the article at The New York Times.
Tesla’s Fully Self-Driving Updates Put Industry Execs and Regulators on Edge
Tesla is promising to launch “full self-driving” capabilities to hundreds of thousands of cars through an over-the-air update as soon as this year.
Regulators, auto industry executives, safety advocacy group leaders and autonomous-vehicle competitors are concerned that Tesla’s plan to unleash robo-cars on the road on an expedited timeline could result in crashes, lawsuits and confusion.
“By the middle of next year, we’ll have over a million Tesla cars on the road with full self-driving hardware,” with the ability to find the vehicle owners, drive them to their destination and park the vehicle, Elon Musk said at Tesla’s Autonomy Investor Day in April. It will be at “a reliability level that we would consider that no one needs to pay attention … meaning you could go to sleep.”
Read the article at The Washington Post.
The Future of Electric Cars Being Shaped by Formula E Racing
Formula E, an all-electric racing series, is constantly pushing to get more speed and distance out of their engines and batteries. Those innovations can make it into street-legal cars relatively quickly.
“The mission behind Formula E is to do two things,” said Sylvain Filippi, managing director and CTO of Formula E team. “First, to really accelerate the R&D behind electric cars—to really make the range better, the power better, the efficiency better. And second, it’s about marketing and communication—there’s no point developing all this amazing tech if nobody knows about it.”
Read the article at Fortune.
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