Automotive Technology and Tragedy: Past Week in Review
Let's get going. For my first post, I'm going to do more of a weekly review of what went down the past week in the automotive world. And I can't start it off without mentioning the absolute BOMBSHELL Tesla dropped on us with their presentation. The Tesla Semi-Truck For those of you not familiar with Tesla, it's an automotive company which makes electric cars, great ones at that. I've always been skeptical of electricity powered cars, but I have to say that Tesla have really turned that skepticism round into optimism. In the great presentation they held (putting aside CEO Elon Musk's nervous stuttering), they revealed something I didn't think would be possible: An Electric Semi-Truck. They're given the same futuristic design Tesla is known for on their cars, with an equally simplistic and futuristic driver cabin. Not only does it have a range of 500 miles at highway spee d, but it can also do 0-60 mph in 5 seconds fully loaded ! Th...