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| Mallalieu Engineering - Worked on the first electric-petrol hybrid, Microdot. This 1978 Mallalieu-Bentley sports model used a tad more fuel than Microdot. |
UPDATE - 4th June 2019.
Auto-Unplug full batteries. Around the corner, in the next street, an electric car has been plugged into a public re-charger for 2 days. It is hogging the wire. Maybe the owner went home and died. There isn't another charge point within 200 metres. Public chargers should be fitted with auto detach mechanisms as soon as the battery is full, to allow another EV to plug in. This is vital as EV sales grow.
21st August 2017:
In February 2017, I wrote a brilliant 10,000 word paper on clearing the roads and reducing pollution from transport, The Economics of UK Road Transport. The prize went to a proposal for Road Pricing; banning poor people, the great unwashed, the hoi-polloi, from using the public highways; which we wealthy citizens will greatly welcome; giving us The FREEDOM OF THE ROADS.
My paper says that Road Pricing is a retrograde step back to medieval toll-roads, and will require huge investment into spy cameras, electronic surveillance of every personal journey, will record every broken law from jaywalking to speeding, and require huge debt-collecting after journeys; or pre-payment of e.g. emergency visits to hospital. It is Monetarism, Aristocracy and Orwell's 1984 write large. A very bad idea.
However, central to my eight recommendations to clear the roads, is the forecast that electric vehicles are coming, fast and furious, to sweep the internal combustion engine into history. Which is a pity, as my car and millions of other vehicles have just about reached the peak of engineering perfection. I have street-cred on this issue, because in 1980 our team at Mallalieu Engineering squeezed running gear into William Town's lovely design for a petrol-electric hybrid, Microdot - and proposed mass production under the name of Matrix. This would have put the UK 30 years ahead of TESLA and others, but the UK government quashed the project - as The Oxford Mail reported a few weeks ago. (NB - Very bad photo. I'm far more handsome and younger looking).
But, I am happy to see electric cars now, at last, on the roads. There are several beautiful TESLA's in Oxford and I am convinced that TESLA will succeed, as old car makers like Ford compete and try to unload "hybrids" on the unsuspecting public, to use up their clunky petrol/diesel inventories before designing real-electric cars. I am also convinced that TESLA has the lead on modern batteries - and will make a large fortune from that side of their business, churning them out from the TESLA mega-factory. So I bought TESLA shares - which are doing very well.
Despite the owner, Elon Musk, increasingly hysterically warning investors that his little TESLA company is not worth as much as massive General Motors - the shares have risen on hope, green-prayers and cussed ignorance. Now, this week, they are at last going down, dropped 20%, going back to levels that might reflect reality for a young company that hasn't yet made a profit.
What will I do? I'm holding my shares. I think visionary Elon will come through. I think the competition is a long way behind, and I think TESLA will be the next Microsoft or Apple. Buy Now to Avoid Disappointment. But, I'm not an investment adviser, so read the media below - and make up your own mind.
PS - What I omitted from my paper - as it was already far too radical for elderly competition judges - is the very best idea - to Tarmac the Railways. The rails are empty 95% of the day and link the centres of all cities and many towns. Coaches, Trucks,Vans and Cars will make much better use of those Victorian super-highways.
Tesla reaches agreement with Shanghai to explore ... - Reuters UK
uk.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-china-idUKKBN19D16I
22 Jun 2017 - U.S. electric-car maker Tesla Inc has reached a preliminary agreement with Shanghai to explore production in the Chinese city, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. ... #Technology News.Tesla reaches agreement with Shanghai to explore ... - Reuters India
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22 Jun 2017 - U.S. electric-car maker Tesla Inc has reached a preliminary ... to explore production in the Chinese city, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing ...Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Quote| Reuters.com
https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=TSLA.O
Tesla, Inc., formerly Tesla Motors, Inc., designs, develops, manufactures and sells ... raced to lock in relatively higher returns. Aug 11 2017. » More TSLA.O News ...Tesla close to agreement on first production plant in China - Bloomberg
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#Business News. June 19, 2017 / 3:35 PM / 2 months ago. Tesla close to agreement on first production plant in China - Bloomberg ... (Reuters) - Tesla Inc (Shanghai emerging frontrunner for Tesla's China production: Bloomberg
www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-china-idUSKCN0Z629Y
20 Jun 2016 - (Reuters) - Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) is eyeing Shanghai for its China production base in an investment that could be worth about $9 billion, ...Germany to Take on Tesla With Gigafactory Rival - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/.../germany-giving-gigafactory-a-home-in-latest-ch...
2 Aug 2017 - German executives are preparing to announce a new home for a lithium-ion battery plant designed to rival the output at Tesla Inc.'s Gigafactory.Reuters Video: Tesla hands out keys to lower priced model | Drive ...
www.themalaymailonline.com/.../reuters-video-tesla-hands-out-key...
30 Jul 2017
Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk revealed advanced orders for the lower-Bloomberg Video: Tesla revs up bond buyers to support Model 3 ...
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11 Aug 2017
... Ahmed has more. — Bloomberg | Watch The News | Malay Mail Online. ...Reuters Video: Tired of daily ...The Rumors Are True. Tesla Wants to Build a Gigafactory in China.
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23 Jun 2017 - Rumors that Tesla is looking to establish a firmer foothold in China by ... First, China Daily shared the news, then both Bloomberg and Reuters ...Tesla Model 3 SN1 - The Revolution in Car History begins on 7-7-17 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuIhOsTSo8o
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Elon Musk has managed to win a $50m bet by building the world's largest ever lithium-ion battery.
The billionaire chairman and chief executive of Tesla has delivered a renewable energy project for South Australia, building the world's largest ever lithium-ion battery.
Mr Musk and Lyndon Rive, the head of Tesla's battery division, proposed building an energy storage facility in the state following severe blackouts after a storm in March 2016.
At the time Musk made a bet, saying Tesla would get the battery installed and working within 100 days of the contract being signed or the $50m (£37m) system would be free.
Tesla will get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it is free. That serious enough for you?
This deadline was due to expire on 1 December, ahead of which state Premier Jay Weatherill has announced that the project had been completed.
The battery will store energy from a nearby wind farm run by the French renewable energy company Neoen.
"South Australia is set to have back-up power in place this summer through the world's largest lithium ion battery, which is set to be energised for the first time in the coming days as it enters a phase of regulatory testing," Mr Weatherill said.
Musk tweeted: "Congratulations to the Tesla crew and South Australian authorities who worked so hard to get this manufactured and installed in record time!"
As a maker of electric automobiles, Tesla has also invested heavily in energy storage and solar panel technology - and it believes its technology could develop far beyond vehicles and supply power to the grid.
The deal has seen Tesla manufacture a 129MWh battery in Jamestown, a town with a population of less than 1,500 people, just over 120 miles north of Adelaide.
"This is not a minor foray into the frontier," said Mr Musk at the time.
"I'm pretty darn impressed with South Australia willing to do a project of this magnitude that is beyond anything else in the world.
"That takes a lot of gumption," he added. "I do see this as something that the world will look at as an example."
How world's first electrified road charges moving ... -
The Guardian
Sweden modified a road to recharge EVs while driving -
Engadget
14
hours ago - You can now charge your electric
vehicle as you drive in Sweden,
but only for about 2km (1.2 miles). That's the length of a road ...
The rail-and-arm certainly seems easier to install on bothroads and
cars than the overhead wire system Sweden experimented
with two years ago.
UPDATE 13 April 2018
How world's first electrified road charges moving ... -
The Guardian
20 hours ago
- Uploaded by Guardian News
Sweden has opened
the world's first electrified road. The 1.2-mile route, between Stockholm Arlanda ...
Missing: induction cables
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