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Unavailable12 June 2018 | Prototype Mercedes EQA, Battery Maker CATL Soars And More Diesel 'Switch Off' Devices
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12 June 2018 | Prototype Mercedes EQA, Battery Maker CATL Soars And More Diesel 'Switch Off' Devices

FromEV News Daily


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12 June 2018 | Prototype Mercedes EQA, Battery Maker CATL Soars And More Diesel 'Switch Off' Devices

FromEV News Daily

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Jun 11, 2018
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It’s Tuesday 12th June 2018 and this is your EV News Daily. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening! Wherever you're listening around the world, a very warm welcome from London, UK.  Here is today’s news about electric cars and the future of transport. My name is Martyn Lee and I go through every EV article online so you don’t have to.   JAGUAR LAND ROVER MAKES ROOM FOR ELECTRIC RE-TOOLING "Britain’s biggest car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, is to transfer all production of its Land Rover Discovery model from the West Midlands to a plant in Slovakia, potentially putting hundreds of agency jobs at risk." reports The UK's Guardian. However the move is seen as an opportunity to re-tool the plant to build the next wave of electric cars. "The company has said it would make an electric option for each of its new models after 2020 David Bailey, the professor of industrial strategy at Aston University, said: “There has been speculation locally that they needed to free up space to make electric vehicles. There was concern that their first electric car, the I-Pace, was being made in Austria – people wanted that built here. If this move on the Discovery means producing electric cars here, overall that is a good thing. We want to see that transition to a low-carbon economy in the Midlands and we want to see the jobs here.”   GERMANY DISCOVERS MORE 'SWITCH OFF' DEVICES IN MERCEDES Daimler shares fell following a report that up to 1 million Daimler cars could contain their own form of what is commonly called a 'defeat devices', as Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche prepared to meet the transport minister on Monday. "Daimler declined to comment on the 1 million vehicles figure, but said it is cooperating fully and transparently with the KBA and Germany's Transport Ministry." reports Autoblog: "Daimler, like other car manufacturers, uses urea nitrate liquids to neutralize nitrogen oxide emissions in exhaust fumes. However, Germany's road vehicle authority, the KBA, has taken issue with the emission control features amid suspicion they allow vehicles to emit excess pollution without detection."   MORE ON TESLA AUTOPILOT AND AI Following up on the story we talked about on yesterday show about improved Autopilot for Tesla: "With V9, we will begin to enable full self-driving features" A reminder than version 8.0 arrived in 2016 so this update is long-awaited. @anandrajk - "Speaking of merging and autopilot the biggest issue i have noticed is when two lanes merge and it is rush hour traffic. The autopilot is not able to decide to let the car slightly ahead on the neighboring lane go ahead and I invariably find myself cornered!" @elonmusk - "That issue is better in latest Autopilot software rolling out now & fully fixed in August update as part of our long-awaited Tesla Version 9. To date, Autopilot resources have rightly focused entirely on safety. With V9, we will begin to enable full self-driving features." Meanwhile, in a related story picked up by Fred Lambert, Electrek reports: "Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s director of AI and computer vision, is currently hard at work trying to improve Autopilot by training Tesla’s neural net with incredible amounts of data from Tesla’s fleet. He describes how labeling different types of road lines can be quite complex due to the variety of lanes across different regions. He gave another example of Tesla’s dataset with traffic lights, which he says can “get crazy really fast. Karpathy explained that it takes “time and attention” to build a dataset and it is “painful,” which is why they are trying to build new tools at Tesla to help them create “software 2.0” code."   TESLA’S ‘SUPERIOR’ ELECTRONIC ARCHITECTURE ‘OVERLOOKED’ SAYS BERENBERG "Analysts at investment bank Berenberg said people tended to dwell on the competitive landscape for electric car maker Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), but underestimated the “full extent of Tesla’s technology advantage." say the team at Proactiveinvestors “Imminent competiti
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