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This week our panel take on: You Say Autonomous Cars Will Encourage More People to have sex in cars Like that’s a bad thing Volvo pisses on Tesla’s autopilot functionality H/T Cooper: RAV4 Hybrid has made the Prius V irrelevant and redundant…already Salient numbers: RAV4 Hybrid sales for April 2016-3,807. YTD 2015-8,741 2016-4,970 Prius v sales for April 2015-1,322 and for April 2015-2,462 More numbers Bye bye Prius v Mark Coughlan talks about how Awesome the new 2G Chevy Volt is (and how awesome In-N-Out is). The Chevy Jolt may be a dumb name but it's a great idea, even if it is bogus Japan has more charging spots than gas stations?

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This seems more like an integration effort rather than grafting on self-driving hardware to an off-the-shelf car.


FCA, Google confirm plan for self-driving prototypes based on hybrid Chrysler Pacifica

The Tesla of Garbage Trucks Wants to Make City Buses More Sustainable - Curbed

"Wellington, New Zealand, had a serious issues with its beloved trolley system. Decades old, the vehicles rely on a system of overhead wires the city can’t afford to maintain, so it looked like municipal authorities would need to swap out the clean transport system for dirty diesel buses. But before the city revamped its mass transit system, a third way presented itself, a high-tech, more sustainable solution that may foreshadow a shift in how cities run their fleets of heavy vehicles, such as buses and garbage trucks....

The Wrightspeed hybrid system—an electric motor with extensive power and torque, a computer-controlled high-tech gear box and four-speed transmission, and a battery that’s charged by a gas-fueled turbine range extender called the Fulcrum—provides the push needed to move a heavy vehicle up hills...