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fWotD Episode 2927: Tesla Model S Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles.The featured article for Saturday, 10 May 2025, is Tesla Model S.The Tesla Model S is a battery-electric, four-door full-size car produced by the American automaker Tesla since 2012. The automaker's second vehicle and longest-produced model, critics have called the Model S one of the most significant and influential electric cars in the industry. It is the recipient of numerous accolades, including the Motor Trend Car of the Year Award in 2013.Tesla started developing the Model S around 2007 under the codename WhiteStar. Initially, Henrik Fisker was appointed as the lead designer for the WhiteStar project; after a dispute with Elon Musk, Tesla's CEO, Fisker was replaced by Franz von Holzhausen. By 2008, von Holzhausen had designed what would become the production Model S's exterior. Tesla unveiled a prototype of the vehicle in March 2009 in Hawthorne, California. In 2010, Tesla acquired a facility in Fremont, California, to produce the Model S, which was previously owned by General Motors and Toyota. Series manufacture of the car officially began at what is now known as the Tesla Fremont Factory in June 2012. Tesla carried out the final assembly for European markets at its facilities in Tilburg, the Netherlands, between 2013 and 2021. All versions of the Model S come equipped with a single-speed transmission. The car initially used an alternating current induction motor, which was replaced by a permanent magnet synchronous reluctance motor in 2019. Constructed mostly of aluminum, the Model S shares 30 percent of its components with the Model X—a crossover SUV that was introduced in 2015. The Model S has undergone several updates during its production, the most prominent ones occurring in 2016 and 2021. These updates have usually included modifications to the motor, such as changes to power or torque, revised exterior elements, and refreshed interior features. One such change included the introduction of Tesla Autopilot—a partial vehicle automation advanced driver-assistance system—which was released in 2015. To charge the Model S, Tesla operates a network of fast-charging stations.In 2015, the Model S was the world's best-selling plug-in electric vehicle. In 2012, it was included on Time's list of the Best Inventions of the Year, and the magazine later included it on its list of the 10 Best Gadgets of the 2010s in 2019. In 2014, The Daily Telegraph described the Model S as a "car that changed the world". Road & Track argued that, with the introduction of the Model S Plaid—the high-performance version of the vehicle—and features such as the yoke steering wheel, Tesla managed to turn the Model S into "perhaps one of the worst [cars in the world]." Some companies have customized the Model S into limited-edition body styles, including a hearse and a shooting brake.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:30 UTC on Saturday, 10 May 2025.For the full current version of the article, see Tesla Model S on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Kimberly.

Tesla's Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen joins me for the third time to celebrate my 500th episode. We discuss his longevity at Tesla, the new Model Y, paint colors, wheel design, the next-gen Roadster, and more. Enjoy! Timecodes: 8:28 Start of interview 10:02 What Franz worked on the day I came in for the interview 11:38 Why he has stayed at Tesla so long (16+ years so far) 12:20 His longevity at Tesla is unusual in the design world 15:10 Tesla's mission is what drives Franz 16:28 How his year-one-at-Tesla self would feel if he saw what the 2025 version of Franz is building 17:33 Reacting to seeing his work every day on the roads 18:45 What Franz thinks when he sees modded/customized customer cars  22:03 What he's daily driving right now 24:54 Franz's favorite thing he's ever designed at Tesla 26:48 How Optimus has challenged him as a designer 29:23 Who wins when the design and engineering teams don't agree? 30:45 An example of what happens when engineering and design work with each other to achieve a mutually agreeable solution 32:17 Does the Cybertruck FUD drive him nuts? 35:00 What design tweaks might we see in the new Model Y Performance? 40:05 Discussing the new diffused-light rear light bar  41:53 Will the Y's new light bar be used on any future vehicles? 42:44 How he feels about badges on the outside of his cars 44:43 The turn signal stalk's return on the new Model Y 46:47 Franz's favorite wheel design that he's ever done 50:36 Will we ever get more color choices versus simply refreshing the existing colors? 55:05 About the new Glacier Blue paint color 56:21 Are we getting Glacier Blue in the US? 56:55 Is Midnight Cherry Red discontinued at Giga Berlin? 58:44 How Franz is thinking about the next-gen Roadster now versus the original design for it from 2017 1:00:21 His design intentions/philosophy for the upcoming more-affordable cars 1:02:24 One more Roadster tidbit If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support my efforts, please check out my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/teslapodcast and consider a monthly pledge. Every little bit helps and there are stacking bonuses in it for you at each pledge level, like early access to each episode at the $5 tier and the weekly Lightning Round bonus mini-episode (AND the early access!) at the $10 tier! And NO ADS at every tier! FOR FIRST-TIME TESLA BUYERS: The referral program is back and it's the best one in a while! You can get $2500 off of your Model 3 or $500 off your classic Model Y purchase (or $1000 off of Cybertruck, Model S, or Model X) by ordering through my referral link. Clicking this will take you to the Tesla website where you can order with the discount applied: https://ts.la/ryan73014  And don't forget to leave a message on the Ride the Lightning hotline anytime with a question, comment, or discussion topic for next week's show! The toll-free number to call or Skype is 1-888-989-8752. INTERESTED IN AN EXTENDED WARRANTY FOR YOUR TESLA? It's not just products that can be redesigned. So can an entire customer experience. That's what you get with XCare, the first extended warranty built exclusively for EVs, and the top-rated customer experience. Use the code Lightning to get $100 off our “One-time Payment” option! Go to www.xcelerateauto.com/xcare to find the extended warranty policy that's right for you and your Tesla. P.S. Get 15% off your first order of awesome aftermarket Tesla accessories at AbstractOcean.com by using the code RTLpodcast at checkout. Grab the SnapPlate front license plate bracket for any Tesla at https://everyamp.com/RTL/ (don't forget the coupon code RTL too!). 

Comedian and world-renowned car enthusiast Jay Leno – perhaps Tesla's biggest celebrity fan – welcomed Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen and VP of Engineering Lars Moravy to his garage this week to show off the new Model Y, and we learned a lot of fun things about the refreshed vehicle in the process. Plus: thieves who try to steal the copper out of Tesla Supercharging cables will soon be in for a not-so-fun surprise, an update on the timeline for the first 500kW Superchargers, and more! If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support my efforts, please check out my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/teslapodcast and consider a monthly pledge. Every little bit helps and there are stacking bonuses in it for you at each pledge level, like early access to each episode at the $5 tier and the weekly Lightning Round bonus mini-episode (AND the early access!) at the $10 tier! And NO ADS at every tier! FOR FIRST-TIME TESLA BUYERS: The referral program is back and it's the best one in a while! You can get $2500 off of your Model 3 or $500 off your classic Model Y purchase (or $1000 off of Cybertruck, Model S, or Model X) by ordering through my referral link. Clicking this will take you to the Tesla website where you can order with the discount applied: https://ts.la/ryan73014  And don't forget to leave a message on the Ride the Lightning hotline anytime with a question, comment, or discussion topic for next week's show! The toll-free number to call or Skype is 1-888-989-8752. NEW: Win the custom-configured Tesla of your dreams in the 9th annual Climate XChange raffle! The taxes are paid if you win, and either way, the money goes to a great nonprofit cause. To get your tickets, go to https://carbonraffle.org/RTL  What's sweeter than a box of chocolate truffles? Hard to beat… but when it comes to showing your Tesla a whole lotta love, there's nothing like XCare's extended warranty. I unwrapped a special code for you, too: use RTLOVE to get $200 off when you select the One-time Payment option, through February 28. Go to www.xcelerateauto.com/xcare to find the extended warranty policy that's right for you and your Tesla. P.S. Get 15% off your first order of awesome aftermarket Tesla accessories at AbstractOcean.com by using the code RTLpodcast at checkout. Grab the SnapPlate front license plate bracket for any Tesla at https://everyamp.com/RTL/ (don't forget the coupon code RTL too!). 

Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen gives a design overview of the Cybercab, Cybertruck owners get an interim supercharging speed boost as they wait for the full 500kW next year, FSD version 13 goes wide with good news for AI3 owners to boot, and more! If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support my efforts, please check out my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/teslapodcast and consider a monthly pledge. Every little bit helps and there are stacking bonuses in it for you at each pledge level, like early access to each episode at the $5 tier and the weekly Lightning Round bonus mini-episode (AND the early access!) at the $10 tier! And NO ADS at every tier! FOR FIRST-TIME TESLA BUYERS: The referral program is back and it's the best one in a while! You can get $1500 off of your Model 3 or $1000 off your Model Y purchase (or $2000 off of Cybertruck, Model S, or Model X) by ordering through my referral link. Clicking this will take you to the Tesla website where you can order with the discount applied: https://ts.la/ryan73014  And don't forget to leave a message on the Ride the Lightning hotline anytime with a question, comment, or discussion topic for next week's show! The toll-free number to call or Skype is 1-888-989-8752. NEW: Win the custom-configured Tesla of your dreams in the 9th annual Climate XChange raffle! The taxes are paid if you win, and either way, the money goes to a great nonprofit cause. To get your tickets, go to https://carbonraffle.org/RTL  Go to xcelerateauto.com/xcare to find the extended warranty policy that's right for you and your Tesla, and don't forget to use the discount code Lightning for $100 off your purchase. P.S. Get 15% off your first order of awesome aftermarket Tesla accessories at AbstractOcean.com by using the code RTLpodcast at checkout. Grab the SnapPlate front license plate bracket for any Tesla at https://everyamp.com/RTL/ (don't forget the coupon code RTL too!). 

Description:In this episode of Kilowatt, we delve into Tesla's much-anticipated We, Robot event, a gathering particularly focused on their latest offerings in the realm of autonomous vehicles, including the much-discussed Cyber Cab. I share my personal challenges leading up to this episode, highlighting the technical difficulties I encountered that caused considerable frustration—even leading to dreams about the event itself! Despite these issues, I aim to provide a comprehensive overview of Tesla's vision for the future of transport.We kick off our discussion with the critical details surrounding the event itself, noting that Tesla has a history of starting late. However, this time the delay was attributed to a medical emergency in the audience. I share some interesting viewing statistics—approximately 108,000 viewers on YouTube and around 2 million on X. We then embark on a play-by-play of the event, starting with the introduction of Elon Musk by Tesla's head designer, Franz von Holzhausen. Musk's dramatic entrance in a Cyber Cab adds to the excitement, setting the stage for what promises to be a significant announcement regarding unsupervised full self-driving capabilities.Musk makes bold claims about the transformative potential of autonomous vehicles, underlining the inefficiencies of current car usage—averaging only about 10 hours per week. He presents autonomous vehicles as a means to significantly increase efficiency and reduce the costs associated with car ownership, including insurance and maintenance. The Cyber Cab, unlike traditional vehicles, bears no steering wheel or pedals, granting passengers an exhilarating ride experience and a taste of the future of mobility. I discuss the aesthetics and functionality of the Cyber Cab, which merges features of both the Model 3 and Cybertruck while emphasizing its lack of rear windows and distinctive butterfly doors.As Musk touches on the broader implications of autonomous driving, he highlights the potential for cityscapes to shift dramatically. With fewer vehicles needing parking spaces, we delve into the fascinating prospect of converting parking lots into green spaces, creating a more pleasant urban environment. During the presentation, we also learn about the new Roboven design, which aims to serve high-density transport needs. I provide insights into this intriguing vehicle that functions as a cross between a mini-bus and a futuristic transport solution, reflecting Tesla's ambition to revolutionize public transit.Musk's vision extends beyond vehicles, underscored by his introduction of the Optimus robot—a humanoid robot powered by the same technology that drives Tesla's cars. He asserts that this robot will be capable of performing everyday tasks and may be available at a price point equivalent to that of a car. While I share excitement for the possibilities, I maintain a healthy skepticism about the timeline and feasibility of these advancements, noting that much of what was presented served more as a status update rather than groundbreaking news.Support the Show:PatreonAcast+Other Podcasts:Beyond the Post YouTubeBeyond the Post PodcastShuffle PlaylistNews:We, Robot EventSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/kilowatt. Support the show at https://plus.acast.com/s/kilowatt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Shoot us a Text.It's a great Monday as we launch into the week with guest host Ben Hadley. Today we're talking about software-defined vehicles and how Polestar is leaning in, Tesla's recent patents for wireless home EV charging and autonomous AI bots that are starting to become effective in business.Show Notes with links:Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath believes the transition to software-defined vehicles (SDVs) represents a major leap forward in automotive innovation. He stresses that SDVs are not just a buzzword but an essential shift as software takes a central role in shaping vehicle performance and user experience, particularly for Polestar's electric lineup.Ingenlath sees enormous potential in SDVs, transforming vehicles far beyond connectivity features, including how they drive, accelerate, and manage energy systems.Software complexity caused significant delays for the Polestar 3, as the crossover shares its platform with Volvo's EX90, which experienced similar issues.Polestar's sales goals were impacted by the delays, with the company falling short of its 2023 target by selling 54,600 vehicles instead of 124,000.The SDV focus isn't unique to Polestar, as Audi recently created a management role dedicated to SDVs."That is how much of an impact software has. It changes the physical behavior of a car,” Ingenlath said.Tesla is advancing wireless home EV charging, revealed through new patent applications, signaling a shift toward autonomous charging solutions.Tesla's wireless charging aims to remove the need to manually plug in your car, a convenience that aligns with its goal of autonomous driving.Wireless charging has historically been less efficient than cable-based options, but new methods, such as magnetic resonance, claim similar efficiency (~95%).Patents reveal Tesla's focus on solving technical challenges like ground leakage and temperature management to improve efficiency.Chief designer Franz von Holzhausen confirmed work on a wireless charging pad, with possible applications for the Cybertruck and other models.Researchers at Stanford have developed “Smallville,” a game featuring AI-driven agents that can autonomously perform tasks. These agents, powered by large language models (LLMs), demonstrate why autonomous AI will become essential for organizations.AI agents in Smallville can remember, plan, and act independently, showcasing their potential to handle tasks like event planning without human input.Businesses are starting to explore AI agents in areas like stock trading and product design, pointing to a future where AI handles complex functions with minimal oversight.AI agents are poised to become key team members, handling tasks like managing meetings, assisting with decisions, and supporting specialized teams.Hosts: Paul J Daly and Kyle MountsierGet the Daily Push Back email at https://www.asotu.com/ JOIN the conversation on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asotu/ Read our most recent email at: https://www.asotu.com/media/push-back-email

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:51:17 +0000 https://gude-mittelhessen.podigee.io/898-new-episode eff3dab34274bf743fed647bec154419 Evakuierung wegen Gasleck, das Wetzlarer Jugendamt sucht Freiwillige und die B49 wird am übernächsten Wochenende zwischen Wetzlar-Mitte und Wetzlar-Garbenheim teilweise gesperrt. Das und mehr hören Sie heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten des Tages finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-marburg-biedenkopf/dautphetal/gasalarm-in-holzhausen-ein-aussergewoehnlicher-einsatz-3922561 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/b49-und-mehr-gesperrt-taubensteinbruecke-wird-untersucht-3922729 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/jugendamt-wetzlar-sucht-ehrenamtliche-als-vormund-fuer-kinder-3866031 https://www.mittelhessen.de/wirtschaft/wirtschaft-deutschland/saftiger-preisaufschlag-bei-coca-cola-3920328 https://www.mittelhessen.de/wirtschaft/wirtschaft-deutschland/blau-keine-gute-wahl-edeka-warnt-eindringlich-vor-der-afd-3922721 Ein Angebot der VRM. Du möchtest deine Werbung in diesem und vielen anderen Podcasts schalten? Kein Problem!Für deinen Zugang zu zielgerichteter Podcast-Werbung, klicke hier.Audiomarktplatz.de - Geschichten, die bleiben - überall und jederzeit! 898 full no Podcast,Gude Mittelhessen,Holzhausen,Gasleck,Wetzlar,Jugendamt,B49,Coca Cola,Preis,Edeka VRM

Elon Musk, le patron infatigable de Tesla, a remporté une victoire significative. Depuis l'annulation de son plan de rémunération en janvier dernier par un juge du Delaware, Musk n'a cessé de batailler pour convaincre ses actionnaires. Ses efforts ont finalement porté leurs fruits. Jeudi 13 juin, les actionnaires de Tesla ont approuvé son plan de rémunération, accordant à Musk la somme colossale de 56 milliards de dollars.Ce succès n'a pas été facile à obtenir. Musk a dû persuader les petits actionnaires, certains grands investisseurs ayant déjà exprimé leur désaccord. Pour les convaincre, il a multiplié les initiatives, allant jusqu'à organiser des visites guidées de l'usine d'Austin, orchestrées par lui-même et Franz von Holzhausen, le chef designer de Tesla. Ces visites incluaient des démonstrations du robot humanoïde Optimus, mettant les petits plats dans les grands pour séduire les actionnaires.Parallèlement à cette approbation, une autre décision majeure a été prise : le déménagement du siège légal de Tesla. Actuellement basé dans le Delaware, le siège va être transféré au Texas. Ce déménagement n'est pas seulement symbolique. Le Texas abrite la Tesla Giga Texas, une usine gigantesque qui pourrait produire jusqu'à 500 000 véhicules par an. Cette décision reflète l'attachement de Musk à cet État, où il a déjà déplacé de nombreuses opérations de ses entreprises. En résumé, la double approbation du plan de rémunération et du transfert du siège marque un tournant pour Tesla et Elon Musk, affirmant leur ambition de continuer à croître et à innover depuis le cœur du Texas. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Jack Rix catches up with Tesla Design Chief Franz von Holzhausen on the Model 3 Performance launch in California. The interview booth? Sitting in the front of Franz's very own matt black Cybertruck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fresh rumors about the new Model 3 Ludicrous give us its alleged release date as well as its specs! Plus: Tesla is sweetening the deal if you take delivery of a new car this quarter, Tesla executives Franz von Holzhausen and Lars Moravy visit Jay Leno's Garage, and more! If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support my efforts, please check out my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/teslapodcast and consider a monthly pledge. Every little bit helps and there are stacking bonuses in it for you at each pledge level, like early access to each episode at the $5 tier and the weekly Lightning Round bonus mini-episode (AND the early access!) at the $10 tier! And don't forget to leave a message on the Ride the Lightning hotline anytime with a question, comment, or discussion topic for next week's show! The toll-free number to call or Skype is 1-888-989-8752. Go to xcelerateauto.com/xcare to find the extended warranty policy that's right for you and your Tesla, and don't forget to use the discount code “Lightning” for $100 off your purchase. P.S. Get 15% off your first order of awesome aftermarket Tesla accessories at AbstractOcean.com by using the code RTLpodcast at checkout. Grab the SnapPlate front license plate bracket for any Tesla at https://everyamp.com/RTL/ (don't forget the coupon code RTL). 

Der wöchentliche Podcast behandelt Infos News und Facts zum Thema Tesla. Diese Woche: 0:00 Intro 1:10 Prufrock in Texas 2:42 Adaptives Fernlicht 6:57 Elon kommt nach Europa 7:38 Model Y Nummer 1 in Europa 9:31 Zahlen in den USA 10:07 Zahlen in China 10:49 Panasonic baut in Kansas 2 neue Tesla Batterie-Fabriken Interview mit Martin Hund: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAhQUGrL-zA 12:55 Massenproduktion des Tesla Semi Trucks gestartet? 15:22 E-Autos überholen erstmals den Diesel in EU-Neuzulassungszahlen 19:29 FSD Beta 12 geht an erste Kunden Elon zeigt FSD V12 Live Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eleNkpe6Ry4 21:15 Tesla Fabriken im Größenvergleich 23:40 Franz von Holzhausen in Shanghai 24:46 “Blutbad” für Autohersteller, die Tesla nachmachen? 29:18 Outro TeslaWelt wird präsentiert von Shop4Tesla! Sonderaktion bis 31.01.2024: Erhalte 10% Rabatt mit dem Code "teslawelt" auf jetzt alle Produkte und unterstütze den Kanal: https://www.shop4tesla.com/?ref=Teslawelt ______________________________________________________ Hier geht's zum Tesla Welt Merchshop: https://teslawelt.myspreadshop.de/ __________________________________________________ Zur englischen Elon Musk Biografie von Walter Isaacson: https://amzn.to/3sETBBi * Hier zur deutschen Version: https://amzn.to/45HZfkF * __________________________________________________ Werdet Tesla Welt Supporter: Davids Tesla Referral Code per Anfrage an : feedback@teslawelt.de Tesla Welt Shop: https://teslawelt.myspreadshop.de/ Per Steady: https://steadyhq.com/de/teslawelt/about Oder PayPal: an feedback@teslawelt.de Musik: Titel: My Little Kingdom Autor: Golden Duck Orchestra Source Licence Download (MB)

Tesla Design Chief Franz von Holzhausen and Engineering VP Lars Moravy spend an hour sharing insights and previously unknown features of the Cybertruck with Jay Leno. Plus: one of the last major dominoes falls in the quest to standardize Tesla's NACS charge port, Cybershoes might be on the way soon, and more! If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support my efforts, please check out my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/teslapodcast and consider a monthly pledge. Every little bit helps and there are stacking bonuses in it for you at each pledge level, like early access to each episode at the $5 tier and the weekly Lightning Round bonus mini-episode (AND the early access!) at the $10 tier! And don't forget to leave a message on the Ride the Lightning hotline anytime with a question, comment, or discussion topic for next week's show! The toll-free number to call or Skype is 1-888-989-8752. Go to xcelerateauto.com/xcare to find the extended warranty policy that's right for you and your Tesla, and don't forget to use the discount code “Lightning” for $100 off your purchase. P.S. Get 15% off your first order of awesome aftermarket Tesla accessories at AbstractOcean.com by using the code RTLpodcast at checkout. Grab the SnapPlate front license plate bracket for any Tesla at https://everyamp.com/RTL/ (don't forget the coupon code RTL). Get the best Dashcam/Sentry Mode microSD-based USB drive for your Tesla at www.puretesla.com/rtl. 

Een overzicht van het belangrijkste mobiliteitsnieuws met aandacht voor inductieladen, er is goed nieuws voor de Lelylijn en er gaat een vloot waterstofvrachtwagens van Daimler de weg op. Tesla werkt aan een oplossing om auto's thuis draadloos op te laden. Dat bevestigt Franz von Holzhausen, de designer van het automerk. Inductieladen is geen nieuwe technologie. In het verleden zorgde vooral het verlies aan energie voor problemen. Bovendien moeten auto's erop aangepast worden. Meerdere merken zijn met draadloos opladen bezig. Verder in deze update: De Lelylijn is officieel toegevoegd aan het Europees spoornetwerk. Daimler Trucks gaat een vloot waterstofvrachtwagens testen Twee NS-stations staan in Top 10 van beste Europese stations.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's a Cybertruck-tastic week as not only did we learn how many power outlets and what type are on board, but Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen was spotted driving a matte black-wrapped one around. Plus: I had another close encounter with a very clean build, and more! If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support my efforts, please check out my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/teslapodcast and consider a monthly pledge. Every little bit helps and there are stacking bonuses in it for you at each pledge level, like early access to each episode at the $5 tier and the weekly Lightning Round bonus mini-episode (AND the early access!) at the $10 tier! And don't forget to leave a message on the Ride the Lightning hotline anytime with a question, comment, or discussion topic for next week's show! The toll-free number to call or Skype is 1-888-989-8752. Go to xcelerateauto.com/xcare to find the extended warranty policy that's right for you and your Tesla, and don't forget to use the discount code “Lightning” for $100 off your purchase. P.S. Get 15% off your first order of awesome aftermarket Tesla accessories at AbstractOcean.com by using the code RTLpodcast at checkout. Grab the SnapPlate front license plate bracket for any Tesla at https://everyamp.com/RTL/ (don't forget the coupon code RTL). Get the best Dashcam/Sentry Mode microSD-based USB drive for your Tesla at www.puretesla.com/rtl and download NetSuite's popular KPI Checklist at www.netsuite.com/lightning. 

Motorsport-Action in Holzhausen, ein neuer SPD-Kandidat für den Landratsposten im Lahn-Dill-Kreis und der erste WM-Titel der deutschen Basketballer. Das und mehr gibt es heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu diesen Themen finden Sier hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-marburg-biedenkopf/dautphetal/1000-zuschauer-erleben-rallye-premiere-im-hinterland-2843986 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/landkreis-lahn-dill/spd-lahn-dill-nominiert-inderthal-als-landratskandidaten-2844238 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/hessen/sattelzug-kippt-um-a3-richtung-frankfurt-teilweise-gesperrt-2845949 https://www.mittelhessen.de/sport/fussball/fussball-nationalmannschaft/hansi-flick-nicht-mehr-fussball-bundestrainer-2844522 https://www.mittelhessen.de/sport/basketball/basketball-nachrichten/deutschlands-basketballer-erstmals-weltmeister-2844534 Ein Angebot der VRM.

“Somebody told me, when I was a young designer at Mercedes, they said, ‘well, it takes like... 20 cows to upholster this sedan.' …Clearly people believe that cows, that the leather, is a byproduct of the food industry, but that's not necessarily true. When you part out the cow, the leather is actually the most valuable component of the cow. - Vicki von Holzhausen Vicky von Holzhausen is a former car designer who decided to make a vegan leather that could rival animal leather. After much research and many experiments, she and her team developed a sustainable leather alternative. They tested it out as a handbag which then became a luxurious line of vegan handbags and accessories, called von Holzhausen. But that wasn't enough, because Vicki's bigger mission was and is to remove animal leather from the materials system. So, they headed back into the lab and continued to create more and better leather alternatives.  While they were there, von Holzhausen's mission grew even bigger. Yes, they'd continue to develop beautiful and sustainable materials to replace animal leather, but why not replace plastic too? Earlier this year, the Von Holzhausen team announced the introduction of the Liquid Plant, the world's first 100% plant-based, high-performance topcoat, making plastic-free materials a reality. Liquid Plant can replace plastic topcoats in all kinds of materials, including synthetic leather paper, wood, plastic and fabric, meaning it can and will change the world. “… when you think about deforestation, the microplastic pollution, if we can start to chip away at eliminating whole areas where leather and plastic polyurethane are being used, then we will make a dramatic impact.” - Vicki von Holzhausen

Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen showed up at a car show with the latest pre-production Cybertruck, and as a result we learned a few new details about the imminent stainless steel beast. Plus: more automakers sign on to use the North American Charging Standard, Tesla rolls out its first bit of advertising, and more! If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support my efforts, please check out my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/teslapodcast and consider a monthly pledge. Every little bit helps and there are stacking bonuses in it for you at each pledge level, like early access to each episode at the $5 tier and the weekly Lightning Round bonus mini-episode (AND the early access!) at the $10 tier! And don't forget to leave a message on the Ride the Lightning hotline anytime with a question, comment, or discussion topic for next week's show! The toll-free number to call or Skype is 1-888-989-8752. Win a Tesla (including a Cybertruck) and help a great cause! Get your tickets today at CCFraffle.com and use the promo code RTL to get a $25 discount on two tickets. Get your tickets by July 11 to also be entered into the early bird raffle! Go to xcelerateauto.com/xcare to find the extended warranty policy that's right for you and your Tesla, and don't forget to use the discount code “Lightning” for $100 off your purchase. P.S. Get 15% off your first order of awesome aftermarket Tesla accessories at AbstractOcean.com by using the code RTLpodcast at checkout. Grab the SnapPlate front license plate bracket for any Tesla at https://everyamp.com/RTL/. 

Waldbrand-Übung bei Holzhausen, Zukunft des Campingplatzes Ulmbachtalsperre unklar und Haus der Jugend in Wetzlar wird deutlich teurer. Das und mehr hören Sie heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-marburg-biedenkopf/dautphetal/kontrolliertes-und-gewolltes-feuer-im-wald-bei-holzhausen-2662330 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/wetzlarer-bierkarussell-dreht-in-wetzlar-die-naechste-runde-2663064 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/haus-der-jugend-in-wetzlar-wird-70-prozent-teurer-2660585 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/greifenstein/was-wird-aus-dem-campingplatz-ulmbachtalsperre-2662272 https://www.mittelhessen.de/politik/politik-hessen/steuerkriminalitaet-hessen-wertet-die-pandora-papers-aus-2662344

Trotz Umsatzrekord kommt Stellenabbau bei Buderus Edelstahl. Auf dem Dillenburger Schlossberg rockt es für vier Pfoten. Schwimmer in Krombachtalsperre vermisst? Das Dillenburger Reithaus-Konzert und der „Märchenkönig“. Tombola und Teststäbchen: Mit Spaß gegen Krebs in Holzhausen. Das und mehr hören Sie heute im Podcast. Alle Hintergründe zu den Nachrichten des Tages finden Sie hier: https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/wetzlar/trotz-umsatzrekord-stellenabbau-bei-edelstahl-kommt-2614972 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/dillenburg/auf-dem-dillenburger-schlossberg-rockt-es-fuer-vier-pfoten-2621620 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/driedorf/schwimmer-in-krombachtalsperre-vermisst-2622785 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/lahn-dill-kreis/dillenburg/das-dillenburger-reithaus-konzert-und-der-maerchenkoenig-2621930 https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/kreis-marburg-biedenkopf/dautphetal/tombola-und-teststaebchen-mit-spass-gegen-krebs-in-holzhausen-2621811

MotorTrend's Ed Loh & Jonny Lieberman welcome back comedian, author & musician - Reggie Watts! Reggie talks about the end of The Late Late Show with James Corden, his new book, cyborgs, GPT-4, Midjourney, and humanity's future with AI! 1:30 - Our first returning guest! 3:30 - Reactions to Reggie's comments from the last podcast. 5:55 - Being a "car guy". 8:34 - Value of Porsche. 10:52 - Reggie & Jonny's trip to Majorca for Porsche, met Timo Bernhardt. 18:06 - Man-Machine connection. Flow state as a musician. 19:44 - Final taping of The Late Late Show on Thursday, April 27th. What's next? 22:20 - Saying goodbye to The Late Late Show. 25:00 - What's next for Reggie? NEW BOOK, "Great Falls Montana", on Reggie's high school years. AI show, sketch show, & Polestar! 25:58 - Incredibly optimistic about AI. 27:05 - Types of AI Reggie is using - Midjourney, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion visual art 29:03 - The Memo - update on the state of AI - Dr. Alan D. Thompson. 32:35 - GPT-4. 35:23 - Is AI a threat to musicians? 36:37 - Personal AI. 38:21 - Cyborgs, Mars, & Consciousness Upload. 44:04 - AI replacing jobs. 45:43 - Pedal from Misha Mansoor. 48:55 - Djent & Meshuggah. 53:54 - Writing a MT article with GPT-4. 56:30 - Midjourney car design experiment. 59:43 - Conversations with Franz von Holzhausen about AI. 01:01:57 - Reggie's new projects. 01:05:20 - F1.

➤ Delivery and production expectations for Tesla's first quarter of 2023 ➤ PCE report below forecast ➤ Preliminary EV credit adjustments issued ➤ Tesla China teases new product unveiling ➤ Tesla recalls Tesla Semi ➤ Franz von Holzhausen discuss Tesla in Motor Trend interview: https://youtu.be/tY37muDxFRI Shareloft: https://www.shareloft.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/teslapodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tesladailypodcast Tesla Referral: https://ts.la/robert47283 Executive producer Jeremy Cooke Executive producer Troy Cherasaro Executive producer Andre/Maria Kent Executive producer Jessie Chimni Executive producer Michael Pastrone Executive producer Richard Del Maestro Executive producer John Beans Music by Evan Schaeffer Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives

MotorTrend's Ed Loh & Jonny Lieberman chat with Tesla Senior Designer - Franz von Holzhausen! Franz tells us about his path to Tesla, designer challenges, the prototype reveal in 2009, MotorTrend giving the Model S "Car of the Year" in 2013, his eureka moment, over-the-air updates, the genesis of the Cybertruck, building toward a sustainable future, towing & cold weather issues, the supercharging network, media pushback & disinformation, the semi-truck, and much more!

Die Gottlieb Bedachung GmbH ist ein mittelständisches Unternehmen mit Sitz in Holzhausen über Aar. Mit aktuell 34 MitarbeiterInnen zählen sie zu den größten Arbeitgebern in der Gemeinde Hohenstein. Nach erfolgreichem Abschluss der Meisterprüfung im Mai 2004 gründete Patrick Gottlieb im August 2004 die Gottlieb Bedachung GmbH in Holzhausen ü. Aar (Gemeinde Hohenstein). Nach einem erfolgreichen ersten Geschäftsjahr eröffnete sich eine Möglichkeit, die angestrebte Expansion der Unternehmung weiter voran zu treiben: die Übernahme der Dach- und Fassadenbau Breiter GmbH in Aarbergen Rückershausen im November 2005. Die Übernahme beinhaltete auch das Firmengrundstück sowie Mitarbeiterstamm, Fahrzeugpark, Firmenausstattung und Gerüstmaterial. Die Verschmelzung der beiden Firmen in die Gottlieb Bedachung GmbH wurde im Januar 2007 vollzogen und blickt nach wie vor mit besten Referenzen in eine erfolgreiche Zukunft.

Tesla has zipped past all of its competitors to become America's best-selling luxury brand. Plus: some takeaways from my Franz von Holzhausen interview last week, Tesla has cracked Brand Finance's list of the World's Top 25 Most Valuable Brand rankings, and more! If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support my efforts, please check out my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/teslapodcast and consider a monthly pledge. Every little bit helps and there are stacking bonuses in it for you at each pledge level, like early access to each episode at the $5 tier and the weekly Lightning Round bonus mini-episode (AND the early access!) at the $10 tier! And don't forget to leave a message on the Ride the Lightning hotline anytime with a question, comment, or discussion topic for next week's show! The toll-free number to call or Skype is 1-888-989-8752. P.S. Get 15% off your first order of awesome aftermarket Tesla accessories at AbstractOcean.com by using the code RTLpodcast at checkout. Grab the SnapPlate front license plate bracket for any Tesla at https://everyamp.com/RTL/. Finally, pick up a 128gb or 256gb Sentry Mode/Dashcam kit at http://www.puretesla.com/rtl 

Sweden uncovers new “Rare Earth” metal find, estimated at over a million tonshttps://www.teslarati.com/ev-transition-rare-earth-elements-discovery/New study shows Tesla cars are the cheapest luxury car brand to maintainhttps://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-is-the-cheapest-luxury-car-brand-to-maintain-according-to-new-study/Tesla leases 1M+ sqft facility 30 mins West of Houston Texas https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-leases-1-million-square-foot-building-outside-houston/CyberTruck IDRA press assembly starts in Giga Texashttps://driveteslacanada.ca/cybertruck/tesla-starts-assembling-cybertrucks-9000-ton-giga-press-inside-giga-texas/Model3 ends Toyota Camry's 28 year record in Australia https://teslanorth.com/2023/01/06/tesla-model-3-ends-toyota-camrys-28-year-sales-streak-in-australia/Hertz Rental ModelY 20” Rims - Twitter pic The state of Wyoming zigs while everyone else zagshttps://www.teslarati.com/wyoming-phase-out-evs-2035/Ride The Lightning Podcast with Ryan interviews Franz von Holzhausen https://driveteslacanada.ca/cybertruck/franz-von-holzhausen-talks-about-tesla-cybertruck-design-features-including-the-yoke-steering-wheel-and-the-lack-of-door-handles-podcast/Giga Texas files for new construction of a $59M Die facilityhttps://www.teslarati.com/tesla-giga-texas-die-shop-59-million/Tesla California VPP reaches a network size of 5.7K homeshttps://www.teslarati.com/tesla-california-virtual-power-plant-5-7k-homes/Thor industries partners with SpaceX to integrate StarLink into its fleet of RV companieshttps://driveteslacanada.ca/spacex/thor-industries-partners-with-spacex-with-to-integrate-starlink-into-airstream-jayco-and-other-rvs/

➤ Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen discusses Tesla Cybertruck and other vehicles on Tesla's roadmap: https://youtu.be/XpTyo2PQq6E ➤ Goldman Sachs and Bank of America lower TSLA price targets ➤ New China insured vehicle numbers ➤ Elon Musk provides FSD Beta updates ➤ Report on 2016 FSD demo video ➤ Hertz and Uber expand EV program ➤ Indonesia comments on Tesla partnership Shareloft: https://www.shareloft.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/teslapodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tesladailypodcast Tesla Referral: https://ts.la/robert47283 Executive producer Jeremy Cooke Executive producer Troy Cherasaro Executive producer Andre/Maria Kent Executive producer Jessie Chimni Executive producer Michael Pastrone Executive producer Richard Del Maestro Executive producer John Beans Music by Evan Schaeffer Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives

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Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen joins me for his second interview on this show! Our almost hour-long discussion covers the Cybertruck, next-gen Roadster, the new Model S, and much more! Plus: after the interview I analyze Tesla's huge across-the-board price cuts that happened this week as well. TIMECODES: 0:47 Podcast intro 3:02 Franz interview begins 3:29 Petersen Auto Museum's Tesla exhibit 6:51 Was the Cybertruck inspired by the DeLorean? 8:39 Removing scratches from the Cybertruck's stainless steel finish 10:54 Customizing the finish of a Cybertruck? 13:56 Cybertruck Easter egg 17:51 Did Franz expect the reactions to the Cybertruck's design? 20:38 No other car company would greenlight something like the Cybertruck 22:06 Will there be a Cybercar? 22:58 Is the Cybertruck design done? 24:15 The Cybertruck's doors 24:49 Yoke steering on the Cybertruck 25:23 Are there features on the Cybertruck we don't know about yet? 26:39 What Franz thinks of the other EV pickup trucks 28:08 Next-gen Roadster status update 29:59 Constantly working on the Model S 31:14 How long was the Model S refresh in the works? 33:09 The new steering wheel option on the Model S and Model X 34:08 The recent design change to the back of the Model S and Model X 35:55 Cybertruck don't need no stinking badges 36:19 Franz on the capacitive touch buttons on the yoke 37:22 New Model S's much lower drag coefficient 39:30 How many times has the Model S been completely redesigned under the skin? 40:24 Franz on Tesla seats 41:38 How full autonomy changes Franz's thought process 42:55 Vehicle paint colors 45:30 Will the stalks get deleted on the Model 3 and Model Y too? 46:26 Franz's thoughts on the Model Y likely becoming the world's best-selling passenger vehicle 48:25 Franz on Tesla vehicle safety 49:36 Franz's relationship with the Berlin and Shanghai Design Studios 50:40 Shortening the time between design and production 52:09 How has Franz's skillset grown in his time at Tesla? 53:29 If Franz could start the Model 3 over, what would he do? 54:40 Model 3 moving to the 4680 battery cells and structural battery pack? 55:32 What does Franz want his legacy to be? 56:49 What did Franz work on today? 58:15 Non-interview news: Tesla slashes vehicle prices across the board 1:12:37 Outro

➤ Mercedes-Benz Opens First EV-Only Dealership, And It's Outside Germany ➤ Volvo C40 and XC40 add efficiency, range ➤ 2024 Mercedes C-Class: long-range EV saloon breaks cover ➤ Tesla Is Making Changes In Fremont To Prepare For Refreshed Model 3 Production ➤ GM to roll put thousands of electric vehicle chargers in rural America ➤ Almost Two-Thirds of Ford Dealers Will Sell EVs with No-Haggle Pricing ➤ Battery change boosts 2023 Nissan Leaf efficiency, slightly ➤ VW Anhui sees first pre-production vehicle roll off line ➤ Rising battery prices threaten affordable electric car push ➤ California, Massachusetts Lead Nation on Energy Efficiency ➤ StoreDot Extreme Fast Charging battery performance ➤ Rare interview with Tesla's chief designer, Franz von Holzhausen

Show #1679 Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily, you trusted source of EV information. It's Friday 9th December it's Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to. MERCEDES-BENZ OPENS FIRST EV-ONLY DEALERSHIP, AND IT'S OUTSIDE GERMANY Original Source : https://www.motor1.com/news/625372/mercedes-benz-first-ev-only-dealership/ EURO-MARKET VOLVO C40 RECHARGE AND XC40 RECHARGE ADD EFFICIENCY, RANGE - AUTOBLOG Original Source : https://www.autoblog.com/2022/12/07/volvo-c40-xc40-european-market-more-efficient-longer-range/ 2024 MERCEDES C-CLASS: LONG-RANGE EV SALOON BREAKS COVER Original Source : https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/2024-mercedes-c-class-long-range-ev-saloon-breaks-cover TESLA IS MAKING CHANGES IN FREMONT TO PREPARE FOR REFRESHED MODEL 3 PRODUCTION   Original Source : https://insideevs.com/news/625477/tesla-preparing-for-updated-model-3-fremont/ GM TO ROLL PUT THOUSANDS OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGERS IN RURAL AMERICA | CNN BUSINESS Original Source : https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/07/business/gm-chargers/index.html ALMOST TWO-THIRDS OF FORD DEALERS WILL SELL EVS WITH NO-HAGGLE PRICING - KELLEY BLUE BOOK Original Source : https://www.kbb.com/car-news/almost-two-thirds-of-ford-dealers-will-sell-evs-with-no-haggle-pricing/ BATTERY CHANGE BOOSTS 2023 NISSAN LEAF EFFICIENCY, SLIGHTLY Original Source : https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1138065_battery-change-boosts-2023-nissan-leaf-efficiency-slightly VW ANHUI SEES FIRST PRE-PRODUCTION VEHICLE ROLL OFF LINE - CNEVPOST Original Source : https://cnevpost.com/2022/12/07/vw-anhui-sees-first-pre-production-vehicle-roll-off-line/ RISING BATTERY PRICES THREATEN AFFORDABLE ELECTRIC CAR PUSH | AUTOMOTIVE NEWS EUROPE  Original Source : https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/rising-battery-prices-threaten-affordable-electric-car-push CALIFORNIA, MASSACHUSETTS LEAD NATION ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY, REPORT FINDS | BEST STATES | U.S. NEWS Original Source : https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2022-12-06/california-massachusetts-lead-nation-on-energy-efficiency-report-finds  STOREDOT EXTREME FAST CHARGING BATTERY PERFORMANCE VALIDATED BY SHMUEL DE-LEON ENERGY - GREEN CAR CONGRESS Original Source : https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/12/20221206-storedot.html A RARE INTERVIEW WITH TESLA'S CHIEF DESIGNER, FRANZ VON HOLZHAUSEN - Franz von Holzhausen has been Tesla's chief designer since 2008. CNBC got a rare interview with him at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, which recently opened a new Tesla exhibit. - Von Holzhausen was a lead designer on the Tesla Model S, Model 3, Model X and Model Y as well as the Cybertruck, Tesla Semi truck and the second-generation Roadster. - When asked about his favorite Tesla design and what he was most proud of, von Holzhausen said, “Favorite one is the one that is coming. I think that I can't talk about.” - He spoke to CNBC about what it's like to have Elon Musk as a boss, what happened when the glass shattered on the windows at the Cybertruck unveil, the Tesla Semi truck and what's next for auto design. Original Source : https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/01/a-rare-interview-with-teslas-chief-designer-franz-von-holzhausen.html QUESTION OF THE WEEK QOTW is taking a break for a while. Email your answers to: hello@evnewsdaily.com It would mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on whichever platform you download the podcast. PREMIUM PARTNERS PHIL ROBERTS / ELECTRIC FUTURE BRAD CROSBY PORSCHE OF THE VILLAGE CINCINNATI AUDI CINCINNATI EAST VOLVO CARS CINCINNATI EAST NATIONAL CAR CHARGING ON THE US MAINLAND AND ALOHA CHARGE IN HAWAII DEREK REILLY FROM THE EV REVIEW IRELAND YOUTUBE CHANNEL RICHARD AT RSEV.CO.UK – FOR BUYING AND SELLING EVS IN THE UK OCTOPUS ELECTRIC UNIVERSE - GLOBAL PUBLIC CHARGING MADE SIMPLE WITH ONE APP AND ONE MAP. MILLBROOKCOTTAGES.CO.UK – 5* LUXURY COTTAGES IN DEVON, JUMP IN THE HOT TUB WHILST YOUR EV CHARGES LEASEPLAN ELECTRIC MOMENTS - PROVIDING ALL THE TOOLS AND GUIDANCE EV DRIVERS NEED

Tesla makes a couple of noteworthy revelations while delivering the first production Semi trucks, a new report suggests that a “revamped” Model 3 is on the way next year, Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen gives a rare interview and discusses the Cybertruck, and more! If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support my efforts, please check out my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/teslapodcast and consider a pledge. Every little bit helps and there are stacking bonuses in it for you at each pledge level, like early access to each episode at the $5 tier and that plus the weekly Lightning Round bonus mini-episode at the $10 tier! And don't forget to leave a message on the Ride the Lightning hotline anytime with a question, comment, or discussion topic for next week's show! The toll-free number to call or Skype is 1-888-989-8752. P.S. Find the right Xcelerate Xcare extended warranty plan for your Tesla at https://www.xcelerateauto.com/xcare and use the promo code LIGHTNING to get $100 off your policy. Get 15% off your first order of awesome aftermarket Tesla accessories at AbstractOcean.com by using the code RTLpodcast at checkout. And if you're ordering a Jeda Wireless Charging Pad or USB Hub Console for Model 3/Y (coupon code RTL), please use my referral link: https://getjeda.com/ref/8/. Grab the SnapPlate front license plate bracket for any Tesla at https://everyamp.com/RTL/. Finally, pick up a 128gb or 256gb Sentry Mode/Dashcam kit at http://www.puretesla.com/rtl 

05.12.2022 Hosea 11 gelesen von Daniela Bösser, Dautphetal-Holzhausen by Gemeinschaftsverband Sachsen-Anhalt

➤ Tesla's Franz von Holzhausen discusses Tesla's next vehicle, Tesla's Cybertruck, Semi, and working with Elon Musk: https://youtu.be/xTH3Nm_Ca1g ➤ Market rallies after comments from Fed chairman ➤ California Department of Transportation confirms large Tesla order ➤ Elon Musk meets with Apple CEO Tim Cook ➤ Netflix CEO Reed Hastings defends Musk ➤ Ukrainian President Zelensky comments on Musk Shareloft: https://www.shareloft.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/teslapodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tesladailypodcast Tesla Referral: https://ts.la/robert47283 Executive producer Jeremy Cooke Executive producer Troy Cherasaro Executive producer Andre/Maria Kent Executive producer Jessie Chimni Executive producer Michael Pastrone Executive producer Richard Del Maestro Executive producer John Beans Music by Evan Schaeffer Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives

Kohl, Karotten, rote Bete: Wo und wie diese Gemüsesorten am besten gelagert werden, hat sich Kleingärtnerin Nadine Witt von Gärtnerin Ilka Hoffman von der Grünwerkstatt Holzhausen erklären lassen.

Model Y becomes best selling car in Europe in Septhttps://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-y-best-selling-vehicle-europe/Uber reports on success with Model 3 after 1 yearhttps://www.teslarati.com/uber-tesla-rental-program-hertz-1-year-analysis/ Franz von Holzhausen takes CyberTruck to ArtCenter College of Designhttps://driveteslacanada.ca/cybertruck/franz-von-holzhausen-talks-tesla-cybertruck-at-former-school-artcenter-college-of-design-video/ 44,000 homes supported by Powerwalls help Puerto Rico gridhttps://electrek.co/2022/10/27/tesla-powerwall-powered-44000-homes-puerto-rico-grid-outage/ Elon takes over Twitter and becomes Chief Twithttps://driveteslacanada.ca/news/elon-musk-is-already-making-sweeping-changes-at-twitter/ Sessional tire option comes to Tesla software https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-adds-tire-season-option-to-in-car-settings/ Andres Karpathy appears on Lex Fridman Podcasthttps://www.teslarati.com/andrej-karpathy-tesla-lex-fridman/ Giga Texas surpasses 20,000 Model T's producedhttps://www.teslarati.com/tesla-gigafactory-texas-20k-model-y-milestone/ Panasonic starting construction of Kansas Battery planthttps://driveteslacanada.ca/news/panasonic-kicks-off-kansas-ev-battery-plant-construction-next-month/ California Regulators test out FSDBeta https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/california-regulators-try-out-teslas-full-self-driving-beta/ New Comfort Suspension available at Giga Texashttps://driveteslacanada.ca/model-y/tesla-model-y-comfort-suspension-fremont-giga-texas/ Giga Shanghai employees to help Fremont become more efficient https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-giga-shanghai-staff-fremont-factory-upgrades/

➤ Elon Musk shuts down Bloomberg's EV forecast at Bloomberg's Qatar Economic Forum (https://youtu.be/uTBeGjg4pek) ➤ TSLA stock rallies to 3rd best day of the year ➤ Tesla provides update on Giga Berlin production ➤ Discussion on Tesla deliveries and production in China ➤ Cars.com updates American-Made Index ➤ Acceleration boost reported for Texas-made Model Y ➤ New photos of Tesla's Semi Megacharger ➤ Texas plans EV charging investment ➤ IDRA extends open house ➤ von Holzhausen interior update Shareloft: https://www.shareloft.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/teslapodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tesladailypodcast Tesla Referral: https://ts.la/robert47283 Executive producer Jeremy Cooke Executive producer Troy Cherasaro Executive producer Andre/Maria Kent Executive producer Jessie Chimni Executive producer Michael Pastrone Executive producer Richard Del Maestro Executive producer John Beans Music by Evan Schaeffer Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives

„Ein Mann seiner Klasse“ zählt zu den 10 „bemerkenswerten“ Inszenierungen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum. Deshalb darf sich Lukas Holzhausen freuen, dass er mit seiner Regiearbeit zum Berliner Theatertreffen eingeladen ist. Holzhausen ist nicht nur Regisseur. Der Schweizer hat als Schauspieler an vielen großen Bühnen gespielt: in Zürich, Graz, Hamburg oder Wien. Seit der Spielzeit 2019/20 ist er festes Ensemblemitglied am Schauspiel Hannover, hier inszeniert er als Regisseur und steht als Schauspieler auf der Bühne, erst gerade in dem Stück „Das Vermächtnis“ von Matthew Lopez..

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California's Bay Area is one of the world's epicenters of design, but this is a fairly recent phenomenon. Prior to the 1980s, you had to travel to Paris, London, Milan, and New York to find good design. Suddenly, this region entered a golden design era marked by innovative collaborations, technology booms, and the emergence of a vernacular around design thinking. Now, nearly 40 years later, we have more design professionals in the Bay Area than anywhere else in the world. In this episode, Dan Harden examines the rise of design in the Bay Area with Author and Design Professor Barry Katz, including how design thinking changed the landscape of the Bay. Looking ahead, Dan and Barry speculate on how Bay Area design can continue to set the tone for the rest of the world. GuestBarry Katz, professor of Industrial and Interaction Design, California College of the Arts, and adjunct professor, Design Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University Episode TranscriptDan Harden 0:07Hello, and welcome to Prism. Prism is a design-oriented podcast hosted by me Dan Harden. Like a glass, Prism that reveals the color hidden inside white light, t his podcast will reveal the inside story behind innovation, especially the people that make it happen. My aim is to uncover each guest's unique point of view, their insights, their methods, or their own secret motivator, perhaps that fuels their creative genius. Today, I have the pleasure of being with a good friend of mine, Barry Katz . Barry is the professor of Industrial Design and Interaction Design at the California College of the Arts, an adjunct professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Design Group at Stanford University, Barry was also well, Barry has been working with the idea for the last 20 years as a fellow and general advisor, we're going to hear a little bit about his experience there. He's also the author of seven books, including most recently “Make It New, the History of Silicon Valley design” published in 2017, by MIT Press, and Barry's also working on a great new book called “Structure and Symbol for the Age of Data” which is about architecture and the Silicon Valley. Barry, thanks so much for coming on Prism. Glad to be here. I always love talking to you. You are a gem of a human. Or the the you know, you pretty much blew me away when you were one of the keynote speakers at a conference that I chaired back in 2002, as you remember, well. So this is a really great experience. So you know, you wrote this book that I read, because, well, I'm living in Silicon Valley, I've been a designer in Silicon Valley since 1989, and had experience working here even prior to that. So I was really fascinated by your perspectives on the history of design in the Bay Area. Maybe we could start by you giving us a general context, because my first exposure to the Bay Area was when I was seeing this extraordinary work being done, I would say in the early 80s. And I actually interned at HP, which is my first exposure around that time. But what was happening before that, how did we get to that point of inflection where design started to become relevant to technology. If we can start unpacking a little bit of that, that kind of historical perspective, because it sets the framework so well for what actually happened and how design flourished.Barry Katz 2:52So let's begin a little bit with what got me interested in taking a long historical look at how people like you ended up doing what people like you are now doing. In 2021, I was struck by a small gift sent to me by a mutual friend of ours I'm sure you know, Gerard Furbershaw are one of the cofounders of Lunar, one of the distinguished consultancies of the area. Gerard sent me a clipping from a 1979 Palo Alto telephone book, the Yellow Pages. And I apologize to readers, or viewers or listeners who have no idea what the yellow pages are business directory for these things that we used to call telephones. And this was a page from the business directory that listed every design consultancy in Northern California 1979. There were, if I remember correctly, nine of them and they were squeezed between detective agencies and diaper services. And of the nine, only one of them still exists, although not under the same name. In other words, design was absolutely not on the map as any significant part of what was important about this region. And the reason that that was interesting to me is today, I think I'd be prepared to argue that there are probably more design professionals working within 50 miles of where you and I are sitting right now than anywhere else in the world. So I got interested in the question, How did that happen? How did that happen in an extraordinarily, you know, basically in a generation. If you had asked almost anybody in that period, the late 70s, the early 80s. What are the important world centres of design? I think that there would have been a pretty easy consensus and you know, Dan, you could you could say a to Milan for furniture Paris for fashion. New York for graphics London probably for product design, you got to be Tokyo for electronics, LA for whatever they do down there, I have no idea. And if you would set the Bay Area, I think you would have been met with a blank stare, right? One of the older folks that I interviewed in my book who migrated out here for romantic reasons, I think he had to get away from a second wife or something like that, and tried to set up shop in San Francisco as an industrial designer in the late 60s, I think. And he said, anybody who would try to do that then should have his head examined. There was no client base, there were no colleagues, there was no system of suppliers and partners. It was an island, and now it's it's become the center. So I wanted to figure out how that happened. And I started scratching around the early 80s, when the big consultancies began to form, IDEO Lunar Frog where you, you and I first met, and I scratched a little bit further, and I found some activity in the decade prior to that, and I scratched a little bit further, and I found a few big companies that had an industrial designer on staff. And I kept scratching until I got back to I think it was August 7, 1951, when Hewlett Packard hired his first quote, unquote, industrial designer, and they gave him the assignment that I, I heard from any number of people that I spoke to, it was essentially “Can you stuff five pounds of shit into a 10 pound box,” that's a phrase that kept coming up. Or maybe it was 10 pounds into forgotten. So there were, there was some early stirring of activity in the post World War Two period. This is the time when Silicon Valley was just beginning to emerge as an important Tech Center, in electronics, in aviation and in defense, and a few companies Hewlett Packard, Lockheed, interestingly enough. And a company that is now almost defunct Ampex, which was, at one time the pioneer in audio recording, they essentially invented magnetic tape recording. They had small design groups, and that was about it.Their primary role of designers then was to package technology to put the work of engineers into a suitable enclosure that wouldn't offend anybody. And that wouldn't get into the in the way of having the things function. And then gradually, what I described is an expanding perimeter around the areas that designers could involve themselves in. And I think that I would say that the crucial moment in time, kind of metaphorically speaking, is when computing started to get small enough, cheap enough and fast enough, that it began to move from the back rooms of large organizations, onto the desktops of ordinary consumers. And that's where design is really in a position to add major value.Dan Harden 8:41Because people were used to consuming well designed products and other parts of their life. And maybe they didn't have an identity yet, right? I mean,Barry Katz 8:52No, I mean, the computer was this inscrutable refrigerator sized machine in the backroom of a bank or an airline or an insurance company or the Defense Department.Dan Harden 9:04There was one guy, you might remember Elliot Noise on the East Coast, as he designed those giant IBM computers. That was the first exposure that I saw to computers being designed. And then I was also seeing around that same timeframe, some amazing work done by Mario Bellini and Ettore Sottsass, as well as designing like, pre computers for all of it, you know, these were type machines and adding machines really cool stuff. I mean, they were giving true art and form to these devices that otherwise had no kind of functional bearing on anything we would understand unlike say, a mixer or a fan where there were required components, mechanical components, whereas these devices, even those early tech devices, they you know, they were early transistor based products, and you know, why should they look like what should they key look like? Given that you press a button on, you know, in a series of keys, should it look like a typewriter? Probably? Yeah, yeah. Those were an interesting transitional day.Barry Katz 10:10I'm really glad that you said that in that you put it in the way that you did, Dan, because everybody knows what a mixer does. Everybody knows what a hairdryer does. Everybody knows what a desk lamp does. Nobody in this period and again, you know, to the 1970s, nobody really knew what a computer was and what it was for. And as you look at the the proliferation of small companies that were exploring this terra incognita of personal computing, the big debate was, what is the machine? Is it a really, really fast typewriter? Is it a really, really powerful adding machine? Is it some kind of a communications device, and it was really uncertain. And, you know, now is familiar to practically everybody. And we use it for all of those things, and probably also has a hairdryer and a mixer and a desk lamp. But it was a technology in search of a definition of the category. So what I think is really crucial here is that when Elliott Noyes and some of the folks that you mentioned were designing, and I say designing sort of cautiously, they're doing the industrial design of large scale Business Machines. I don't want to put it too crudely. But engineers are not that concerned with the experience of the devices that you're working on. Okay, I say this with no disrespect, you know, in a way they have higher aspirations. But when a technology moves from the business world into the consumer market, functionality tends to be displaced by experience. I know that's a little bit of a cliche, but you're less concerned with the inner workings and how the thing works. And more concerned, not simply with superficial aesthetics, but with the experience that you're having in using the device, so the product or the software. And that is the points where design really comes into the picture is something more than what you're so familiar with the Henry Dreyfus or the Elliot Noyes model, of form and function of using industrial design to make something more attractive and accessible.Dan Harden 12:39I think part of that is the consumers have an expectation that whatever purpose, this new product that has been proposed for them to purchase, whatever that purpose is, you want to deliver to you quickly, we have impatient minds, right? We want that designed to deliver and so it's got to stimulate me in the way that it looks that has to communicate to me in an intuitive manner, and then it has to deliver on its functionality. Scientists or researchers that were using those giant computers back then they didn't have that expectation. It was purely functional, although, remarkably, even companies like IBM realized, wait a minute, there's, there's a culture in this technology, we need to represent it not. I don't think they were necessarily trying to sell more computers with design, you know, back then, I think they were proud of what they were doing. And they they were they wanted to kind of show off they're like, “Hey, you know what, these are remarkable machines,” Let's let's do this, right? Let's build some culture and maybe even a sense of art and what they were building.Barry Katz 13:48I'm also really glad that you, you mentioned some of the European companies that were kind of pioneering the sort of thinking you know, Olivetti created a machine called the Performa, which some people have argued, is really the first desktop computer and had a comprehensive corporate wide design strategy, as did Philips, a small number of other European companies. And if I am not mistaken, they had a tremendous influence on your generation of American designers. So at exactly the moment that we were trying to figure out what is this new thing that we're dealing with, and we're still trying to figure that out, you know, 40 years into the story of computing. People were, to a large extent taking their cues from some of the radical solutions being proposed in Europe and gradually incorporating them into their thinking. Apple's the clear example, that's how Apple really got started.Dan Harden 15:00Do you know but before we talk about Apple because um, you know, they're the monolith here, right? So in, in the space of design and technology, when I was when I was in school, I remember it's so well, like the very top,the paragon of like design for me was the work that was being done by Olivetti. There was something about those expressions. I felt that they were, they were beyond product to me, they weren't they were something truly extraordinary. They touched the Abyss in some way that just made me think as a designer, “Wow, I can do anything as a designer” because there really, prior to the existence of this early technology. There was no reference, there was no vernacular for what technology should look like. Right. So unlike if you're designing a chair, you know, how many 1000s of years that we need to go back to, to see the vernacular of a chair. So that compelled me to push myself and I was designing even in school, it's hilarious. I was doing like Olivetti esque kind of things. I was just so influenced by that I really loved. Yeah, that technology. And that's what led me to want to even work for HP back then. You'll find this interesting because you teach at Stanford. I went to this Stanford design conference, and the speaker was this young man, that was the CEO and founder of this new computer company called Apple and they had just gone public. And there was Steve Jobs up on stage pontificating about technology, and he was using the word design. I was like, in the, you know, the back of the audience and designed did he just say design. You know, as I was super excited about that at lunchtime, I'll never forget this. We all got our cafeteria trays. During this conference, Steve Jobs came out, we're all sitting outside, he looked around the lawn, and I guess he selected the youngest group or something I was sitting among like, eight of my peers at HP. l came in he chose us to sit down next to he sat down, took his shoes off, of course, right. He was famous for being barefoot all the time in his younger days. And he just, I wish I could say we had a discussion, but no, he pretty much continue to talk at us about technology and design, the importance of design, I realized I had a sense, although I didn't have the knowledge or the foresight necessarily to know where this was all gonna go. But I believed that he truly felt a sense about the importance of design especially and its incorporation into product. And yeah, it I think it catapulted me even further, in my own personal thinking about like, Man, I've got to, I have to do some killer work here at HP. And I'm really intrigued by this notion of technology and design. Years later, I worked with him. But that to me was kind of the turning point. You mentioned a turning point in the Bay Area. His emergence as Apple's emergence as a force, especially when he hired Frog Design, during that time period in the early 80s, that, to me was the seminal moment. Let's talk about that. Because everything you know, when you mentioned a few of the companies that were considering in hiring one or two designers in the Bay Area at that time. Here's a company a new technology companies, young, exciting, brash company, Apple, that reaches out to design firms in the worlds he finds this company in Germany, and in the Black Forest. Althengstett right it was super cute little tiny village in the Black Forest. Now, how he actually found them. I've heard stories about it, you know, when I was there, but that is an extraordinary time period. I remember one other point and I wanted your perspective on this. Right after my internship, at HP, I ended up graduating and going to Europe with a portfolio on my back. And one of the companies that I went down to have an informational interview was Frog Design. And the founder of Frog Design, Hartmut Esslinger interviewed me and at the time, he said, this is like 1982 he said,“Dan, we just met this crazy guy in the Silicon Valley named Steve Jobs. Do you heard about him? Do you know much about him?” Like oh, well, I just I just heard him at this this Standford design conference. So yeah, I know him you know, quote unquote, and I'll never forget that moment because he said, we're thinking about doing some work with him, and what what do you think? And you know, would you eventually like to come help on this we really like your portfolio. Could you come help us in California? I thought, wow, this is this firm in this in the Black Forest is willing to make this leap across continents to go design for this crazy guy named Steve Jobs.Barry Katz 20:28And I hope you told Hartmut to make sure that he got paid in advance.Dan Harden 20:34I don't think you have a problem getting paid by Apple at that time, you know, that became legendary how much of a retainer they got, you know, to design these products at that time. But there were all kinds of things happening not only, you know, Apple with with frog, but another gentleman named Bill Moggridge comes over. Tell us about that, and your perspective on this the shift, the big shift was this, in my opinion, was kind of that this euro invasion into the Silicon Valley when a lot of industrial designers from Europe keyed on to the fact that there's something interesting going on here in technology in the Silicon Valley. And they wanted to be a part of it.Barry Katz 21:18Yeah, I think it really has to be understood as a global phenomenon as part of a global wave, and we're still in it. And the wave is now moving back and forth across the Pacific just as 40 years ago, it was moving back and forth across the Atlantic, mostly forth, I would say. Apple is a key player in the story. I don't want to romanticize it. But I would never want to minimize it either. I mean, I will often say would you have bought a computer from a company founded on April Fool's Day and named after a piece of fruit. And when I said, you know, make sure you should have told her to make sure we got paid in advance. I personally know and i think you know, a couple of these folks to Dan. But I personally know three people that were approached by Steve Jobs in the late 70s, and turned him down. Here's another guy, another one of these guys, in jeans and barefoot or, you know, his Birkenstocks. With his vision of something, rather. And if I'll just do the work on spec, the gold will come pouring into my checking account. And I'm not joking here or exaggerating, I literally know three people who throw them out. They are not happyabout that.But Apple, I think has to be, I'll get to Moggridge in a moment, but Apple has to be understood as being in the right place at the right time led by the right person, as difficult as that right person was. in other respects, I don't think we can take anything away from him. To put that in a little bit of perspective, in that period, '76 '77 '78, I can think of about a dozen companies that were competing to bring a personal computer to the market to the consumer market, you have never heard of 11 of those 12. And the 12th is now a trillion dollar company. And at any given week, the most valuable company in the world. So when a company has a profile of that stature, and defines itself as being designed driven, and every other company in the world is going to take notice at their or ignore it at their peril. So the importance of Apple, not just in creating, you know, new generations of innovative products and all of that, which is a cliche, the importance of Apple for giving priority to design at the executive level. That's pretty new in American corporate history, not entirely unprecedented. But at that scale, it was just a new phenomenon. What I would say about Apple in terms of its importance for the story that you are trying to get down is once it became clear that a high quality experience was going to be essential to making this new generation of tech products successful. Steve began to explore design talent around the world. And there were plenty of American designers who are a bit miffed by this, but he conducted his search in the UK, in Germany as you said frog, the company that became frog, the star designers and Italy and in Paris. And he narrowed it down through a competition that became known as the Snow White competition to design a personal computer Snow White, and seven peripherals, the Seven Dwarfs. That competition was ultimately won by the small firm that you referred to. And that used to work for Esslinger design in the Federal Republic of Germany F-R-O-G. And the condition that jobs imposed upon it was that they moved to Silicon Valley, and at least establish an outpost here. So Hartmut Esslinger, moved Esslinger Design to Silicon Valley became frog Design. And the larger importance of that, I think, is that it was really Apple that began to engage this small community of tech oriented design professionals, who are starting to spill out of Stanford arriving from London and Germany and a few other places. And that would ultimately give rise, excuse me, to the major consultancies, which became the defining identity of Silicon Valley design. And they're the ones that, you know, the company that became IDEO, the company that became frog, Lunar, and now less than a second and a third, and now a fourth generation of companies that are at this point, almost beyond counting.Dan Harden 26:39I, you know, I find this to be so fascinating, that whole the evolution of the whole design industry in the Bay Area, and in that regard, starting at that moment, that transcendent moment in the early 80s, where it just came alive Suddenly, I remember prior to joining frog, so you know, even though I talked to Hartmut about about him meeting jobs, and being a part of this Snow White program, I was aware of it. I had gone to Dreyfus in New York City in the meantime. And when I was there, I saw the first Snow White examples coming out, of course, and I saw on the back page of it magazine. Yeah, Apple to see it was that particular design that made me think something is going on here. I really should be a part of this. Yep. And that's when I reached back out to Hartmut. And he basically said, “Hey, man, where have you been? Come on, let's come out to California right away.”Barry Katz 27:42If I could, if I could jump in and just add one more gloss onto this whole thing. And that is there's an old story of companies, hiring designers to improve their products. That's sort of the the history of design and in this country, and it's a great history. What happens very rarely is designers being the opportunity to keep being given the opportunity to design not just a new product, but a new product category, and to create a language for it, and to figure out what is this thing all about. So if you were asked to improve last year's toaster, and you know, give us next year's toaster, you look back at last year and the year before and the year before that there is a language of toasters, and you run with it. But if you are asked to design a mouse, the patent for the mouse was called the x y position indicator. So somebody walks in and asks you to design an X Y position indicator for him. Where do you start? You don't look at last year's model, because there was no last year's model, or a modem or even like a digital answering machine or something like that. They are entirely new product categories. And the opportunity to do that does not come very often. And what really defined the design profession, I think, in Silicon Valley, argue with me, if you like, is this ongoing challenge to designers of giving form and language to entirely new product categories?Dan Harden 29:22Yes. In addition, giving an identity and a personality to something that otherwise is purely represented by the software that you might see on the screen.Barry Katz 29:36Yeah, yeah.Dan Harden 29:37So it's really it's true conception, if you will, you know, it's like, Okay, well, it's blue sky design, you have to you know, you're you sit there sometime to scratch your head, like, well, how can I record and I do I do this now, you know, like, how can I represent this very unusual, abstract technology that you know, it takes even my design team, it might take months to figure out even how some of this stuff works. I mean, we're doing like CRISPR technologies. And, yeah, human genome sequencing. And I think that that's another thing about the Bay Area, you get exposed as a designer to some remarkable innovation. And you're asked to give it a face, give it give it an identity and make that identity by the way, approachable, friendly, sometimes warm, almost always intuitive. And make it exciting enough that it makes an impact on demand for the product. at its best design does that. But yeah, you're right. I mean, especially, you know, using Apple again, is that example, and even other companies picked up on that, you know, the car companies saw what Apple did with a line of products, whereby each individual product was making a suggestion about its values, and that other siblings in the product line also had those values, yes, which builds trust, because you will automatically assume if the quality is imbued in the product that I currently have in my hand, or sitting on the desk in front of me, I make the assumption that the company that is offering me that is also making other fine products. And that notion hadn't really been expressed in a manner that was so clear, as far as like, especially sibling likenesses and languages, you know, car companies were making an individual, you'd see a Camaro. And then you'd see a Mustang, they were all very, very different. Even companies, you know, looking at, you know, Ford, all of their cars look very, very different. There was no such thing as a design language. So yeah, I would say that one of the roots of Bay Area design was just that giving a broader expression of what a complex system might look like and how it should work.Barry Katz 32:11Yep.Dan Harden 32:12What else was it about what designers were doing, in your opinion, around that time, and even up into the 90s. And even now, that makes Silicon Valley special?Barry Katz 32:30I think the key thing, Dan is, in the kind of popular imagination, Silicon Valley is a whole lot of tech companies. So as you read about, you know, the war between Washington and Silicon Valley now, where Europe and Silicon Valley over issues of privacy and data, sequestering and all of that, the kind of unspoken assumptions that Silicon Valley is a vast agglomeration of high tech companies. In fact, I think it is much more accurate and meaningful to understand it as an extremely complex ecosystem. In some I know, that's a sort of a cliche term, but it's something like the biological sense, in which an ecosystem operates as a series of inter interdependent components, each of which influences the other. And the interest that I have. And I think you have here is how design became an integral part of that ecosystem. So when I think ecosystem, I think, sure, the tech companies Apple, Facebook, Hewlett, Packard, Lockheed, and video, and all of the others that are household names. But we also need to think about the venture capital industry that feeds money into it's about half of the VC investment in the United States in any given quarter is invested in this little piece of real estate where we have the either good luck or misfortune to live with depending on whether you own your house or not. A legal infrastructure, so firms began to develop an expertise in an aspect of corporate law that had to do with funding and setting up startup companies. On the basis of you might have heard the phrase opium addicts, an addiction to other people's money. So IP law protection, early stage corporate law, the universities, so we have Stanford, Berkeley, and then approved as the major research institutions, but then places like San Jose State, which is not sufficiently recognized as a factor but the mission of the state universities in California is to serve the local population, local companies and to provide educational opportunities for Local people, which is not what Berkeley or Stanford are about, right, by definition. So San Jose State and a few others, began to contribute talent into the tech community design talent as well as engineering talent. And then you know, places like CCA where I teach in art school, and half a dozen other specialized artists institutions in the region. So you've got the tech companies, academia, legal infrastructure, the financial infrastructure, and then the piece that was missing in all of that is design. And when Apple in particular, and then a growing number of other companies began to make serious investments into building design into their operations, hiring. This gaggle of Stanford graduates that became IDEO hiring, this agglomeration of European designers showing up at frog hiring these peculiar mix of engineers and designers at lunar, we begin to see the formation of a professional design consultancy world that became an integral piece of the silicon; and I would say, a defining piece of the Silicon Valley ecosystem. And that is, I think of inestimable importance in understanding how Silicon Valley worked. Because it's not, it's not simply about laboratory science or bench engineering. It's about making products that are accessible, interesting, affordable, and exciting. And that, again, is where design has specific value to add.Dan Harden 36:54Why is it that the public doesn't seem to really understand that? When you think about Silicon Valley, you think about technology, think about software, you think about invention, and innovation by companies like Facebook, Google, of course, apple, and many, many others, all these different startups. But it's often design that is, is the vehicle, it's carrying these messages forward, the values, the experience that is making this a wonderful, whether you're looking at the UX of a Google product, or even products, you know, like, Oh, my gosh, almost any medical device, scientific equipment, fitness equipment, computing, you know, the list goes on and on.Barry Katz 37:41Yeah, we are more commonly aware of design when it fails, when it's bad, when something doesn't work the way you want it to, whether it's the chair that you're sitting on, or the microphone that you're speaking into. But yeah, I mean, most people, including the person you're talking to right now, as very little idea of how computer works. You know, I've read books about and we sort of don't care. And I mean that in actually pretty serious way. People love to compare their phones, but more often, you know, they're actually people will spend more time choosing the case of their mobile phone and then deciding between, you know, models. And I don't mean that in a trivial sense, what I'm trying to get at is the idea that we are coming to understand that the technology is now pretty dependable. It's extraordinary. I mean, I have a little Miata, okay, the Mazda sports car. The idea that, and I drove it for 18 years, and in 18 years, I repaired the I replace the radiator, that was the only significant repair I ever did on that car. And the idea some generation before that, that your sports car would not spend half of its adult life from the shop. I'm thinking so the technology, the point I'm making the technologies are very dependable now. And they're also inscrutable. And we kind of don't want to know what's under the hood or behind the screen or beneath the keyboard. We want to know what it's doing that is relevant to the task that I am now trying to perform.Dan Harden 39:36That's one reason why design has become a household name is because maybe in the past, we talked about design, so much history of technology, the introduction of the technology, the absorption and the issues that we all had with technology as that became a little bit more resolved and design became more well revolutionary and revolutionary at the same time. It's now something that we we can relate to. And therefore we talk about, because everything else is the technology is working.Barry Katz 40:10And it should be emphasized, no disrespect is intended toward engineers, hardware or software engineers. Quite to the contrary, if they hadn't done such a damn good job of building reliable, efficient and ever faster, cheaper and smaller products, then we wouldn't be focusing on this experiential level on the human level. So it's their credit, to their credit that designers have moved into a position of increasing prominence. And this is pretty new, and it's still happening, it is a work in progress. But, you know, when I started teaching, I would hear from my students from alumni of my courses, who went to work in tech companies, again, and again, and again, the engineers won't listen to us, they won't take us seriously, they won't give us the time of day, they'll hand us something, once all of the key decisions have been made. And you know, that phrase that you probably heard way back when make it pretty, put it in the box, and all that, yeah. And that's just no longer really the case. There's still a lot of uncertainty about what designers do and how they do it, and why they make the decisions they make. But I remember a conversation with Doreen Lorenzo, who was the CEO of frog after Hartmut Esslinger stepped down, in which she said, “a design strategy is now as important as a business plan.” And most companies, whether it's because Apple hit the trillion dollar mark, or for whatever reason, most companies now recognize that designers need a seat at the table earlier on in the process, then, you know, at the end of the day, if I can use an image that really appeals to me, I had a conversation with the chief designer at Tesla, Franz von Holzhausen. And I asked him what was different about being a designer at Tesla, the chief designer, Chief Product officer, in fact, and in his previous jobs, he worked at Chrysler before that, and but what he said to me is that the typical pattern in the auto industry had been that design was a link in a chain and important link. And you know, a chain doesn't work if one link is broken. But it was a link in a chain that connected r&d to engineering, to design style, to marketing figure out how to sell it. And what he told me was at Tesla, we are not a link and a chain, it's more like the hub of a wheel. We are present at the beginning of any discussion about at the highest level of the product definition. And it's really our job like the hub of a wheel, think of the spokes connecting the aeronautical engineers who are concerned about the airflow over the hood, the mechanical engineers who are working on drive train the electrical engineers that are working on the Panasonic battery pack, marketing, and it's actually designed that is connecting all of those parts from the beginning of the the development process to the end of it. And that is something that is pretty new in the auto industry and has had an impact because of the extraordinary success of Tesla, throughout the industry. And it's also a pattern that I think you can see in other industries as well.Dan Harden 44:01You know, I from as a consultant, I've seen this pattern evolving and taking shape over the last, especially the last 10 years, you know, where designers have are sitting right up there with, you know, the CEO, the operations, marketing, engineering, of course, I think because they realize that, because design is kind of the the binding element between all of these departments, you know, because design just infiltrates your marketing, your messaging, certainly the engineering and the production and all the way right down to supply chain management. We're, I think the enlightened companies had figured this out. And part of that is because they realize that, that the consumer is actually making decisions based on what's right for them. What they can identify with. How is addressing my particular problem and design has has just become, it's the communication tool for the company to bring forth those messages to beliefs that they actually build into their products, hopefully, it's good to hear that the car companies are coming around, they've been a little bit slower at this, partly because the timeframe to develop a car so it, you know, would typically go from r&d and safety concerns to engineering and then ultimately, the styling department and then tooling, it just takes a long time toBarry Katz 45:33five years minimum.Dan Harden 45:34Yeah, yeah. But when you're designing and developing these consumer electronics, or computing products, or even scientific goods, like we do, it's the consumption pattern. It's very fast.Barry Katz 45:49Yep.Dan Harden 45:49So design, really, I think it has to have a seat at the table early on for the whole process to work.Barry Katz 45:59Which raises an interesting question that will be very relevant to you, and your line of work. And that is the relation between the internal design groups within companies, which are having growing prominence, and external consultants, such as Whipsaw. And there has been some speculation in the pages of Fast Company and a few other magazines, that the consultancies may be a victim of their own success in making the case that design is important. So companies, healthcare, automotive, consumer, electronics, food and beverage, everything, have heard the message and are building their own internal design teams.Dan Harden 46:45You know, I keep hearing about this. And, you know, people have asked me, is this a threat? or something, you know, to the existence of, you know, it becomes like, an existential question. I think it's all nonsense. You know, rising tide raises all the ships, and, you know, great corporations are hiring more designers, they're also hiring more consultants. We are seeing a lot of consulting firms, especially in the Bay Area being bought out.Barry Katz 47:11Yeah.Dan Harden 47:12And yeah, and, you know, we're one of the remaining private ones. Sometimes these firms lose their identity or their Verve, their passion. I'm not sure what it is. What happens when you get absorbed in a big corporation like that? No. But individuals that have a vision that that want to be independent, there's still room for for those kinds of consultants to I mean, we were showing a increase in business, not a decrease.Barry Katz 47:43Yeah.Dan Harden 47:44I just love the fact that almost every company that even the startups, some of the first people that they hire are designers.Barry Katz 47:52Yeah.Dan Harden 47:53UX ID, graphic design, identity branding. It's so essential. And it's if you don't, it's just a huge missed opportunity. Like, why wouldn't you if it if it will more likely make you successful? Why in the world, wouldn't you?Barry Katz 48:11Yeah, when I started working on my book on “Silicon Valley Design, Make It New,” I began with an approach that any responsible author would take, okay, this is a book about Silicon Valley design, defined Silicon Valley and defined design. And I couldn't do it. You know, Silicon Valley is a state of mind that extends from Lucas Ranch, north of the Golden Gate Bridge to the Santa Cruz Mountains, and design. I mean, there are designers that work on intricate internal mechanisms of surgical robots, and their designers that work on the aspirational lifestyle experience of preteens, yeah, and everything in between. So I made the decision in that work to stop trying to define it in advance and then fill in the pieces, but rather simply look at what people are doing. And allow a definition both of the region and of the professional practice to emerge out of that, that that is intended to endorse what you just said about the consultancies versus the internal corporate groups versus the one person studio when the boutique group. It's an extraordinary range. And the other piece of that that I'm finding breathtakingly interesting is not just the proliferation of different ways of being a designer, you use the term existential there I like it, but also an expanding perimeter around the types of problems that designers are being called upon, or demanding or right to participate in the these the famous wicked problems Which are no longer?Dan Harden 50:02No, that brings me, sorry to interrupt, but it brings me to the whole trend of design thinking and the fact that so much of that started in the Silicon Valley, and that will most certainly be one of the legacies of our time. Right. And, you know, I think that I do really push that forward, even though I get I think most designers like myself would even say, Well, what do you mean design thinking that to me, when I started hearing about design thinking theory, I was like, Well, wait a minute. We've been doing this for a long time. Yeah. So what's your perspective on that? And is that one of the legacies of the Silicon Valley design thinking?Barry Katz 50:42Yeah, I think it absolutely is. Another book that I worked on with Tim Brown, who is the former CEO of IDEO is called “Changed by Design.” And it, I have to say, it really introduced the idea of design thinking to the business community, in a big way about 10 or 12 years ago. We just did a 10th anniversary edition of it. Design Thinking is widely maligned, it is widely misunderstood. And it is the fault for that lies mostly with its own practitioners, I think more than with is slander from the outside, Do tell. So if you look up design thinking, I sometimes do this little exercise in workshops of asking people to do a google image search for design thinking. And what you'll see is this blaze of little diagrams with hexagons, or circles or recursive loops or triangles, it's much more complicated than any electrical engineering drawing of a circuit. And it's very unfortunate, because they tend to try to reduce it to a methodology. As I say, it's something like Alcoholics Anonymous, it's an 11 step process. And at the end of it, you're clean, you know, you turn the crank, you do some prototyping, some brainstorming, some user observations, and whatever, you turn the crank five times and-Dan Harden 52:09Our clients that asked for it, expect something to pop out on the other end, is somebody an extrusion process, and, and boom, there's your solution. And it will be successful. Because we use this design thinking process.Barry Katz 52:23Somebody at IDEO told me that a client walked in and said, I want you to give me the iPod of meat. So the way I prefer to think about design thinking is not as a methodology, but as a philosophy as a way of thinking about problems. And I will often reduce it to two pretty simple formulations. The first is that there is no problem that cannot be thought about as a design problem. And I mean that quite seriously, you know, you're having problems with your kids, how we could design or think about this problem, because at the end of it, or behind it. There are strategic decisions being made that you might not even be aware that you're making. And perhaps you should revisit those in a way that a designer might revisit why your product is not successful in the market, or why it's not functioning the way everybody expected to, or why people are using it in completely different ways than was intended. So my you know, when my 90 year old mother used to wrap a dish towel around the handle of her refrigerator, because it was a lot easier for her to pull the dish towel than to get her arthritic fingers behind this beautifully designed chromium plated to our handle that some jerk at, you know, wherever thought looked cool. That's an unintended use. And it causes it will hopefully provoke a designer into rethinking why something is not used correctly. Whatever correct means. The other piece of it if piece number one is there's no problem that cannot be approached as a design problem.Dan Harden 54:11By the way to interject, I think that design because it's you know, at the fundamental level design is about solving a problem. Yeah, and one could even say that life is basically a string of problems that need to be solved. We go about this every single day, almost every move you make you're trying to solve a little micro problem, you might not even consider it to be a problem. But if you step back and look at things quite openly the way you just described, yeah, almost anything can be can be solved. Well, you might not get to a solution, but you can use a process to help you get closer to a solution.Barry Katz 54:46And it's a big mess because there is almost if it's a serious problem, a problem really worth spending your time on. There is not going to be one right answer to it. There will be multiple possibilities and there will be unanticipated impacts. I often demand of my students that they learn to think in an anticipatory way to solve not just the problem that's in front of you, but solve the problem that will be created by your solution. That's so Henry Ford solve the problem of internal combustion. I think he also should have solved the problem of traffic jams and parking tickets. What would it have looked like if he had thought beyond the problem in front of him to the problems that would be created by his solution. And right now, the stakes of a mistake are so catastrophicly high, I mean, we are changing the climate of planet Earth, think about that. The stakes are simply too high not to be thinking that way.Dan Harden 55:44Yeah.Barry Katz 55:45And that leads me if I may, to the second piece of my reformulation of design thinking, if the first pieces of it is there's no problem, we can't be addressed as a design problem. The second is, you don't have to be a designer to think like one. And that does not take one bit away from the mastery, that professional designers such as yourself, have acquired in the trenches. And with the battle scars to prove it. It's simply means that well, not simply, but it means a number of things, one of which is you as a lawyer, as a physician, as a primary school teacher can learn to practice some of those skills and learn when to hire a professional, and to work with that professional in ways that might not previously have been possible or even imaginable. So that's really what I think is at stake in design thinking,Dan Harden 56:45yeah, I liked it, it has really kind of opened up the minds of a lot of, especially like marketing teams, within corporations and clients of ours. Sometimes, that it's almost like a little too much awareness that they have acquired, where they're like, wait a minute, we can do what you do, too. Now, I'm hearing a lot of that, like, Oh, I took a design thinking course. So we want to come in and brainstorm with you and our ideas are as good as yours.Barry Katz 57:11Yeah.Dan Harden 57:12Rarely is that the case. But you know, we're always open. It's, it should be a process whereby there's lots of collaboration and respect and all that. But there's a massive lack of knowledge, you know, in most cases. So how can we reconcile that? How can we have these, these highly aware, thoughtful clients, but still giving them the type of advice and consulting and education that they so desperately need? Well, it'sBarry Katz 57:43a big question, obviously. I mean, look, I brush my teeth twice a day, and I still go to the dentist, when I need to go to the dentist. And I would not think of putting a crown on a wisdom tooth by myself, or a root canal, crazy. But that does not mean that I should not take some responsibility for my own dental hygiene. And if I were a corporate executive, take some responsibility for my design hygiene. That does not mean I have to be one, it means I have to know what they do. Designers how to work with them, how to smooth out tensions among various business units functional or geographical or whatever. So that designers are working effectively with marketing teams, with engineering teams, with product teams. And all of the rest of that is part of I never really thought of using the term design hygiene before but it popped into my mind.Dan Harden 58:48I think it works. The key is it puts the onus back on the designer to help guide that process.Barry Katz 58:56Yeah, I think that's fair to sayDan Harden 58:58because with as this new awareness about design thinking, I can tell you once a week, I have to tell a client but the drill down, step away from the chair. We got this.Barry Katz 59:13Yeah.Dan Harden 59:17This is a new trend, or clients suddenly know how to design their own products. Of course, they usually don't. And that's okay. But I like the fact that they at least are trying these soon realize because they have an interest in it. And they're they're now attuned to it. That they can see that sometimes the pains that we have to go through to solve a problem. This is not easy. It's designed as a difficult profession. What you have to go through to find your solution to test it to evaluate it to to be brave enough to say you know what all the assumptions that we made in the last two or three months are wrong You have to start over. It takes guts,Barry Katz 1:00:03yep. time, money and all of the rest. And the way to do it is, you know, it's not, you know, take a three day design thinking workshop, learn the methodology, and then allocate a space full of whiteboards and Sharpies to your new crop of design educated employees. Because I have so often gone back to companies that have done this, and, you know, they're sitting around in this allocated dedicated space and scratching their heads is like, Can somebody remind us what we're supposed to be doing? We have,Dan Harden 1:00:39Right. I'm interested in in it is a slog. And, but I'm really interested in how we're going to evolve this thing called design thinking. And I like the fact that we have opened it up, the whole process has become much more collaborative, your client feels like they are part of a process now. But I think we need to, we need to flesh it out more, we need to give it more body, we need to give it more means of expression. And to it needs to be jolted out of these stereotypes about what design thinking is. One technique that I've been using with clients is, I'll say, let's talk about design seeing, and that kind of stops them in their tracks right away. And I realized that seeing is so far beyond what looking at something, it's about observation, it's about perception, it's about adopting a new way of thinking and feeling about something, I find that we're able to get to the heart of the matter even a little faster when you again, introduce this a new concept about how to solve a problem. And whatever your method is, as a designer or a team. That's really what the objective is, is to take some time to a new level, a new place, explore. And I mean, that to me was is a real definition of innovation, where you're going somewhere new, it's just, you know, a new frontier, it's hard to get to it, there's no secret methodology, we're all a little bit different, I think, to be able to recognize it as a team, when you were on the cusp of something. That's when the real joy of this whole design process to me becomes just yeah, so much more exposed.Barry Katz 1:01:54That's really nice. George Nelson, who is one of as you know, one of the real pioneers of American design, and is at the helm of the Herman Miller company, one of the great design driven companies in the US.Dan Harden 1:02:41I know it well. I worked with George,Barry Katz 1:02:43yeah. He wrote a book, I forgotten the exact title, but design is seeing or design as a way of seeing or how to see like a designer or something like this. And he was very much interested as he was in that period decades ago. In the visual, you know, what a designer sees when he or she walks down the street or enters into a grocery store. And I think that what you're getting at now is that it's more than simply the optic nerve being stimulated. But seeing possibilities, and that's just seeing forms, it's seeing opportunities, seeing, really seeing beyond the present. And I would like to think that companies that hire designers are hiring. sure they're hiring a set of skills, they're hiring a body of experience, but they're also hiring somebody who will think differently than than they do. I think beyond the the status quo in which they're operating, and it involves a risk. I mean, it's a money risk, it's a time risk.Dan Harden 1:03:52It's a personal risk that comes to the heart of what consulting is all about. To be able to go to an outside source to get a different perspective, a new way of seeing something. And that oftentimes just shakes one's reality in a way that makes them think, okay, there is a different possibility. So, absolutely moving beyond design thinking and even introducing other forms of how you go through this very difficult process of taking something from nothing to something. Let's talk about like, what, how have designers added value in this whole Silicon Valley story? I mean, in a way, I kind of feel like the Silicon Valley, we're living in a Renaissance period, right technology, the birth of different technologies, and in giving technology, the expression, I think one could say that's one of the legacies of designers, you know, in the Silicon Valley. But where do you see like, Where, where have we made these biggest contributions and Is it? Yeah? Is it humanizing the technology? Is it giving it the kind of warmth and the friendliness that everyone seems to crave.Barry Katz 1:05:09And I remember when our mutual friend the late Stephen Holt used to tell us it's the Renaissance, and they're handing up the marble. Get in line.Dan Harden 1:05:22Yeah.Barry Katz 1:05:25I think that what's happening is, again, it's part of the historical process. And I don't want to get too deep into into history, which is more interesting to me that it is to most other humans. But what has been happening, of course, in the world of technology pioneered in Silicon Valley, let's face it, it's Moore's law in action. Products have been getting smaller and smaller and smaller. Processing speeds have become faster and faster and faster. The idea that you could be sitting with a computer on your desktop was unimaginable in 1980, that you could be holding it in your hand or resting it on your lap, in 1990, that you could be wearing on your wrist in 2000, that you could be having computer processing power worn in the form factor of a wedding ring, or the next stage, I'm pretty sure it's going to be implantable. As a consumer product. What does all this mean? You and I are both old enough to remember when email was introduced, right? So the first generation of email, it was horrible. And it was wonderful. It was wonderful because I could communicate with my friends in Israel or China or Brazil, at any hour of the day or night to leave them, you know, to respond whenever it was convenient to them, and so on and so forth. It was horrible. Because you dialed it up on a screeching modem. It crashed. And I mean, the experience was thoroughly unpleasant. But you know, we we didn't care because it was so new and so exciting. But then as it became increasingly pervasive, oh, one other thing, how often do we check our email in that first generation, for me, it was twice a day, once in the morning, when I got up once in the evening, before I went to bed. And now you know, according to Google Analytics, I think it's something like 50 times a day, unless you're in China, in which case, it's 24 hours seamless. And when an experience is, becomes closer and closer to your physical body, because it's so small and light, and cheap, and it's integrated into the rhythm of your day, not when you wake up and when you go to bed. But both of those and everything in between. and maybe as in the sense of my new Google Home monitor, even while I'm sleeping, that's monitoring my sleep patterns to help me sleep better. When something is as close to the body and as, as deeply integrated into the rhythms of your everyday life, the designed experience becomes absolutely the key defining factor. And so with all the technology in the world, the Kindle, the home monitors that we're seeing from Amazon and Apple will be autonomous vehicle, they would not have any future whatsoever. If we didn't have the the experience of delight of confidence of security of all of those emotional states that design can bring to a product. And I think that that is the trajectory that we are seeing coming out of Silicon Valley. And I need to emphasize obviously, there are important design centers throughout the world. We are not alone. But I don't think we've seen the cluster and the ecosystem that I described earlier, anywhere else.Dan Harden 1:09:21And I find on this particular matter that we are at being asked to design the end users emotional state, exactly what you were just talking about. And when you realize that you you have the capability of doing that if you're able to manipulate software factors, manipulate form factors, presenting levels of functionality and performance at just the right time in the in the experience and the consumption of that experience. And that at the end of the day is what good design does. I think it makes you more empathic. more responsible, definitely more compassionate to the end users state of mind, you start to consider things like feelings. And it's not it's not the old definition of design anymore where was like, you know, form and function and give it making products beautiful. I mean, sure, beauty has a lot to do with invoking these, and provoking even emotions. But it's so much more than that now. And I do think that that is probably the lasting legacy of this time period is Renaissance that we're in in the Bay Area. And I think that's what Silicon Valley designers not only here, you know, but you know, in a lot of parts of the world, especially in the areas where they're, they're incorporating software and hardware and and development smarts has lots of great work being done in Asia, in this in this area.Barry Katz 1:10:56The other thing that is a piece of what you're saying, Dan, is that I think is is relatively new is you guys, by which I mean designers have begun to acquire a degree of humility, which is somewhat unfamiliar in what has been a very ego driven kind of a macho design world. And we we used to have the stars of design and you know, we can name them. And they are Henry Dreyfus and Raymond Loewy and Teague and Bell ganz. And those those heroes and then all the way forward. And I think we are increasingly recognizing that the designer is not the last word, the last stage in the story. It's me as the user. So I think about, you know, the iconic example of your mobile phone is handed to me by Sir Johnny, I've, Barry, I've just designed this cool, cool thing. But I'm really the one that completes the design, because as soon as I get it, I begin to configure it. And within a day, within an hour, within a minute, my phone is unlike any other phone in the world. Because of the way I've organized, you know, apps on the screen and settings and you know, 1000 other a million other variables. So you are handing over to me not a finished product any longer, you are handing over to me, a world of possibilities that recombined to realize, and that's can be a little bit of a shocker. I mean, I still often hear my design students responding in a crit by saying, No, that's not what I intended. Well, I don't want to say I don't care what you intend. But that's not the whole picture anymore. You have to learn to step back from your intention, and understand that it's not for you,Dan Harden 1:12:58you know, stepping back from your intention, as a designer, I think, especially working with a lot of young designers that I hire, that's something that they learned because I don't know why they ended design school, I think, Well, you'd compose this thing. And then it's going to be just manufactured like that, it's going to turn out and be on the shelves just like that. But there are so many unforeseen things and other contributors and stakeholders that come in to, to add definition to it, and hopefully, goodness, throughout the building process. But that's not always the case. And we have all learned humility as well. And if you are awake and listening and looking around in this world, you realize that, you know, designers are part of the problem, too.Barry Katz 1:13:47Oh, sure.Dan Harden 1:13:49You know, sustainability values have taken a long, long time in this profession to take hold. We often do not consider the long chain of events and ramifications of our decisions in regards to the consumption of energy that your product will require years from now even after it is consumed. And that humility hits you pretty hard when you like, see your products in the dump. Yeah, I have I have seen products that I have designed in a dump in a dumpster in a recycling center. I've seen this several times. Yeah. I saw an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art down in San Jose. And they everyone brought in all of the products that they have discarded and found in their garage and made a giant pile. And I'm looking through this pile. And I was like, Oh my god, there's a Sun Microsystems computer that I designed in 1994.Barry Katz 1:14:50You should march your employees through that. Exactly. Right behind you will be me and my students.Dan Harden 1:14:57Yeah, I found a Motorola phone. That I designed, I found a toaster that I designed for Sunbeam. And talk about humility. You know, it really does make you think. And I coming back to the Bay Area, I think that humility has exposed itself. And one very special way. And this is the this a newer understanding about what does it really take to offer you a product that is providing some kind of value to you? Doesn't have to be some big clunky thing with all these different features. Sometimes No, oftentimes, Now give me one or two features. That's all I need. So you're starting to see well, you know, several years ago, minimalism is suddenly reemerging. You know, of course, this was done in the Bauhaus A long time ago. And young designers think, Oh, this is all new as minimalism, but this general belief that reductionism is good. Yeah, is is actually helping the sustainability cause, you know, less material, more performance from fewer functions. Yeah. And I think it's kind of it seems to me, like a lot of those values have been born here in the Bay Area, not not exclusively, for sure. But it's definitely a value.Do you see that?Barry Katz 1:16:27Yeah. And as I say, this new product categories emerge. Fitness monitors is a good example, which has a deeply rooted history in the Bay Area. I am, as you may know, a long distance runner, and I went crazy. Last time, I tried to buy a watch. Fitness watch, because I wanted to watch that would do four things. It would tell me what time it is of SM running, how far I'm running, and at what pace I'm running. And, but it gave you 40 4400. You know, it says, You know, I didn't want a heart monitor. I didn't need it. You know, if I have a heart attack, I will know I'm having a heart attack. Thank you. I didn't want a garage door opener. I didn't want something that would fend off my enemies with the shriek or amaze spray or something, I want for function, impossible to find something that you know, because of the magic of programmable chips that they wouldn't do everything for me. And so most of us are now walking around with products. My watch is an example my camera's an example, that do so much more than I will ever even know about, much less be able to deal with. Can I share a little story with you that your listeners may find them useless. years ago, close to the beginning of my teaching career, I was teaching a design seminar that was very much it was theory and history. So the students were from every design discipline in the college. And somehow it came up a student told the story in class, she was a graphic design student. And she said that she had the habit when she came home from the

Show #1172.   If you get any value from this podcast please consider supporting my work on Patreon. Plus all Patreon supporters get their own unique ad-free podcast feed.   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Sunday 8th August. It's  Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they've built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It's a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   JAN AT EMOBILITYNORWAY   When we charge a car, we do not stop; we park it for a period. We plug in and leave. And for parking, the best and safest is to back into a parking space. This means that the charge port should be located as far back on the car as possible. The following questions are on which side of the vehicle we should have the charge port, and again, we should think about safety. If the charge port is on the driver's side, the charging cable will point into the street when charging at street sides, and we need to stand in the street to plug in and out. This is, of course, not the safest way. If the charge port is located at the passenger side, the charging cable will point into the sidewalk.    TOM MOGER I think Audi got it right with the Etron having a charge point on each side on the front wings for maximum convenience (I think it was type 2 on both sides but CCS on one). Personally I'm not a fan of charge points on the front bumper of EVs as I like to reverse onto my drive/into a parking space, so the rear of the car would be my preference for a charge port, but having at least a type 2 each side would make things a lot easier.   SOHAIL A standard would be good however I can't see it happening. With Tesla opening their super chargers to other manufacturers a standard charge location would be useful. In terms of ease of access at the front like the MG's makes sense or right at the back of the car.    There are some BP chargers which on the A41 which makes charging a hassle on my id3 as the cables are kerbside whilst charge port on drivers side. A bit like filling up fuel with fuel tank on the other side.    MARKUS Having the charge port in the front fender like the e-trons, looks nice, but there are situations where the HPC charging cable might be too short. Maybe not a problem on a 11kw charger where you have to use your own cable which will be hopefully long enough.  So the best position for me is really in the rear, where we were used to refuel the car with dinosaur juice. This place is usually not so dirty, you can park backward to the charger in many cases and plug in easily.   All in all… Franz von Holzhausen and Elon made the right decision about the position of the charging port on their cars.   OLLI MAJANDER In a perfect world we would all have standardized swappable battery packs. In a near perfect world there would be a wireless charging pad in the middle of the floor of the car so you'd be right on the money whether you drive straight or reverse into your stall. In the not so perfect real world, rather than trying to standardize the charging port positions of cars made by cazillion different manufacturers, it would be easier to redesign the chargers to have longer cables and more flexibility, something like the Kempower chargers. The limiting factor there is of course the ever increasing charging power which requires thicker cables and cooling systems.   SHAUN The best location is in the front of the car because that means you can be central to whether the charger is on the right or left have side.   CLAIRE PHILLIPS The Kia EV6 has it in the rear right where the light cluster is. Surely this means that when you have the slightest of fender benders, you potentially damage the charge port and render the vehicle off the road. From the smallest of taps in traffic.     QUESTION OF THE WEEK WITH EMOBILITYNORWAY.COM   On a scale of 1-10, where does ‘environment' rank for the reason you're interested in EVs?   Email me your thoughts and I'll read them out on Sunday – hello@evnewsdaily.com   It would mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on whichever platform you download the podcast.   And  if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing.   Come and say hi on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter just search EV News Daily, have a wonderful day, I'll catch you tomorrow and remember…there's no such thing as a self-charging hybrid.   PREMIUM PARTNERS PHIL ROBERTS / ELECTRIC FUTURE BRAD CROSBY PORSCHE OF THE VILLAGE CINCINNATI AUDI CINCINNATI EAST VOLVO CARS CINCINNATI EAST NATIONAL CAR CHARGING ON THE US MAINLAND AND ALOHA CHARGE IN HAWAII DEREK REILLY FROM THE EV REVIEW IRELAND YOUTUBE CHANNEL RICHARD AT RSEV.CO.UK – FOR BUYING AND SELLING EVS IN THE UK EMOBILITYNORWAY.COM/

Vicki von Holzhausen utilizes her background as a designer for Audi and Mercedes to innovate on materials that are truly sustainable through her eponymous vegan leather bags and accessory brand. Vicki and I discuss the weight of her brand promise, The Conscious Code, how she bootstrapped a luxury brand, how she showcases accountability by using her last name as the brand name and so much more.  

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as they’re available. Stories we discuss in this episode (with links): Tesla $25,000 electric car: Franz von Holzhausen features in Tesla China chief designer recruitment video Tesla Semi electric trucks to power log-hauling program in Canada Tesla grows frustrated with the ‘outdated’ approval process for Gigafactory Berlin as production gets closer Watch Tesla’s driver monitoring system detect driver attention in real time XL Fleet will install up to 1,000 EV charging stations at UBS Arena EGEB: These energy storage startups just got a big cash injection Honda patents Grom-style electric minibike; could it be the perfect urban commuter? https://youtu.be/kzW05vOFiSU Subscribe to the Electrek Daily Channel on Youtube so you never miss a day of news Follow Mikey: Twitter @Mikey_Electric Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify TuneIn Share your thoughts! Drop us a line at tips@electrek.co. You can also rate us in Apple Podcasts or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show!

Tesla   Most early stage startups have, and so seemingly need, heroic efforts from brilliant innovators working long hours to accomplish impossible goals. Tesla certainly had plenty of these as an early stage startup and continues to - as do the other Elon Musk startups. He seems to truly understand and embrace that early stage startup world and those around him seem to as well.   As a company grows we have to trade those sprints of heroic output for steady streams of ideas and quality. We have to put development on an assembly line. Toyota famously put the ideas of Deming and other post-World War II process experts into their production lines and reaped big rewards - becoming the top car manufacturer in the process.    Not since the Ford Model T birthed the assembly line had auto makers seen as large an increase in productivity. And make no mistake, technology innovation is about productivity increases. We forget this sometimes when young, innovative startups come along claiming to disrupt industries. Many of those do, backed by seemingly endless amounts of cash to get them to the next level in growth. And the story of Tesla is as much about productivity in production as it is about innovative and disruptive ideas. And the story is as much about a cult of personality as it is about massive valuations and quality manufacturing.    The reason we're covering Tesla in a podcast about the history of computers is at the heart of it, it's a story about the startup culture clashing head-on with decades-old know-how in an established industry. This happens with nearly every new company: there are new ideas, an organization is formed to support the new ideas, and as the organization grows, the innovators are forced to come to terms with the fact that they have greatly oversimplified the world.  Tesla realized this. Just as Paypal had realized it before. But it took a long time to get there. The journey began much further back. Rather than start with the discovery of the battery or the electric motor, let's start with the GM Impact. It was initially shown off at the 1990 LA Auto Show. It's important because Alan Cocconi was able to help take some of what GM learned from the 1987 World Solar Challenge race using the Sunraycer and start putting it into a car that they could roll off the assembly lines in the thousands.  They needed to do this because the California Air Resources Board, or CARB, was about to require fleets to go 2% zero-emission, or powered by something other than fossil fuels, by 1998 with rates increasing every few years after that. And suddenly there was a rush to develop electric vehicles. GM may have decided that the Impact, later called the EV1, proved that the electric car just wasn't ready for prime time, but the R&D was accelerating faster than it ever had before then.  That was the same year that NuvoMedia was purchased by Gemstar-TVGuide International for $187 million. They'd made the Rocket eBook e-reader. That's important because the co-founders of that company were Martin Eberhard, a University of Illinois Champaign Urbana grad, and Marc Tarpenning. Alan Cocconi was able to take what he'd learned and form a new company, called AC Propulsion. He was able to put together a talented group and they built a couple of different cars, including the tZero. Many of the ideas that went into the first Tesla car came from the tZero, and Eberhard and Tarpenning tried to get Tom Gage and Cocconi to take their tZero into production. The tZero was a sleek sportscar that began life powered by lead-acid batteries that could get from zero to 60 in just over four seconds and run for 80-100 miles. They used similar regenerative braking that can be found in the Prius (to oversimplify it) and the car took about an hour to charge. The cars were made by hand and cost about $80,000 each. They had other projects so couldn't focus on trying to mass produce the car. As Tesla would learn later, that takes a long time, focus, and a quality manufacturing process.  While we think of Elon Musk as synonymous with Tesla Motors, it didn't start that way. Tesla Motors was started in 2003 by Eberhard, who would serve as Tesla's first chief executive officer (CEO) and Tarpenning, who would become the first chief financial officer (CFO), when AC Propulsion declined to take that tZero to market. Funding for the company was obtained from Elon Musk and others, but they weren't that involved at first. Other than the instigation and support. It was a small shop, with a mission - to develop an electric car that could be mass produced.  The good folks at AC Propulsion gave Eberhard and Tarpenning test drives in the tZero, and even agreed to license their EV Power System and reductive charging patents. And so Tesla would develop a motor and work on their own power train so as not to rely on the patents from AC Propulsion over time. But the opening Eberhard saw was in those batteries. The idea was to power a car with battery packs made of lithium ion cells, similar to those used in laptops and of course the Rocket eBooks that NuvoMedia had made before they sold the company. They would need funding though. So Gage was kind enough to put them in touch with a guy who'd just made a boatload of money and had also recommended commercializing the car - Elon Musk.  This guy Musk, he'd started a space company in 2002. Not many people do that. And they'd been trying to buy ICBMs in Russia and recruiting rocket scientists. Wild. But hey, everyone used PayPal, where he'd made his money. So cool. Especially since Eberhard and Tarpenning had their own successful exit. Musk signed on to provide $6.5 million in the Tesla Series A and they brought in another $1m to bring it to $7.5 million. Musk became the chairman of the board and they expanded to include Ian Wright during the fundraising and J.B. Straubel in 2004. Those five are considered the founding team of Tesla.  They got to work building up a team to build a high-end electric sports car. Why? Because that's one part of the Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan. That's the title of a blog post Musk wrote in 2006.  You see, they were going to build a high-end hundred thousand dollar plus car. But the goal was to develop mass market electric vehicles that anyone could afford. They unveiled the prototype in 2006, selling out the first hundred in three weeks. Meanwhile, Elon Musk's cousins, Peter and Lyndon Rive started a company called SolarCity in 2006, which Musk also funded. They merged with Tesla in 2016 to provide solar roofs and other solar options for Tesla cars and charging stations. SolarCity, as with Tesla, was able to capitalize on government subsidies and growing to become the third most solar installations in homes with just a little over 6 percent of the market share.  But we're still in 2006. You see, they won a bunch of awards, got a lot of attention - now it was time to switch to general production. They worked with Lotus, a maker of beautiful cars that make up for issues with quality production in status, beauty, and luxury. They started with the Lotus Elise, increased the wheelbase and bolstered the chassis so it could hold the weight of the batteries. And they used a carbon fiber composite for the body to bring the weight back down.  The process was slower than it seems anyone thought it would be. Everyone was working long hours, and they were burning through cash. By 2007, Eberhard stepped down as CEO. Michael Marks came in to run the company and later that year Ze'ev Drori was made CEO - he has been given the credit by many for tighting things up so they could get to the point that they could ship the Roadster. Tarpenning left in 2008. As did others, but the brain drain didn't seem all that bad as they were able to ship their first car in 2008, after ten engineering prototypes. The Roadster finally shipped in 2008, with the first car going to Musk. It could go for 245 miles a charge. 0 to 60 in less than 4 seconds. A sleek design language. But it was over $100,000. They were in inspiration and there was a buzz everywhere. The showmanship of Musk paired with the beautiful cars and the elites that bought them drew a lot of attention. As did the $1 million in revenue profit they earned in July of 2009, off 109 cars shipped.  But again, burning through cash. They sold 10% of the company to Daimler AG and took a $465 million loan from the US Department of Energy. They were now almost too big to fail.  They hit 1,000 cars sold in early 2010. They opened up to orders in Canada. They were growing. But they were still burning through cash. It was time to raise some serious capital. So Elon Musk took over as CEO, cut a quarter of the staff, and Tesla filed for an IPO in 2010, raising over $200 million. But there was something special in that S-1 (as there often is when a company opens the books to go public): They would cease production of the Roadster making way for the next big product. Tesla cancelled the Roadster in 2012. By then they'd sold just shy of 2,500 Roadsters and been thinking through and developing the next thing, which they'd shown a prototype of in 2011. The Model S started at $76,000 and went into production in 2012. It could go 300 miles, was a beautiful car, came with a flashy tablet-inspired 17 inch display screen on the inside to replace buttons. It was like driving an iPad. Every time I've seen another GPS since using the one in a Model S, I feel like I've gotten in a time machine and gone back a decade.  But it had been announced in 2007to ship in 2009. And then the ship date dropped back to 2011 and 2012. Let's call that optimism and scope creep. But Tesla has always eventually gotten there. Even if the price goes up. Such is the lifecycle of all technology. More features, more cost. There are multiple embedded Ubuntu operating systems controlling various parts of car, connected on a network in the car. It's a modern marvel and Tesla was rewarded with tons of awards and, well, sales. Charging a car that runs on batteries is a thing. So Tesla released the Superchargers in 2012, shipping 7 that year and growing slowly until now shipping over 2,500 per quarter. Musk took some hits because it took longer than anticipated to ship them, then to increase production, then to add solar. But at this point, many are solar and I keep seeing panels popping up above the cars to provide shade and offset other forms of powering the chargers. The more ubiquitous chargers become, the more accepting people will be of the cars. Tesla needed to produce products faster. The Nevada Gigafactory was begun in 2013, to mass produce battery packs and components. Here's one of the many reason for the high-flying valuation Tesla enjoys: it would take dozens if not a hundred factories like this to transition to sustanable energy sources. But it started with a co-investment between Tesla and Panasonic, with the two dumping billions into building a truly modern factory that's now pumping out close tot he goal set back in 2014. As need increased, Gigafactories started to crop up with Gigafactory 5 being built to supposedly go into production in 2021 to build the Semi, Cybertruck (which should begin production in 2021) and Model Y. Musk first mentioned the truck in 2012 and projected a 2018 or 2019 start time for production. Close enough.  Another aspect of all that software is that they can get updates over the air. Tesla released Autopilot in 2014. Similar to other attempts to slowly push towards self-driving cars, Autopilot requires the driver to stay alert, but can take on a lot of the driving - staying within the lines on the freeway, parking itself, traffic-aware cruise control, and navigation. But it's still the early days for self-driving cars and while we make think that because the number of integrated circuits doubles every year that it paves the way to pretty much anything, no machine learning project I've ever seen has gone as fast as we want because it takes years to build the appropriate algorithms and then rethink industries based on the impact of those. But Tesla, Google through Waymo, and  many others have been working on it for a long time (hundreds of years in startup-land) and it continues to evolve. By 2015, Tesla had sold over 100,000 cars in the life of the company. They released the Model X that year, also in 2015. This was their first chance to harness the power of the platform - which in the auto industry is when there are multiple cars of similar size and build. Franz von Holzhausen designed it and it is a beautiful car, with falcon-wing doors, up to a 370 mile range on the battery and again with the Autopilot. But harnessing the power of the platform was a challenge. You see, with a platform of cars you want most of the parts to be shared - the differences are often mostly cosmetic. But the Model X only shared a little less than a third of the parts of the Model S.  But it's yet another technological marvel, with All Wheel Drive as an option, that beautiful screen, and check this out - a towing capacity of 5,000 pounds - for an electric automobile! By the end of 2016, they'd sold over 25,000. To a larger automaker that might seem like nothing, but they'd sell over 10,000 in every quarter after that. And it would also become the platform for a mini-bus. Because why not. So they'd gone lateral in the secret plan but it was time to get back at it. This is where the Model 3 comes in.  The Model 3 was released in 2017 and is now the best-selling electric car in the history of the electric car. The Model 3 was first shown off in 2016 and within a week, Tesla had taken over 300,000 reservations. Everyone I talked to seemed to want in on an electric car that came in at $35,000. This was the secret plan. That $35,000 model wouldn't be available until 2019 but they started cranking them out. Production was a challenge with Musk famously claiming Tesla was in “Production Hell” and sleeping on an air mattress at the factory to oversee the many bottlenecks that came. Musk thought they could introduce more robotics than they could and so they' slowly increased production to first a few hundred per week then a few thousand until finally almost hitting that half a million mark in 2020. This required buying Grohmann Engineering in 2017, now called Tesla Advanced Automation Germany - pumping billions into production. But Tesla added the Model Y in 2020, launching a crossover on the Model 3 platform, producing over 450,000 of them. And then of course they decided to the Tesla Semi, selling for between $150,000 and $200,000. And what's better than a Supercharger to charge those things? A Megacharger. As is often the case with ambitious projects at Tesla, it didn't ship in 2020 as projected but is now supposed to ship, um, later. Tesla also changed their name from Tesla Motors to Tesla, Inc. And if you check out their website today, solar roofs and solar panels share the top bar with the Models S, 3, X, and Y. SolarCity and batteries, right? Big money brings big attention. Some good. Some bad. Some warranted. Some not. Musk's online and sometimes nerd-rockstar persona was one of the most valuable assets at Tesla - at least in the fundraising, stock pumping popularity contest that is the startup world. But on August 7, 2018, he tweeted “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” The SEC would sue him for that, causing him to step down as chairman for a time and limit his Twitter account. But hey, the stock jumped up for a bit.  But Tesla kept keeping on, slowly improving things and finally hit about the half million cars per year mark in 2020. Producing cars has been about quality for a long time. And it needs to be with people zipping around as fast as we drive - especially on modern freeways. Small batches of cars are fairly straight-forward. Although I could never build one.  The electric car is good for the environment, but the cost to offset carbon for Tesla is still far greater than, I don't know, making a home more energy efficient. But the improvements in the technology continue to increase rapidly with all this money and focus being put on them. And the innovative designs that Tesla has deployed has inspired others, which often coincides with the rethinking of entire industries.  But there are tons of other reasons to want electric cars. The average automobile manufactured these days has about 30,000 parts. Teslas have less than a third of that. One hopes that will some day be seen in faster and higher quality production.  They managed to go from producing just over 18,000 cars in 2015 to over 26,000 in 2016 to over 50,000 in 2017 to the 190,000s in 2018 and 2019 to a whopping 293,000 in 2020. But they sold nearly 500,000 cars in 2020 and seem to be growing at a fantastic clip. Here's the thing, though. Ford exceeded half a million cars in 1916. It took Henry Ford from 1901 to 1911 to get to producing 34,000 cars a year but only 5 more years to hit half a million. I read a lot of good and a lot of bad things about Tesla. Ford currently has a little over a 46 and a half billion dollar market cap. Tesla's crested at nearly $850 billion and has since dropped to just shy of 600. Around 64 million cars are sold each year. Volkswagen is the top, followed by Toyota. Combined, they are worth less than Tesla on paper despite selling over 20 times the number of cars. If Tesla was moving faster, that might make more sense. But here's the thing. Tesla is about to get besieged by competitors at every side. Nearly every category of car has an electric alternative with Audi, BMW, Volvo, and Mercedes releasing cars at the higher ends and on multiple platforms. Other manufacturers are releasing cars to compete with the upper and lower tiers of each model Tesla has made available. And miniature cars, scooters, bikes, air taxis, and other modes of transportation are causing us to rethink the car. And multi-tenancy of automobiles using ride sharing apps and the potential that self driving cars can have on that are causing us to rethink automobile ownership.  All of this will lead some to rethink that valuation Tesla enjoyed. But watching the moves Tesla makes and scratching my head over some certainly makes me think to never under, or over-estimate Tesla or Musk. I don't want anything to do with Tesla Stock. Far too weird for me to grok. But I do wish them the best. I highly doubt the state of electric vehicles and the coming generational shifts in transportation in general would be where they are today if Tesla hadn't done all the good and bad that they've done. They deserve a place in the history books when we start looking back at the massive shifts to come. In the meantime, I'l' just call this episode part 1 and wait to see if Tesla matches Ford production levels some day, crashes and burns, gets acquired by another company, or who knows, packs up and heads to Mars. 

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Show #792   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Thursday 28th May 2020. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   VW MOVES FORWARD WITH FORD EV DEAL "Volkswagen said on Thursday its supervisory board had approved several projects in a multibillion-dollar alliance with Ford that was first announced last July. The German carmaker said various contracts between the two companies were nearing completion and would be signed soon." reports Autoblog: "Among the shared projects specified by VW are a midsize pickup to be developed by Ford; a city delivery van to be developed by VW; a larger commercial van to be developed by Ford, and a new electric vehicle for Ford of Europe, to be built on VW's electric vehicle architecture."   https://www.autoblog.com/2020/05/28/vw-ford-alliance-board-approval/   VOLKSWAGEN BECOMES BIGGEST SHAREHOLDER OF CHINA'S EV BATTERY MAKER GUOXUAN "Volkswagen AG has become the biggest shareholder of China's electric vehicle battery maker Guoxuan High-Tech Co Ltd with a 26.5% stake, Guoxuan said in stock exchange filings on Thursday. Reuters reported the Volkswagen is in final talks to invest in the Hefei-based battery company on Wednesday." according to Economic Times: "Volkswagen is also poised to buy 50% of Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Holding, the parent of EV partner JAC Motors, for at least 3.5 billion yuan ($491 million), the people said on condition of anonymity as the matter was private. Volkswagen is spending 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) to expand its presence in China's electric car industry in the biggest foreign investment announced since the country's economy began to reopen following the coronavirus pandemic. The ruling Communist Party scrapped limits on foreign ownership of electric vehicle makers in 2018 to promote industry development. Beijing sees electric cars as a profitable technology where China can become a global leader. "   https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/passenger-vehicle/cars/volkswagen-becomes-biggest-shareholder-of-chinas-ev-battery-maker-guoxuan/76084328   RIVIAN COULD FOLLOW TESLA INTO INSURANCE "There are reports that Rivian could offer their own insurance like Tesla does. Rivian has two job postings one is for a data manager for the "Rivian Insurance Agency" with a job requirement being to "set up and lead Rivian's P&C Insurance agency." The person will also have to train and manage "Rivian-employed licensed sales agents and the customer care team." The second job position is for a program manager for "Rivian's Global Collision Repair Program." according to Rivian Forum.   https://www.rivianownersforum.com/threads/rivian-r1s-insurance.123/#post-1811   From the job spec: The Rivian Insurance team is seeking an extraordinary sales leader with a track record of success to set up and lead Rivian’s P&C insurance agency. You will be joining a passionate group of professionals on an adventure to transform consumer experiences.   This is what you’ll do: Recruit, train, coach and manage Rivian employed licensed sales agents and insurance customer care team Sell insurance products and provide feedback to partners on opportunities Lead the licensed sales team responsible for sales and distribution of Rivian insurance products Manage licensed sales agent licensing compliance Define and implement all aspects of the P&C insurance sales & service processes, metrics and reporting Collaborate on the strategic vision for Rivian insurance sales globally Manage sales relationships with insurance partners through KPI analysis and review Develop insurance quotes, close sales, and foster strong business relationships with customers to ensure a high level of client retention and   https://jobs.lever.co/rivian.com/d413e186-7db2-48ea-92a2-f9dd47bc3cce   ELON MUSK AND JAY LENO DRIVE THE CYBERTRUCK THROUGH A BORING COMPANY TUNNEL "Musk and Tesla's chief designer Franz von Holzhausen chit-chat about the design, and show off the motorized bed cover Tesla has named "the vault." It reveals the Cybertruck's bed and Musk even walks on the cover to show off how strong the material is. " reports CNET: "Musk directs Leno to take the Cybertruck into a Boring Company tunnel. Apparently, this was the first time the hulking pickup made its way into the test tunnel, and luckily, it fit. After driving underneath Los Angeles, the elevator snags the Cybertruck and puts both gentlemen back on the surface without a single nick or ding. In the segment, he mentions the Cybertruck will probably shrink 5% for production to fit in a standard garage. The CEO tweeted this week, however, saying that won't be the case. Instead, Tesla might build a different, smaller truck."   NBC.com - Season 5, E510   https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/elon-musk-leno-drive-cybertruck-boring-company-tunnel/   UBER SENDS THOUSANDS OF JUMP E-BIKES TO THE RECYCLING HEAP "Uber has sent thousands of electric bikes to be recycled for scrap as part of handing operations of their Jump e-bike division to scooter-sharing company Lime. The rideshare giant said it would be too difficult to donate these bikes because of safety and liability concerns. A spokesman told CNBC “the best approach was to responsibly recycle them,” while video posted on Twitter from a North Carolina recycling center shows the candy red bikes being crushed as scrap metal." writes Engadget: "An Uber spokesperson told CNBC: “We explored donating the remaining, older-model bikes, but given many significan  t issues -- including maintenance, liability, safety concerns, and a lack of consumer-grade charging equipment -- we decided the best approach was to responsibly recycle them.” An e-bike without a battery is simply a regular analog bicycle; these bikes could be ridden as normal, even with the electronics still in place. "   https://www.engadget.com/uber-scraps-thousands-of-jump-bikes-193541447.html   NISSAN LOSES LEAF AND ADDS ONE NEW EV IN THE US "Nissan yesterday unveiled its four-year growth plan. The Japanese automaker will “right-size” its production capacity and streamline unprofitable parts of its business. Nissan will introduce the Ariya EV to the US in 2021, while most of its EVs will be sold in China. The company said that by 2023, it will launch eight pure EVs while expanding its hybrid technology dubbed e-Power." says electrek. "In the short term, only two of Nissan’s seven EVs will be sold in the United States: the Leaf and the upcoming Ariya. The Ariya is a high-performance, all-wheel-drive big brother to the Leaf, but there are few details and no firm commitments for a production date. We expect the Ariya to hit Japan in 2021 before arriving in other global markets. It will have a range of around 300 miles and will look like a toned-down version of the Ariya Concept unveiled at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show. Nissan is expected to officially unveil the production version of the Nissan Ariya in July 2020."   https://electrek.co/2020/05/28/nissan-will-add-only-one-new-ev-in-the-us-through-2023/   PASADENA OPENS EV FAST-CHARGING PLAZA "The Californian city of Pasadena is opening the Marengo Charging Plaza at 155 E. Green Street. The Plaza is now home to a total of 44 chargers including 24 Superchargers installed by Tesla and 20 fast chargers installed by the City of Pasadena." says electrive: "Over the past year and a half, the city’s utility company Pasadena Water and Power (PWP) has more than doubled the number of public EV charging points within the city. This represents the highest percentage of EV drivers among southern Californian utilities. In order to support the opening of the Plaza as well as take-away food services during the pandemic, the city’s 20 fast chargers are available to drivers stopping at the Plaza for 20 minutes for free. 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W dzisiejszym odcinku naszego programu Wyższy Poziom Marketingu - Marketingowe Newsy Tygodnia mówimy o: 1. Brand Summit 2019 - konferencja godna polecenia. 2. Marketerzy w obliczu wyzwania - CMO Survey 2019 - Raport Deloitte, a w nim między innymi: • Czym zajmuje się lider ds. Marketingu? – zestaw obowiązków • Co jest głównym powodem konfliktu między działami sprzedaży i marketingu? • Co jest powodem konieczności obrony pozycji marketingu? • Marketing to już nie tylko 4P – teraz trzeba zbudować kompetencje w 10 kluczowych obszarach. https://www2.deloitte.com/pl/pl/pages/deloitte-digital/Articles/CMO_survey2019.html 3. Trendy Facebook – w którą stronę zmierza Facebook – trendy na 2020 rok wg. Performance Media • Nie przeszkadzaj podczas jazdy - Jedna z niedawnych wersji systemu operacyjnego iOS wprowadziła funkcję „Nie przeszkadzaj podczas jazdy”. Telefon automatycznie wykrywa ruch i ogranicza liczbę powiadomień przekazywanych na ekran smartfona. • Grupy mają być sercem Facebooka – będzie miało to swoje odzwierciedlenie w nowej odsłonie portalu na komputery stacjonarne. • Relacje już od dawna nie są nice to have, są must! • Automatyzacja, czyli czy reklamy mogą robić się same? Do tego arsenału dołącza CBO, czyli optymalizacja budżetu na poziomie kampanii, nie jak to było do tej pory – na poziomie zestawów reklam. 4. Elektryczna ciężarówka Tesli Ciężarówka zaprezentowana przez Elona Muska jest futurystyczna i cyberpunkowa, zbudowana z materiałów, z których produkowane są rakiety kosmiczne firmy SpaceX. Cybertruck jest elektryczny, jak wszystkie pojazdy Tesli, osiąga zasięg ok. 400 km na jednym ładowaniu, do 100 km/h rozpędza się w 6,5 sekundy. Podczas konferencji podkreślał, że Cybertruck "jest naprawdę mocarny", a Franz von Holzhausen, główny projektant w Tesli, żeby potwierdzić te słowa, uderzył w samochód młotem. Po uderzeniu nie zostało ani śladu. Jednak, gdy prezentowali odporność szyb, Von Holzhausen rzucił w szybę po stronie kierowcy metalową kulą, a ta zostawiła w szybie poważne wgniecenie. Niezrażony projektant spróbował tego samego z tylną szybą, w której kula również zostawiła dziurę. - Może to było jednak zbyt mocne uderzenie - próbował mitygować Musk. 5. Black Friday tuż tuż. Eksperci prognozują, że w tym roku prawdopodobnie zostanie pobity rekord dziennych obrotów w handlu detalicznym. Z danych Smartscope wynika, że Polacy tego dnia wydać mają łącznie 2,3 mld zł, a statystyczny konsument zrobi zakupy za średnio 382 zł (rok temu było to 190 zł). A na koniec polecimy Wam dwie ciekawe książki - oglądajcie koniecznie :) Karolina i Mariusz Łodyga =================================== SOCIAL MEDIA ► https://www.facebook.com/MariuszLodyga ► https://www.facebook.com/Bajon.Karolina ► https://www.instagram.com/mariusz_lodyga/ ► https://www.instagram.com/karolina.lodyga/ ► https://twitter.com/MariuszLodyga ► https://open.spotify.com/show/6q8NXO0eqRVVkQb5Otk7iR PREMIUM CONSULTING W SOCIAL MEDIA ► https://www.facebook.com/doradztwomarketingowe ► https://www.instagram.com/premium_consulting/ #marketingowenewsytygodnia #biznes #podcast #marketing #strategia #marka #marketingnews

On Episode 2 we sit down and talk to midwest racing legend Steve Holzhausen. Hear stories about where his first race car came from, earning the respect from a veteran group of guys, hitting a dead deer, losing a car on the way to Minnesota and so much more!

Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen joins me on this episode for a rare interview! We talk about Tesla’s design language, insights on creating the S, X, 3, Y, Semi, Roadster, what his favorite Tesla is, and a whole lot more. Enjoy! (And if you'd like to skip straight to the interview, it starts at the 2:37 mark.)

237 – Susanne von Dobschütz – Von der Angestellten zur Unternehmerin    Susanne ist gelernte Physiotherapeutin mit vielen Ausbildungen. Hat an einer Privatschule unterrichtet und in verschiedenen Praxen gearbeitet gehabt. Durch eine Krankheit ist sie zum Thema Gesundheit in ganz neuer Form gekommen, auch z.B. durch eine Ausbildung im Bereich der orthomolekularen Medizin. So ist sie von der „leitenden Physio“ zu einer erfolgreichen Unternehmerin geworden. Sie ist verheiratet, hat einen kleinen Sohn und bezeichnet die Geburt und die Schwangerschaft als eines ihrer Highlights im Leben. Sie ist naturinteressiert und liebt Tiere und hat ihre Sportbegeisterung in ihr Leben und den Beruf integriert.     Privat kannst du sie oft treffen beim Bouldern und Reiten. Oder auch bei Netzwerktreffen und Veranstaltungen zur Persönlichkeitsentwicklung   **** Lerne Susanne doch schon mal hier im Interview kurz kennen.   ***** Der Pitch von Susanne ist:   Susanne ist in der Gesundheits-, Sport- und Fitnessbranche tätig und zeigt anderen Mama´s, wie sie sich ein Geschäft nebenher aufbauen können und von zu Hause aus Arbeiten können.       Welche 3 praktischen Tipps hat Susanne aus ihrer Praxis für dich? Bringe eine Grundstruktur in deinen Alltag, analog wie bei einem Kind. So kennst du deine freien Zeiten und deine Aktivitätszeiten besser und du bleibst flexibel durch diese einfache Organisation.   Nicht jeder Tag läuft rund. Führe ein Danke– und Freudebuch, wo du diese Dinge reinschreibst, die dir an diesem Tag gut gelungen sind, oder für die du dankbar bist. So kannst du hier immer nachlesen und dich wieder nach einem solchen unrunden Tag neu motivieren. Diesen Tipp hat sie von Bodo Schäfer übernommen und ist hellauf begeistert dazu. Wenn du ein Ziel hast – gebe nie auf. Auch wenn andere sagen: "das schaffst Du doch eh nie"      Welche Verbindung hat Susanne zu Frau & Geld und womit und wie verdient sie ihr Geld?   Ihr Einkommen bezieht sie aus dem Network Marketing, dies ist ein Selbstläufer geworden. So kann sie gesund alt werden und das Leben auch noch im Alter genießen. Dies ist eine ideale Altersvorsorge.     Was ist die Marketing Geheimwaffe von Susanne und wie ist ihr Marketing aufgebaut? Das ist ihre Begeisterung für die sehr guten Produkte und die sie von ihren Kunden zurückbekommt. Und das hat ihr dieses Business auch ermöglicht, für ihr Kind, Familie und andere Aktivitäten da sein zu können.        Welchen Tipp hat Susanne für dich, wenn du dein Einkommen deutlich erhöhen willst? Als Angestellter: würde das ja fast nur gehen mit doppelt so viel arbeiten. Doch das ist sicher nicht erstrebenswert. Für das Network Marketing ist sicher der beste Tipp: dranbleiben.     Was war der schlimmste Moment für Susanne, ihr größter Fehler, bzw. Ihre größte Herausforderung als Unternehmerin?   Durch die Veränderung von der angestellten Physiotherapeutin zur selbständigen Unternehmerin hatte sie zunächst viele Freunde verloren, die diesen Wandel nicht verstehen konnten. Das hat sie zuerst traurig gemacht, aber dadurch wusste sie dann, wer ihren  wahren Freunde sind.     Wie wichtig ist für Susanne Geld und macht Geld sie glücklich? Für Susanne ist Geld nicht so wichtig, aber das was sie damit tun kann.   Verändert Geld den Charakter? In ihren Augen zeigt Geld den Charakter.     Wie trifft Susanne ihre Entscheidungen?       Welche Entscheidungsfindungsstrategie hat sie? Wie geht sie an scheinbar unlösbare Aufgaben heran? Susanne denkt absolut lösungsorientiert. Denn es gibt immer eine Lösung     Wie bekommt Susanne ihren „inneren Schweinehund“ in den Griff? Wie motivierst sie sich, wenn sie mal keine richtige Lust hat, etwas zu tun, was getan werden muss? Sie trinkt dann ein FAB und hört gute Musik. Das bringt sie immer in Stimmung     Wie hat Susanne es geschafft, Ihre Leidenschaft zu finden   Sie bleibt immer sich selbst und erinnert sich, was ihr Spaß macht. Mache das, was dir Spaß macht und mit dem du etwas hinterlassen kann auf der Welt     Welche Werte sind für Susanne wichtig? - Wertschätzung - Mitgefühl - Naturverbundenheit - Respekt     Was hat Susanne ursprünglich davon zurückgehalten, Unternehmer zu werden?   Sie dachte immer, dass man sehr viel investieren muss. So hat sie lange gelernt, einfach Angestellte zu sein. Die Selbständigkeit hat viel Mut erfordert in ihr.   Was bedeutet Erfolg für Susanne? Am Abend mit einem guten Gefühl ins Bett zu gehen. Was sind die drei Stärken von Susanne? Ihre positive Grundenergie, ihre Fähigkeit gut zuzuhören, andere Menschen motivieren zu können.   Gibt es ein Lebensmotto, ein Lieblings-Zitat das Susanne begleitet?  Wenn es dich nicht zum Lächeln bringt, dann ändere es. If it doesn´t make you smile - change it     Was war der beste Rat, den Susanne bekommen hat? Der Tipp von Amata und ihre Empfehlung sich selbständig zu machen. Sonst würde sie heute ihr Leben nicht so genießen können. Welche Internet-Ressource (z.B. einen besonderen Service, eine Open Source Software oder ähnliches) hat für Susanne persönlich einen hohen Mehrwert?    Facebook und Instagram, als gute Kontaktquelle für die Onlinearbeit. Sie selbst macht jedoch noch lieber in der Offlinewelt Kontakte durch gemeinsame Aktivitäten wie ein Seminarbesuch oder anderes.   Was ist die beste Buchempfehlung von Susanne? Die Macht der Empfehlung von Jim Mac Menter     Go Pro – 7 Schritte zum Network Marketing Profi von Eric Worre  https://amzn.to/2IV4YLL       Welchen „letzten Tipp“ gibt dir Susanne mit auf den Weg?    Wenn du einen Traum hast, sei mutig und verfolge diesen solange, bis du angekommen bist.   Wie kann man Susanne am Besten erreichen? Für ein persönliches Treffen, nutze doch die Möglichkeit den Create Success Powerday am 2. November in der Nähe von München zu besuchen. Susanne freut sich dich kennenzulernen. www.powerday.life Ansonsten hier auch ihre Kontaktdaten: Susanne von Dobschütz Kaffeeberg 20, Holzhausen 86456 Gablingen Mobilnummer Susanne: +49 176 32648261. Sie freut sich auf deinen Anruf. Webseite von Susanne: https://susanne-v-dobschuetz.flp.de Emailadresse Susanne: Susanne.v.Dobschuetz@gmx.de Facebook Fanseite: https://www.facebook.com/S.v.Dobschuetz.Business/       Nachzulesen und Nachzuhören auch in meinem Blog: https://amatabayerl.de/237-von-der-angestellten-zur-unternehmerin-interview-mit-susanne-von-dobschuetz   Ich freue mich, wenn Du mir ein Feedback hier im Blog oder auf Facebook hinterlässt

Well good morning, good afternoon and good evening, wherever you are in the world, hello and welcome to the Saturday 22nd September edition of EV News Daily. It’s Martyn Lee here with the news you need to know about electric cars and the move towards sustainable transport.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   FCC RELEASES PICTURE OF MODEL 3 KEY FOB From not being in America, all i can say is the FCC seems to be a really good place for leaks. When I used to follow mobile phones much more closely, there always seemed to be stories because the FCC published something. So thank you FCC. Fred at Electrek says; "Some owners have been complaining of occasional issues of using the app, which relies on their phone’s Bluetooth connection. When Tesla applied for a new key fob using a BLE frequency with the FCC, we speculated that Tesla was introducing the device for Model 3. The documents were confidential until today and now we can confirm that the key fob is for Model 3" It's very similar to the Model S and X fobs, so kinda chunky, and with buttons for doors, frunk and trunk. I'm not clear on whether it will ship as standard or be a paid extra, for many owners the mobile method has worked just fine.   https://electrek.co/2018/09/20/tesla-model-3-key-fob-images/                         LARGE DELIVERY OF MODEL 3’S From InsideEvs.com: "A trusted source that works at Tesla and requested to remain anonymous contacted InsideEVs with some inside information. Makes sense right? Anyhow, they shared that Tesla Service Center techs are being pulled from their usual duties over the next week or so to help with deliveries. Apparently, Tesla has readied some 7,000 Model 3 vehicles to be delivered just in the San Francisco Bay Area over the course of seven days. We hear that the specific goal is for the automaker to deliver 1,000 Model 3s each day for the last week of the month in the Bay Area alone."   POLESTAR UNVEILS FIRST PRODUCTION EV WITH AIM TO OVERTAKE TESLA "Polestar debuted its first production EV and previewed its electric car line in New York with the CEO squarely taking aim at Tesla." reports Jake Bright for TechCrunch. The Polestar 1 isn't cheap at $155,000 but you do get both batteries and a fossil for performance. There are three motors powered by twin 34kWh battery packs and that's before you stick gas in. With a range of 100 miles you won’t NEED the fossil unless you want it to gun the car all day. I can't think of a hybrid which has a range of more than 100 miles, that better than most first gen BEVs. “Polestar 2 will be a direct competitor to the Tesla Model 3…” CEO Thomas Ingenlath said on the launch stage. He told TechCrunch the company will focus more on creating converts to EVs than pulling away Tesla’s existing market share. "There are many people out there who still think a car has to have a combustion engine. Polestar 1 is an extremely good vehicle to get people across that line and once they drive it…understand what an amazing experience an electric car is." "While Polestar’s HQ is in Gothenburg, Sweden, it will manufacture cars at a plant in Chengdu China."   https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/21/polestar-unveils-first-production-ev-with-aim-to-overtake-tesla/   TESLARATI HAS NEW SEMI VIDEO "The Semi has since been sighted in multiple states across the US, and during the company’s Q2 2018 earnings call, Jerome Guillen, the former head of Tesla’s truck programs who is now serving as the company’s President of Automotive, pointed out that the vehicle had already been improved since it was initially unveiled. The exact nature of these improvements remains to be seen, but if a video of the Semi captured earlier this month is any indication, it appears that the electric long-hauler has gotten even more daunting and impressive when it performs a full-speed acceleration run." [audio] Simon at Teslarati says: "The Semi’s performance, handling, and power were specifically pointed out by professional driver Emile Bouret, a close friend of Tesla chief designer Franz von Holzhausen, in an Instagram post earlier this month."   https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-semi-trailer-acceleration-spaceship-new-sighting/   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtwP-aDUtWk   RENAULT UNVEILS SMART ISLAND ON BELLE-ÎLE-EN-MER Renault say they're delighted to unveil a brand new joint project known as FlexMob’île. The aim of this smart electric ecosystem is to facilitate the energy transition on the French island of Belle-Île-en-Mer which lies off the coast of southern Brittany. This initiative follows in the footsteps of the innovative Smart Fossil Free Island programme which has been operational since last February on the Portuguese island of Porto Santo in the Madeira archipelago. For the next 24 months, Groupe Renault and its public and private partners will be developing a smart electric ecosystem that has been conceived to reduce the island’s carbon footprint and increase its energy independence. From 2019, Belle-Île-en-Mer residents and visitors to the island will have access to a fleet of electric cars by means of a self-service hire programme featuring Renault ZOE and Kangoo Z.E. These vehicles will be powered thanks to a network of charging stations located close to the island’s main attractions. This new carsharing service will take advantage of surplus energy produced by solar panels installed on the roofs of the island’s main public buildings. For instance, solar panels on the school’s rooftop provide heat and lighting for classrooms during the week, while the energy produced at weekends or during school holidays will be used to charge the cars. Groupe Renault plans to provide second-life electric car batteries for the island’s largest holiday residences facility. These batteries will be used to store energy produced during the day by solar panels for use in the evening, chiefly to heat the bungalows. This should allow the centre to extend its season which until now has been restricted by central heating costs.   http://www.press.renault.co.uk   A TRIP TO HOSPITAL IN AN EV? "The EV revolution may be starting to gain ground on the retail market, but emergency service vehicles such as ambulances should switch to electric or hybrid propulsion, according to the UK’s leading public health body." reports AutoExpress.co.uk: "The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published draft guidance recommending public-sector organisations “should make low vehicle emissions one of the key criteria when making routine procurement decisions. This could include selecting low-emission vehicles, including electric vehicles.” "   https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/104719/emergency-vehicles-could-go-electric-and-autonomous   TESLA SIGNS THREE YEAR DEAL WITH GANFENG FOR LITHIUM "China’s top producer of lithium, a metal used in electric-vehicle batteries, said it’s agreed a deal with Tesla Inc. to supply a fifth of its production to the vehicle maker, highlighting the push for supply pacts." according to Bloomberg: "Tesla will designate its battery suppliers to buy lithium-hydroxide products from Ganfeng Lithium Co. and its unit, the Jiangxi-based company said in a filing to the Shenzhen exchange on Friday. The agreement runs from 2018 to 2020 and could be extended by three years, Ganfeng said." "Earlier this week, Ganfeng announced an agreement to supply LG Chem between 2019-2025 under a supplementary contract, according to a separate filing. Tesla may need as much as 28,000 tons of lithium hydroxide a year from late next year based on battery output at its Nevada facility reaching the equivalent of 35 gigawatt hours, according to Benchmark Mineral’s forecasts."   https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-21/chinese-lithium-giant-agrees-three-year-pact-to-supply-tesla       COMMUNITY And thanks to MYEV.com they’ve set us another Question Of The Week. Keep your comments coming in on email and YouTube…   How was your EV buying experience? Dealer? Price? Lease? Used or new? What are your successes and fails? Tell me your EV buying experience.   I want to say a heartfelt thank you to the 83 patrons of this podcast whose generosity means I get to keep making this show, which aims to entertain and inform thousands of listeners every day about a brighter future. 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Well good morning, good afternoon and good evening, wherever you are in the world, hello and welcome to the Wednesday 27th June edition of EV News Daily. It’s Martyn Lee here with the news you need to know about electric cars and the move towards sustainable transport.   Follow Up 1: the Twitter account of John Totah who leaked the Gigafactory production numbers now seems to be completely deleted. Follow Up 2: Audi is scrapping its plans to launch its E-Tron Quattro crossover in Brussels on Aug. 30. The launch has been postponed to a future date.   $2B INVESTMENT BOOST FOR FARADAY FUTURE TechCrunch call them the "Beleaguered electric vehicle firm Faraday Future" and "a rare moment of cheer for floundering electric car maker" which is a little harsh. But some might say fair! We've been talking about Faraday since they were founded in 2014 but so far have only released beta prototypes, that being the FF91. The car which they said would be on the market this year. Even when we first saw it at CES at the start of 2017 that date seemed a flight of fancy. And although they're based in California it's definitely Chinese money propping them up. Perhaps the 13 models they once promised are a little bit optimistic at this stage. TechCrunch do say: "Evergrande Health, a division of Hong Kong-listed Evergrande, has taken a 45 percent stake in Faraday Future in a deal worth a total of $2 billion. Evergrande Health has taken over an investment commitment agreed to last November by Season Smart Limited [which] invested an initial tranche of $800 million, according to filings, but now Evergrande Health has taken that over for around $860 million" FF said in a statement: "“FF will continue to use the committed funds to accomplish our top priority — finalizing the development and delivering the first production vehicle, FF 91 to both US and China markets. The investment will also support Faraday Future to expand its product pipeline, develop cutting-edge technologies and grow the business rapidly in the global marketplace, including our manufacturing facilities in Hanford, California and in Guangzhou Nansha, Guangdong Province, China." Electrek reminds us of the specs: "With a 130kWh battery pack configuration, FF claims that the FF91 will have 1050 horsepower. Faraday Future says this is the most of any electric car (but actually falls short of some hypercars like the current Rimac Concept_One and now some other upcoming electric cars) and has 378 miles of EPA range." According to GearBrain: "It is unknown how far the FF91 is from mass production, as Faraday Future scrapped plans for a $1 billion Las Vegas factory last August, instead opting to take over a 55-year-old former Pirelli tire factory in Los Angeles. FF said on June 7 this year that it had only just received a permit to begin construction of its new production facility. Despite the significant setbacks, lawsuits over missed payments to contractors, and an employee exodus, $2 billion is a huge chunk of cash and should see the FF91 make it to the end of a production line. "   TESLA ROADSTER DRIVER SAYS IT’S FAST, REAL FAST Emile Bouret is the test driver you go to for performance testing. He's raced professionally, has worked for Audi in the past, and now is a test driver for Tesla thanks to the chief designer Franz von Holzhausen bringing him in. Now we're still in the same week as a Tesla employee leaking positive news from Gigafactory, so he's not going to say much about the new Roadster. But he did say on the Youtube channel of VINWiki: "I know there is some scepticism about the figures that were quoted that day, 0 to 60 mph, quarter-mile, etc., and I think I can say without getting in trouble that those are actual figures. Those are not theoretical. Those are not calculations. We have done those numbers. I probably shouldn’t say but those numbers are actually conservative. It’s going to be a proper weapon." StatCheck on the Roadster - 200kWh battery pack, 600+ miles on one charge, three motors and 0-62 less than 2 seconds, these days everyone wants the 0-100mph time too, and that's 4.2 seconds. And that's without rocket boosters!   HYUNDAI WILL USE 'SECOND-LIFE' ELECTRIC CAR BATTERIES FOR ENERGY STORAGE Hyundai is the latest automaker to explore uses for so-called "second-life" electric-car batteries for storage. Stephen Edelstein for The Drive makes a good point about renewables needing storage to really be the answer to current fossil fuels, which can be 'always on': "Hyundai has already constructed a one-megawatt-hour test array using Ioniq Electric and Kia Soul EV batteries. Going forward, it plans to provide batteries to Wärtsilä, which will then market them to electric utilities and other companies as part of complete energy-storage systems" he says: "Hyundai expects 29 gigawatt-hours of used electric-car batteries to be available by 2025, compared to the 10 GWh of batteries currently available for the energy-storage market. The prediction is based on an assumption of vastly expanded electric-car sales. Tesla has already pioneered the model of selling both electric cars and batteries for energy storage. BMW, Daimler, and Nissan have also discussed selling energy-storage battery packs, but not on the same scale as Tesla."   http://www.thedrive.com/tech/21774/hyundai-will-use-second-life-electric-car-batteries-for-energy-storage   DAIMLER TRUCKS ANTICIPATES BATTERY BREAKTHROUGH "Freightliner sells more heavy-duty diesel trucks in North America than any other brand. The division of Daimler AG, the German company that also owns the Mercedes-Benz car brand, controls about 40 percent of the heavy-duty truck market on this side of the Atlantic." reports Jerry Hirsch for trucks.com: "Earlier this month Roger Nielsen, chief executive of Daimler Trucks North America, unveiled the electric version of its flagship Freightliner semi-tractor. Prototypes of the truck will go into testing in the Portland, Ore., area later this year." Roger Niesel told Trucks.com: "When we make announcements, we’re always targeting what the customer could use, what the customer could need. Others in the startup industry [are] trying to attract investors or money, which is a different message if you’re trying to attract investment versus you’re trying to attract customers. We’re in the business of attracting customers, so our message is a little bit different. But for sure all the startups are interesting to watch. Of course, we’ve talked to them. Customers will get operating cost parity before purchase price parity. A lot of things go in that equation. The customer is expecting a truck to last a million miles with the last half million being driven by his used truck customer. There’s still a lot to be done there." On short hauls he says: "Bakery deliveries start at 4 in the morning, and they can go all the way through the evening. Maybe that truck also has to come back midday for a charge, or there’s charging somewhere along the way. The [Freightliner] eM2 [an electric medium-duty truck] would be a perfect application for a bakery with a 60-minute rest stop and charge. Say the driver wants lunch. He can get another 200 miles of range."   COMMUNITY Phil Roberts 40kWh LEAF New followers Comments from yesterday   You can listen to all previous 162 episodes of this podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, YouTube, TuneIn, Stitcher, and the blog https://www.evnewsdaily.com/ – remember to subscribe, which means you don’t have to think about downloading the show each day, plus you get it first and free and automatically. It would mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on whichever platform you download the podcast. And if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing. Come and say hi on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter just search EV News Daily, have a wonderful day, and I'll catch you tomorrow.   CONNECT WITH ME! evne.ws/itunes evne.ws/tunein evne.ws/googleplay evne.ws/stitcher evne.ws/youtube evne.ws/soundcloud evne.ws/blog

Sunday 6th May 2018. LATEST SALES FIGURES COME IN Zap Map: "The UK’s electric vehicle market continued its now familiar growth in April, with more than 3,800 plug-in cars registered in April 2018 – representing 2.3% of the total UK car market." "Of the combined electric vehicle registrations, more than 900 units were pure-electric models, and almost 3,000 were PHEVs. The ratio sees PHEVs account for three out of every four plug-in cars registered in April 2018." In the UK that's 18,000 vehicles sold this year. Electrans reporting on Norway: "After a record breaking month in March, with plug-ins capturing almost 56% of car sales, April continued to show a similar trend, with 43% of sales as EVs dominate the most popular models in the country." The Nissan LEAF "has the highest number of registrations this year (3,995) – out of any vehicle model, not just EVs." Mark Kane at InsideEVs: "March stats: Passenger BEVs: 1,990 registrations (up 35%), Passenger PHEVs: 845 registrations and light commercial BEVs: 404 registrations (up 9%). The one that surprised us is the Jaguar I-PACE with 20 registrations – that’s 4 more than the Tesla Model X." And so much of the take up of electric vehicles is based on incentives or Government support. So it's interesting the UK announced plans to ban hybrids and soft hybrids by 2040, with only plug in hybrids of full BEVs which can do at least 50miles of pure electric range being ono sale. And so for the first time in my life I find myself looking at the schedule of what is due to be discussed in parliament next week. Needless to say most of it is Brexit.  On Wednesday 9th May at 3pm, in the House of Lords, they will be considering the Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill, which creates a framework for this technology including an insurance framework for fully automated vehicles on the roads. It also provides for infrastructure that is easy to use for electric vehicle owners. BP BUYS IRISH TECH STARTUP UBIWORX AS 'SMART HOME' BATTLE HOTS UP "BP’s new solar arm is steeling itself to battle global energy and tech giants for a slice of the burgeoning “smart home” market with the acquisition of an Irish tech start-up." reports The Telegraph: "The Lightsource system brings together a solar panel, battery and electric vehicle charger to create a digital system which responds on a second-by-second basis to changes in the power market. By using artificial intelligence and algorithms, Lightsource customers are always using the cheapest possible power with no upfront technology costs." BP said the electric vehicle market is likely to drive demand for smarter home energy solutions by tripling the energy use of an average household. TESLA AGES INTO THE FUTURE Franz von Holzhausen told the Future of the Automobile conference this week in Los Angeles, about the Model 3: "It's a beautiful minimalist experience that thinks forward to autonomy, when the car is doing the work for you. The Tesla products, they age into the future. There's no other car that really does that." FIRST EMISSION FREE ZONE AT SEA The Norwegian Parliament has ruled that all cruise ships and ferries operating in the country's world heritage fjords must be emission free as soon as possible, and no later than 2026. The decision has effectively created the world’s first zero emissions zone at sea" reports imarest.org: "The new ruling will mean that other operators will have to outfit their vessels with similar battery technologies, and ports will have to install charging infrastructure. Hydrogen propulsion could also be possible in the future, though the necessary technologies are still in development." MORE DETAILS ABOUT ALL ELECTRIC BUSES IN CHINA In Schenzen, "The 12.5 million-person metropolis made headlines last year as the first to operate an all-electric bus system. It’s a significant achievement, especially considering the size of the city’s fleet, which totals 16,359 vehicles, more than the combined number operating in New York City, LA, Toronto, New Jersey, and Chicago" says Curbed: "With 385,000 electric buses, the country has 99 percent of the world’s electric buses, and currently adds 9,500 zero-emission buses every five weeks, equivalent to London’s entire bus fleet. "The city invested in a system of charging terminals for buses, an infrastructure expansion that was coordinated with bus manufacturers and the local utility system. By adding thousands of charging stations—which can also be used by private drivers" I’d love to spread the word about electric cars so, if you can, share this somebody who might be interested. 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Monday 2nd April 2018.  SPECIAL DELIVERY Starting with the Model 3 Owners Club, and a story which definitely isn’t an April Fools! Franz von Holzhausen is the Tesla design supremo and the man responsible for the Model 3. So how amazing would it be to meet him. Well he can go one better than that. He said: ““I was on my way home from work and figured I’d swing by. I love to see the excitement from people like you and share what we’ve created.” The Model 3 buyer said: ““The car was flawless. I inspected every panel gap with a fine toothed comb and couldn’t find a millimeter of misalignment. After reading so many horror stories, I found it hard to believe there were no noticeable defects on the car. I said, “The panel gaps are literally perfect – did you make sure this one came out flawless like this?” He just smiled and said, “Nope, this is the first time I’m seeing this car, but things are always improving.” I continued down the four-page Model 3 delivery checklist another user posted on this forum and everything was absolutely perfect.”   BMW CHARGING BMW is announcing a massive expansion to its charging network in China with plans to install more than 80,000 charging poles in over 100 Chinese cities. The company’s goal is to have these poles up-and-running when its fleet of new electric cars hit the market in the coming years. As of 2017, the German automaker already has more than 65,000 charging poles in more than 90 Chinese cities.   GREENING UP EVS A new report on Green Car Congress points out how EVs, unlike gas cars, get greener as time goes on because of cleaner electricity production. They say: “Future electric vehicles are likely to have roughly 20% lower environmental impacts compared to current vehicles based on technological improvements alone. However, when considering also the future improvement of the electricity sector, these improvements are in the range of 30-70% for baseline and climate policy scenarios. This is an important conclusion that must be considered when making policy in the mobility sector as use of current results as a proxy for future technologies would be highly misleading.”   MAD DASH TO DELIVER MODEL  3S According to a Bloomberg report: “With pressure escalating after one of the worst weeks in its almost 15-year-history, Tesla raced to manufacture and deliver its mission-critical Model 3 sedan to burnish the numbers it’s about to report to rattled investors. Tesla’s Fremont, California, delivery hub was packed with people Saturday evening as the last hours of the quarter drew to a close. Red couches and tall white tables were set up outside, a DJ played music and a truck selling Vietnamese food was on hand. Behind the scenes, a company that’s struggled to figure out how to mass manufacture cars implored workers to get production on track and prove the doubters wrong. Barclays Plc analyst Brian Johnson has warned clients to watch out for a potential “burst rate bear trap,” in which Tesla beats Wall Street’s lowered projections for Model 3 deliveries. He estimates Tesla is producing 1,500 to 1,700 units of the Model 3 each week. We think it’s possible Tesla may have stockpiled batteries amid Fremont downtime, allowing production to be higher in the final week,” Johnson wrote in a report Thursday. “Any such ‘beat’ is unlikely to be sustainable, and questions remain on Tesla’s ability to sustainably reach” its production goals.   NO RISK GOING EV According to Autocar Professional: “"The head of Aston martin said “The Lagonda concept, as you know, will be there to challenge the duopoly of Rolls-Royce and Bentley," says Palmer in an exclusive interview with Autocar Professional. The Lagonda brand has been revived to lead Aston Martin's charge in the electric mobility space. He feels going electric is a "no-risk" strategy to compete against Rolls-Royce and Bentley in the super luxury segment. "Lagonda is going to compete with Rolls-Royce and one of the key attributes of a Rolls-Royce is that it is very quiet. And obviously the electric car is even quieter," says Palmer.”   I’d love to spread the word about electric cars so, if you can, share this somebody who might be interested. You can listen to every previous episode of this podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, YouTube, TuneIn, and the blog https://www.evnewsdaily.com/ – subscribe for free and get every new episode automatically and first. It would really mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on iTunes which will help us spread the word to a wider audience about electric cars. And if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing. Come and say hi on Twitter @EVNewsDaily, have a wonderful day, and I'll catch you tomorrow.   CONNECT WITH ME! evne.ws/itunes evne.ws/tunein evne.ws/googleplay evne.ws/youtube evne.ws/blog

Fork in the RoadIt's one thing to sing about electric cars like Neil Young is doing on his new concept album (Fork in the Road), it's another to actually design, build and sell them like Tesla motors is doing.Started from scratch six years ago, this small California startup is producing one of the few road-ready electric car currently available to the public -- its luxury two-seater roadster. That car will soon be joined by not only a sport version roadster but also a new more affordable sedan called the model S.This week on Autoline Detroit meet the team behind Tesla.During January’s North American International Auto Show John McElroy sat down with the braintrust of this electric car company to find out what it was like to create a car company, especially one with such a specialized and dare we say "expensive" product.Joining John from the Tesla stand at N.A.I.A.S. are Chairman & CEO Elon Musk, Executive Vice President and former Chrysler honcho Mike Donoughe, Senior VP of Global Sales/Marketing Michael van der Sande, as well as Chief Designer -- by way of GM & Mazda -- Franz von Holzhausen. Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla’s VP of Business Development joins John on Autoline Extra.Meanwhile, for an insider's tour of Tesla’s Northern California campus including its headquarters, sales showroom as well as the final assembly point of its luxury roadster, join Isaac Bouchard on Autoline Extra as he reports from Menlo Park, California.

Fork in the Road It's one thing to sing about electric cars like Neil Young is doing on his new concept album (Fork in the Road), it's another to actually design, build and sell them like Tesla motors is doing. Started from scratch six years ago, this small California startup is producing one of the few road-ready electric car currently available to the public -- its luxury two-seater roadster. That car will soon be joined by not only a sport version roadster but also a new more affordable sedan called the model S. This week on Autoline Detroit meet the team behind Tesla. During January’s North American International Auto Show John McElroy sat down with the braintrust of this electric car company to find out what it was like to create a car company, especially one with such a specialized and dare we say "expensive" product. Joining John from the Tesla stand at N.A.I.A.S. are Chairman & CEO Elon Musk, Executive Vice President and former Chrysler honcho Mike Donoughe, Senior VP of Global Sales/Marketing Michael van der Sande, as well as Chief Designer -- by way of GM & Mazda -- Franz von Holzhausen. Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla’s VP of Business Development joins John on Autoline Extra. Meanwhile, for an insider's tour of Tesla’s Northern California campus including its headquarters, sales showroom as well as the final assembly point of its luxury roadster, join Isaac Bouchard on Autoline Extra as he reports from Menlo Park, California.