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I stumbled on a recent article on the MIT Technology Review discussing the (expected) evolution of batteries for electric vehicles -EV. It makes for a nice reading also because it looks at the broad scenario of what it takes to shift from the 60+ million ICE -Internal Combustion Engine- vehicles …

The automotive sector has adopted Digital Twins technology in the manufacturing to mirror robots in the assembly line. In the last few years it has started to create and use digital twins of the product, vehicles produced. More and more automotive companies are nowadays equipping cars (and trucks) with IoT …

A digital model is fine in the design phase. Actually we are hearing a new word: virtual twin. This is a model of a physical entity that, as a matter of fact does not exist and may never exist in the physical space. We create the “idea” of an entity …

The construction sector is probably one of the less efficient sector, in productivity terms: constructions takes longer than planned, uses more resources… The Digital Transformation has not made a dent in this sector, with few, notable exceptions. ARUP, as an example, has shifted a good portion of its construction life …

ONE, Our Next Energy, a US start up company based in Michigan focussing on next generation battery, has achieved an impressive result: in mid December 2021 it made the longest stretch of driving with an EV on a single charge: 752.2 miles (1210.5 km)  using a retrofitted Tesla Model S …

A crucial component in electric vehicles -EV- and most likely the most important one is the battery. Actually, it is not “a battery”, rather a battery stack. A Tesla Model 3 uses batteries that are 21 mm wide and 70 tall (not surprisingly they are called 2170 type). These batteries …

For quite some time the “chip” business was restricted to very few companies that were able to invest huge capitals in the design and manufacturing and because of that huge investment required a big market to sell their products. That led to the design and production of “one-size-fits-all”, in other …

In the second quarter earnings call of Tesla Elon Musk warned investors that as anybody else in the market Tesla is facing a shortage of chips. After the slow down due to the pandemic, the market has picked up steam and sales have rebounded but now the chip shortage is …

The quest for autonomous driving seems ready to succeed, but we are not there yet and it is actually proving more and more elusive with several people working in the field claiming that a truly general autonomous driving vehicle will not become “normal” for several more years, probably well into …

One of the problem we are facing when talking with one another is to know what the other person “knows” (or perceive). It pops up once in a while when it is clear that there is a misunderstanding, most of the time this misunderstanding does not exist (or, more likely, …