The internet of things won't just change your home life. It will also affect the way you drive, by keeping you alert and preventing you from causing accidents.…
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With electric car market in its infancy, Tesla still needs to take big risks
Risk-taking is in Tesla and Elon Musk's DNA and in the next couple of years the company will enter another high-risk period. Why? It needs to in order to pave the market for electric cars.…
Read MoreWearable tech: It’s not a device, it’s a system
Building hardware for the wearables market is only the first challenge companies need to master. For a truly differentiated experience, they must build out a service.…
Read MorePlease: don’t drive and look at Nissan’s Nismo smartwatch
Another day, another smartwatch. This time it's from Nissan. Yes, that Nissan. The company has a concept smartwatch that provides real-time vehicle data and can also capture driver biometrics.…
Read MoreNissan wants self-driving cars on the road by 2020
Nissan wants the self-driving car to make its appearance in 2020, and is testing it all with the emissions-free Leaf.…
Read MoreGM cuts the price tag of the 2014 electric Volt by $5K
The next model of the Chevy Volt will be $5K cheaper. GM has slashed the cost to help spur sales.…
Read MoreU.K. government and auto industry pledge $1.5B for low carbon auto tech center
The U.K. government and the domestic auto industry is looking to boost the country's share of the low carbon auto industry -- will $1.5 billion for a new research and tech hub help?…
Read MoreA look under the hood: why electric car startup Fisker crashed and burned
We bring you the behind the scenes story of how electric car startup Fisker Automotive spent over a billion dollars, took down a government loan and ultimately delivered about 2,000 cars, a small fraction of what it originally promised.…
Read MoreClose to a quarter of electric cars sold in U.S. by 2020 will be in Cali
Almost one in four electric cars sold by 2020 in the U.S. will be in California, according to a new report from Pike Research.…
Read MoreHow to sell a car that doesn’t exist yet: Show it with Kinect
The new car year is fast approaching but not every model is ready to be produced. That presented a problem for Nissan and its 2013 Pathfinder. The solution? Use the designs to create a virtual reality experience of the vehicle with Microsoft's Kinect as the interface.…
Read MoreTesla needs to gear up to meet Model S shipment goal
Tesla Motors needs to make a profit and is counting on the Model S to get it there. The electric car company began shipping the sedan last month, and it has collected about Model S 12,200 reservations now, compared with roughly 11,500 by the end of June.…
Read MoreGreen Overdrive [video]: Test driving the electric Ford Focus
Ford is finally showing off its biggest push to date into the electric car market: an electric version of its Ford Focus. For GigaOM TV's Green Overdrive show, we bring you a test drive!…
Read MoreYour next NYC cab ride could be in a mobile office
Nissan will deliver a fleet of new taxicabs to New York City starting in 2013. The new model, dubbed the NV200 minivan, is less a traditional cab and more of a comfortable mobile office with more amenities, outlets and leg room than an office cubicle.…
Read MoreElectric car charging: Let’s not make this more complicated
When it comes to electric cars, it’s already slow going, so why make electric car charging more confusing, says GigaOM Pro analyst Adam Lesser, who takes a look at the early emerging market for electric car charging networks.…
Read MoreFisker electric Karma was pushed to market before it was ready
Updated: Electric car startup Fisker Automotive pushed its long-delayed inaugural electric car to market before it was market-ready in order to try to meet government milestones, according to a former Fisker employee that left the company.…
Read MoreCoda ships its first electric sedan (finally)
Electric-car startup Coda officially drove its first ready-to-ship electric car off the assembly line at its plant in the Northern California city of Benicia, California, on Monday morning, saying that the move is the start of its customer sales. It's been a long time coming.…
Read MoreVIDEO: The Super Bowl Volt ad (it’s got aliens)
Watch the Super Bowl ad for GM's electric Volt, complete with confused aliens.…
Read MoreGM won’t meet its Chevy Volt 2011 sales goal
Whether you like the Chevy Volt or not, if you are a supporter of electric cars, you should be disheartened by the news that the Volt won’t meet its 2011 sales goal after all. Not hitting the goal will have a greater impact beyond GM.…
Read MoreObama’s 1M electric car goal could be difficult
I look at the numbers for whether the DOE and Obama will be able to meet the goal of putting 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.…
Read MoreQualcomm buys wireless electric car charging tech
Wireless giant Qualcomm has jumped into the electric vehicle market by acquiring the assets of a company, called HaloIPT, out of New Zealand that has developed wireless electric car charging tech.…
Read MoreA123 lines up $25M amid disappointing ’11 forecast
Is A123 Systems a company that is good at announcing deals but can’t profit from them? After cutting its 2011 sales forecast last Friday, A123 on Monday announced a licensing deal with Japan’'s IHI, which will make a $25 million equity investment in A123.…
Read MoreHow connectivity is revolutionizing everything
Blazing fast networks, cheap silicon, always-on devices and a torrent of data will fundamentally change everything -- how we consume media, how we work, and even who we are. We examined 10 areas that show how connectivity is profoundly changing the present and future of technology.…
Read MoreGM to launch all-electric city car
Looks like GM is planning to compete even more directly with Nissan's all-electric LEAF. According to reports, GM is supposed to announce on Wednesday that it will start selling an all-electric city car, designed for urban markets in the U.S. and based on its minicar Spark.…
Read More5 bets the DOE made that are better than Solyndra
It's been over a month since the Solyndra news came out, but it's still dominating. Because it just won't go away, here's my top five list of projects that the DOE also backed with loan guarantees and that are showing some early signs of success.…
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