At a press conference in San Francisco today, Ford Motor Co. President and CEO Mark Fields announced that the company had both acquired a rideshare startup called Chariot, and made a significant investment in expanding the region’s bike share program. Ford’s sponsorship will see the Bay Area’s supply of shareable bikes expand from 700 to 7,000 by 2018, with 1,350 bikes going… Read More
Month: September 2016
Volkswagen and Anhui Jianghuai in talks on building EVs for China
China is looking at electric vehicles as a key way to lower emissions and improve the country’s general environmental sustainability, and Volkswagen is teaming up with China state-owned car maker Anhui Jianghuai (JAC) to help fill that need. The two car companies signed a memorandum of understanding today, effectively paving the way for them to create a new joint venture together to… Read More
Tesla brings its Design Studio to you with Model X SUVs towing Airstreams
Tesla may have a range of vehicle showrooms across North America, but those can’t cover everyone, and it’s even more difficult for the average potential Tesla buyer to get to the company’s primary design studio in Hawthorne, so the automaker’s new ‘Tesla Explores‘ initiative is aiming to bring a taste of the design studio to you. The program is a… Read More
Tesla brings its Design Studio to you with Model X SUVs towing Airstreams
Tesla may have a range of vehicle showrooms across North America, but those can’t cover everyone, and it’s even more difficult for the average potential Tesla buyer to get to the company’s primary design studio in Hawthorne, so the automaker’s new ‘Tesla Explores‘ initiative is aiming to bring a taste of the design studio to you. The program is a… Read More
Missouri court rules against Tesla selling at its own dealerships in the state
Tesla continues to try to up-end the dealership system in the U.S., which generally requires that franchise-onwned dealers sell cars, vs. automakers selling directly via their own wholly owned dealerships. The latest beat in he ongoing battle comes in Missouri, where Cole County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Green decided in favor of the Missouri Automobile Dealers Association (via Autoblog)… Read More
SolarCity’s integrated solar roof plan said to target 5M U.S. homes
How do you make a dent in the energy market? SolarCity is likely one of the few companies that has a good idea of how to answer that question, and one part of its plan includes replacing the roofs of 5 million U.S. homes with solar cells, according to The Guardian. It’s a plan that SolarCity board chairman Elon Musk first tipped on a conference call last month, but now we have a bit… Read More
How to get information about your filesystems with the Linux command line.
The Linux command line allows a user to get good information about filesystems using the shell prompt. Here are some examples. Print a list of all filesystems and their sizes in megabytes. ubuntu ~ $ df -Hla -BMB Filesystem 1MB-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on sysfs 0MB 0MB 0MB – /sys proc 0MB 0MB 0MB … Read more
Blue Apron’s “Farm Egg” makes me question everything
Farm egg. It may seem as simple as just that. An egg. The food that Atkins and Paleo diets made popular once again. The food that draws one of many dividing lines between vegetarians and vegans. But this particular egg is one of the more layered, even scrambled (if you will), symbols of Silicon Valley startup-dom. It’s easy to dismiss the Yo’s of the tech world as outliers, but… Read More
Some very useful bash shell tips.
The bash shell has some very useful features when using the command line. This can make using the command line much faster. For example, if you forget to type sudo before a command, this can be fixed this way. jason$ fdisk -l /dev/sda fdisk: cannot open /dev/sda: Permission deniedjason$ fdisk -l /dev/sda fdisk: cannot open … Read more
Useful Android apps for connecting to a Linux server.
Useful Android SSH and terminal apps Juice SSH. This is a useful app for Android that allows connecting to Linux machines with SSH. Termux. This is a terminal emulator app for Android that is a fully featured Linux shell. Very good for practicing Linux shell commands on Android. There is even a limited array of … Read more
DOE small biz voucher awards include vehicles and fuel cells
The US Department of Energy has awarded $8 million in Small Business Vouchers to 43 businesses, including ten projects aimed at making hydrogen fuel cells cheaper and more efficient, and six projects that will improve vehicle fuel efficiency, including better batteries.
In addition to funding from the DOE, participants in this second round of the SBV project will be working with 12 of the… Read More