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;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px”> Here’s the top 10 list of the best-selling EVs in the world:

Place	Model	2020 sales	Market Share	Place in 2019
1	Tesla Model 3	365,240	12%	1
2	Wuling HongGuang Mini EV	119,255	4%	N/A
3	Renault Zoe	100,431	3%	8
4	Tesla Model Y	79,734	3%	N/A
5	Hyundai Kona EV	65,075	2%	9
6	VW ID.3	56,937	2%	N/A
7	Nissan Leaf	55,724	2%	3
8	Audi e-tron	47,928	2%	25
9	Baojun E-Series	47,704	2%	5
10	GW ORA R1/ Black Cat	46,796	1%	27

…” Read more Hmmmm… With numerous Chinese Tesla knock-offs entering the market, what will the 2021 table look like??? Alain

A closer look at Tesla’s latest semi electric truck prototype

F. Lambert, Feb.4, “.As we reported earlier this week, a new Tesla Semi prototype was spotted being transported in Sacramento. It’s the first time we have seen a new Tesla Semi prototype since the electric truck was unveiled in 2017…” Read more Hmmmm… Video almost implies that we are looking at a “Nikola” rather than a real truck. Maybe we’ll see it move by itself. Alain

Elon Musk’s Boring Company moves forward with new ‘Loop’ project with Tesla cars near LA

F. Lambert, Feb. 5, “.Last year, the Boring Company submitted a Loop project to link Rancho Cucamonga with Ontario International Airport in the greater Los Angeles region. San Bernardino County, which is overseeing the project, has been so impressed by the company’s proposal that they have dropped studies about other transportation options and instead focused on the Loop.

Elon Musk’s transportation startup became the only bidder on the project, which would consist of a 2.8-mile tunnel system that would link the airport to a station in Rancho Cucamonga, and it would transport people in electric vehicles inside the tunnels….” Read more Hmmmm… Maybe??? Alain

4th Annual Princeton SmartDrivingCar Summit 7th Episode at noon on Feb. 11, 2021 TO BE followed by 9 more weekly episodes through to April15, 2021. Each episode starting Live on Zoom @ noon Eastern (Princeton Time) and lasting for 1.5 hours or until Discussion with audience ends.

A. Kornhauser, Feb 6, “The focus of the Summit this year will be moving beyond the AI and the Sensors to addressing the challenges of Commercialization and the delivery of tangible value to communities. We’ve made enormous progress with the technology. We’re doing the investment; however, this investment delivers value only if is commercialized: made available and is used by consumers in large numbers. Demos and one-offs are “great”, but to deliver value that is anywhere near commensurate with the magnitude of the investment made to date, initial deployments need to scale. We can’t just have “Morgantown PRT Systems” whose initial deployment has been nothing but enormously successful for 45 years (an essentially perfect safety record, an excellent availability record and customer valued mobility). Unfortunately, the system was never expanded or duplicated anywhere. It didn’t scale. It is a one-off.

Tests, demos and one-offs are nice niche deployments; however, what one really needs are initial deployments that have the opportunity to grow, be replicated and scale. In 1888, Frank Sprague, successfully deployed a small electric street railway system in Richmond, Va. which became the reference for many other cites. “… By 1889 110 electric railways incorporating Sprague’s equipment had been begun or planned on several continents…” Substantial scaled societal benefits emerged virally from this technology. It was eventually supplanted by the conventional automobile but for more than 30 years it delivered substantial improvements to the quality-of-life for many.

In part, the 4th Summit will focus on defining the “Richmond” of Affordable Shared-ride On-demand Mobility-as-a-Service. The initial Operational Design Domain (ODD) that safely accommodates Driverless Mobility Machines that people actually choose to use and becomes the envy of communities throughout the country. ” Read more Hmmmm… Draft Program is in flux. Consider all named individuals as “Invited yet to be confirmed”. Alain