I Can’t Wait to Buy an Electric Car: Related Stories and Resources
The Related Stories and Resources page is where you can find additional material related to the essay I Can’t Wait to Buy an Electric Car by Terence C. Gannon. You can also listen to the original essay on your favourite podcasting platform where it appeared as part of the Not There Yet podcast narrated by the author. Items below appear in reverse chronological order based on the date of original publication.
NTSB: Tesla Autopilot, Distracted Driver Caused Fatal Crash NBC Bay Area, February 20, 2020 by Tom Krisha. Back in April of 2016, Terence C. Gannon wrote in the original essay “I’ll just flip on autopilot and read the newspaper while the car does the driving. (Don’t kid yourself; there’s a significant chunk of drivers who think that’s exactly what they will be able to do.)” Sadly, that’s been proved true, again.
Danielle Smith: Alberta’s oilpatch may help fill global lithium shortage Edmonton Journal, July 12th, 2019 by Danielle Smith. From the original essay: “Then there’s the fact that the lithium used to make lithium-polymer batteries has already been pushed into shortage to the point where prices have begun to spike periodically.” Out of Edmonton, Alberta comes word the startup E3 Metal is hard at work on the problem.
NIO EP9 Breaks the Nurburgring Nordschleife Lap Record — May 12 2017 YouTube, May 15, 2017 by NIO. Should anyone doubt the performance of EVs, here’s one breaking the lap record at Nurburgring. This is the Holy Grail of auto testing and performance. It’s an amazing accomplishment and, yes, it looks utterly terrifying!
