AD #3760 - Jaguar Ending ICE Vehicle Production in June; Lawyers Want $6 Billion From Tesla; 2024 U.S. Car Sales Off to Good Start

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Despite a slowdown in demand, Jaguar has put all its eggs in the evy basket, and it looks like there's no turning back now. The automaker

is making the transition to an all electric lineup, and production of its gas and diesel powered vehicles ends in June. That first EV won't be out until

twenty twenty five, but JLR needs to start converting its plans now to make electrics, so it's hoping to build up enough inventory so it has enough vehicles to give to dealers before that EV launches. That all electric model is said

to be a four door sedan with more power than any previous Jaguar, four hundred and thirty miles or seven hundred kilometers of range, and pricing around one hundred thousand pounds. That EV price war in China continues to heat up byd

slack the price of the updated version of its electric suv, the Yuon Plus, by over two thousand dollars, which brings the starting price to a little over sixteen thousand, five hundred bucks. A base model with that price features

a one hundred and fifty kilowatt or two hundred horsepower electric motor that drives the front wheels, and a nearly fifty kilowat hour LFP battery pack that provides up to four hundred and thirty kilometers or two hundred and sixty seven miles of range.

The Yuan Plus is also sold in several other global markets as the ADDO three. The lawyers who help void Elon musk fifty six billion dollar pay package

as too excessive won a record legal fee from Tesla, which some might also consider excessive. Writers reports the lawyers want six billion dollars payable in Tesla stock.

They want the automaker to pay the fee because it benefited from the return of must pay package. Not Surprisingly, Elon blasted the lawyers, calling the

request criminal and said they did nothing but damage the ev maker. The judge

overseeing the case will decide if the lawyers get that fee. Musk was sued

over his pay package in twenty eighteen by a Tesla shareholder, and in January, the Delaware judge voided his pay package. With so many automakers in the

US reporting their new car sales on a quarterly basis, it can be hard to figure out how the market is doing on a monthly basis, but Toyota, Honda, Hondai, Kiya, Mazda, and Subaru posted their February sales and the numbers are promising. Collectively, they were up a solid thirteen percent,

though certain brands fared better than others. Kia and Acura saw sales fall,

while Genesis was up more than nine percent, Toyota was up more than sixteen percent, and Honda shot up more than thirty two percent. We should

have a bit more information on this tomorrow when a few more companies will report their sales, But if the numbers that we've got now are an indication of how things are going, then the market is off to a good start this year. EV charging startup Gravity Mobility, which is backed by Google, open

the fastest EV chargers in the US to the public in New York City.

It installed twenty four five hundred kilowat chargers in Manhattan. The chargers are capable

of providing twenty four hundred miles of range per hour or two hundred miles in five minutes. Gravity plans to open more chargers across the US and says it

has the capacity to manufacture and deploy thousands of chargers per year, which are about the size of a carry on suitcase. Right now, I don't know

of any passenger evs in the US that can charge at five hundred kilowatts, but some of the newest electrics with an eight hundred volt architecture have shown they're capable of charging at that rate, and we'll start to see a lot more of those evs in the coming years. Tesla should be making a nice bit

of revenue from all those automakers that signed up to use its supercharger network in the US. Ford owners were the first to get access last week, and

they're being charged roughly thirty percent more per kilowad hour than Tesla owners. But

that's if someone just wants to roll up and plug in. They can also

get a membership through Tesla that costs thirteen dollars a month, and then they'll be able to pay the same price per kilowat hour at the supercharger as a TI owner, so that membership would be worth it even if you only charge up a few times a month. Autonomous cars have a lot of sensors to

determine their location in surroundings, including GPS, but GPS doesn't work in tunnels and steep canyons, or even under canopies, so a company called GPR, or Ground Positioning Radar, has a technology to get around that. It uses

ground penetrating radar to map roads, just like a company like Google sends out cars to scan roads with cameras. The ground penetrating radar looks ten feet deep

and the radar signal that it gets is like a fingerprint. It's completely unique

and that signal never changes, so you only have to scan a road once.

Autonomous cars can use that radar map to determine exactly where they are, and it's very accurate, within five centimeter accuracy on the x axis and ten centimeters on the y axis. That's two inches and four inches respectively, whereas

GPS accuracy is generally measured in meters or feet. GPR says it would cost

two hundred dollars to add this technology to a car, though it expects costs to come down because it uses very little energy and data. Though it has

shown the tech to US and German car companies, it says right now the most promising applications are for mining trucks and at ports, automakers want to dump AM radio from their electric cars because it's too expensive to shield AM from all the electromagnetic interference generated by the electric motors and the inverter. But Joanna McClellan,

who's an expert in EMI or electromagnetic interference, says the automakers don't know what they're doing. She says that motors and inverters can be designed to minimize

EM fairly cheaply, and she says the reason they don't know what they're doing is because engineering schools don't know how to teach it. That's really difficult because

as far as the educators are concerned, I'm a barbarian, I am saying that their baby is ugly. That the way they teach circuit theory is teaching

people how to fail because of the way they say that there's this omnipotent ground out there. It works great at DC, but it doesn't work above one

hundred killer hurtz and that's what has caused the black magic to occur. There's

a ton of good information in that interview. For example, Joanna McClelland says

that as automakers begin using silicon carby chips, it's going to interfere with other radio spectrums, including the ones used by police, fire departments, and ambulances.

You can watch the entire interview on our website and on our YouTube channel.

The new land Cruiser gets less fuel economy than Toyota anticipated. Last year,

the company estimated that the combined fuel economy would be twenty seven mpg, but the EPA rating came in at twenty three miles to the gallon. That

still significantly higher than the fourteen mpg combined the previous land Cruiser got, but it used to be powered by a five point seven liter V eight. The

new model is a hybrid that features a turbocharged two point four leter inline four cylinder and an eight speed automatic transmission. It cranks out three hundred and twenty

six horse power and four hundred and sixty five pound feet of torque, and is rated at twenty two mpg in the city and twenty five on the highway.

The new land Cruiser arrives at dealers in the US this spring with a starting price of fifty seven thousand, four hundred and forty five dollars. That

brings us to the end of today's show. Thanks for tuning in. Auto

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