DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF
By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane
IMPRESSIVE EV FOR UNDER $30,000
- Chinese automaker ZEEKR, which is owned by Geely, just broke the price barrier on its 007 electric car, for under $30,000. Here's what we know:
- Very stylish aerodynamically designed electric sedan
- A whopping 540-mile range on a charge
- Powerful: goes from 0 to 62 mph in 2.84 seconds
- Prices start at under $30,000
- 50,000 pre-orders
- Some unique technologies in 007 include:
- ADAS consisting of LIDAR sensor, 12 HD cameras and 5 millimeter wave radars for (semi) autonomous driving
- New inhouse audio system
- Integrated mega-capacity rear-end aluminum body
- 800-volt platform with their unique lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells and battery packs
- Comes with single electric motor and dual electric motors AWD versions
- ZEEKR is expanding its global footprint beyond China into Europe
- This Chinese EV maker is hot and has filed for an IPO in the US.
ARE YOU AND I JUST CHARACTERS IN A VIRTUAL WORLD?
- A physicist from the University of Portsmouth (UK) believes he has found clues to suggest we're living in a computer simulation. Here's what we know:
- The physicist's clues:
- Limits to how fast light and sound travel; this suggests that they are governed by the speed of a computer processor
- He sees symmetry saving computational energy and power
- Elementary particles are like pixels
- Code for the advanced computer simulation is the law of physics
- Professor Melvin Vopson believes the physical behavior of our information resembles the process of compressing code in a computer or the computer deleting it
- Bottomline: If you ever feel like a small player in a massive production, this may be the answer.
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