Electric-car maker Tesla preparing IPO

"Tesla would mark the first public offering from a U.S. automaker since Henry Ford's Ford Motor debuted its shares in 1956."

Congratulations! Finally a digital automaking
beach head on the edge of the world's largest
and farthest reaching businesses while five
billion 5,000,000,000 customers dream of
driving their first cars and trucks!!!

MORE than eight out of 10 humans
Planet Earth still do NOT own
their own cars or trucks!!!

High Voltage WiFi

There's a story about Tesla helping his friend
who had broken down on the side of the road in
an analgoue or tube electric car long before
computers were invented...

Tesla proceed to tell the friend to hold on
and ran to the hardware store and built a
small device much like a radio black box
and told his friend that he would simply
catch electricity from the air to fix the car.

Within the same day, Tesla had the black box
receiving energy and hooked up his friend's
car who drove away in his wireless electric car.

According to the article below the digital version has arrived!!!

Wireless electricity.

Can we imagine never having to fill up
or charge up our mobile devices including
the next generation of rolling high voltage computers?

Williams Less Digital F-1 Boost

Williams throws out the battery
for a gyro run by flywheels turning
up to 80,000 RPMs in theory...

How did it perform in the field???

Ferrari's F-1 Digital Racing Tranny (in Italian)

Much More Complex than the Crankshaft Approach
but believe it or not MUCH LESS sophisticated
than Toyota's Secret Hybrid Synergy Drive
that hides 500+ patents in a similar setup...

Mercedes F-1 Digital Racing Development

Mercedes-Benz Delivers the Lightest F-1 Digital Design

White Gold News Links

To celebrate A123 (AONE) better than expected IPO today
which officially starts the race towards White Gold (Lithium)
I'm providing you with some of the better news stories recently:

Orocobre Plans to Start Lithium Output in Argentina (Update1)

The Daily Start-Up: A123 Systems Strikes While Lithium Is Hot

New Material Aims to Make Lithium-ion Batteries Safer

'Saudi Arabia of Lithium' To Produce Batteries By 2016

Western Lithium Looks to Expand Carbonate Production in Nevada

Why Warren Buffet is investing in lithium

Ghosn (CEO of Nissan), Immelt (CEO of GE owner of A123 Lithium battery leader) see future for electric cars as WHEN not IF

Will China Beat the US in the Electric Car Race?

Digital's Analogue Bottleneck

Although I preach and cheer for faster digital development
of automotive technologies, I must admit that the car of
the future cannot become completely run by computers...

Many argue that Lithium is the analogue bottleneck,
or in this case, the big supply & demand question mark?

Some writers think there will never be enough
and others think there's plenty of it worldwide.

What's known for sure, is that the Lithium reserves
on planet Earth are distributed differently than oil.

According to Enough lithium for hybrid boom? Most say yes,
the USA is the most serious about leveraging
Lithium reserves and is getting the most to
market proportionally while Bolivia with the
most reserves in the world.... sits tight...

Locating lithium

Shares of global lithium supply by country
Production Reserves
Chile 39.30% 22.10%
China 13.30 16.20
Australia 11.00 2.40
Russia 10.80 n/a
Argentina 9.80 14.70
United States 8.40 0.60
Bolivia 0.00 39.70

Source: Meridian International Research, 2005 levels
adapted from http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10357588-48.html

PS Lithium has tripled in price during The Hybrid Phenomenon!!!

Analogue vs Digital WRECK

What's the difference between the analogue car that would have killed you
and the digital car that would've saved your life???

Computerized (aka "digital") safety devices!!!

Computers save lives!!!

Analogue Cars and Trucks KILL MILLIONS

Did you know cars and trucks
kill more people each year
than AIDS and other diseases???

Group Warns of Global Road-Death ‘Epidemic’

How many less deaths would there
be if the fleet was digital and
networked like our other devices?

VW Digital Hybrid L1