Advantages of Lithium Metal Batteries and Importance of Software Management

MotorTrend's Ed Loh & Jonny Lieberman take the show on the road to CES in Las Vegas where they chat with Electra Founder, Fabrizio Martini, and Professor Shai Shalev-Schwartz of Mobileye! FIRST, Fabrizio takes us through how Electra Vehicles is optimizing EV batteries through design, predictive analytics, and EVE-Ai Adaptive Controls (a NASA program first designed to explore the surface of Venus)! NEXT, the guys chat with Mobileye's Professor Shai Shalev-Schwartz about their role in humanity's pursuit of fully autonomous vehicles! PLUS, we're rolling out a BRAND NEW SEGMENT: Question of the Week! Submit your questions via YouTube comments, Instagram @LohDown @JonnyLieberman, or email us at MotorTrend@MotorTrend.com! Send us a question and WE'LL GIVE YOU FREE MERCH! 0:50 - NEW SEGMENT: Question of the Week! 8:31 - What is Electra Vehicles? 12:12 - Predicting failure using EVE-Ai Adaptive Controls. 19:22 - Partnerships. 22:30 - Using EnPower to design the next generation of batteries. 24:50 - Current state of automotive battery tech, and where we're headed. 26:38 - Are Solid State Batteries coming? 29:12 - Fabrizio's educational background. 31:45 - Software is the key. 35:15 - Battery life spans - "Batteries are a live organism." 37:45 - Battery best practices and future solutions. 40:13 - Electra's mission. 45:42 - Cloud & Data partners. 48:40 - The next generation of batteries. 53:50 - Ed & Jonny's reaction to the discussion with Fabrizio. 55:30 - What is Mobileye? 56:50 - REM (Road Experience Memory) 01:01:15 - Next gen safety - accuracy of 10 cm! 01:05:11 - Camera, Radar & Lidar. 01:09:21 - The path to full autonomy. 01:14:20 - Lidar & Radar vs Camera. 01:20:05 - Accounting for human error. 01:24:35 - Where are we on the road to full autonomy? 01:30:41 - Car experience advances in the coming years. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.