Electra Vehicles optimizes EV batteries through design, predictive analytics, and EVE-Ai Adaptive Controls, while Mobileye focuses on vision systems for autonomous driving using cameras and AI algorithms.
Electra Vehicles partners with companies like Blackberry, Stellantis, and Qualcomm to bring their battery optimization technology to market, while Mobileye emphasizes the importance of multiple sensors for achieving superhuman levels of safety and performance in autonomous driving.
Deep dives
Electra Vehicles: Optimizing Battery Performance
Electra Vehicles is a software company that specializes in optimizing the performance and lifespan of electric vehicle batteries. Their algorithm, known as EVI, leverages machine learning and predictive analytics to accurately predict battery failure, remaining mileage, and remaining useful life. The software is hardware-agnostic and can be applied to various battery chemistries. Electra Vehicles is partnering with companies like Blackberry, Stellantis, and Qualcomm to bring their technology to market. Their goal is to provide consumers with insights into their battery health and value, while also improving the overall performance and safety of electric vehicles.
The Future of Automotive Vision Systems with Mobileye
Mobileye is a company that specializes in vision systems for autonomous driving. They utilize cameras and AI algorithms to provide advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving features. Mobileye's technology can detect and identify objects, monitor driver behavior, and improve safety and driving experience. They are working on developing surround sensing systems that use multiple cameras to understand the environment around the vehicle. By combining perception, mapping, and cloud-based data, Mobileye aims to enable autonomous driving capabilities that rely solely on camera vision.
Advantages of Road Experience Memory (REM) for Adaptive Driving
The podcast episode explores the concept of Road Experience Memory (REM), which goes beyond traditional high-definition mapping by mapping not only the physical features of the road but also the driving behavior of people. REM collects data on typical driving speeds and behaviors, allowing cars equipped with the system to adapt and drive like locals. For example, if a curve has a lower speed limit than the car's capabilities, REM will inform the car to slow down to match the typical speed that drivers take on that curve. REM also helps drivers navigate speed traps and other road conditions to ensure safe and informed driving.
The Path to Autonomy and the Importance of Multiple Sensors
The podcast episode discusses two approaches to achieving autonomous driving: bottom-up and top-down. The bottom-up approach focuses on consumer cars and involves gradually introducing automation capabilities, starting with driver assistance features and progressing to fully automated systems. The top-down approach, often associated with robotaxis, aims for Level 4 autonomy from the start. Mobileye supports both approaches and emphasizes the need for multiple sensors, including cameras, radar, and lidar, to achieve superhuman levels of safety and performance. The combination of these sensors provides redundancy and a comprehensive understanding of the surrounding environment. The guest speaker highlights the importance of prioritizing safety and responsible automation to ensure that the combination of machine and human drivers is better than either alone.
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.
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