How electric vehicles are paving the way for better telematics 
Adam Lesser- Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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This is the year of the electric vehicle rollout. Offerings in the EV space will explode with everything from a long-awaited plug-in Prius to the first all-electric SUV, from Tesla. And the most innovative aspect of this flurry may not be that the vehicles are electric but that they are ushering in the era of the connected car and an entirely new relationship between a driver and his vehicle. Subscribe now or sign in to view this Weekly Update »
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Adam Lesser is a reporter and analyst with a focus on renewable energy, clean data centers, the intersection of computing power and energy usage and semiconductors. Prior to joining GigaOM Pro he worked as an assignment editor for NBC News and at the Weiss Lab at UCLA. Follow Adam’s updates at @adamdlesser.
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Tesla takes the wraps off the first all electric SUV, the Model X, today at its L.A. design studio. CEO Elon Musk has always been clear that despite the niche audience for the Tesla Roadster, Tesla always wanted to be a mass market automaker. And what could be more mass market than SUVs. One thought is that the folks who buy SUVs are the last people who care about gas mileage. On the other hand, an electric SUV might be the ultimate have your cake and eat it too. It’s easy to glare and judge the guy in the Hummer (it’s usually a he) and the 10 miles per gallon he gets, but what about the person sporting the first gas spurning SUV.
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Certainly Z-wave is gaining share against ZigBee. But overall neither ZigBee or Z-wave is a real mass market solution. The reason is simple. Deploying these requires a new "base station" or access point that speaks Z-wave or ZigBee. Let's focus on home power automation or demand response control. 80% of U.S. households that have internet have 802.11 (WiFi). From a practical standpoint, it's hard for vendors to sell another overlay network.
—Gary Ambrosino on Z-Wave: Gaining Ground on ZigBee for Home Energy Networking?
