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An accident that hits its ambitions

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The flying car advances between factory promises and delivery deadlines, but each trial remembers that security remains in the foreground. In the preparations of the Changchun Air Hallin the northeast of China, two evtol of Xpeng Aero made contact in the air and one ended up on fire when touching earth. Images and videos circulate on the Weibo social network They show the smoke rising on the track. What happened. As Sina collectsthe accident occurred on September 16 at the end of an essay. The devices that practiced a training maneuver collided by not maintaining the right distance. One unit descended safely, while the other was damaged and burned in landing. The company reported that all staff came out unharmed and that emergency teams acted there. Official research has not yet yielded conclusions. Click to see the original publication in Weibo The vehicle and the concept. Xpeng Aeroht has become one of the referents of the so -called low altitude economy. Your most advanced product is the “Land Carrier”a decoupled design car in which the land vehicle and the air module are integrated and separate by an automatic system. The six -wheel car works as a support base, while the aircraft takes off and lands vertically with a six folding arms design. Separations and avoidance. Air operations rely on the premise of maintaining clear distances between aircraft. The vertical, horizontal and temporal intervals are adjusted based on altitude and speed, with generous margins between one flight and another. In the case of Xpeng Aeroht, the company has emphasized sensors and avoidance algorithms, although it is not yet known what role these systems had in this incident. The company itself, According to Sina and Bloomberghe stressed that the definitive cause of the accident cannot be established. It is not clear if the lack of separation was due to a problem of height, to an insufficient longitudinal interval or an operation error. Nor is the influence of weather conditions rule out. 36kr points that witnesses mentioned strong wind in the area. Rapid growth In a short time, Xpeng Aeroht has managed to accumulate a volume of orders around 5,000 units. The industrial project includes A construction factory with capacity for 10,000 flying cars a year, whose development began in October 2024 and that is raised as a large -scale assembly line. The company, integrated into the Xpeng Motors ecosystem, that has just landed in Austriaclaims to have a workforce of more than 1,400 people and a proportion of specialists in engineering and development greater than 80%. Goals and challenges. The accident arrives at a delicate time for Xpeng Aeroht, immersed in an expansion phase and with an eye on mass production from 2026. The incident adds uncertainty about the ability to fulfill that calendar and reinforces the debate on the safety of Evtol. Although the market has shown interest with thousands of reserves, public perception has become more demanding: before thinking about commercial flights, manufacturers must convince that technology is reliable. Images | Weibo | Xpeng Aeroht In Xataka | Madrid had one of the underground labyrinths without more complex GPS. Google and Waze have tamed it with 1,600 Bluetooth beacons

Elon Musk’s ambitions were impossible to comply

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Tesla has presented results. And they have been so bad in this first quarter of 2025 that it would be necessary to travel four years ago to find similar figures. There are various reasons but Elon Musk’s ambitions and promises are having their direct consequences on the company. An entire life. Four years for Tesla is a whole life. The company has been growing at a devilish pace until last year. But 2024 already closed it with sales lower than the previous year despite do everything possible to avoid it. In the first quarter of 2025, the benefits have fallen to just over 400 million euros, 71% less that in the same period a year ago. You have to go back to 2021 to find such a low figure. The problem for the company is that, then, it sold one less car (the Cybertruck was just a promise) and still did not reach one million units sold. That is, going back four years for Tesla is to go back a long time because the company was very different. A 2025 to shake. The first three months of the company have been really bad. To the point that They would have lost money If not for the Sale of regulatory credits (The payment made by other companies to meet in the average emissions by submitting to the regulators under the same group). In the absence of knowing to what the update of Tesla Model and is directly affecting its sales, the truth is that the company is leaving huge falls in countries like Germany or Francethe ones that sell the most electric cars in Europe. In the German country, in fact, they reach 60% fall. At the same time, their actions have collapsed and right now they cost half that in December 2024. This future of the actions must be taken prudence since they are intimately linked to the figure of Elon Musk. In fact, despite the bad results, the confirmation of the company’s CEO to abandon part of its governmental tasks to focus on Tesla has raised its price by more than 10%. Musk. Will reduce your work in the United States government “significantly”. This has been the word used by Elon Musk to quantify the amount of hours he will stop using in front of Doge (the department that leads within the State) to dedicate it to Tesla. This task has been, for some investors, the reason why the company has shipwrecked in recent months. For others, such as The New York Timesit is evident that there is damage to the company’s image with the statements and gestures of Elon Musk. The anger of those who have promoted BYcots to the Company They have focused, above all, to highlight the attitude of their greatest shareholder. A low profile in the government can be understood as a longer time dedicated to Tesla or as a lower public exposure and, therefore, a less worn image. The first interested, in fact, It is Musk itself whose fortune depends largely on the future of Tesla. But not everything is political. It seems unquestionable that Tesla’s image is irremediably associated with the figure of Elon Musk. He Financial Times He came to qualify the owner of the company as “demolition ball.” But there are other edges that deserves to stand before accusing Musk’s political drift as the only guilty of the bad results. The model hangover and. Something that explains the low sales of Tesla is that Tesla Model and has been renewed in the first weeks of 2025. Several factors must be taken into account: The lines have had to be renewed, so production has been reduced. Until in a few months we will not know how many possible buyers were waiting for the update before formalizing the purchase. To sell the Tesla Model and in stock, great discounts and very attractive financing have been applied, greatly reducing the profit margin. In the coming months we will begin to see how much the update of Tesla Model is interested and in front of the competition. In 2024, Tesla sold 1.77 million cars in the sum of the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y. of them, 1.09 million were represented by the electric SUV despite the fact that it was already known that the car was going to be renewed. Any mishap that hurts Tesla Model sales and is, right now, a problem for the company since half of sales are from this car. A cybertruck that is failing. Another of Tesla’s great problems and, probably, its greatest commercial failure. He Tesla Cybertruck He promised to be a supervent. The volume of reservations I encouraged to think about the car in these terms. But After the first feversales have collapsed to the point that analysts talk about the company will only produce 55,000 units a yearcompared to 250,000 promised units. Tesla had the opportunity to Make your cybertruck an aspirational vehicleof low production and great benefit that will report benefits in brand image. However, he has starred Memes on social networks And above all, Review calls have been continuous for all kinds of reasons, damaging its value. To the point that the company already seeks a solution to place thousands of them in markets outside the United States. The car that never comes. At the same time, Tesla and Musk have been promising for years An electric car of $ 25,000. One that has been impossible for the company to sell. If we do not have an electric car of $ 25,000, it is simply because the company has not found a way to make it profitable. In recent months we have known that the alternative will be a kind of Tesla Model and in miniature. But the car should arrive as a more affordable option than the current SUV as it would touch $ 40,000, according to The Wall Street Journal. In the same terms it was expressed Reuters Recently and in … Read more

There is greatness in small ambitions

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I am not a Pebble user. I was not at the time or I will be with Your relaunch: Before the Apple Watch and now I have passed to Garmin. But Few technological ads have been as stimulating as that of this historic watch under a new philosophy. “I am building a small company and focused on manufacturing these watches. I have not planned to raise money from investors or hire a great team. The emphasis is on sustainability,” he wrote Eric Migicovsky In his blog. This statement represents exactly What the technology industry desperately needs: projects that do not aspire to master the world, but simply exist with dignity. The current technological ecosystem operates The dictatorship of hypercrection. If you do not aspire to be a company valued in billions, Silicon Valley’s dominant culture considers you a failure. Walk or burst. This mentality has distorted technological development, transforming potential handicraft works into generic products designed to maximize investment returns. It is no accident that mobile telephony has been filled with indistinguishable terminals from each other. The result goes there: a homogenization of innovation and the gradual disappearance of proposals that do not fit the unicorn squad. Among the few alternatives we have seen, many were born miscariated (Rabbit R1) or directly malicious (Humane Ai Pin). But there are also happy stories. Projects such as Panic with its playdatethat of Analoguethe Keychron keyboards either The remarkable They demonstrate it: excellence does not require market domain, only a clear vision and impeccable execution. What Migicovsky is doing is A declaration of independence. By rejecting external capital and prioritizing sustainability over the scale, it is releasing its vision of the pressures that sank the original Pebble. Himself He told us a few years ago. The irony is very evident: what caused Pebble’s failure was not insufficient demand, but an unsustainable cost structure born of excessive expectations. Need A new business taxonomy in technology. Among the giants who aspire to dominate the world and the projects of amateurs There should be a large ecosystem of deliberately small but professional, sustainable and profitable companies. Every time I see a technological project that embraces their limitations instead of apologizing for them, which finds freedom in voluntary restrictionI remember why I fell in love with technology. Not because of his aspirations of omnipotence, but for his ability to express the unique vision of his creators. The new Pebble does not intend to compete with Apple Watch and even His CEO says explicitly “Keeping he condemned to undervalue him at the time,” but to exist as a conscious alternative for a niche, not for anyone. And that is what makes it potentially extraordinary. Or at least much more valuable than its conservative strategy seems to seem. Outstanding image | Core Devices In Xataka | Thus Pebble failed: “The biggest mistake was not to react when we knew that the Apple Watch was going to arrive”

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