EVs at 2013 CES

[chimpanzee]

Top Gear magazine/website always gives decent reviews, it's pretty much a seperate team to the TV show.

Coming back from the Le Mans 24 Hours yesterday (where hybrids came 1 and 2), look what I followed into the channel tunnel...




...he'd had the car two weeks, so we swapped stories and I was able to teach him a few things in the menus.

Audi had the winning LMP1 (Le Mans Prototype 1) on display, at 2013 CES:

2013 CES: Andre Lotterer / Audi LMP1 racer [ '13 CES Jan 8 ]

with all 3 drivers present. Pics here:

2013 CES 1/8 - a set on Flickr


Toyota/Lexus had their autonomous-navigation development car (parallel effort to Google car) on display, see above. Video below:

2013 CES: Lexus press-conference [ '13 CES Jan 7 ]

The Chevy Spark EV was on display:

CES 2013 1/8 (Samsung Galaxy II) - a set on Flickr
2013 CES 1/6 - a set on Flickr

The Panasonic booth featured an EV display

2013 ces 1/10 sx200 - a set on Flickr

& they showed an Elon Musk video about Model S.

Tesla Model S was at the Nvidia booth.

2013 CES 1/11 - a set on Flickr


Smartphone & Tablets are increasing sectors Consumer Electronics. The battery issue for power-hungry smartphones (like it is for EVs) is being publicized:

We need a Smartphone Battery Revolution Commentary | Mobile Geeks

 

[TEG]

EVs seem to get more billing at electronics shows than car shows these days...

Is this drivetrain that Panasonic showed some sort of non-functional mock-up or are they showing off some other company's EV technology? :